Team Gray!

“Mommy, can we start school?” It seemed an innocent question enough. I knew someone who’d already started school. And the babies were bored. What harm could it do? So I set out to start school two weeks ago. First I had to hunt down all the curriculum. Problem: Imani’s 5th grade math book still hadn’t [...]

Back in the mid 90s, I assembled a wooden doll house with Yanni, my oldest child, 4 at the time. I found the project so engrossing that I made several kits of furniture after finishing the house. I wanted the project to go on an on. . . This summer, I pulled out a bunch [...]

Some of the crafts this summer have overlapped, like origami and building a dollhouse out of tiny bricks and mortar. I’ll write of the particular joys of the latter experience at another time. Now for my latest obsession: Origami. I have a few childhood origami memories. I think we did a unit on Japan in [...]