My musings on our homeschool, coop, figuring out what my educational philosophy is anyway, and will I ever make curtains for the rest of the appartment?
This is the plan: Make the house tidy, get Christmas Presents at the mall so the travel will be somewhat more civilized with most adults at work, come home for nap and lunch, flute lessons before supper. I’ve already caught Continue reading Not Schooling Today
D and B have built me a new computer out of scavenged parts (a restored Pentium 4) and an brand new hard drive, he also bought the media reader and dvd drive, over the better part of the year, everything Continue reading My IT Department
I took the kids Christmas shopping yesterday, we give them each $5 per close relative and let them choose the gift. Sometimes they co-operate together so they can give something that costs $10. Knowing (hoping?) that they would do so Continue reading The Three Sillies, Christmas Edition
I’m so excited! There is a free downloadable font from Knitter’s Magazine that lets you type your knitting chart on a word processor. And, there is a site that is gathering swatches and comments for all of the patterns in Continue reading Knitting Charts for a Closed Ring Design
Have I mentioned before how much I am enjoying the Living Math Forum? Today I felt like we really have been reading those e-mail updates and benefiting from them. Yesterday M finished the page 20 activity in Now Continue reading Living Math
d looks like an a with a snorkle.
This week’s CoH is up and running at The Daily Planet. Browse through the Anniversary Gifts edition for an overview of what’s happening in the world of homeschool blogs! I have an entry under the 17th anniversary.
It was so beautiful in the grocery store, what a color, what a delicate shape. How pretty the pattern of the four leaves on the end. It felt like a cross between a tomato and an apple. The cook Continue reading Tasting an Unripe Persimmon
This morning was the Christmas crafting fair. Other years this has meant that I collapse upon reaching home, and order take out for dinner. It should have knocked me flat today: the craft I picked was really, really challenging, Continue reading This year, I don’t need to be scraped off the floor.
Because I took the picture before the diaper blow out that got poop in K’s hair!
The section divider to keep the things my husband collected around NYC after 9/11, when he ran a ham radio station for the red cross, separate from the regular baby/wedding reunion pictures A very busy page, what a jig saw Continue reading An Assortment of my scrapbook Projects
I was very happy to have the Roman shades done before my Mother in law arrived last week, because I was pretty sure she had made quilts for the bunk beds, and I wanted her to get that "Ah, something Continue reading The Roman Shades and Quilts are done!