I’m putting up a bunch of pictures today. I’m sure that’s the only way I’m going to catch up.

Crafting time used to involve us making all sorts of different things. Isabelle would ask for something and I would cut out a shape and then tinier little bits and let her go glue crazy. We’d make things like rain clouds.

A butterfly on occasion.

Chocolate chip cookies.

Or princess crowns.

But seeing that she has a new obsession now, it’s all butterflies. What would you like Isabelle, I ask. A butterfly, she replies. Then after that I ask again and she asks for another butterfly and another and another. It’s a family of butterflies.

And we’re having a global adventure! Doesn’t that sound fun?

It’s our homeschool meetup group. Once a month we’re meeting to learn about a new country. The kids got their pictures taken and they’ll be getting little pretend passports with stamps from the countries we’re “visiting”.

This past week we “visited” Ireland. And the kids got to make Irish soda bread.

And now I must stop typing. Nathan is fussing. Well at least I got these pictures up.

Ack! I just realized I deleted three months of photos from my computer that I did not have backed up online. Sure I have them on my backup drive but I need extra backups. So, I’m only showing a handful of photos today. Because I’m doing the whole back up thing. AGAIN. Sheesh!

This was taken weeks ago.

Isabelle had a mild interest in butterflies.

Then the other week Alan found a caterpillar in our backyard.

And a full blown obsession has kicked in. Isabelle wanted to put the caterpillar in a jar and keep it and feed it and play with it and carry it around.

We would have let her keep it too. But then Alan went online to identify what kind of caterpillar it was, so we would know what to feed it.

We think it’s a Nadata gibbosa, a moth. And once Alan showed me that web page, the ick factor went sky high. The caterpillar is lucky the urge to hurl it across the room, as far away from me as possible, did not kick in. I serenely put it back in the garden as quick as can be. Isabelle was a little upset until she saw the picture of what it turned into. Not a butterfly but an oogy moth.

Ok must stop typing now because I have the heebie jeebies.