Neil was moving some things at the back door and picked up Lara’s backpack. He couldn’t figure out why an empty backpack was so heavy, so took a peek.
Browsing Tag: Lara
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Unexpected glasses
At a recent visit for a regular checkup, the optometrist discovered that one of Lara’s eyes wasn’t seeing as well as the other. Since a single Ortho-K contact lens is $240 (we had just replaced her pair in July), we made several visits to try to troubleshoot the issue. One of the steps was to […]
Activities / Projects
Waterwheel project
Lara’s class was learning about energy in class and they had to do a slide presentation about hydropower. She decided she also wanted to make a waterwheel to show how water turns a wheel, and the energy transfers through a rod to generate electricity.
Food
Pumpkin Pie
It starts with “Mama, can you please buy a pie pumpkin when you go to the grocery store? I want to make a pumpkin pie.”
Activities
Paid yard work
Having observed the kids out and about the last couple of years, the neighbour two houses down (Ivan) asked if they would be interested in some paid yard work on his property. Well, that was an unequivocal ‘Yes!’. And then they got to work. While chatting with Ivan, Nolan told him that if he bought […]
Activities
Making soap
Over the years, I’ve looked into making soap but the number of finicky steps were always too daunting. Not for Lara though. She did the research, organized the endeavour, and executed the steps; and we now have homemade soap. Along the way, emulsification, saponification, and exothermic reactions were discussed. This is the recipe she used. […]
Food
Byron Bay Balls
We’ve made Byron Bay Chocolate Chip cookies a number of times. Recently, Lara had been talking about making cookie balls instead of slicing the cookies prior to baking. Today, she put that into action.
Repairs
Dryer repair
For several weeks, the dryer has been thumping during a cycle, and it requires more than a normal cycle (50 mins) to get the clothes to dry. So Neil had a look and, at least to fix the thumping, it’ll be the the same repair that he did back in August of 2014 – except […]