Archive for February, 2009

How to aggravate a teenager in one easy step!

Today I’m feel­ing quite chatty! Any­way, how to aggra­vate a teenager… Ask him to make origami news­pa­per seed pots! Boy-oh-boy — that turned out to be his tough­est assign­ment yet! You should’ve seen him… fold here, fold there, unfold, no wait, fold again… fold up, down and then to the left… Man oh man!! (can […]

Hibiscus!!!!!!!!!

OK, so I finally fig­ured out what my mys­tery plant from last year was — it’s a peach hibis­cus!! I man­aged to dig up a photo of it when it was in bloom last year: I went on a brief inter­net jour­ney to find infor­ma­tion about bird-attracting flow­ers, and stum­bled onto these beau­ti­ful pho­tos, and […]

Fresh Air — Outdoors!

So… like hiber­nat­ing bears wak­ing up from a long winter’s nap, the posse and I made our way out­side yes­ter­day. We cleaned up the flower beds that had been buried in fallen leaves, and the car­cass of last year’s plants.  Some of them are sup­posed to come back, but I’m not sure which, so I’m […]

What does Dyslexia look like?

For a while now, when I watch my DD, I won­der if she may be dyslexic. I don’t know a whole lot, but I have been read­ing a few links I found on my friend and sis­ter, Martha’s web­site, and it looks like she may be. The thing that really stuck out to me today was, […]

Crochet Mojo?

I’ve been on a bit of a streak, as of late… I’ve made quite a few pairs of socks. I whipped up lit­tle cro­chet bags for my girls to carry their projects in. I’ve been cov­et­ing many pat­terns in my Rav­elry Queue, too. Since the weather here is so fickle, I’m not sure whether to […]

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  • Heb. 4:12

    For then I shall give to peoples the change to a pure language, in order for them all to call upon the name of Jehovah, in order to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
    Zephaniah 3:9
  • Subjects

  • Current Reads


    Par­adise Lost/Paradise RegainedJohn Mil­ton

    The Adven­tures of Huck­le­berry FinnMark Twain



    The Bobb­sey Twins The Miss­ing Pony Mys­teryLaura Lee Hope


    The Bobb­sey Twins of Lake­portLaura Lee Hope




    Bobb­sey Twins Adven­tures with Baby MayLaura Lee Hope


    The Bobb­sey Twins in Vol­cano LandLaura Lee Hope


    ~READ ALOUD~
    The Teacher
    Beau­ti­ful Sto­ries from Shake­speare for Chil­drenEdith Nes­bit
  • Fine Arts Study

    COMPOSER
    Anto­nio Vivaldi
    Baroque Clas­si­cal

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    ARTIST
    Vin­cent van Gogh
    Winslow Homer

    Impres­sion­ists
  • Past Reads

    #1 Son
    East of Eden
    Around the World in 80 Days
    Jour­ney to the Bot­tom­less Pit
    By The Great Horn Spoon
    The Nar­ra­tive of the Life of Fred­er­ick Dou­glass
    13 at Din­ner
    Up From Slav­ery
    To Kill A Mock­ing­bird
    Croc­o­dile Tears
    Water­ship Down


    Flower Picker
    Frog and Toad are Friends
    Stu­art Lit­tle
    Tom Sawyer (G.I.C.)
    Huck­le­berry Finn (G.I.C)
    Charlotte’s Web


    Face
    Won­ders of the Pond
    Tom Sawyer — (G.I.C.)
    My Book of Bible Sto­ries
    Stu­art Lit­tle
    Huck­le­berry Finn (G.I.C.)
    Charlotte’s Web


    The Mom
    Sarah, Plain and Tall
    The Adven­tures of Grand­fa­ther Frog
    The Bird-woman of The Lewis & Clark Expedition