Camian Academy

Combine trying to take a picture of the five of us piled on each other with the camera on the wrong setting and you get a picture that the kids like better than the ones taken with the camera on the right setting!

Why is it okay for an adult to accuse a child of lying, but it is not okay for a child to accuse an adult of lying?
Yesterday, a very angry woman banged on our door and accused my kids of vandalizing her truck on Saturday. She said someone (she did not see anyone do […]

Cameron’s birthday party was wonderful! He has told us several times that it was great and he had so much fun. Ten kids can be pretty loud, but I think they all had a good time.
We did the majority of the party down in the rec room. I had a sign on […]

Cameron’s party went great and now we are exhausted. Two more people RSVP’d this morning a couple hours before the party and one showed up without RSVPing. Two neither RSVP’d nor showed up. Not too bad numbers overall. I ended up just making 12 of everything just in case. We […]

Cameron’s birthday party is on Saturday. We sent out the invitations a little over a week ago. I requested that they RSVP by yesterday. We are having a science-themed party and knowing how many children are coming would be immensely useful for making the labcoats and setting up the science lab.
We invited […]

Now that Fritz can eat anything, grocery shopping has gotten much easier. The big kids aren’t feeling deprived anymore (I think a lot of Ani’s jealousy toward Fritz stemmed from dietary restrictions) and we can use coupons and shop sales and get cheap groceries. That makes grocery shopping a lot more fun.
Safeway has […]

Cameron has had his new gymnastics coach for two weeks now. Today the coach told me he’d like Cameron to join the developmental team. Clearly Cameron has natural talent. I’d rather not go down the competitive path, but decided to give Cameron the option since this is the second coach that has […]