Counting Everything

Last night Cricket & I watched Sky High with Emby while Fish watched the other with Grub & Merry. They both enjoyed the movie they s...

I wandered into the lounge to reconnect with the boys after reading an email from their father in which he requested instructions as to the ...

Fish is fascinated by the concept of invention in recent months. So while I was in the library the other day I collected some books that mi...

That was Fish's recent question while I was driving. Now we guessed Japanese, but were confused because we are aware of many chinese ma...

Cricket, Fish & I joined Merry, Emby & Grub at at Wild Action show learning about Australian animals. We touched a live baby salt-w...

We finally went to fix the CD-Rom drive today, bought a replacement to install ourselves. One screw and the cover came off, unplugged the ...

Cricket bought himself a copy of Rise of Nations gold today, and both boys are eager to get stuck into playing.

Thanks to the contributors at UnschoolingDiscussion , I have some reasonable descriptions of the way Fish & Cricket learn: "One way...

While house-sitting for my sister (dearest sister please give yourself a screen-name for this blog) and gratefully accepting some online tim...

Unlike Logan at Rainbow Academy I wouldn't say this book is a favourite - however I did pick it up at a garage sale this morning, along...

Zac arrived, thanks to Dorset at NVC Australia . Cricket decided to get a start on it at home while Fish, Margie and I went to the Furnitur...

Fish, at 7, can read: his name, and game commands such as "play", "start", "go", "joshua", "sav...

Fish came up to me today to say he can count by 20s to 100. I guess the process of spending his gift money on snack-machine food & dri...

I hope to work out how this photo thing works at some stage - and post a photo of Cricket, Fish & friend's sandworks. In the meantim...

...Don't look like a seal. I'm sure it is never too soon to gain such useful advice. Thanks Cricket for watching The Deadliest S...

we've moved? Until we have settled and the expense tracking shows it's relationship to our budget, we shall be on one computer, w...

cleaning ... or water bombs? Fish and friend love the wobbly, feeling of those gloves filled with water. They carry them around enjoying...

What would love do now? is the question my uncle (GUK) asks at his new blog.

Thanks to Monty Python and the Holy Grail , the boys have pestered me for their own clopping coconut. Digging out the hacksaw, I hope for a...

If so, our blog will show this report: Cricket is right now playing "The Sims". Naturally I figure this is an opportunity to b...