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?
Happy almost 500th entry to me! I decided to re-visit old posts and see how things have changed in the little more than 2 years since I started blogging. I have 7 more posts to go to hit 500, and Continue reading Plans for Then and Now to celebrate the Blog’s nearing 500th post
In the past, some of B’s friends (mostly younger children in their families) bragged to B about the movies they had seen – the selection of which, if true, made my eyebrows shoot to the sky. One of these friend’s Continue reading Movies
I am doing this as an exercise: because this week I am tired out and cranky. But I know that I have much to thank the Lord for tomorrow, so I’m mining the blog to find out what that all Continue reading Thankful through the Blog Year
On Monday, the weather report was for pouring rain all day with only a little bit of sunshine first thing in the morning. So decided to rush the kids through breakfast, forgive the chores, and go to the pond first Continue reading M, You Really Know how to have Fun
This week my dishwasher broke, and it turns out that I broke it (so don’t be like me- rise or scrape your plates really well!) and so we paid the landlord for the new dishwasher. In addition to breaking the Continue reading All we have to do is crawl under the kitchen table
M and K cannot function without lots of exercise outside. Getting them outside enough is a big challenge; because how can I cook, tidy up, wash laundry, and do sit down school outside? The weather is less of a challenge; Continue reading We got Outside today…ahhhh
On a whim, this year we grew Strawberry Popcorn in our three sisters patch. I think we planed the pumpkins too late, we never did harvest any, but we did get lots of beans. We got about 7 ears of Continue reading Strawberry Popcorn
There is the ever popular Making Something Mess The Little Sister Was Here Earlier Mess And the Moving Bookshelves to Access the Phone Jacks and figure out which one is corroded Mess (If you tried to phone us this weekend Continue reading Three Kinds of Mess
And I think I can do this sort of thing some more. We had hide and go seek computers available in a public space Lots of Chinese Take out Parents and younger siblings hung out all over the apartment. We Continue reading I have Now Thrown a Birthday Party Again. Phew.
B was giving "A very Bad Concert." his description, in the kitchen, I was making the pizza dough for tonight’s supper, when I lost my coffee. M was grinning at me, so of course I suspected a gag, but no, Continue reading OK, Where is my coffee?
A friend whose sister was getting married once said to me, "When you plan a wedding, there is so much work because of course you want everything to work perfectly." I confidently replied that I hoped something WOULD go wrong Continue reading I’d still Rather Get a Funny Story than a Perfect Event.