Auricularis Superior and the Auricularis Posterior

I'm not sure why, but about 1-2 times a month, the conversation at our dinner table is about wiggling ears. No kidding! Marc can do it. I can do it. Our kids cannot... yet. I guess it must be a bit like whistling and crossing your eyes and doing silly tricks with your tongue.

I am so happy to have found a GREAT article on ear wiggling. Check it out here: http://www.wikihow.com/Wiggle-Your-Ears.

Happy Wiggling!

Sofia Pinch

See Marc's blog for further explanation.

First BBQ

We had our first grilled hamburgers of the year tonight. Know that scene in "What About Bob"?
Where Bob is at dinner? That's how good it was.

HOORAY!

I am pleased to introduce:
The First Crocus of 2007,
named HopeDrop

Babies

On our back porch
did I tread
surveying the snow
melting ice
old leaves.
My eye found
a fountain
of hope
for my heart.

On being an at home mother....

"To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets,
labors, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys,
boots, cakes, and books; to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals,
manners, theology, and hygiene; I can understand how this might exhaust the
mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career
to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to
tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same
thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman's function
is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute."
(What's Wrong With the World, G.K. Chesterton)

School Vacation

Aaaaah. School vacation. We just finished a long six week run of school. One of the million advantages of homeschooling is that we can take vacation when we need it. And boy, we need it. We're all a bit tired and a bit weary, and we worked extra hard today to finish up even tomorrow's work.

What I did instead...

Last Thursday my friend Sarah and I went out for lunch. As we parted ways, she asked what my afternoon held. I told her about a list of internet errands that I needed to run and how I was looking forward to getting them done. However, when I got home the combination of sun and spring euphoria hit, and this is what I did instead.

my snowbear sitting on a snowstump

my peanut hugging my snowbear

Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound....

She's Super-MOM!

Sometimes you just have to brag. And what better place than a blog.

I've been working on a video-editing project - trying to get all our mini-DV footage into a format to go onto DVD. I'm enjoying the process and reacquanting myself with the editing software that I have, but the process takes up oodles of space on my hard-drive. I've been near panic to see that I only have 12GB left.

So this afternoon instead of tackling a to-do list, I took apart a computer that the kids use that had two hard drives. Pulled one out. Opened up my computer. Installed new hard drive. Unhooked a zipdrive that I have never used, and an unnecessary cd-rom driver. Voila. I have 55 additional GB, and the computer is running faster (and I think happier).

*sigh* I should get paid for this stuff.

New Car

Here is the new car. It is a 2004 Prius. I'll link this to Marc's blog when he writes the full story there. (No pressure, hon.)