Posted in girls, moving on June 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
This Saturday is our first open house. And wouldn’t you know it, after the very slow start of summer weather, we are supposed to have heat in the 90’s. We do not have air conditioning, so it is going to be hot and very apparent that we don’t have air conditioning. We really only need [...]
Posted in girls, school on June 10, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Dear Homeschool Parents,
I have a child. She is wonderfully cute, joyful, smart, and social, not to mention very funny. She is very young for her grade because of where her birthday falls. While she technically a 1st grader right now, she is more at a Kindergarten level. She is reluctant to learn. She is simply [...]
Posted in girls, life, school on May 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I started a new blog. Yep, I now have two that I will be writing in. The focus on From the Narrows is to write about my life, what I am accomplishing, struggling with, have opinions about etc. The purpose of
Classic Academy
is to write about the girls solely. I will be writing about our [...]
Posted in girls, life on May 20, 2008 | 9 Comments »
For all 3 of you who were concerned with my weekend, I have good news. It was wonderful, stupendous. The girls had a grand time. The food situation turned out just fine. The weather was beautiful, and a little hot. We saw a great play called the Clay Cart and we all enjoyed [...]
Posted in girls, school on April 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
My oldest girl aka, Princess spoke these words today:
“Division is a sorrow for me. It will be a heavy burden the rest of my life.”
Yes, we’ve recently watched Anne of Green Gables and the girls have been listening to it on audio tape checked out from the library. I just love how what they read [...]
Posted in cakes, girls on August 28, 2007 | 9 Comments »
The baby of the family turned 6 in August. She had a Monkey party and it suited her just right. She had lots of friends over to celebrate with her. For the activities we made bananas on a stick rolled in melted chocolate and sprinkles. Boy are those yummy. Then [...]
Posted in Max, crafts, girls on August 21, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Today we went to pick up our entries in for the fair. The sewing projects have received several donations from stores as I mentioned already. In total the girls won $24.00, two 4 hour sewing classes, a $10.00 gift certificate, 2 yards of fabric, a fabric sewing project and a beanie baby sewing book. Was [...]
Posted in crafts, girls on August 20, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Friday night we enjoyed the county fair and waited all week with anticipation to see how the girls entries did this year. I’d say we did really well. Below is Pixie’s mouse she made with the fabric she won last year at the fair for her apron entry. She won first place plus a special [...]
Posted in girls on August 16, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Pixie had her two teeth pulled today at the oral surgeons office. They needed to come out early due to crowding. She was a brave girl and did really well. Now we are cozied up on the couch watching a movie. It surprisingly is drizzly outside so it is a perfect day to [...]
Posted in girls on August 11, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Yesterday was Princess’ 10th birthday. I cannot believe she is in double digits already. It seems like yesterday that she was learning to walk. Now she is swimming 50 yards and has an excellent breast stroke. We celebrated with three of her friends and her sisters. They spent the evening at the spa, in our [...]
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