As she and her children ease back into the school year:Dear Lord, please help me to not gasp out loud at what my children have forgotten.Do not let me be sarcastic!Take away my irritation at the sloppy handwriting and the rampant misuse of capital letters.Replace my dismay at their mistakes with thankfulness for moments sitting next to them.Help me … [Read more...]
So much Summer, so little Time
According to my calendar, today is the first official day of summer.Is that right? I get confused. (And me my children’s teacher. Sigh.)As if that isn’t cause enough for celebration, we are also—my soon-to-be 5th grade son and I—tying up the one last loose end of his schoolwork THIS MORNING.A book review on Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.And then he’s … [Read more...]
You Choose Tuesday! (A Preview)
You already know that I’m distractable, right?And that, in addition to being distractable, I am also slightly manic.I sit, I spin, I sip more coffee.Which sometimes helps and sometimes doesn’t, all that caffeine.We are smack dab in the middle of what I call crunch time, my friends. I have end-of-the-year tests to organize as well as the planning of … [Read more...]
Mars and Venus in the Mathroom
My boys, when asked to draw pretty much anything for their Saxon Math assignment, hastily scribble “x” amount of smudgy circles on their paper and move on.My daughter, however, is different. When I went to check on her work today—a full fifteen minutes after she began it—I found that she was stuck on the second question. The “draw five pairs of … [Read more...]
A Note from the Babysitter
Currently I am in a quiet house that is not my own, babysitting a beautiful little girl that is fast asleep. Occasionally I hear the click click of the dog's toenails on the linoleum behind me, but other than that and the hum of the refridgerator, the house is silent.I feel like I'm a teenager. I haven't babysat like this for a very long time and … [Read more...]
Don’t Forget!
To visit Dawn's Field Day: the Early Spring Edition over at By Sun and Candlelight.Thank you, Dawn, for hosting! … [Read more...]
Come the Spring (A State of Caprice)
Subtitled: two birds, one stoneSpring grass, there is a dance to be danced for you. Come up, spring grass, if only for young feet. Come up, spring grass, young feet ask you.(From “Spring Grass” by Carl Sandburg)I took this photo this morning.Clearly I have no business doing a post for Dawn’s Early Spring field day!Except…hang on a minute. I took … [Read more...]
Why I Haven’t Been Commenting As Much
What do you mean, you hadn’t noticed?Well, as someone who has been known to beg, steal & borrow whatever comments she can get, I have felt guilty about all the drive-by blog reading I’ve been doing.Here’s the reason: I asked my husband to turn off my computer’s Internet access from 8:00 to 4:00 during Holy Week, a task that he was more than happy … [Read more...]
I’m blushing
and encouraged to read this essay by John Mark Reynolds.Highlights include:“Whenever I feel very bad, I make sure to speak to home school mothers. These women represent something new. They are not feminists, a phrase they most often reject with scorn. Most live in very traditional households where the husband is the head of the family. However, … [Read more...]
Cabin Fever or the Black Plague?
Whatever it is, I feel like this house is about to implode.We are so ready for spring to be here. … [Read more...]
