Spoiler alert: no. | craftknife.blogspot.com
Spoiler alert: no. | Craft Knife
At least, that's what you must do if you're in LA with me!| Craft Knife
Do you ever get pissed that you can't visit every place in the entire world and see every cool thing that there is to see?| Craft Knife
Went to Mexico in 2022 and somehow didn't try a single "Mayan" rum cake, dang it!| Craft Knife
Tbh, I'm not sure if the kid really even wanted a puff quilt that much, ahem, or if she was just expressing admiration for them and then I jumped on it because it looked like a cool thing to make.| Craft Knife
We maximized everyone's must-do list on this trip to San Diego! We went to the zoo. We ate Somali food. We toured Palomar Observatory. We had authentic Mexican food. We saw the desert and boated around the bay. | craftknife.blogspot.com
Remember how I told you that I could crochet anything, as long as it was rectangular and done in single crochet on hook size K?| craftknife.blogspot.com
One of my kids doesn't like chocolate, so I've gotten into the habit of doing my Easter prep super early, before the stores get picked over, always in search of that singular non-chocolate (and also non-white chocolate, because in the kid's mind, the only acceptable cocoa is hot cocoa, and even then only sometimes) Easter bunny. | craftknife.blogspot.com
It's probably not my least autistic characteristic, but I'm obsessed with it!| craftknife.blogspot.com
I was mostly going to the museum to see this ship, so the intense eye contact was a bonus.| Craft Knife
I first published this tutorial on Crafting a Green World.| Craft Knife
And that's a low count, because I saw most of them twice, some of them three times, and a few of them four or more times because we could not figure out a single workable path to see everything the most efficiently and we kept finding ourselves in Africa Rocks. I swear to all the gods that if a zoo would ever just draw me a nice map of the shortest walking path through all their sites, I would make that zoo my entire personality.| Craft Knife
It's probably not my least autistic characteristic, but I'm obsessed with it!| Craft Knife
Actively homeschooling outside Laura's house in 2014!| Craft Knife
If you wanted to die due to your own stupidity, the desert would actually be a great place to do it!| craftknife.blogspot.com
Thank goodness that there's no such thing as the badge police! One of my favorite things about Girl Scouts is their emphasis on the kid-led experience, which to me is far preferable to a regimented set of practices. Girl Scouts are encouraged to explore their interests and make their own decisions, and they can move even the official badges in directions that aren't directly specified. | craftknife.blogspot.com
Living the dream in 2024!| Craft Knife
visiting a mummy in the Yale Peabody Museum, 2013| Craft Knife
Okay, I lied. I did think the part of the book in which the dad is fired from his preacher job because he was unwilling to accept Freemasons was interesting and hilarious. Seriously, what was UP with Freemasonry?!? They really had better be secretly housing the Holy Grail or some similar nonsense to have been worth all of these conspiracy theories. | craftknife.blogspot.com
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The glorious day has finally come that the bookshelf quilt is finished!| craftknife.blogspot.com
My 2023 adventure with the Rosetta Stone!| Craft Knife
AND I got another national park passport stamp!| Craft Knife
All I wanted to accomplish was collecting my national parks passport stamp for the First State National Historical Park. | craftknife.blogspot.com
It was still fun, though!| craftknife.blogspot.com
It was still fun, though!| Craft Knife
Oh, Happy Day, for I have achieved the dream that I have dreamed since March 14.| craftknife.blogspot.com
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The putting away of childish things is progressing, but it is a LOT harder than I thought it would be. The existence of the kids' playroom has allowed me to ignore all the once-beloved but long-ignored toys that they possess, since they're all stored tidily on shelves and not in the way.| craftknife.blogspot.com
We first started making these art rocks a year ago, and I don't know why I didn't write about them at the time--they're easy and fun, they look great, and they encourage kids to get out and about in their community.| craftknife.blogspot.com
I do NOT want to talk about that hockey score pop-up in the frame. I am so disappointed in the playoff results so far! Nevermind that my most beloved Stars lost to the Oilers, because the Oilers are fine and I'd be satisfied to have them win the Cup, but the Panthers are also in the final?!? The Panthers represent the absolute worst of the NHL, everything that I find most toxic about men's professional hockey. Not the players, because they mostly can't help where they play, but the awful mana...| Craft Knife
Photos courtesy of a 2010 trip I took with the kids to the Grand Canyon. There's more than enough to see even when you're standing behind the guardrails and staying on the path!| Craft Knife
Local, independent museums are always so delightfully surprising and strange.| Craft Knife
I will never get over how weird it is to say that the National Museum of the United States Air Force is the most underrated museum I've ever visited.| craftknife.blogspot.com
Because it's not a road trip to pick the kids up from college if I'm not detouring to a different tourist site every 20 miles!| craftknife.blogspot.com
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Y'all know I love myself a quest. | craftknife.blogspot.com
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One of my kids doesn't like chocolate, so I've gotten into the habit of doing my Easter prep super early, before the stores get picked over, always in search of that singular non-chocolate (and also non-white chocolate, because in the kid's mind, the only acceptable cocoa is hot cocoa, and even then only sometimes) Easter bunny. | craftknife.blogspot.com
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Did I tell you that we have construction people in the house AGAIN?!?| craftknife.blogspot.com
