What do these three things have in com­mon? Well, the whole crew has been sick for the past two weeks.  Some­times only one or two, never all at the same time — we took turns. So, we didn’t get much accom­plished in the way of school. We did our weekly bible read­ing, which had a nature […]

Last week, we had a great time! We kicked off our Home­school PE — we did curl-ups.  We had to see how many we could do in one minute.  Can I just say, doing curl-ups makes you won­der if a minute really takes 60 sec­onds!  I man­aged to eek out 14.  I was proud of my […]

Ok, so in my last post, I said I would post a pic of our Pump­kin bread. Well, that day, I made what turned out to be Persimmon/Pumpkin bread. #1 Son labeled it Per­sump­kin bread.  Clever, Right? Any­way, the bread was sooooooooo good that we for­got to take a pic­ture. (insert blush­ing face here) I’m slowly learning […]

This week started rather slowly.  The Prin­ci­pal of our school, AKA “Daddy” was home for the day, so it made school almost impos­si­ble. We unschooled that day. We had fun with our Art Study.  We’re fin­ish­ing up our study of Mary Cas­satt, and, well, I was inspired to do some­thing… well… inter­est­ing. I picked a […]

After read­ing Barb’s moti­vat­ing post about how she imple­mented PE into the home­school­ing sched­ule, I set out on a search to find some­thing we could do! I found this — HomeschoolingPE.com!! Hoorah!  I’m so excited.  This is awe­some! This is put together in such a way that even I think I can han­dle it.  One activity […]

For those of you who may have fol­lowed my cro­chet blog, (which was recently merged with this one), you know my plight about learn­ing to knit. Well, Flower Picker has been pre­tend­ing to knit with two pen­cils… no yarn — she’s just rub­bing two pen­cils together at the tips. :-{ So, I decided that would be our […]

I didn’t get to post last week.  We were a wee bit busy, but we had a good week. I’m glad to say, that after count­less attempts to track down the elu­sive cat­tail, we found them!  Of course, after we jour­neyed to pho­to­graph and sketch them, a friend of mine informed me that there are cattails […]

When Bar­bara announced that there would be a new autumn series, I got so excited.  I waited… and waited… and finally, it was announced. Cat­tails!  Cat­tails? Um, what in the world are cat­tails? Surely, this is some­thing famil­iar only those on the east or west coast, or any­where other than Bayou Coun­try. I sighed quietly […]

This week was a 1/2 day school week.  We have a two-day assem­bly this week­end, and I always like to sew new things for the girls and I to wear.  I made myself a skirt and shirt (that’s a first for me!) and I made a skirt and dress for Face.  Flower Picker was in […]

Hey — get your hands in the air — Queen is rockin’! Tee hee, ok, so it was totally pun-y, but I think I got the mes­sage across!  Week 5 is now over.  We had an inter­est­ing week, to say the least. Our week started with our Theo­cratic Study. We read about some of our fellow […]