Sep. 11, 2008
West Virginia and Our First Co-op Experience
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Well, we are all finally reunited and have relocated to West Virginia. Dh picked us up last Saturday. We packed the remaining items in the car and on the bed of the truck and then trailered my car. The trip took about ELEVEN hours. It was horrible and "drove" us all to wits end. During the trip, I've decided that I have two of the best cats in the world. They were so well behaved in the truck. Originally, we were going to crate them both, but then I decided we would try harnessing and leashing them. They laid in the back seat of the truck with Ginger and we heard barely a meow out of them. They started to get a little uptight around the tenth hour, but really, who could blame them. Anyhow, my first 1/2 week here was uneventful. My computer was not together so I was suffering withdrawal symptoms  . We painted Ginger's room. She now has chocolate brown walls and we painted the ceiling and closet doors lime green. We are still going to pick two different color pinks and paint some different sized circles "falling" from the ceiling to the floor in one the corners. She picked the colors and so far it looks pretty nice. Funky and edgy...just like I would expect from her. She is very happy with it, so that is really all that matters.On Thursday, I brought her to a homeschooling co-op we joined. It was nice and she had a blast. The co-op is actually a Waldorf inspired co-op. It was difficult for Ginger to get into the circle time mood, but eventually she came around. On this particular day, they were dying with natural dyes. I bought Ginger some socks to bring because they were 80% cotton. I tried to get her to bring 100% cotton underwear, but she didn't go for it. When it was time to dye, some girls were dying underpants!  Here is a selection of some of the dyes. Here is a larger selection of dyes. They could choose to dye using grass, berries, strawberry, coffee, organic wine, turmeric spice, yellow onion skins, red cabbage, and beets. It is possible there were more, but I can not recall them. Some of the kids are just starting to dye. Ginger is dying a pair of socks in the yellow onion skin dye. She also chose berries, strawberries, grass, red cabbage, and turmeric.  During free time, the kids found this Tomato Horn Worm. It died before the end of the day since each kid "adopted" it for a time being. It died in the name of science, I guess. Here's my favorite picture. Notice it is her turn with the Horn Worm. Go figure, a housefly is not ok but a moth larva is. |
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