i love rainy days

Latest from the Blog

Fell off the RU Wagon

parenting. meltdowns· unschooling

Good god. I feel horrible today. Like an abusive husband or something. Yesterday I was awful to the kids, it was like being on a river where everything is calm and then suddenly the water starts to move faster and you’re avoiding rocks and dips. Without warning you’re catapulted over the edge and hurtling like a rocket down a waterfall…
Read More

Poetry Corner

Poetry Corner

Here is the latest installment of 1980’s teenage angst in this week’s edition of Poetry Corner. For your enjoyment I offer up this beauty written in December of 1987. I was in 11th grade and spent a lot of time daydreaming about boys, wondering what was wrong with me, and arguing with my parents, especially my dad. We just did…
Read More

Homemade Twinkies – Take 2!

fun· projects

Ok, here is the update on the Twinkie situation. Using a recipe for yellow cake that was on About.com, I was able to get a beautiful result. Here’s what it looked like when it came out of the oven: Then, I let it cool down a bit and I made the icing from a recipe on Recipezaar.com. It wasn’t exactly…
Read More

Playing with Play-doh

fun· playing· unschooling

You may or may not know that baking is not my “thang”. There was an episode with a batch of chocolate chip cookies not too long ago that I chronicled on my other blog. My friend Stephanie got a good chuckle out of that and suggested that she could send her son over to help me make some. Well, it…
Read More