January Catchup Post

What we were up to in January:

An amazing Broadway Playhouse show, celebrating Comden and Green. A wonderful gallery tour and art workshop on Chagall at the Jewish Museum. Homeschool paperwork. Lots of trips to the library. Commuting to Mikro's Comparative Religions class. (He has now read more of the Bible and the Koran than I have!) As always, trips down to our beloved river. Walks around NYC looking at architecture. Watching the construction of the new Tappan Zee Bridge. Tons of mythology, history, science and math. Map making (imaginary worlds that feature in the stories he's writing and telling.) Sillyness. Singing together. And trying to stay warm in one of the coldest winters I can remember!

December River Views

I am so far behind in editing photos, I may never catch up. These are from some of our trips down by the river in December (which was snowy, but nothing compared to what we've seen lately!)

In which I wish myself a belated happy birthday...

I am way behind in posting. The Mentos massacre at Maker Faire was the coup de grace for my pain levels, and I couldn't deal with sitting at the computer to edit (thousands of) photos or type entries (which is probably a good thing, because they would have been even more curmudgeonly than usual had I managed it...) So given my gimpyness, my birthday went by with little fanfare, which is how I like it now that I am ancient (or at least feel that way). We did spend the weekend down by the river, which is about my favorite place in the world. It was cool and quiet, and we enjoyed the local critters and the peaceful panorama. Mother Nature gave me a wonderful gift: a great blue heron flew right by us and perched nearby. We got to watch him fishing near the pier. And he seemed like a polite and dignified birthday guest. My sweet quirky kid made me paper polyhedrons and a birthday card with a mama and baby triceratops (my favorite dinosaur) on it, and then drew me a picture of microorganisms on the back. I have to post the video of him talking about these gifts. I will as soon as I can persuade my computer to convert it to a readable file format. But for now, here are some photos from down by the river...