Mind Flush

Things Liza has learned during her family tree project: This would be a lot easier if our ancestors had had fewer kids (14 gr...

There are times when showing up REALLY early for car line is a good thing.

Feels sorta weird to photograph her in front of a new tree ... Thought about running over to the new house to take the pics on the porch, bu...

This year Liza decided she wanted to compete in the Lego Olympiad as an individual, rather than a team like last year.  So when she kept pu...

... time to take a long shower, vacuum all the carpets, wash the kitchen floor, finish canning barbecue sauce, clean up the kitchen, clean u...

Have I mentioned recently how awesome my daughter's school is?  Last week was the culmination of the Young Authors project that each gra...

Remember the Christmas concert ?  Well, in order to get the full grade school experiences, Liza's school does a spring concert, as well....

Them: "So where does she go to school?" Me: "Menlo Park Academy.  It's a community school for gifted kids in the Westpar...

Thursday night I made 10 shirts for Liza and the spelling bee contestants from Kindergarten.  Do you have any idea how hard your hand cramp...

She's not even six, and she's already pulling an attitude on her homework? God, it's going to be a long 12 more years ...

... his extreme concentration, or his pride in producing the lumpiest God's Eye I've ever seen. ... the four-foot God's Eye fr...

Dear Mr. "My School is an Expensive Private School for Profoundly Gifted Children," Perhaps it would come across better at the p...

... that having a table at a preschool information night is practically the same as staffing the booth at a trade show, only you don't h...

At breakfast this morning: Liza:  'Lewis and I are at 14. When we've sat next to each other 16 times on the carpet, then we're ...

Liza started going to "school" in 2006, when putting her in a one-day-a-week preschool program was the only way for me to retain ...

Preschool graduation was on Thursday, and we celebrated by going out to dinner with some friends before the ceremony.  The girls were all gu...

Liza has to decorate a cardboard letter "z" with pictures of things that start with z. We're doing random google image search...

... that there are entirely too many kids in Liza's preschool class for me to be going, "Oh, fer shur, I can crochet everybody an E...

Things to add to our nature journal, should we ever get off our butts and start one: This past Wednesday was our first bee/yellowjacket sigh...

Liza really, really wants to learn addition, but she doesn't quite understand that you basically have to memorize the answers so that yo...