Just because I can’t see your faces in my sidebar doesn’t mean that I

a) don’t love you
b) will forget about you

I am hoping that removing that little widget on the side {along with a few others} will help with all the crashing of Internet Explorer. Because I’d hate for you to get all frustrated and never come back to visit!

Of course, if I could convince you about all the wonderful aspects of Firefox…and how simple it is to use…and the fact that it rarely {if ever} crashes on me…you might just get hooked.

Just giving you a heads up ~ because there is a post in the works about all my favorite things that I can do with Firefox coming up! If you use Firefox, are there any wonderful add-ons that you are ever-so-thankful for?

I’ve had several people email me recently telling me the Internet Explorer is shutting down when they view my site.

Are you having problems too?

I use Firefox and everything is quite lovely in Firefox-land. Out of curiosity I opened up my IE and tried to log onto my site and I’m getting nothing in the right hand sidebar {or if I do, it’s all a little skewed}.

Could you all chime in and let me know what you are using to view my site and if you are having any issues?

This would also be the point that I mention again HOW MUCH I LOVE FIREFOX…and how much IE annoys me {I’ll step off my soapbox now}.

Update: Could you let me know which version of IE you are using? 7 or 8? There is a possibility that it could also be linked to either the ‘link within’ widget that I was using or the followers widget…I’m checking into it! In the meantime, you won’t see the ‘followers’ or link within. Let me know if that makes a difference.

We’re still studying France. We’re just FLYING through the countries I tell ya.

{That would be a HIGH amount of sarcasm, people. I’m spreading it on thick here.}

We’ve been focusing more on Paris this week thanks to the book Madeline. Today, out of sheer “Please give Mommy a few moments of peace, because I you all are going to drive me c.r.a.z.y!!“, I handed the kids the majority of our straws, a roll of coveted Scotch tape and told them to build something they might find in Paris.

Despite several rounds of frustrated tears, tape being stuck to certain children’s faces, and general mayhem, there was a colorful end result.

The picture doesn’t quite do it justice, because truly it’s even more pitiful than it looks and it leans waaaaaaay to one side if left standing for more than 10 seconds on it’s own. See?

Zachary has lovingly dubbed it “The Leaning Tower of Eiffel”.

I’m guest posting over at Today’s Housewife about ‘learning spaces’. Stop on over and say hi!

I am pulling together a post to show what we did in our robin study this last week…but I’ve been a little sidetracked having fun for my birthday! :)

More to come!