Comments on: apropos of nothing

By: maura

maura — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:25:44 +0000

If only it was macaroni art! Mostly it was worksheets, and drawings of video game characters (his usual choice for choice time :) ). We did pull out some of the particularly choice ones to save, and put a couple on his wall, too.

Come to think of it, I don’t think he’s *ever* done macaroni art! We all did so much of that, maybe today’s teachers are maxed out?

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:08:27 +0000

Don’t tell me you’re getting rid of macaroni art in the name of organization! What happens if G. becomes a famous artist? You’re in on the ground floor of his early period!

I’m sure my Mom has macaroni art from 1976 still in the attic of our house. =)

By: maura

maura — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:17:35 +0000

Can you believe we have never shown Mary Poppins to Gus? I’m not sure how it happened, because I love that movie. Though I used to cry about the Feed the Birds lady when I was little, softhearted child that I was.

Someone was watching a lexicographer give a TED talk last night, with all those big words.

By: jonathan

jonathan — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:20:10 +0000

By all means, keep me happily ensorcelled. To quote myself, “I’ll never forgive, but I will forget.”

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:50:44 +0000

“In every job that must be done there’s an element of fun!” (Credit Ms. Poppins, for those of you who haven’t seen this movie 800x.)

By: maura

maura — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:45:56 +0000

Har, Jonathan *is* a blabbermouth! I just don’t want to bum him out by making him think that our weekends will be this horrible worky drudgery time… Which it won’t be, honest! Housework is fun, yeah!

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:46:58 +0000

Don’t do it! Scrapbooking is a gateway drug!

Yeah, that J., such a blabbermouth! If he knows, he’ll tell everyone, then everyone will know that you are doing housey things!!!

By: maura

maura — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:49:22 +0000

Yeah, most of it got recycled. I haven’t saved out anything for the grandparents in a while, thanks for reminding me! I took a bunch of it to work, too, to decorate my office. I try to go through the incidental stuff as it comes home, but that end of the year pileup really slays me. Hopefully we have turned over a new leaf with it!

I am jealous of your scrapbooking! It’s one of those things I would theoretically like to do, but there are too many other things ahead of it in the queue and only so much time. My secret goal is to do one housey thing each weekend until my whole list is done. Which, if Jonathan is reading this, I guess is not so secret anymore. :)

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:32:30 +0000

What we do with school work is this (keep in mind that it’s Montessori so some of the timelines & stuff are worth keeping): keep most of it and go through it at the end of the year or term. Then we recycle (yay the truck takes office paper) things like spelling tests, math worksheets, etc. The really great stuff we keep, mail to relatives, and/or use in scrapbook pages (either on their own or cut up as a school background).

Most school notices are now online, in an account we have not yet signed into (and they are checking!). We still sign the vestigal usu. empty envelope each week.

p.s. This makes me sound like a scrapbooking fiend but I am **NOT** one of them! We made one for each grandma, plus Max has one we started when we moved. Just 3 ~ no more no less.

By: maura

maura — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:09:03 +0000

Em, that is awful that you get a tipsheet! Sheesh. We mostly get “work,” much of which is a few pieces of paper folded and stapled together with 1-2 pages filled out with whatever comic book Gus is creating during choice time. Except that there’s a new one every day…three cheers for recycling!

Yes, the “plot” (ha) is indeed confusing. Gus watched it 2x (call us bad parents) today and I still don’t understand it.

That’s hilarious that he won’t watch movies with bad reviews! A child of discerning taste. :)