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?
DH let me go shopping today. I picked up two skeins at Dee’s Nimble Needles – I am not so aware of yarn availability and DH accurately said that Dee would set me straight faster than Ravelry searches. I’ll be Continue reading Retail therapy
Sometimes I want to solve problems before they happen by making rules. I know things are too complex at home when I have to ask the kids what the rules are again. I’ve been doing that at co-op. I called Continue reading Ditching the Must Attend Planning Meeting Rule
B’s Spanish tutor (AKA Cousin K) wanted some face to face time, they usually work over Skype. So she drove down from Cambridge, no small feat with deep snow and two children under 3. She sent him on a treasure Continue reading Treasure Hunt
Well, DH finished the first iteration of a java program for me last night at 11:13PM ish or so, that takes my charted pattern, and turns it into text. I’ve been charting the 4 other sizes of the mitten this Continue reading So, how is the Mittens for Money going?
I have a hard time reading lists; genealogies, furnishings, battle equipment. Today my Google Reader served up Exodus 25-7 as my daily portion via ESV. Oh boy. I did notice something, don’t know if it’s significant though: a lot of Continue reading I Didn’t zone through ALL of Exodus 25.
I was grading my patterns in their Open Office Spreadsheets (each cell has a symbol in it from the Aire River Font.) and I realized that if I made each size shorter and narrower before I adjusted the cable oval Continue reading Pattern Grading Realization
A photo of K using up old patterned paper, and wielding my punches Continue reading Where My Extra Scrapbooking Stuff Goes
M noticed this hawk in my neighbor’s tree about 10:30 – we were done with copy work, memory work, and recorder, but we hadn’t gotten to reading, math or phonogram bingo. So of course, we dumped the plan, called B, Continue reading Wecome Interuption
Photo Tutorial of Lateral Cable Technique. Continue reading Tutorial for Trude Guermonprez’s Lateral Cable
Yeah! I finished laying out the next 1/6 of homeschool on Monday. I have yet to solve completely the Dawdling Mom Problem, nor the really long shower of B problem, but DH reassured me, it doesn’t matter when they do Continue reading It doesn’t matter WHEN we do our lessons
M just bounced onto my lap and asked if I wanted to hear him count to 100. I didn’t answer honestly (no dear, I want to keep exploring digital scrapbooking when I should be planning homeschool) but I smiled and Continue reading Mom, want to hear me count to 100?
M’s narration and photos of his trip to the Ecotarium in Worchester with his Grandma yesterday. Continue reading Guest post by M; My Day out with Grandma