For Today… Monday, August 29, 2016 Looking out my window … The sky is blue blue blue I am thinking … about our fall schedule with soccer and piano and organ and drama. Oh my. I am thankful … for AmblesideOnline. We’re coming to the end of a very productive term on Friday. We’ve finished…
Finally, I get to write about this week. phew. Three Weekly Ambles in one week is a lot. I’m glad to catch up, though. Monday was awful. Everything took so very long. Children were still doing lessons at 6:30. Jason was coming home after bedtime. I was frustrated and upset and just do your work…
OK, the second week of a late review. But, better late than never. Speaking of late, our school days are going all kinds of late. I don’t think I’m over-assigning, kids are just not gettin’ er done. Dawdling, playing, fighting, it’s getting ugly and I need to put on my big girl panties and be…
I started this blog a long time ago and one of the first things I included was my favorite Bible passage which is still on the header today, 2 Samuel 14:14: Like water poured on the ground which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But God does not take away life, instead He devises…
Two weeks late, but I really do want to keep a record. I’ll write last week’s in a separate post. So the week of August 8-12, R-girl and I did most of the things the other children and I had done the week before. M-girl and N-boy had their “Old Enough Others Outing” with Grammy and Grampa….
When I was a teen, I had my Bible sitting open in my room one day and I came home to find a sticker in the midle of it that said “Miracles Happen for those who Believe.” I assume my mom put it there, but to this day, I’m not certain who did. I’m pretty…
As you likely know, we use AmblesideOnline for our homechool curriculum. One knock AO gets is that it occasionally uses old, sometimes racially insensitive (at best) or downright racist (at worst) books. There are books to offend many groups – Roman Catholics have issue with Trial and Triumph and Westward Ho!; This Country of Ours…
It’s the Olympics, y’all. I love watching the Olympics 🙂 Are you reading? ‘);
This was an unusual week. R-girl was scheduled to spend her “Nifty Nine” time with Grammy and Grampa starting Saturday and coming home on Wednesday. In the past, we would not have done formal, academic lessons. But because we scheduled the “Old Enough Others Outing” for M-girl and N-boy starting today through Wednesday, so R-girl…