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Suttung — January-February, 2010 |
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Since we started homeschooling, we joined a Suttung group so that C could have continued exposure to Norwegian. I’m not very familiar with the movement, but so far they sing songs, practice a theater piece, and then listen to a story and make a drawing to illustrate the story afterwards.
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Winter Outing — March 6, 2010 |
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We went to the yearly meeting of the Norwegian homeschooling association, it was at the folk museum. It was a cold but lovely day. The kids had a lot of fun meeting all the other homeschoolers (about 10 kids were there). We learned that there are about 150 children are registered with the government as being homeschooled, and there are 27 families in the association over all of Norway. Coincidentally, one of those families lives across the street from us! And they’re awesome!
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Bottling Cider — January 31, 2010 |
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After an appropriate amount of time, we bottled the cider. I was alarmed to taste a rather sulphury, sour, not-very-appley product. We went ahead with the bottling, because really, what else were we supposed to do?! Since then, we’ve tasted the result and realized that the champagne yeast we used had a more profound effect than anticipated and it tastes rather a lot like champagne. It also reminds me of Spanish sidra, also a sourish fermented-apple-product. It’s not really cider like I expected, though.
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At The New Darwin Exhibit — January 20, 2010 at 11 am |
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The zoology museum opened a new exhibit entitled “Darwin: Can We Ever Forgive Him?” or something along those lines. C has been very interested in evolution lately, so we went to see what it was about. It was a lot about how he developed the theory, not really about evolution itself. And unfortunately there was quite a lot about why various people find the theory hard to swallow.
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Apl and the 2x2x2 — January 13, 2010 at 9 pm |
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Apl loves playing with the 2x2x2 rubik’s cube. It’s easy to turn and I guess she likes changing the colors around.
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Apl Writing — Jan 6, 2010 at 10:39 pm |
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Apl knows there’s something going on with this pencil-paper thing.
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Apl Helping — December 31, 2009 at 3 pm |
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I brought a knitting project, a gift for mom, and Apl was “helping” while I was trying to finish it. I did get it finished by the end of the trip, and sent it home with mom. Unfortunately I haven’t gotten any pictures back yet.
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Dinner Time, Where Ruby is a Goat — January 8, 2010 at 7 pm |
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What’s going on here? I don’t know… looks like Ruby is pretending to be a goat and the rest of us are eating dinner. That’s usually how it goes.
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Rubik’s Mania — December 21, 2009 at 5 pm |
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Chris got a Rubik’s cube at the office gift exchange, and it’s transformed our lives! Or, at least, it has transformed the coffee table which is now strewn with many different kind of cubes, and some which aren’t even cubes.
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Out Shopping — Jan 13, 2010 at 1:10 pm |
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We had to get C a new snowsuit for ski school (and those snazzy gloves!) and he was surprised to see a nisse still out at one of the shopping centers. And he wanted his picture taken with it. Willingly! (He’s usually camera shy… to put it kindly.)
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