I survived my week and of course it wasn’t nearly as bad as I feared it would be. My son tied for 3rd in our local homeschool group spelling bee. I was so happy for him. He says he wants to try again next year. I think he’ll be inspired to study harder. I obtained …
We’ve learned about sound this week and today we went over resonance. I can’t hear the word resonance without thinking of resonance frequencies and this famous bridge collapse. I figured surely it was on youtube and sure enough, it was easy to find. It is amazing to watch. For some reason, I can’t …
In honor of Valentine’s Day this month, I thought I would admit that I am in love with…. My mixer! My sweet husband gave my beautiful mixer for me for Christmas last year (2006). He saw me drooling over them in the sale sheets. (what a subtle hint) I had wanted a stand mixer …
This morning I took my semi-annual load of stuff to sell at a children’s consignment sale. This sale has been such a financial blessing over the years. I discovered it almost 7 years ago when my oldest children were 3 and 1. This sale is HUGE. The owner has 2 sales per year: one for …
I never got around to trying out Spelling City until a few minutes ago. I was cleaning out my inbox and found the link in the Freebie Fridays newsletter from The Old Schoolhouse. Apparently a lot of people tried the link immediately, because their server was overloaded. I have to say WOW. I can not believe …
We are starting a study of pioneers in history. Today I read Sod Houses on the Great Plains by Glen Rounds to the kids. Then we built a sod house from brownies. That project idea came from Projects About Westward Expansion by Marian Broida. A similar project can also be found in Great Pioneer Projects …
I am really behind on my posting, but I wanted to shared these pictures anyway. Over our Christmas holiday we went to the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC (we didn’t stay there!) and looked at gingerbread houses that were on display for a contest. These houses were absolutely incredible. We couldn’t believe some of …
Here are my decorations for the Tour of Homes. First, of course is the Christmas tree. This is our advent calendar. I made this about 8 years ago and it is one of our favorite Christmas traditions. The fireplace. This is a cute little nativity that my grandmother made for me. It would …
It seems like everytime I sit down to post in my blog, someone needs me or something and I don’t have time to write. It has been an interesting week of school. I know a lot of people just don’t school at all in the month of December, but I have found that we do …
Wow, things have been going, going, going around here. I didn’t mean for a whole week to go by without another post. Homeschooling went better after my post from last week. I shared with my husband about some of the struggles I was having with my older son and his constant questions about off-topic things …
