Subtitled: This is the floor that John built.This is John.He’s my husband and I love him lots.This is the room that was our dining room before I filled it with books and set up shop.(Maggie the Squatter.)(That’s me.)Because the carpet in this room was really gross (I mean REALLY gross) and because my husband loves me, he agreed to install a … [Read more...]
Wrinkles, Rollovers and a Poem
First, the poem.I gave two talks at the recent Minnesota Catholic homeschooling conference. The first was titled, “Keep Your Eyes on Your Own Work: On Guarding Your Heart and Not Losing Hope,” and refers, in my mind, to both success in the classroom and spiritual growth.Because if we’re not growing spiritually then what’s the point.Right?At the end … [Read more...]
Catholic Home Educators Unite!
The 2010 EditionWell, the Minnesota Catholic Home Education conference is over and now it is time to pay the piper. That is to say, it’s time to clean my neglected house...and do the laundry...and feed my family.Because I haven’t done any of these things for the past two weeks.And it was worth it.That vine-covered building in the photo up there? … [Read more...]
We survived!
But only just.Full conference coverage on the way, just as soon as I go party. ; ) … [Read more...]
Wordless Wednesday
The Please-Pray-for-the-Success-of-this-Conference-especially-the-Organizers-the-Vendors-and-the-Speakers-including-yours-truly-because-I’m-nervous-and-don’t-wish-to-sound-like-a-dolt EditionThank you. … [Read more...]
Budding Botanists
I know from experience that my children—indeed, I think most children—love nothing more than to rip apart a dying plant.*You’ve heard the expression, “It’s a dying art?” Same difference. There is a latent need for dissection hidden in every one of us, especially geeky science-minded homeschoolers.A need to know what’s going on inside.A need to … [Read more...]
Still watching!
This little guy/gal should be hatching any time now. There was quite a bit of excitement yesterday when a lizard poked his nose into the nest and then went on his merry way. (Can a lizard be merry? I assume he can.) The mommy hummingbird then chucked one of the eggs out of the nest!So curious.Anyway, it's not every day that one gets to watch a baby … [Read more...]
Morning Routine
Who am I kidding with that title?It’s the first Monday of Daylight Savings Time. All routines were off this morning! Should you have stopped by at…oh…the ripe old hour of 9:00 a.m., you would not have found my children’s heads bent studiously over their Latin, Phonics, Spelling or Math.You would, however, have found them in the sink.One of them, … [Read more...]
Cause and Effect
My oldest son asks to go to morning Mass. Splendid! Off I go with my bookend boys in tow.After Mass (and feeling thankful), I drop him off at school and pop in a CD for the drive home. Andrew Pudewa. Good stuff.Pudewa mentions John Gatto and his book Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. I think of one of my favorite … [Read more...]
Extended Leave
I was giving my 7-year-old a spelling test and she was really struggling.“This is too hard!” Felicity set her pencil down and frowned at me. It was the word “use” that was tripping her up. She had written y-u-s-e and it just didn’t look right.For good reason.“Well,” I suggested, reading the warning signal in her reddened eyes. “Why don’t we come … [Read more...]
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