From the category archives:
Our 3, 5, 7, 9, & 11 yr olds got their September calendars all numbered and adorned with their own personalities and they are each now ready to be 3-hole punched and added to their big 3-ring binders that will hold the evidence of what they do this year in our homeschool. Writing samples, artwork [...]
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I mentioned yesterday that I’d have calendars for you (really for your children!) today… lo, and behold, I do!
There are calendars with simple black frames as well as more decorative fun frames for those who like more flair, and I designed each type with or without traceable numbers for those youngers who may still need [...]
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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 in [...]
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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 [...]
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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 salad recipe!
laundry, laundry, and more laundry
developed [...]
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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 his eyes. [...]
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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 so much [...]
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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 and [...]
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Remember these?
I learned how to make these giant bubble wands way back when I was a kid. Okay, it wasn’t really that long ago, I mean, not like the black and white days when my parents were kids (I wasn’t the only kid who actually thought the world was black and white in “the olden days”, am [...]
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