Actually, aside from birthday shenanigans, we've spent the last week and a half in ancient Egypt. It looks like we'll still be ther...

Happy birthday to Zorg from Toa Jaller! A boy and his Bionicle... Plus the laser sword does a great job cutting ice cream cake!

This is a problem the Emperor and I have been discussing. We both had this problem as kids, and he sees it in his students as well (he teac...

Zorg is 8 on 8th: it's his golden birthday! We went to Mass and got a special birthday blessing (as well as the birthday song from the ...

The start of the new school year always makes me think over why we made the choice to home school and how we are doing - all that stuff you...

We had a great time at Assateague! We ended up staying only one night (2 days) because if we had another night of such sleep (or lack there...

He's walking for real now. He still walks delicately, hands outstretched, with a delicious smile that says, "Look, Mom, no hands!...

Yes! It's that time of year again! Monday was the day the public school kids went back. What I had hoped to do was give the kids a pre...

We also built this nifty electric motor! It's from this very cool kit.

We did it! The lamps work great! Here we have Lampbot (Mxyl's of course). Lampbot is actually a water bottle glued to a takeout plasti...