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Welcome back to Rivendell. I have missed you one and all. Today was a kind of lazy start. They didn't want to go out adventuring. They...

Bonnes vacances tous le monde! A tout a l'heur. Je vous aiment beaucoup et vous êtes tous des parents fantastiques.

Did we get fancy? Yes we did! We dove deep into fancy and did some fancy thinking, fancy eating (pinkies up, please!), fancy dressing,...

well....we almost went to Fishy and Friends...but it was too hot then we almost went to the wading pool....but we didn't... so we just...

Tie-dye Tuesday was trippy indeed, with only three kids (a big, a medium and a little) and then they all took naps to boot! I'm...

I thought today was a most excellent Thursday. May your Friday be most excellent as well.

A busy full house Cat, ferret, littles and bigs, Relatively calm a Wednesday haiku (if we're lucky, the afternoon pictures will load later)

July came to Rivendell hot and slow, and that is an excellent way for it to be!

Maddie, our Outside Leader, chose a 'stay home' day. Hal and Azrael were filled with joy. And no one complained, including me. I love...

the pictures tell the story of an outing to the Yakama Nation Willamette Falls Lamprey Celebration. There was: a welcome dance community...

Emotions ran high today. Who knows why. Somebody bit somebody. Somebody wanted to go home. Somebody hit somebody with a stick. Somebody...

The Tuesday Challenges Find numbers 1-20 Complete a puzzle Surf across the room (without touching the carpet) Paint a background (let...

And on this dark and stormy day, we welcome SUMMER! Happy Solstice. It was a very fine Friday, and I for one will sleep very well tonight!

on this last day of spring... a 5:1 girl to boy ratio. (Azrael definitely would have welcomed another boy, no matter how wild and wrestly...

A couple random moments in a mostly fine Wednesday. 9:00 Eloise is dragging Syd around by the stuffed slug. Syd is trying to squeeze the...

A very nice Tuesday was had by one and all (especially Syd, the ferret that we are sitting this week), even though the ratio of boys to...

Friday the 13th. I'd say we did just fine on this cool cloudy Friday! The pictures tell the story. and meanwhile..... Audrey graduated...

I am happy to report it was just a regular, boring (well, not really), run of the mill Thursday like any other day. Hallelujah!

I'd say today was the first real day of Summer Camp at Rivendell: a couple of big kids, a wagon picnic at LaTourette, and fun with...

Kit passed yesterday after his long battle with cancer. I told the preschoolers today while we were playing with slime. The kids talked...