Head over to Steph’s addictive book blog, Stark Raving Bibliophile, to read her review of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, and enter to win her gently-read copy!
Then stop by her daughter Sarah’s movie blog to see a review of the movie adaptation of the film – Steph and Sarah are enjoying [...]
Three ways in the past two days that KarateKid has proven he lives in our particular, peculiar homeschooling household.
First, out of the blue, KarateKid asked if Leigh’s kids were “spoiled with video games.” I told him I guess they are (they have lots more than we do) but that he and GoGoGirl are spoiled with [...]
I am. Because she told me to.
I slipped out of the habit of casual blogging when my laptop was in the shop, and it’s hard to get going again. Especially this week, since Dave has been in Beijing on business and we’ve been spending even more time with Leigh and her kids – tonight, in [...]
The company A Journey Through Learning produces a wide variety of lapbooks and notebooking pages covering various themes for a range of grades. We don’t do many lapbooks here – maybe one per month, if that – but we have enjoyed the ones we’ve done. If you are interested in lapbooking, check out [...]
7:05 am
KarateKid crawls into the king bed, where MechDaddy, GoGoGirl and I are sleeping peacefully. “Wake up!” he hisses in his sister’s ear, “Don’t you know what today is?” GoGoGirl’s eyes pop wide open. “MY BIRTHDAY!”
We thought this shirt was very appropriate for our girl today:
7:20 am
MechDaddy and I grudgingly admit that neither kid can [...]
THIS is what happens when KarateKid says to me, “Hey Mom, how am I ever going to know what I look like with my eyes crossed if I can’t see myself in the mirror while I’m doing it?”
GoGoGirl can’t cross her eyes without something to focus on, like my finger…
Then things got even sillier!
I do [...]
Homeschooling groups, like public schools, are being hit hard by the flu & other bugs this year. Our weekly homeschool playgroup had only 4 families today, where Jody, L. and I converged on Leigh’s house for some board games. It took a little while for the kids to settle down into games but once B. [...]
When you start the day with books like these, the morning can only head in one direction…
Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop, by Ashley Wolff, was such a favorite library book of KarateKid’s when he was 2 that we had to buy our own copy. It follows the tune of Old MacDonald had a Farm but [...]
Being offline for the past 2 1/2 weeks was very enlightening, since I spent a lot of time pondering how and why we use the internet in our daily life. I really missed being able to participate and read along with various online celebrations like stART and Muffin Tin Monday – and I have to [...]
I’ve been missing from these wonderful internets for 2 1/2 weeks because my laptop hard drive died a horrible death. I hadn’t ever seen the words CATASTROPHIC FAILURE come up on the Blue Screen of Death before… but it was a sad, sad day in my house when I realized that my attempts at system [...]
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