101 Reasons in Favor of Flexible Homeschooling
I am an off the chart, type-A personality. I love schedules, plans, lists, boxes to check, etc. When I started homeschooling many moons ago I brought this rigidity with me (I was definitely not flexible homeschooling). I was hard and fast to follow curriculum and adhere to schedules, even if it meant stress and misery […]
4+ DIY Fidget Spinners
Fidget Spinners seem to be all the rage right now. Kids are loving them and teachers are loving to hate them. As homeschoolers we don’t have the kind of main stream pressure that public school kids do. Nonetheless we have seen the adds, watched them be given as birthday gifts, and heard all their friends […]
NaBloPoMo Day 2 – February 2nd -“Neck Tie” Edition #1
I have been doing a lot of thinking about creative ways to include the NaBloPoMo websites theme of “Ties” during my month of blogging. Today I would like to start with an obvious one, but one that has meaning in our house. Actual neck ties are worn by Joey for work on a daily basis. […]
Simple Woman’s Daybook…..February 1st, 2010
This is from Peggy at The Simple Woman’s Daybook. It is a list of questions to answer each Monday – a simple journal of sorts. FOR TODAY: February 1st, 2010… Outside my window…the sun is shining! I am thinking…where did January go? I am thankful for…having winter and thus snow as a part of our […]
Book Review-Certain Girls
I enjoy reading in my spare time….not that I have much spare time! I often find myself forgetting the books I have read, or knowing that I read it but don’t really remember what it was about. Since I have this lovely blog, I deicded that I could use this as a forum to keep […]
Flashback Friday-Jayden Edition
Spending scheduled time with my “Walk and Talk” buddy Shana and her boys has been such a joy over the past months. I look forward to getting out and sharing a piece of me with her, and getting to accept all the wonderful pieces of her she has to offer me. Shana, I know you […]
Simple Woman’s Daybook…January 25th 2010
I am following Shana’s lead, even though it seems she has finked out and only done this once! We will see how many times I can manage to complete and post one of these on Monday’s! This is from Peggy at The Simple Woman’s Daybook. It is a list of questions to answer each Monday […]
Belated 2010 Resolutions
I have recently been catching up on my blog post reading, and came across multiple writings on resolutions for the New Year. Resolutions are not really my thing as I always have this image of dusty treadmills and weight benches used as clothing hangers! Anyone who knows me realizes I could stand to loose about […]
Funny Kid Stories
Chloe: So Chloe came home from gymnastics on Thursday night telling her usual tales. She rides home most nights with one of her coaches, Alicia. Chloe and Alicia we apparently talking about dinner. We had veal and periogies for dinner on Thursday night. So Chloe tells Alicia that we had veal and “ferogies” for dinner. […]
Flashback Friday-Matching Edition
I can’t help but notice certain “matching” tendencies throughout the countless folders of photos that I have stored in my computer. So I just had to dig a few out and put them together here!
Chloe’s New Winter Hobby
The winter weather has kicked itself into high gear here over the past couple of weeks. We have the pleasure of living in a snow belt where we get extra snow due to the lake effect. This year Chloe has taken a particular liking to being out in the snow. Every chance she gets she […]