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?
We decided to use a week of Dan’s time off to – catch up on projects. He’s cleaning his desk and getting planning ahead for leading Prayer meeting at church through the Fall, We’ve finally gotten K into her new Continue reading Our Last Half Week of Summer
Between Ben’s trip to visit Uncle Warren in Kentucky, the Family Fun Fair at church, recruiting families for M’s F.I.R.S.T. Lego League team, the car needing a new catalytic converter (Dan may have found a waver program for otherwise safe Continue reading {p,f,h,r} August was a blur
Happy A little girl at the park took turns with k riding her bike one evening, this lead to a new interest in bikes. I’d forgotten that we’d been given one K’s size last summer. (Actually, it’s a bit small Continue reading {p,f,h,r} Bikes, Gardens and Oh yeah, we hang out here a lot, lets take a photo
Dan took off from work this Monday to see to car chores. Our mechanic suggested driving with a catalytic converter solution to see if the check engine light would go off, we needed to drive 50 miles. So Dan decided Continue reading As long as we needed to drive 50 miles
Somehow, being the tutor is fine, being the coach is fine, being the older Christian mentor is fine, but being the guidance councillor is scary. There is money, decision making (Ben always says a bit of both when there are Continue reading College Application process…oh no, already
My hair froze on my way home from the pool. This solar Spring seems very theoretical. I have been struggling to get K outside, so when Dan offered to take her to the zoo on Saturday, I was very grateful. Continue reading Snowy, Spring trip to the Zoo with Daddy
Last Sunday our church went Christmas Caroling after a soup and sandwich luncheon (I brought gf soup and brownies, desert is important.) Since we live a good 20 minuets from church, we stayed put when others went home in between, Continue reading A week of Charles Dickens (sort of)
Monday night Dan took the ice cream gift card and K out for an expedition. The boys finished dish washing early, and I asked them how they’d like to spend the evening. Ben said he’d like to go for a Continue reading a Walk with Ben and M
Pretty: K got to take a ballet class at A Work In Progress Productions, a business owned by a homeschooling Mom who worked on Broadway and now helps us with the arts in our town (I’m so glad she’s Continue reading {p,f,h,r} Science Experiments, art, math and K’s first ballet recital
16 years old today! We are having friends over for chilli, chips and games on the next Friday when no one has to play football or make music for football – so today is mostly just a day. But M Continue reading Happy Birthday Ben!
Ben’s two weeks of summer vacation are over. I’m out of printer toner, so I had to just e-mail him his check off lists, he was hoping to put his lab top away since it can be a distraction as Continue reading Ben’s first day this year