How do moms with multiple kids at multiple schools do it? I’ll tell you, the past week has been crazy, what with car pools and early morning risings and after school practices and oh! Did I mention that Joe has his first cross-country meet this afternoon?At least his sports are getting me outside.Consequently, whatever “schedule” I might have had … [Read more...]
Wordless Wednesday
The “I can tell it’s the first week of school” EditionAMDG, … [Read more...]
Refrigerator Wisdom
Question: Why Do They Do the Things that They Do?Answer: Because They’re KidsI have a magnet on my fridge—several, actually—and I imagine you do, too. They come and go and get dinged up...Such is the humble lot of a refrigerator magnet.One of my magnets, though, I have hung onto for years. I like its message very much, and I think that you will, … [Read more...]
Service
~ For Michelle ~ Yesterday we spent part of the afternoon on a service project for Boy Scouts.I have to say, it was probably my favorite one so far.Have you ever ordered popcorn from a local Scout? Have you ever checked the box to donate popcorn to a soldier? We handed (some of) those boxes out yesterday!One small handful of local Scouts.And around … [Read more...]
Saturday Evening Post
We are having an unseasonably cold August here in Minnesota.It’s not fair.But it’s true.The temps were in the 50’s this evening and the girls were three shivering little bundles when they came in from the backyard. “Go run a bath, Cate,” I directed them, “And all of you hop in.”When I stopped by ten minutes later, they were playing noisily. “How’s … [Read more...]
How’d he do, you’re wondering?
He did fine.He brought home a buttload of homework* but he did fine.Ancient history, calligraphy, stargazing, pre-Algebra…such was the stuff of his evening. He also memorized a score of prepositions, though his former English teacher mom was thinking, do you not just know these? Proper English grammar is the equivalent of breathing, in my … [Read more...]
On Letting Go and Eating Little Schoolboys
“Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb?” (Is 49:15) The following picture will tell you almost everything you need to know about my oldest child—easy-to-smile and easygoing, cheerful, helpful, outgoing, eager. He is a homeschooling mom’s dream child. And he left for school this morning. (If you … [Read more...]
Humor Break
…because we’re easing back into a “schedule” this week and need to take lots of them. (The barbaric yawp is our favorite part.)AMDG, … [Read more...]
Bound for Glory
I first saw this idea at Cheryl’s blog, Time Really Does Fly, and I very nearly drove to Louisiana to give her a great big hug & kiss.That’s how happy she has made us.If you’re a Seton curriculum user, I highly recommend getting your workbooks spiral bound. They lay open so nice and flat! I had these done at Office Max and used their in-house … [Read more...]
Head Trauma
~ For Suzanne ~There are some family accidents that you never forget.When Jem was a baby, just two months old, we were living in Natick, Massachusetts. Our starter home was a little Cape Cod—emphasis on the word “little”—but it was home and we loved it.I was such a young mom back then.One day Jem was exceedingly fussy. Nothing I did seemed to … [Read more...]
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