Author: Phoebe Gleeson

Spring day

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Beautiful day here. Trixie, Dorothy and Clementine headed up the road to the big mud puddle at the end. There’s something very satisfying about throwing rocks in a puddle.

“Come on, Ti-tine!”

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It was Clementine’s first real time outside doing kid stuff, short of eating mulch at the park. She dug in the dirts and had a grand time.

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Gilbert, Abby and Gloria were having fun as well. They play this improv game, where one kid tells the other three objects and they have to work them into the story. They were amusingly scatological when I heard. You know, kids. Poop, funny, natch.

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Dorothy was dancing. She’s always dancing.

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We have a pretty good life.

Friday Roundup March 13 2015

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Here’s what caught my eye on the internet this week!

Woman, 75, strangles rabid raccoon after it bit her during walk in Virginia botanical garden – She came back to finish her walk after getting treated for the bite!

To the Mean Stranger Who Judged My Parenting Abilities, Thank You – Sometimes when parents are doing things differently than you think they should it’s because they are, you know, different from you.

Wink: Bluetooth Basal Body Thermometer – Looks pretty neat. But I’m a bit nonplussed by this copy: “It’s good for couples as well. Knowing my wife’s charts help me understand her better. Her feelings change during the month and it’s good for me to be aware of what’s going on. Plus, birth control isn’t making her crazy any more, which makes BOTH of our lives better.” CRAZY LADYFEELINGS, BRO! AMIRITE?!?! *high fives* (Sigh.)

The 24 Types of Food Snobs – I’m a Sourcer. “He has a favorite farm within 30mi of the restaurant, and gets strangely excited if his chicken comes from within its fences.”

It Happened to Me: I’m a Demisexual – That means you aren’t sexually attracted to someone unless you have an emotional attachment to them. So, you know, it means “NORMAL.” Oh, Millennials. You are such special snowflakes. Or maybe you meant this ironically. I can’t tell anymore.

What is Papercrete – Why, it’s cement mixed with paper pulp, and it looks like a great building material for DIY.

That’s all for now!

Here be Dragons

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Clementine is wearing my favorite baby shirt ever, an 8-bit dragon. Behind her is Faith, in her Dipper Pines costume. She wore that to Braums today, to buy milk. Abby wore her steampunk goggles and leather fingerless gloves. Gilbert wore a Stampy Cat shirt.

And right now, they’re watching Video Games: The Movie.

The geek is strong in this one.

rainy day

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Rain today, much needed! Dorothy and Clementine were fascinated. I think they forgot it could rain. The other children were not as pleased, as it ruined their plans to be outside all day revelling in life itself. Instead they are stuck inside and are vaguely whiny. Nobody has taken me up on my offer of things to do, like cleaning their rooms, but it did stop the audible grumbling. I’m going to knit and be thankful I am warm, dry, healthy and safe. image

That’s Dorothy’s Neapolitan sweater, coming along nicely! Once you get to the decreases at the top, raglans fly off the needles.

Friday Roundup March 6 2015

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What caught my eye on the internet this week.

Elementary School Dumps Homework and Tells Kids to Play Instead – No link between homework and current or future academic success, yet parents complain. Sigh.

Have you ever wondered where books come from? – Aww, look at the little baby booklings without covers!

Why I Wear the Mantilla – I cover my hair at my parish, along with a few other women. This is why.

Alice Medrich’s Best Cocoa Brownies – Well. These look amazing.

How to #YOLO in Latin – yolo, yolare, yolavi, yolatus

A weasel riding a woodpecker as it would appear in Mouse Guard – Avaunt!

moving around

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We’re moving kids from room to room. Faith and Abby will go upstairs. Gilbert will stop sharing with Trixie and Gloria, and start rooming with Bede, who will move downstairs. Eventually Dorothy and Clementine will be in Faith and Abby’s old room, but that won’t be for a while yet. They are still sleeping in my bedroom.

I am doing the moving for a couple reasons. First, I’m afraid that Bede could die if there was a fire, upstairs alone. The only people upstairs will be Faith and Abby, who are capable of negotiating a fire escape. Second, Gilbert can’t share with Gloria and Trixie anymore. He needs to be with his brother, who has become civilized enough to room with someone in just the past few months.

Here’s what the room for the boys looks like now.

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What a mess! It looks even worse than it did because everything is everywhere. We’ll move the coathooks to the entry hall and before you know it this will be a functional bedroom, instead of a catch-all junk room.

This house is quite large. We added two bedrooms when we moved, bringing the total to six. With ten people so far in the family, it’s not overly huge. It is nice to have the room! We moved from a three bedroom house to this one, two kids ago.

I’ll post after pictures too.