We had a party to celebrate Sage’s birthday last weekend. She invited some of friends from school.
The kids painted pots and planted “kinderplants” for the local nursery.
An unusual amount of music was played during the party. An impromptu orchestra formed, rehearsing a spontaneous composition.
There was also some game playing.
And until the rain sent everyone back [...]
I got some nice birthday cards today!
I also got nice cards from the Perry’s and lots of good wishes from friends at facebook. Thanks, everyone!
We went to River’s school concert tonight. She played a duet she’s been working on with her friend Grace.
At the End of the Rainbow
She recently joined the strings ensemble. They played this piece:
Olga Square Dance
Finally, River is also in the choir and they sang a few songs as well.
Simple Melody by Irving Berlin
and
To the [...]
River and Sage had a Tae Kwon Do grading yesterday morning. Somehow 9:00am seems too early on a Sunday morning to get anywhere, but we made it only a few minutes late. Unfortunately, our local Starbucks doesn’t have the big boxes of coffee, so we had to make do with individual cups. [...]
The kids and I went to the National Space Centre in Leicester recently. There were quite a few interesting exhibits there, but the highlight was about human spaceflight. There are a series of interactive exhibits intended to simulate preparations for astronauts working at a lunar base. Sage has been learning about the Apollo 11 flight [...]
Not too long ago, we went for a nice walk in the Peak District from the village of Hartington to Pilsbury. Hartington is a bucolic spot, famous as the home of the oldest continually operating creamery in England and source of about a quarter of the world supply of stilton cheese. It is a beautiful [...]
We recently celebrated the seventh anniversary of Sage’s birth.
We spent the day in London. We took the underground into Picadilly Circus and hopped on one of the tourist buses. We’ve been to London a handful of times now, but we’ve stayed underground and popped up at our destination like some burrowing mammal. It was fun [...]
There has been a lot of music in our house recently.
River and her friend Grace put together a duet for their school house performance called an “Evening with Tedder”. Apparently, they practiced during breaks at school. I was very impressed with their effort and I thought it came together pretty well, though they seem to [...]
One Christmas gift River was quite excited about was her sparring gear. Now that she has the kit officially certified by the Tae Kwon Do Association of Great Britain, she is allowed to spar during class. Watch out for that sidekick!
Sage has been doing quite well at TKD as well. She graded for her [...]
One of Gail’s friends in their neighborhood has a beautiful baby grand piano and she generously offered to let the kids come down the street to play one morning.
It was really nice to hear everyone play. Evie and Henry have been playing for a couple years now, I think, and are both excellent musicians.
They all [...]
