Wordless Wednesday: Jack Frost
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Happy Thanksgiving!
My daughter was underwhelmed by the Plymouth Rock when she first saw it. “Mommyo, is that the real Plymouth Rock?”
Wordless Wednesday: Winter Berries
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Wordless Wednesday: Fall
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“Why does hair turn grey?”
When The Eight-Year-Old asked me why my hair was turning grey this last week, I was so tempted to simply answer with a quick and trite: “Parenthood.” The real answer, though, has more to do with melanin – or the lack of it.
What’s The Eight-Year-Old reading this week?
Our mostly-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Eight-Year-Old’s desk. This week, The Eight-Year-Old does math with cats and discovers a new-to-her-book buried under her Elvis wig.
Wordless Wednesday: Cats in the Pantry
What? You *didn’t* put this basket full of kitchen towels here just for me? But it’s so comfy. Weird. In other news, I cleaned out my pantry…
Teaching The Eight-Year-Old to be a savvy spender, Part II
Here at Caterpickles Central, we believe that everyone in the family works together to keep our household functioning without expecting any particular compensation beyond having clean silverware to eat with, the ability to walk through the house without tripping, and clean clothes to wear.
So when we decided four years ago that The (then) Four-Year-Old was old enough to receive an allowance, we didn’t ask her to do any chores around the house to earn it. Instead, we decided to use the allowance simply to teach her how to manage money.
Weekend at Caterpickles
The Eight-Year-Old, slumping out of her room this morning: “Mommyo, I think earth’s gravity is stronger today.”
What’s The Eight-Year-Old reading this week?
This week, The Eight-Year-Old falls under the spell of two exceptional story-tellers, Roald Dahl and Brian Selznick, and shakes a literary fist at the emerald ash borer beetles destroying her favorite trees.
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