Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles
The days were dark and lonely. My eyes hurt and I couldn’t handle the faintest light and the drugs made me feel needy and lacking. I tried to keep the door cracked open so I could at least hear the chaos in the house. Most of the time I just lay there in the dark […]
This was eye surgery. Just a few moments ago they’d finished the procedure on my right eye and my entire life felt surreal but I was O.K. Now with my left eyelids taped and clamped open, as they started to scrape away the surface layer of my left eye, terror seized my heart. Every nerve […]
A Dump Truck Birthday Cake made from… 1 and 1/4 Sara Lee Pound Cakes (use the rest for cake pops?) Graham crackers – stacked 4-graham-crackers-high underneath the cake (with icing between each layer) to lift the dump truck off the “ground,” two side by side for the bottom of the truck bed, layer of icing, […]
I hear a blood-curdling scream rip through our home. With horror rolling in the pit of my stomach, I dart into the family room to see Levi holding a pick-up stick… in his eye. Trembling, I race to him, this miracle child that I thought I would never have, the one that places his nose […]
As we enter this season where we focus especially on thankfulness, we thought we’d share our favorite books, treats, and activities for making memories as a family. First, download these Thanksgiving Gratitude Printables! Favorite Thanksgiving books The Pilgrims of Plimoth (Aladdin Picture Books). I love the early colonial language used in this account, which also […]
It has no eyes. It has no legs. It cannot eat. Its sole purpose is to become a mummy for its offspring. It is the Evergreen Bagworm. So began Stephen’s first 4-H speech… Quite enthralling. Have you ever seen one of these thingiemajiggers? It’s not part of the tree. There’s a gross […]
What happens when a little boy gets hold of the camera. …if only I, too, would open my eyes to see and appreciate all the little things. Yes, I just posted a picture of the toilet. Sorry y’all. Those boys convince me to do crazy stuff. Even really embarrass myself. Photo Credits: David, Age 6, […]
The original pin: a cute and simple recipe to celebrate our study of mummies and King Tut. Only three ingredients? Now THIS is my kind of cooking project! …or so I thought… My mummies did not look so cute. They lost their eyeballs and were coming out of their wrappings – something akin to a genuine […]
When I printed out Grammar Land: Or Grammar In Fun for the Children of Schoolroom-Shire, by M. L. Nesbitt, I didn’t realize how passionately my 2nd grader would tackle it. It is advanced for a 2nd grader (he reads at about a 6th grade level), but he really enjoyed reading it and found it humorous even though […]
