Team Gray!

I have a child who needs to identify all 50 states on a map and their capitols. She doesn’t really get map reading just yet, and it is a struggle for her to learn all the states. I pulled out our chunky wooden map of the United States puzzle. Said child gushed, “I LOVE that [...]

Tonight we had our first recital since October. I schedule small recitals for the family whenever some of the children finish learning their piano pieces. Imani, Joy and Esteban are working through the Suzuki piano school books. Joy and Esteban are in book 1, and Imani is in book 2. Tonight she performed the last [...]

Somewhere between the basketball game, the back handspring clinic and the air soft war today, it clicked. I was thinking that I have seriously, stupidly over committed myself this year. Surely all this running all over creation is just wrong on a whole lot of levels. But watching the children comfortably chatting with other children, [...]