by Julie | Nov 25, 2008
Sometimes I get fixated on some kid craft that I feel like we have to do, or we’re not properly celebrating the season or whatever. Last year it was a gingerbread house (stay tuned next month, I’m sure another one is in the works, against my better...
by Julie | Nov 23, 2008
Well, maybe all those letters on the wall are influencing the kids after all. This week Henry suddenly declared that the living room was a Story Room. He set to work outlining and cutting out 18-inch-high letters, and then instructed me on how to tape them to the wall...
by Julie | Nov 21, 2008
Attention, World of Julie Readers! (All 12 of you!) A call to action! A ridiculous, random, call to action! Henry’s class is studying geography in December. Being December, the geography unit also has a gingerbread theme. I guess the class is going to make a...
by Julie | Nov 15, 2008
This has been a fun art installation week for Henry. The day after the tree monkey, Henry did a complex Island of Sodor piece in the living room. The whole Thomas thing comes and goes for him. There will be weeks where he doesn’t pull out the trains at all, and...
by Julie | Nov 13, 2008
The other day on the way home from school, Henry was animatedly telling me…well, something. The fact is that I’m a little deaf and with all the cars and traffic on the walk home, plus the fact that Henry’s head is three feet lower than mine, I...
by Julie | Nov 11, 2008
It was Haircut Time here at World of Julie. Haircut Time used to be a horrible, horrible time, when Henry would run screaming from him like I was chasing him with scissors. (Oh, wait…well, like I was going to cut open his chest with the scissors.) Right after...
