Oh, the Heidmannity…
Friday morning, being Paul's day off, was all about math. The air was filled with a veritable whirlwind of fractions and integers, variables, factor trees, and I know not what,…
Thursday, Well Spent
Today we had an extra student in the Heidmann Academy. Lisa joined us in the morning, and even spent some quality time studying from the highly recommended book, Understanding the…
Shakespeare in the back yard
We're all delirious at Casa de Heidmann in anticipation of the start of the new semester of Theater. The walls are resounding with Shakespearean verse, both watching and rehearsing. I…
Small Things
Just practicing... :-) (click a thumbnail to enter the slide show, click enlarged photo to go to the next pic)
“She crossed my mind…”
Everyone around here knows that I'm an emotional creature... so much so that there's a game they play, called "What does it take to make mom cry?" wherein my family…
Early Riser
We've gone through a long, long spell where Jacob had trouble sleeping at night, due to just a lot of revved up energy at the end of the day, which…
And then there was slime…
Saturday evening, after Jacob injured himself while jumping on the trampoline, and was resting with a heating pad on his back, his father found a recipe online for slime. The…
Reading Agenda, part Deux
~*~*~*~*~ I ordered this book because... well, it's Gene Wolfe. 'Nuff said. Gene Wolfe takes us to a future North America at once familiar and utterly strange. A young man…
Mind your toes…
You never know what will be spread across the living room floor... The Boy decided to take apart his night vision goggles. I wonder if he will get them back…
Out Back Again…
While I was outside being educated in the fine arts of potion making, I looked over to the citrus trees in the corner of the yard, and saw their bounty,…