For Today… Looking out my window … It’s still completely dark out. I am thinking …that people shouldn’t be up when it’s dark out. I am thankful … that we had a successful first 6 weeks and am excited about this break week. One of my favorite things … the smell of coffee in the…
This week we finished the first six weeks of Academic Year 2017! It was a great six weeks. We managed to keep up with almost everything – except Kim. M-girl is doing well with her added work, although she is struggling a little with time management of it. She’s always been a little less, um,…
Lynn Seddon at Raising Little Shoots invited me to participate in her year-long series of interviews about how Nature Journaling or Nature Study looks in our family. ~ When did your first begin nature study and what got you started? It has been a number of years since we began and we’re very uneven with…
I have been prereading for school during January and February. It’s been wonderful. Even more wonderful has been the commonplacing that has been coming out of it. So helpful for me! Below is from one of my children’s reads for this week. What others believed were obstacles, [Theodore Roosevelt] considered adventures. What others thought of…
For Today… Looking out my window … the sun is just peeking over the ede of the horizon. Blues and a kiss of pink. Glorious. I am thinking … about joy and the Father’s work in building up the church and his eventual triumph. Yesterday’s sermon has me, well, joyful. And it looks like it…
It was a weird week. Monday was a pretty solid day. We had sufficient work and the timing went pretty well. R-girl had an orthodontist appointment, so we didn’t do Whatchamacallit and the others were sending Google hangouts about their schoolwork: The olders had piano lessons while R-girl and I picked up our grocery order….
For Today… Looking out my window … it’s still dark. I’ve been getting up early and while I hate mornings, it has been a good practice in many ways. I am thinking … about some posts that I’d like to actually write – a post about }pacify{, and planning, and pre-reading. I am thankful ……
We had a lot of busy doings this week as we ambled together. This was Week 4 of Ambleside Online Year 5, Term 3. Because we had a big field trip Tuesday and Wednesday was off altogether, our three days had a large amount of work. Some days that was better than others. Monday was…
“She was [a lady]. She had her own views about things, a lot different from ine, maybe … son I told you that if you hadn’t lost your head I’d have made you go read to her. I wanted you to see something about her–I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of…