Every week when I write what my plans are for the week in my Simple Woman’s Daybook post, I always include “taxi service”. So often myself and others see this as a hassle or a burden. I know so many of you can relate to this feeling, especially if you have multiple older children that […]
These days I feel totally unorganized, unplanned, and unruly, but for the most part, happy. We are BUSY living life, and living in the moment. Plans come and go, activities happen, even the house is somewhat in order, and all without me doing too much stressing over it. I only say all this to make […]
Blue crayfish is the same species as normal colored crayfish. Sometimes they are called lobsters as well, because everybody knows what lobster is and crayfish is something unknown, but it in not the same. Lobsters have two claws where each is of different size, but crayfish have claws of the same size. The blue color […]
Title: The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education . Author: Leigh A. Bortins . Author Biography: Leigh A. Bortins is the founder and CEO of Classical Conversations, Inc., whose enrollment is 20,000. She hosts a weekly radio show, Leigh! for Lunch and lectures widely about the importance of home education at nationwide […]
Simple Woman’s Daybook FOR TODAY: July 27th , 2010… Outside my window…the sun is shining, and it is looking like another beautiful day here in NY! Looking forward to some more sun and swimming today. From the learning rooms…still nothing formal going on. I am still working on filing away last years work, and setting […]
This post originally went up on Monday morning without a picture. I had set the post to go automatically but never added a photo. So I scurried to add a photo that would meet the purple requirement! This one was taken of Chloe in February doing her “KISS” impression! When she pulls her hair out […]
. . As many of you know, Chloe and I have spent a good amount of the last 6 months or so knitting 5 x 5in. squares for a community lap robe project. One of our fellow homeschooling friends rallied a bunch of us together to make these lap robes that were to be collected […]
A Time for Everything Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: ~ a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, ~ a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down […]
. Title: Dewey the Library Cat: A True Story . Author: Vicki Myron and Bret Witter . Copyright Date: 2010; Hardcover, 224 pages . Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers . ISBN: 0316068713 . Brief Character List: Dewey, Vicki, Kay, Spencer Town Library . Summary in my Words: This is a middle grade adaptation […]
Last week about this time I was working on wrapping up my paperwork and binders for this past year. That includes closing out my Homeschool Tracker for the year, emptying binders, putting away work that was completed this year into a bin, etc. In doing this, I print out a Summary and a Report Card […]
Simple Woman’s Daybook FOR TODAY: July 20th, 2010… Outside my window…SUNSHINE! I am so loving this new theme of sunshine and warm weather here in NY. Pools are warm and in use, tans are a nice deep brown, the garden is growing like weeds…what’s not to love? I am thinking…that travel soccer tryouts are fast […]
“Over My Head” Think of anything that can be over a person’s head and incorporate it into your photo of a person! This could include a hat, balloons, umbrella, scarf…the sky is (literally!) the limit. We can’t wait to see how creative you are with this theme.
