Our Summer Thus Far, in Three Parts
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 7:55AM Part I
Five Fun French Facts: The Eiffel Tower*
1) iron $ steel**
2) built on the Champ de Mars beside the Seine River in Paris
3) weighs 7,300 tons
4) lightning struck it on June 3rd 1902 at 9:20 p.m.
5) The Eiffel Tower is a colossal lightning conductor.
Part II
Recipe***
ingredients
5 mint leaves
4 cpc of water
3 ice cubes
1 strainer (for mint leaves)
Put in the ingredients then shake with cover, stir enjoy!
Tess, Hope's and Daniel's recipie if you want more add wild daisys and rasberrys
Part III
The Deer Strikes Again? by Tess Perkins
When I was six the deer cept eating our planets until...One day dad came home with a fence. A fence for the deer. Two years past so far no bunnys and deer. Now I am eight years old. Mom and I were planting my plant when suddinly...The deer strucked again! It was horible. My mother was sad. :( I was worried that the deer would eat my sunflower.
*Every day, the four older kids have to write Five Fun French Facts! on a subject I give them in a notebook in preparation for our trip to France in August. This is one of Hope's entries.
**All portions of this post are transcribed exactly as written.
***The kids will definitely be collaborators on the sequel to Comfortably Yum.
The Next Generation
Reader Comments (13)
Oh, no! The poor sunflower! :)
hehe
I'd add rum and cane sugar to the recipe and ensure the water is sparkling :D. Mmm
Oh, what would we do without kids---besides sleep more, worry less (and therefore live longer), and be far less fulfilled...
I freely welcome deer and bunnies and quail. They rarely eat our stuff.
We're doing summer writing with the kids this summer, and all of their entries are treasures. (Even the ones that are a page and a half of: "My mom is so mean. She makes us write in the summer when we could be playing with our friends. Writing is so boring. I HATE it. It is the STUPIDEST thing to do in summer...") Jeremiah's currently writing a story about a king (King Jerkface) and a rich guy (Mr. Little) who torment a Chinese immigrant. I'm loving his insights and sensitivity showing up in his writing.
I'm loving what your kids are creating here.
Loved the facts about the french eiffle tower and was sad to hear that the deer are trying to eat the garden. =[
Deer are regular visitors in our part of the world. Love the recipe. Man I wish I cooked . . . Maybe I'll give the recipe to my husbadn so he can cook for me . . . :)
I feel Tess's pain. Truly.
I'm delighted you'll have such erudite collaborators for Comfortably Yummier.
Oh no, not the deer again. Just when you were starting to enjoy wildlife anew.
Very cute facts. I will not go to the Eiffel Tower in a thunderstorm, for sure now.
I SO love the Five French Facts. What a cool idea. You're so stinkin' awesome. And that TESS! I just want to wrap her up in my arms and tell her how frickin' brackin' adorable she is!!! (I love that you kept it just as she'd written it. So darling.)
Oh, the five fun facts is a great idea! Will have to keep that one in my back pocket.
And now I'm feeling guilty because I meant to have my children do many educational things this summer and it's all gone out the window.
Perhaps I shall start anew today. . .or tomorrow.
You and your children are beyond awesome!
What smart ones you have! Probably because of your smart ideas, like the five fun facts. Great idea!
I can still remember the day my dad came home with a fence. He just rolled it up and carried it under his arm (dad's were much larger back then) and POOF! no more deer eating mom's strawberries.