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We had a our first Earth Scouts meeting Monday. What is Earth Scouts you ask? Well, I had no clue about it up until a few months ago. I never thought I would want Aidan in a scouting program (I guess   Earth Scouts inaugural meetingI just kept thinking of the paramilitary and homophobic scouting programs [...]

We had beautiful weather for Halloween this year, which is rather unusual for us. Aidan donned his penguin suit (and a new persona–he made us call him Mac, short for macaroni penguin, or Tux after the Linux mascot). Aidan was a little more adventurous this year, wanting to walk a little farther down the block [...]

Henry David Thoreau wrote, “An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day,” and so we have done more than take him at his word; we have taken ourselves to the forest to spend some time amongst the trees–at least on Fridays. They call it “Fridays in the Forest,” a class specifically for homeschoolers [...]