It’s a slow day

It’s one of those days where the kids are not feeling well. A book on CD was listened to, a movie was watched, a book was read out loud, paper crafts were made, the stew is in the oven, the animals are sleeping, and it is quiet in the home.  It’s a lazy day, and [...]

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Pumpkin carving prayer

 I came across this when putting together my daughters pumpkin lapbook. I just love it and thought others might like to see it, for an alternative way to carve a pumpkin.  There is a book about called The Pumpkin Parable (or something like it, sorry I don’t have the specifics) that is very similar, with [...]

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Much Better

Thank you all for the encouragement.  Means a lot to me.  Yesterday went much better.  Hubby did school in the evening the previous day and had a talk with the girls.  So yesterday one child started her math and was finished by 10am and then completely finished with school by 11:30. I had time to [...]

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One of those days

I hate to be a downer but it has been one of ‘those’ days.  The kind where you wake up late, school doesn’t go well, the kids don’t listen, etc.  I just don’t think I am feeling well and I am not sure what is wrong.  I think I am fine physically but I think [...]

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Great Find

As I was putting our Book of Centuries together I came across a website, in fact there are tons available, that has free down-loadable clip art.  What a great find. I click on the ‘history’ category and pick the area of study we are doing, search for a clip art that matches what I need, [...]

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Living in the Northwest

I grew up in California. The weather is nice and mild there, depending on what part of the state you lived in. There are some things while living there that I never realized could happen until I moved to the Northwest.
For instance, my car grows moss. Seriously. Along the rubber at the bottom of [...]

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Tough start

Last year started out so smoothly. We were all excited for school. The kids participated, for the most part attitudes were good.  This year is entirely different.  My plan is to start out our morning (after morning chores) with our devotions, then on to history, which I do at the table with all the girls. [...]

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Busy!

HI— I haven’t posted in a while and things around here may be quiet for a while.   We have been on a roller coaster ride on what to do with our house.  We have several different options and we have pursued all of them. It looks like we are going to make a move in [...]

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