by Alison on August 31, 2010
Really. It’s done. Gone. In the bag. It’s about this time every year that the panic sets in. The walls of impending doom (snow and ice) seem to come closing in on me and I feel an urgent need to “seize the day”, this day and every last one of them until the snow comes [...]
by Alison on August 30, 2010
Better late than never, right? It’s still Monday for a few more minutes… The counting of the multitudes of His blessings continues, as if I could ever actually count them. I may have lettered on my high school Math Team, twice, but I could never count high enough to count my blessings in anything close [...]
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Multitude Monday
by Alison on August 28, 2010
went to a funeral picked up another fruit order went to another chiropractor appointment staying (too) busy taking teenager to soccer practices pizza night with family Mr. Extraordinary’s birthday successfully imitated the best cranberry chicken pasta salad I’ve ever tasted after my husband brought some home from a catered event at work, my new favorite summer [...]
by Alison on August 24, 2010
Life has changed, I don’t even really know how, in what way, but it’s changed. My husband’s words hung heavy in the air, matching the weight of the mood in the room. A little more than 24 hours earlier, a friend of my husband’s, a husband, a father, died in a tragic accident right before [...]
by Alison on August 20, 2010
When I first undertook the task of teaching our oldest child to read, I was so intimidated. Teaching a child to read seemed like such a huge and daunting thing, I mean, learning to read is so life-changing, so empowering, so not something to take lightly. I didn’t take it lightly. While I didn’t take [...]
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phonics,
teaching reading
by Alison on August 17, 2010
I canned my first Peach Jam yesterday. I’m really looking forward to the taste of summer on some warm biscuits, fresh out of the oven, on a chilly fall or winter morning, or spread across a hot buttered pancake. Oh, yum! We’ve been getting a weekly bulk fruit order throughout the summer and it’s been [...]
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canning,
fruit,
harvest,
jam,
preserves
by Alison on August 13, 2010
Or, more appropriately titled, “12 Reasons Why WE Homeschool”. 1. They’re our children. We believe that, ultimately, it’s our responsibility to raise our children to adulthood and overseeing their education is a big part of that. Our children don’t belong to the state and they don’t belong to any village- they live in the state [...]
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homeschooling
by Alison on August 12, 2010
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