Live Free Learn Free Blog » Birthday Cake for Breakfast <title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-content/themes/thirteen/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/feed/" /> <link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/feed/rss/" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/feed/atom/" /> <link rel="pingback" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/xmlrpc.php" /> <style type="text/css"> </style> <link rel='archives' title='August 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/08/' /> <link rel='archives' title='July 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/07/' /> <link rel='archives' title='June 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/06/' /> <link rel='archives' title='April 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/04/' /> <link rel='archives' title='March 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/03/' /> <link rel='archives' title='January 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/01/' /> <link rel='archives' title='December 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/12/' /> <link rel='archives' title='November 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/11/' /> <link rel='archives' title='October 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/10/' /> <link rel='archives' title='September 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/09/' /> <link rel='archives' title='August 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/08/' /> <link rel='archives' title='July 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/07/' /> <link rel='archives' title='June 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/06/' /> <link rel='archives' title='May 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/05/' /> <link rel='archives' title='April 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/04/' /> <link rel='archives' title='March 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/03/' /> <link rel='archives' title='February 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/02/' /> <link rel='archives' title='January 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/01/' /> <link rel='archives' title='December 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/12/' /> <link rel='archives' title='November 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/11/' /> <link rel='archives' title='October 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/10/' /> <link rel='archives' title='September 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/09/' /> <link rel='archives' title='August 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/08/' /> <link rel='archives' title='July 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/' /> <link rel='archives' title='June 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/06/' /> <link rel='archives' title='May 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/05/' /> <link rel='archives' title='April 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/04/' /> <link rel='archives' title='March 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/03/' /> <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/xmlrpc.php?rsd" /> </head> <body> <div id="headwrapper"> <div id="header"> <h1 id="title"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog">Live Free Learn Free Blog</a></h1> </div> </div> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="content"> <div class="post" id="post-111"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/02/12/birthday-cake-for-breakfast/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Birthday Cake for Breakfast">Birthday Cake for Breakfast</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> February 12th, 2006 at 12:49 pm (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/unschooling-life/" title="View all posts in Unschooling Life" rel="category tag">Unschooling Life</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <p>Well, the presents have been unwrapped, the pizza has been scarfed down, the candles have been blown out. Kenzie’s birthday was a roaring success, judging by the number of elated screams we heard yesterday. Dragon books, old Pokemon Gameboy games, a magic kit, “<a href="http://www.rambles.net/basset1.html">The Voyage of the Basset</a>,” trivia games, a photo-mosaic puzzle, a build-it-yourself mechanical dinosaur (with hilarious instructions translated from Japanese), a paper airplane kit, assorted books, a magnet set, dragon tattoos…. Hooray for Goodwill!</p> <p>Right now, he’s playing Pokemon Blue on his Gameboy. A present from his grandparents, it was used, of course (Pokemon Blue is quite an old game), and when he popped it in to play, he found that the last owner had a level 100 character and two level 60 characters. What a fun surprise!</p> <p>Eight years old. What an amazingly cool kid.</p> <p>In magazine news, I’m in the thick of editing for the next issue. In my mind, I keep calling this the “Big Thoughts” issue, as so many of the articles I’ve received have been truly enlightening, looking at unschooling in unique ways. More on this later. For now, I think I’ll join Kenzie in having some birthday cake for breakfast.</p> <p><a href="http://livefreelearnfree.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/kenzie_birthday.jpg"><img width="200" height="266" border="0" alt="Kenzie_birthday" src="http://livefreelearnfree.typepad.com/editor/images/kenzie_birthday.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Opening presents….</p> <p><a href="http://livefreelearnfree.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/translated.jpg"><img width="200" height="153" border="0" alt="Translated" src="http://livefreelearnfree.typepad.com/editor/images/translated.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Walking Dinosaur translation (click to enlarge) </p> </div> </div>  <h3 id="comments">4 Comments</h3> <ol id="commentlist"> <li id="comment-66"> <h4 class="commentauthor">Miranda said,</h4> <p class="commentdate"> February 14, 2006 at <a href="#comment-66" title="Permanent link to this comment">12:18 pm</a> </p> <p>Happy Birthday to Kenzie!</p> <p>Ok, the suspense is killing me….is my article one of those “big thoughts”?<br /> Miranda </p> </li> <li id="comment-67"> <h4 class="commentauthor"><a href='http://profile.typekey.com/LFLF-Editor/' rel='external nofollow'>Shana Ronayne Hickman</a> said,</h4> <p class="commentdate"> February 14, 2006 at <a href="#comment-67" title="Permanent link to this comment">1:48 pm</a> </p> <p>Hey Miranda -</p> <p>How funny! You were posting this just as I was emailing you! Yes, yours is one of those “big thoughts” articles that I’m still so thrilled about receiving. (For others reading this - here’s a little peek at Miranda’s article: “Okay, so what would an unschooling curriculum look like?”)</p> <p>-Shana </p> </li> <li id="comment-68"> <h4 class="commentauthor">Patrice said,</h4> <p class="commentdate"> February 17, 2006 at <a href="#comment-68" title="Permanent link to this comment">6:33 pm</a> </p> <p>Wow, 8. Happy belated birthday Kenzie. Blue Pokemon is a favorite in this house–ours was used as well. Even I play it. ROFL! Gotta love Goodwill. I love treasures and it’s so fun going on the hunt. <img src='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p> </li> <li id="comment-69"> <h4 class="commentauthor"><a href='http://www.xanga.com/freeformlife' rel='external nofollow'>Dar</a> said,</h4> <p class="commentdate"> February 19, 2006 at <a href="#comment-69" title="Permanent link to this comment">11:04 pm</a> </p> <p>When I was growing up, we had a family tradition of birthday cake for breakfast. R and I have continued it… </p> <p>And a belated Happy Birthday to Kenzie! </p> </li> </ol> <h3 id="postcomment">Post a Comment</h3> <form action="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform"> <p> <input type="text" name="author" id="author" value="" size="28" tabindex="1" /> <label for="author">Name (required)</label> </p> <p> <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" size="28" tabindex="2" /> <label for="email">E-mail (required)</label> </p> <p> <input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="" size="28" tabindex="3" /> <label for="url"><abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr></label> </p> <p> <textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="60" rows="8" tabindex="4"></textarea> </p> <p> <input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" class="submit" tabindex="5" value="Submit Comment" /> <input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="111" /> </p> </form> </div> <div id="sidebar"> <ul> <li id="meta"> <h2>Meta</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-login.php">Login</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/feed/" title="Syndicate this site using RSS">Entries <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/comments/feed/" title="The latest comments to all posts in RSS">Comments <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr></a></li> </ul> </li> <li id="search"> <form method="get" id="searchform" action="/blog/index.php"> <p> <input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" /> <input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" class="submit" value="Search" /> </p> </form> </li> </ul> </div> <div id="footer"> <p> <a href="http://wordpress.org" title="Powered by Wordpress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.">Powered by Wordpress</a> · Design by <a href="http://beccary.com" title="Theme designed by Beccary">Beccary</a> and <a href="http://weblogs.us" title="Theme sponsored by Weblogs.us">Weblogs.us</a> · <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer" title="This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional"><abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr></a> · <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer" title="This page validates as CSS"><abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr></a> </p> </div> </div>  <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> var sc_project=605365; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_partition=4; var sc_security="d224bf47"; </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"></script><noscript><a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://c5.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=605365&java=0&security=d224bf47&invisible=1" alt="free stats" border="0"></a> </noscript>  </body> </html>