A tiny postscript to my Halloween post: early this morning, painfully early, as I was stumbling around trying to get the garbage out and just blearily noticing I was wearing two different socks, Beanie hit me a question.
“Mommy, what do you think I should be for Halloween NEXT year?”
And so it begins. Again.
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Jane is hooked on this free math game called Absurd Math: Pre-Algebra from Another Dimension. She has ciphered her way through Panhandler’s Paradise and the Toxic Templex and keeps begging me for a turn at the computer so she can see what comes next.
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Okay, I know saving fine paintings as desktop wallpaper isn’t a new idea. I’ve seen it suggested on tons of websites over the years. But it’s such a good idea that I wanted to mention it here too. For years, we have been making use of the wonderful artist study suggestions at Ambleside Online. I download the images into a folder on my hard drive and set my desktop background to cycle through them at five-minute intervals. This week, just in time for our read-aloud of From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler
The Mary Cassatt selections are gorgeous—my girls’ favorites so far.
Today, though, we’re taking a diversion from fine art…we were reading about Stonehenge in a history storybook this morning, and the kids wanted to see what it looks like, so we jumped on Google and found this site full of beeyootiful images like this one.
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