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You’d think I’d have learned my lesson after what happened to poor old Homer and Herodotus. But nooo, I had to go and write about the happy little caterpillar who found its way to my kitchen windowsill and spent the past week munching my geranium to shreds. I celebrated his presence the night before last, and then all day yesterday he was nowhere to be seen. Mysterious, I thought, but honestly I wasn’t searching too hard.
Well, this morning I found him: curled up sideways in the dirt in the bottom of the pot. Poor little thing. He thought this was a friendly place. Little did he know he had entered the Caterpillar House of Doom. If caterpillars could write there’d be a cautionary chalk mark on our doorpost right now, I’ll bet.
When we left Virginia two years ago, I urged my good friend Sarah to transplant my asters to her yard. They had grown from a tiny two-dollar seedling into a great and glorious clump, and I couldn’t bear to think of them withering away, neglected. Remember the going-away present those flowers gave us?
Now Sarah’s gang gets presents too. Beautiful!
At Chicken Spaghetti!
Edited: Did I say July? See what happens when you get up too early?
Things I noticed the kids reading yesterday:
Jane—Fabre’s Book of Insects. Classic living book of essays about, surprise, insects. Jean Henri Fabre wrote a number of excellent books on insects and animals. Here are some you can peek at at Google Books.
Rose—Ace, the Very Important Pig. A chuckler by one of her favorite authors, Dick King-Smith. (He also wrote Babe. Matter of fact, Ace is Babe’s great-grandpiglet.)
Beanie—Stephen Kellogg’s Johnny Appleseed. Delightful art, and who doesn’t love this story? Stephen Kellogg’s art can be quite busy, which in my experience tends to overwhelm very young children (three or four years old) but is captivating for six- and seven-year-olds.
Here’s a list of bloggers who are participating in scsours‘s very cool 100 Species Challenge.
scsours, who started it all
The Bookworm (England)
Sandra Dodd (New Mexico)
The Common Room family
Monica (Romania)
Carmon at Buried Treasure
Learn-O-Rama (North Carolina)
Zoo on Wheels
applechexx
Yellow House Homeschool (Southeastern France)
Kathy at Restoration Place
Melanie at Wine-Dark Sea
Patricia at Wonderfarm (Northern California)
Ann of Holy Experience
Fiddler of Rockhound Place (New England)
MamaB at My Little Soapbox
JoVE’s family at Tricotmania
Angi at 4 Is Crazy
MacBeth (Long Island)
Love2Learn Mom (Wisconsin)
Ivy at Spinning Lovely Days
Theresa in Alaska said she might participate. I hope she does! Alaska! And several other commenters have said they might join in. I’ll add those links as they come.
Here’s my family’s running list for San Diego. I’ll post new entries as new posts and then add the info to the running list. We already have a bunch more plants to enter.
If you’d like to be added to this list, leave a link in the comments! (And if you’re not a blogger but want to share your family’s list, let me know. I can put you in your own post. 🙂 ) And if you’re on the list above and would like me to add your location, leave a comment for that too. I think it’s even more fun if we know the general whereabouts of people’s lists.
Don’t know what the 100 Species Challenge is? This post explains.
My friend Jordan’s friend Lynne Schreiber could use your help:
I am writing an article for Better Homes and Gardens about making New Year’s resolutions with your kids and as a family. If you know anyone who does this with their kid or kids or as a family, please let me know. I have tons of experts who can speak to this matter but I need real people, too. Thank you!
Is this a family tradition for you? If so, Lynne would like to hear your story. She can be reached at lynne (at) lynneschreiber (dot) com, or visit her website.
Well of course I had to pull the green bag poem out of the comments for Poetry Friday this week.
If you missed the beginning of the conversation, a commenter referred to my “great green bag,” which sounded so much like Goodnight Moon‘s “great green room” that I couldn’t resist a bit of spoofery:
In the great green bag
There was a cellular phone
And a box of mints
And fifty-two cents
And seven receipts
And a package of treats
And a stray Life Saver all alone
And diapers and wipes
And what’s that? Oh cripes!
The remnants, now mush,
Of things from that bush…
Some kind of berry
Stains like a cherry
My keys are all coated
But oh how she gloated
When she filled up this pocket!
This bag?
I should lock it.
And be sure not to miss Theresa’s sequel a few comments down!
This week’s Poetry Friday round-up is at Becky’s Book Reviews.
I’m updating the links (and lost images) for the day planner series I ran at Lilting House two years ago (with a follow-up last summer). My readers are a planner-loving crowd, because those were some of my most popular posts ever. All the Lilting House links are dead now, and it took me a while to update the links. “Image not available” is still showing up in some of the posts, but I’m slowly replacing them. When I imported Lilting House to Bonny Glen, images did not transfer. (A giant pain in the neck.)
MomAgenda
Catholic Woman’s Daily Planner
Small Meadow Press — Circle of Days
**And don’t miss Leslie’s free pdfs of homeschooling planning pages you can print out!
Motivated Moms Chore Planner
BusyBodyBook
Having some fun in the comments…
