Channel Sam

7 February 2014 The Start of Baking Month

Feb 8, 2014

Sam and I have decided that February will be baking month: each week we’ll bake something different. Today she selected a recipe for rolls from one of her children’s cookbooks. Because she also had a clay class today, she treated the dough as if it were, why, clay. For example, the roll center front is shaped like a …

5 February 2014 Genius Box

Feb 6, 2014

Who knew that Sam could have so much fun with cornstarch and water? Or make such a mess! This was one of the experiments that came in this month’s “genius box”: a really cool venture that AC helped crowdfund. Genius Box is a new company that offers a monthly-science kit subscription service. Once a month they send you …

27 January 2014 EugÃ©nie and Pascal Go Shopping

Jan 28, 2014

Look closely and you’ll see the French Club puppets in the carts.

19 January 2014 Seventy-six

Jan 20, 2014

16 January 2014 Tea Party

Jan 17, 2014

15 January 2014 Strike a Pose

Jan 16, 2014

The kids were instructed to strike any pose they wanted when they each came to the podium at the end of the mid-season Showcase at the Little Gym. To my astonishment, Sam’s pose was… smiling! 🙂

13 January 2014 French Club on the Run

Jan 14, 2014

12 January 2014 Girl Meets Bear

Jan 13, 2014

11 January 2014 Sam Loves Her New Desk

Jan 12, 2014

The desk is new to Sam. Grand-mÃ¨re had it for 68 years. Before that it belonged to HER grandmother. Before that (I think) it belonged to Grand-mÃ¨re’s great-grandmother. That means that Sam is now the proud owner of a desk that once belonged to her great-great-great grandmother!

10 January 2014 Finally Found the FÃ¨ve

Jan 11, 2014

We’ve been whittling down our galette des rois all week and no sign of the fÃ¨ve that would confer kingship. (I used a bean as the fÃ¨ve and have been afraid all week that one of us had inadvertently swallowed it). But today, to our amazement, Sam and I each got a piece of the fÃ¨ve, making us joint queens. We’ll have …