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 Summer I was so excited to talk to grownups after resting at home from my foot surgery. Not that people weren’t around, the deaconesses and my family certainly visited, I was just thrilled to be at the LIFE meeting Continue reading Mother’s Night Out Party: Apple Themed
Miss M had my class enthralled: how do you point things out in the Philippines? With your lips if you are polite (at least in Luzon) Some money, stories about her students at Faith Academy, maps, weather maps of approaching Continue reading Geography with Miss M
Miss M came 2 days early to our church’s missions emphasis Sunday, so that she could speak to my geography class. I suggested several area historical sites we could visit on one of her free days, and she was most Continue reading Plimouth Plantation with Miss M
Me! Now! No!
My guys have been so enjoying Fantastic Contraptions, especially since they found the .net site, with no metal bikini wearing warrior princesses in the adds!
I love getting to give presents. In fact, DH and I almost get annoyed with each other when the other one buys us a present, because we’d have had more fun buying the other one something with that money. It’s Continue reading Tea Kit
This Thursday the visiting missionary from church arrives at our house to stay the weekend. She is coming early so that she can speak to my co-op geography class, and on Saturday we will visit Plimouth Plantation (no, that’s not Continue reading Getting organized…?
Today he has watched K so I could take a shower, walked down to the ‘Cumbie’s’ to pick up a dozen eggs and a loaf of bread, read several books to K and poured milk for M, until the milk Continue reading This is the point where you say, “What would I do without you B?
I decided this morning, that we had put in 5 good weeks (we were sick for one and a half, but still) it is Columbus Day, and I was nervous about my co-op class. So I declared that we were Continue reading Mental Health Day
when M wants a shoulder/neck rub like Daddy’s at lunch before heading back to work, he asks me, "How many customers do I have?" Really tight neck = two cranky customers and the boss was annoyed at you so- so Continue reading Our Sore Shoulder Scale
We are up to the exciting day in the Bernie Zubrowski book, "Messing About with Drinking Straw Construction," when the kids make different walls out of straws and paper clips, (and carefully placed straight pins, placed by the grown ups) Continue reading Testing the walls