Category Archives: Duendesday

{life with a curious and crazy almost 12 yr old} She’s a kook – this little duende of ours, a real mischevous little sprite. Our local trash transfer station has the Swap Shack (I’m sure I’ve mentioned it – ha!) and lately Ms. D. has been finding large toy horses that she is in loveContinue reading “Duendesday: New Findings”

{life with a curious and crazy almost 12 yr old} Child-time is moving too fast for me. I enjoy every stage of the growing but somedays I just wish each stage would last a little longer. I remember thinking when she was a wee babe that each time we had to bounce her to sleepContinue reading “Duendesday: Moving on up…”

{life with a curious and crazy 11 yr old} Feet in the creek, picking flowers for syrups and sodas, walks in the woods, getting ice cream out, playing badminton, planting new gardens, hanging in the hammock, making (and eating!) fruit popsicles, counting birds and butterflies, being 11…

{life with a curious and crazy 11 yr old} Our lovely Godzilla has been changing at a shooting star rate these days – she is taller, smarter, stronger, sassier, and coming to grips with change. Up until now we have been following a loosey goosey Waldorf-style education (I think the only Waldorf aspect is theContinue reading “Duendesday: Pulling her weight…”

{life with a curious and crazy 11 yr old} This little peach loves to plan/host/make goodies for parties. Duende is a hostess with the mostess. A slight sign of rain and she’s making a Thundercake (see Patricia Polacco’s book of the same name, recipe in the back). Any talk of ripe bananas and she’s whippingContinue reading “Duendesday: Baking and Excitement”

{life with a curious and crazy 11 yr old} She’s been obsessed with the British ‘Farm’ series (Tudor Monastery Farm, Edwardian, Wartime, and Victorian Farm with a couple of extras) of a semi-fluctuating threesome (one is a historian joined by one or two different archaeologists) who move into appropriate time frame farms that are stillContinue reading “Duendesday: Victorian Farm Dreams”

{life with a curious and crazy 11 yr old} It’s seems that the world outside is thawing to her satisfaction – she’s already in the creek, chasing chickens, making mudgames, and helping her Dad boil maple syrup, trim moth nests, and cutting wood. Inside, she is making many beautiful beaded bracelets, doing her nails (aContinue reading “Duendesday: Growing Pains”

{life with a curious and crazy 11 yr old} Here’s to new friends! Especially at a time when it is particularly hard to meet new people and to have the space to get to know them. But children are brilliant at that, anyway – no expectations, no messy introductions, they just sort of jump inContinue reading “Duendesday: new friends”

{life with a curious and crazy 11 yr old} It’s been a crazy year so far. Too hot and sticky to really be out a lot this Summer, too buggy, too rainy, too icky – there has been something thwarting our deep outdoor adventures and plans this year. So, there has still been a lotContinue reading “Duendesday: Making Good Stuffs”