One afternoon after a rough day at school, The Ten-Year-Old tried to calm herself down by picking Canelo up for a hug. He was having none of it. The Ten-Year-Old was disappointed when Canelo ran off instead of giving her the reassuring head-bonk she was looking for, but as always, her curiosity won out. “Mommyo, can cats smell stress?”
Looks like my daughter’s been reading Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci again.
This week, The Ten-Year-Old reviews Planet Tad by Tim Carvell and Dying to Meet You by Kate Klise and Sarah Klise.
The Six-Year-Old visits her friend Sue the T. Rex at the Chicago Field Museum.
While we were at lunch last week, The Ten-Year-Old’s mind turned to fractions, as fifth grade minds are prone to do. She had learned in school that the top number in a fraction is called a numerator, while the bottom number is the denominator, so naturally she wondered what the little line in the middle was called.
I’m having a BlackFriday sale! Now through Cyber-Monday, you can get my new book, What’s That, Mom?, for 20% off (Amazon only).
No, seriously. We still have flowers here. Posting may be erratic for a bit, due to unpacking + NaNoWriMo + Thanksgiving (we’re hosting this year, so…
Since we’ve moved to California, I’ve been mildly obsessed with pine cones. The tree in our backyard grows some truly enormous ones, and I’ve been spending a lot of time dodging them. You know what else I’ve dodged a lot of in California? Artichokes. In dodging both pine cones and artichokes, I can’t help but notice how physically similar they are. So I started to wonder, are pine cones and artichokes related?
Last week, as I was sitting down for a bit of pre-dinner reading, I had what I thought was a bout of dizziness. Then one of my books toppled over, and I figured out I was experiencing my first earthquake. That, combined with the wildfires raging in Northern California and the news out of Puerto Rico, has me thinking about disaster preparedness.
This week we stumbled across an amazing outdoor display of glass pumpkins at the Stanford Shopping Mall in Palo Alto, California.
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