I’ve spent the morning with these two books: my Scholé Sisters Reading Log and my Full Focus Planner. My Reading Log hosts both my Scholé Sisters 5×5 and Literary Life #19in2020 book challenges. I updated my current reading and checked off a couple of books! I also went in and wrote some notes about Gilgamesh…
Phew. Another solid week. Another overall good week where we accomplished almost all of what I wanted to. I returned to #uppingmybreakfastgame and made breakfast almost every – and the day I didn’t we had leftovers. Yay me. It does make a difference, though. We walked the dog every morning before school. That’s a total…
For Today… Looking out my **OPEN** windows … green and blue and perfect weather. The sports stuff from yesterday’s party is still in the yard. I am thinking … that there’s a ton to do today. I really want to get the upstairs cleaned up like the main floor is. I am thankful … for…
Back in the saddle. We’ve had a busy week for our final break week – but much of it has been done at home. On Monday, we watched football and were mostly slugs. Well, Jason and N-boy took the dog for a hike. And we took down the Christmas tree. But otherwise we were mostly…
For Today… June 27, 2016 Looking out my window … it’s hot and sunny. Early this morning it was drizzly so I didn’t walk the dog. I am thinking … about folding laundry. I am thankful … for the washer and dryer so I don’t have to do it by hand. One of my favorite…
I’m very slowly (very slowly) reading Sarah Mackenzie’s Teaching from Rest. A couple of weeks ago I posted a quote from the Introduction. Now, I’m posting from early in the first chapter. Seriously, slowly. But, the ideas from her words make an impact and require mulling and turning over and over – at least for me….
So, I did one of these posts about a month ago in July, then we went on vacation. We had a week of preparation, where we did some lessons, cleaned, and packed. We had the week of vacation itself, which was a wonderful time. We came home and had a pre-planned reset week where we…
We have officially finished our first half-term of six weeks. What a great first term it has been. Don’t get me wrong, we have had token fighting over school work and bad attitudes have been righted on a daily basis. There is still a lot of detraining of bad habits to be done and retraining…
We’ve always run a year-round schedule and said we’d take breaks when needed. We start our Academic Year in January, sometime after N-boy’s birthday. We end the Friday before Thanksgiving Week. In 2015 we’re going to adopt the idea I first read about in Angelina Stafford’s article, “And on the Seventh Day God Rested: Using…