- Monday: Hawaiian chicken
- Rockford is the primary pineapple fan in our house, and he wasn’t even here when we tried this the first time. I think he’ll like it.
- Tuesday: Red beans and rice
- I made a large pot of red beans and meat a few weeks ago, and I have two meals’ worth still in the freezer. So this will be a super-easy meal.
- Wednesday: Cheeseburgers
- The Weather Channel tells me we’re supposed to have nice weather on Wednesday. I’m hoping they’re right, because I’m planning to grill these.
- Thursday: Grilled tuna
- And Thursday is supposed to be even lovelier than Wednesday!
- Friday: Undecided
- I’m going to be trying Bikram yoga on Friday evening with a friend, so Rockford and the kids will be dining without me. It’s also known as “hot yoga,” apparently, because the room is heated to a ridiculous temperature. I would not be surprised if I passed out.
Monthly Archives: March 2011
It’s the Plinko of the sporting world!
It’s the middle of March, which means young athletes across the land will be bouncing a ball and tossing it toward a circle, and this bouncing and tossing will be the cause of great joy and also severe emotional distress. And that, friends, means it’s also time for the annual ButterscotchSundae tournament of basketball prognosticating: Double Dribble 2011!
There will be a small but wonderful prize for the Double Dribble 2011 Champion. It won’t be this, but it also won’t be this.
If you want to play, leave a comment here and I’ll send you the password. I do hope you’ll join us.
In which I try to get a grip and we blow stuff up (kind of)
It feels like we’ve been all over the place this week, school-wise. Rockford and I didn’t get back into town until Monday afternoon, so there wasn’t any schoolwork on Monday. Starting the week that way always makes the rest of the week feel a little off for me, so I’m feeling kind of like we didn’t actually accomplish anything this week.
This is one of the good things about writing it all down. If we really didn’t do anything, I know I’ll need to get things back on track next week. And if we did accomplish something, then I can stop worrying so much, I guess.
Math
Poppy started the second chapter of her math book this week. It’s subtraction, and so far she’s having no problem with it whatsoever. She also did her usual 30 minutes a day on Dreambox Learning.
Recitation
“Fog” by Carl Sandburg is the first non-rhyming poem I’ve asked Poppy to memorize, and she’s having a hard time with it. So we’ll continue it next week.
Reading
We’re near the end of “The Secret Garden
Science
It was our week to host the Ballerina Science Club again. We read “The Magic School Bus Blows Its Top” and watched a short video of volcanos erupting and magma flowing about. And we made a volcano. We made it erupt three times; it was a big hit.
It appears we did accomplish some things! So that’s good.