The Annotated Ankle Biter

This was my first attempt at making an Easter Egg Tree. I used pussy willow branches, and I coloured my eggs with an Easter Egg kit that had dye tabs you dissolve in water (and vinegar) instead of food colour. I’m going to try food colour next year because the tabs didn’t dissolve completely. There were little lumps floating around in the water, and the eggs came out a bit spotted from lumps of dye that settled on them.

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Some of my favourite links for Easter celebration inspiration.

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Kids In Mind
With the holidays coming up, I was looking for a movie we all might enjoy and I discovered http://www.kids-in-mind.com which might be a good resource for years to come for the following reasons.

1. They give a brief synopsis of each movie and an objective, 3-part rating based on 3 categories: “Sex & Nudity”, “Violence & Gore”, and “Profanity”. They give the movies a separate rating from 0 to 10 for each category—they assign a rating based on quantity and context.
   Read their description of the rating system.
2. They describe the scenes in detail so you can judge for yourself if the movie would be suitable.
3. They provide a movie search that lets you list movies according to the rating range that you think is acceptable. You choose a range between 0 and 10 for each category and select which of MPAA ratings you want to restrict the search to.
4. Besides the comprehensive list of movies, the sidebar lists movies they’ve reviewed this week, last week, and what’s in the theatres. You can read about video releases on another page.

I was looking into child-friendly laptops when I found out about the OLPC “$100 laptop” now called the XO. OLPC, an acronym for One Laptop Per Child, is a non-profit organization dedicated to giving children around the world the opportunity to “explore, experiment and express themselves” via these very cool laptops.

XO Band Demo
Students in Ban Samkha village in northern Thailand has formed a band playing traditional music with the XO.

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I went to one of my favourite tea shops today and saw these Momiji Mugs and fell in love. The mugs currently come in 4 different designs, each with a different message at the bottom of the mug. The packaging is pretty, and it cleverly holds the the mug so it won’t move around in the box.

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