We have completed our first 2 weeks of school! So far it’s really going fairly well. We are trying something a little new this year: Fun Fridays! The plan is to do most of our hands on projects on Fridays and do a minimum of seat work. I still have them do math, but I …
Well, I didn’t plan as much as I had envisioned at the beginning of the summer off. We have now completed 2 days of school. So far everything is going reasonably well. I am using some house rules that someone shared on a e-mail list that I am on for our morning copywork. I got …
We’ve been having a really nice summer so far. Yesterday we went for a hike and a drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway. We did finish listening to Story of the World Volume 3, but that is the only "school" we have done all summer. I’ve been working on planning for the fall. Well, I’ve …
Well, I have to chuckle as I looked at the description of my blog. I say my purpose is to collect my thoughts on homeschooling, childrearing, etc. Apparently I don’t have many thoughts since I’ve let another 7 months go by and I haven’t written anything 😆 We finished our last “official” day for the …
This is my last week until we start school. I’m trying to finish my home improvement projects up because I rarely have time to work on them during the year. Today I made a window treatment for the second of my bedroom windows. The kids worked on stripping wallpaper in our half bath! I hope to …
I can’t believe I finally got around to starting a blog. I’ve been talking about it for months. I don’t have much time to write now, so this is serving as a test to see if I can figure out how this works. My 3 biggest fears about starting a blog are: 1.What am …
