What Rainy Days are made for . . .
My small boy sat at the kitchen bar today, with his sisters, after lunch. They were discussing what to do with this rainy, gray afternoon. We settled on a new movie they had borrowed a…
Category: The Women Folk
The Half-Way Mark
If I compare this one-year journey to a marathon, I suppose I am officially “half-way” through. I’ve just finalized our 2nd quarter grades. I’ve printed them (A’s = free doughnuts, YO!), filed them (for my…
Blood, Candy, and Other Related Subjects
I need to take a moment to thank the BTDT (been there, done that) homeschooling moms who recommended we look into Apologia Science for our kids this year. It has been the most wonderful journey…
Unlocking the ‘Mommy Guilt’ Code
I don’t make New year’s Resolutions. As one friend of mine so eloquently put it – “Why should I set myself up for one more opportunity to fail?” I think we’ve all felt like this…
October
So apparently FALL has arrived, or Autumn, as I’m more accustomed to calling it. Either way, we’ve noticed a distinct drop in the humidity and, for at least 3 whole days, a dip in the…
Who likes Fractions?
So we’ve officially made it 1/6 of the way through our experimental year of homeschooling. The early start we got in August means we’ve now completed 31 days (of the required 180). I decided to…
What Every Parent Wants to Hear
As parents we often question the decisions we make. Homeschooling has been a pretty epic example of this in action. From the hours we spent debating, praying, and wondering about whether we could, would, should…
What we’re NOT doing
Lots of people have been asking me what we’ve been doing lately and how the homeschooling is going. While I blogged a few weeks ago about how I really thought it was too soon to…
Things that made me happy today . . .
(Just in case anyone thinks all we do is homeschool!) My son and his peeps. Aren’t they adorable?!!! I’m sure they’d rather be almost any other adjective, but the giant #8 on top of his…
“C” is for “Cytoplasm” – and it’s good enough for me!
This week my middle red-head asked me if I thought she was learning anything. As I’ve been candid about in previous posts, I wonder the same thing – although I don’t share this with my…