Natural Attachment

February 1, 2011

birthday week 2011 – day 3

Today. Day Three.

Woke up a tiny bit before noon.

Called my G-ma back; she & Grandpa wished me a Happy Birthday.

Ran to the bank to deposit birthday monies.

Went to Affogato in Bellevue and had two soy chai tea presses, a bowl of lentil & mushroom soup with dry wheat toast and worked a crossword puzzle.

My parents called me while at the coffeeshop to wish me a Happy Birthday. They’re alive and not too buried in snow from the Snowmageddon 2011 in Oklahoma.

Came home around 2ish, sent Dear Other Half off to work around 3ish. Watched some Freerunning/Parkour videos with Elijah.

Aunt Becky called me around 4:30p to wish me a Happy Birthday.

Have checked in with Facebook & Twitter to tell everyone thanks for the birthday loving.

Looking forward to getting my tattoo outlined tomorrow.

Tonight, when William gets home from work, I’ll get to snuggle up with him and watch him play Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. It’s like a historical video game version of Freerunning/Parkour (and you get to kill ‘bad guys’… if that’s your thing)! Oh, shut up! It’s pretty to watch.

An easy birthday is what I wanted and so far, that’s what I’ve gotten.

This is blowing my freaking mind! I’m like, “wow” and “OMG” and “microwaved potato chips… can’t be true”!

Elle Randall shared this link yesterday and said, “Next time someone writes WASH ME on your dirty car, show them this”. I am in agreement.

Imagination is Everything

Hathor the CowGoddess and CUNTastic together at last!

“You’re going nowhere new, if you do nothing different” – Chip Esajian

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January 25, 2011

unschooling these days

Filed under: Radical Unschooling,Unschlog — Tags: , , , , , , , — michele james-parham @ 4:10 pm

“[shrug] I just do my best to help them shine their divine, sparkly Light.” ~ Ordinary Life Magic: on teaching

“When school is gone, life will be left.” ~ Just Add Light and Stir

I’ve written *A LOT* about Unschooling on this here blog in the past. There’s still more to be said, I’m sure!

These days our unschooling looks a lot like:

Stjepan Hauser and Luka Sulic – Smooth Criminal which did lead to this Michael Jackson – Smooth Criminal
Homestar Runner
American Parkour and Russian Ninjas, Russian Climbing Ninja, Parkour in Latvia
Wednesday
Kina in South America!
Uriel Fury
Lego Board Games
Note Cards (lots of those)
Weird and crazy math problems made up for me to solve (yeah, because I have *nothing* better to do)
Countless “Let’s Play” videos on YouTube.com
Wikipedia (so much so, that we’re HIGHLY considering purchasing this)
Little Big Planet on the PS3
People (new friends, old friends, mum & dad’s new friends)
Oh Yeah!
And Food… narrowing down what it is that E doesn’t like while prodding to see what he *does* like

And of course there’s more, there always is more and more and more. It’s all life and no school. It’s Winter too – would be nice to be able to leave the house and not have to freeze. Speaking of freezing, these look cozy, but not nearly as effing cute as these (and those are made by grown unschooler, Dagny Kream).

Those of you still wanting more information on Unschooling can email me, find me on Facebook or just start reading here.

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February 1, 2009

Lost Tooth and More Pictures and Free Running

Filed under: Health,Life — Tags: , , , , , , — michele james-parham @ 6:29 pm

I somehow forgot to mention to the rest of the world that Elijah lost his first tooth. He lost it some time between the hours of 10 PM on January 10th and 4AM on January 11th…however, the tooth is MIA. He says that he pulled it out and lost it, so I guess he didn’t swallow it or something.

I’ve been asked by countless people about ‘the tooth fairy’…my son already had the answer that I needed.

“There is no such thing as the tooth fairy…why on Earth would a fairy want people’s old teeth?”

So there you have it…we don’t have a tooth fairy, but other fairies are welcome here! Did I mention lately how much I absolutely LOVE my son?!

AND there are even more pictures of the boy on Flickr…even some Free Running pics!

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"Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it." ~ Brene Brown