Sunny day today and mild. Nice. After a busy day outside yesterday and a late night at a church meeting, the kids slept in and have just finished breakfast. I'm planning pancakes for lunch since I promised them yesterday for Shrove Tuesday but forgot to make them so I skipped breakfast toay to wait for the pancakes choosing instead coffee and a vitamin c chewable. Nice example. I'm considering a school day outside instead of at the dining room table but we did that yesterday already. However today it's sunny. We'll see how their morning chore list gets tackled this morning. I may just send them into the backyard.

Mild weather today. The kids are building a snow fort with the perfectly packable snow. I'm about to corral them to go visit "our" trees by the lake. Good way to combine nature notebooking with time outdoors. And this time I'm even going outside!

Today's search and discovery: http://birdnature.com/sep1901/parula.html

Meeting tonight following ballet and a quick supper--should be interesting. We've been writing down notes to prepare for the meeting. Not a good sign of a smooth evening from our perspective. Perhaps we'll be pleasantly surprised....

A new day. Only 45 minutes until we need to leave the house and needless to say I'm the only one awake. But last week we made it out with only 15 minutes to go.

But I'm not sure the company will get invited if Husband the Inviter (in this case) is still asleep.

Mambu ve. There's always next time.

Day 3 of playing Antarctica in the backyard. It's been snowing for days now--light, fluffy stuff that hardly accumulates due to the wind that's also blowing. I think there have been more snow days this week than not in the public school world. The children have been quick to discover the joys of snow tunnels, hiking through the "Antarctic" with their snowshoe poles. Not the snowshoes. They haven't mastered those yet. They've dug holes, built forts and "tonka boards" (who knows?) and have generally enjoyed themselves silly. Me too, in my quiet little house with a cup of coffee in one hand and a book or computer in the other.

This morning while the chilluns have been working on math and Spanish I've spent time finding some cool math sites. This one has to do with Valentine's Day. http://www.googolpower.com/content/free-learning-resources/valentines-math

It all started out by looking for some good bread baking websites. Got a little sidetracked. In the meantime I just pulled out my own recipe and "whipped-up" some cinnamon buns. Very tasty. Eat with cheese and I can call it lunch.

Varios fotos de nuestra vida

the view from our street in mid-january

a cheery daffodil contrasts with the fresh snow above
an electrifying experience at the ontario science museum

Simon's trip to Costa Rica

Building a cabin

Praying for the use of the cabin in dedication

Visiting volcano Poas

Traditional oxcart

Not everyone who wanders is lost.

-Tolkien