I know things have been pretty slow around here for the past few days.
All of our children are homeschooled except our oldest son, Andrew. He attends a local Christian School and is in his Senior year. He has not been envolved in many extra-curricular activities, but has loved drama. He was in a […] Read more…
Eliza Jane
Eliza has been with us for six weeks now.
She seems more comfortable.
She smiles a lot.
She points about things that need to happen on schedule.
She hoards pretty much everything in her bed.
She likes routines, and gets very upset when things don’t happen on time.
And, after six weeks, I have to […] Read more…
School Questions
Now that we’ve gotten home from China and our family is all together now, it’s time to really start planning our school year. Well, I probably should have gotten a bit more planning done before we went to China, but here I am, and it’s time to get down to business.
I’d like to ask […] Read more…
A Quick Question
As many of you know, we are a home schooling family. At the moment, we are in our end of summer rambunctious stage where the many long days of summer have kind of strung together, and the children are all settled into their lazy crazy summer routines.
In other words, we are all ready for […] Read more…
Questions
We have gone back to homeschooling this year after a couple years in a Christian school. I would say it’s going well except for my teens.
I can’t even say its going poorly for my teens. In so many ways, I think homeschooling has been good for them. They have learned a lot. A child […] Read more…
Another Letter
It had been a long day.
The children had not been feeling well. Our teens weren’t in very good moods.
Our boys seemed to need so much more to keep them busy than I had to offer even on a good day, and home school really could have been called anything but school; the word calamity comes to […] Read more…
Just Sharing My Thoughts Today
Sometimes the needs of a large family just seem so diverse and vast that I’d like to hit a pause button somewhere just to slow things down a bit.
We had to make a few quick decisions for our oldest son, Andrew, this week. He is seventeen and in eleventh grade. As many of […] Read more…
Do They See Me Smile?
Lately it seems like my mind is going a mile a minute. I think of all the things I need to make sure my children learn. I think about each of their needs. I wonder if I’m preparing my sons for adulthood. My mind is filled with what I need to get at the grocery […] Read more…
Family Game Nights
One thing I love about homeschooling is the freedom to play late night games, any night of the week, that is any night of the week Mommy and Daddy aren’t too exhausted.
Playing Rummy Cube at Mom mom and Pop pop’s.
Learning to carefully plan our moves,
and work together.
Playing Cash Flow with Dad,
learning to live within a […] Read more…
Guest Writer – Victoria
Below is a devotional article that my fourteen year old daughter, Victoria, wrote for our homeschool co-op’s newsletter, The HomesCool Hot Spot. Newsletter is offered as a class in which the students learn to interview for features and to write various styles of news articles. I thought I’d share it with all of you today.
Faith […] Read more…
