Slices of Life

It's the third Thursday of the month and time for another ageless style challenge. This month Bo picked a list of spring trends for us to pick from and style so each person will most likely end up with a different spring trend to focus on. Since it really, really does not feel like spring here yet I picked silk scarves as the trend to focus on.  As much as I love scarves and wear them year round, I actually didn't have any silk ones... so I turned to Amazon! I found 1 I really liked (in 2 patterns) and have had fun styling them. I bought this scarf in "pink & yellow blossoms" "oil painting irises." I tend to like the long rectangular scarves best as I can tie them so many ways.  Wrapped around the neck a few times and tied.  Same outfit, different tie on the scarf, and swapped out the socks/shoes for a bit more of a spring feel.   I tied the ends together of my other scarf and used it like an infinity scarf.   This time I folded the scarf in half then ...

Clark had some big shoes to fill as we had a really wonderful time at JWU's accepted student day  for Alec.  Check in was at 8:15 and we spent most of the morning in the athletic center. They turned the basketball court into a banquet hall.  check in and space where they were setting up their academic fair later in the day Since we were on the early side they had a game/quiz for us to play online about Clark and the Worcester, Mass area. By 9 it was time for welcome speeches.  Then we sat through what they call their Clark Experience panel at 9:30 -- various faculty and a current student talk about how Clark integrates classroom learning with hands on and experiential learning. Most students use some type of interdisciplinary learning to somewhat curate their own path to graduate (with lots and lots of staff help).      At 10 Evan was sitting in on a sample class-- they had at least a dozen to pick from but he chose Psychology of Protest and Riots in ...

 *Originally published March 18, 2013 when my boys were 5, 7, & 8    My boys just love science!  They continually ask for fun science experiments, watch movies about animals, nature, and science and read about all sorts of science concepts through our books. Today the boys begged to watch the Science of Disney Imagineering videos so we ended up spending our morning learning about gravity , fluids , and energy . I think they were still disappointed that they were only able to watch them each once though.  At one point they stopped the movies and gathered up all their stuffed animals and blankets and brought them downstairs.  They spread out all the blankets & set up their animals so that their animals could watch too. My boys spent the afternoon at their Mad Science camp learning all about the science behind crime scene investigation. When I picked them up they were all excited to tell me about the mock crime scene that...