Sterling’s wish to have a mud fight on his birthday was granted. The kids had a great time, and other than a load of incredibly dirty laundry that miraculously came clean the first wash, a whole lot of grass clippings in my washer after said load, and a muddy shower curtain, no damage was done. […]
TOS Review: Sunya Publishing
We’re on summer break, and that always leads to forgetting what we’ve learned. Sunya Publishing offered their brand new game Sunya – The Magic and Wonder of Math and Science Adding & Subtracting for review from the Old Schoolhouse Magazine’s Review Crew, and I have, for the last several weeks, watched my children keep their […]
Paint project: Living Room
Upon request, photos of our freshly painted living room. In the interest of keeping it real. I didn’t clean up more than I try to keep it normally. Or I’m just feeling lazy this morning, take your pick. It’s dark and dreary and rainy and light isn’t helping me much in showing color. The walls […]
Sterling: 9 years old.
Yesterday evening, after telling kids for the umpteenth time to get their bedrooms cleaned up, I finally resorted to “supper isn’t happening until they are clean”. The finally stepped it up. Moments later, I was trying to sew bandanna bibs for the baby that spits, because let’s face it, the bandanna is far cuter than your […]
TOS Review: Science Shepherd
If you know me very well at all, you know I far prefer hands-on learning over learning from a screen. My kids have had very limited exposure to movies, computers, etc. We have a large collection of books and we use a textbook approach to learning the core subjects. When I first learned about Science […]
Stellan the Rule Breaker and other bits of my week
I’m finished painting. Finally. I finished yesterday morning and put the room back together today. It took days more than I expected, but Blaine even caulked the trim. I took saddle soap to the couch. The room has never looked so good! I love it. I moved bookshelves out of there and it feels so […]
TOS Review: Institute for Excellence in Writing
Poetry has been a part of our homeschool from the beginning. I have vivid memories of Liberty standing to recite the poem she’d recently learned back when she was doing kindergarten. Somewhere along the way though, we got away from it. Too busy, it got pushed to the side except for the rare occasion the […]
Worst enemies: Paint and Paperwork
I planned to paint my living room last week. Monday morning I was awakened by the electric pole replacement company bright and early, left without electricity all morning, and quite talked myself out of it on Monday. Tuesday was co-op. Wednesday Pierce had a doctor appointment to get a wart frozen off his foot. I […]
Bonus points… Or not.
Happy mother’s day! I got more perfect handmade gifts than I can count, spent much of the day at church, got Chinese food and came home with it because I didn’t feel like being the spectacle that comes in taking many small children to a restaurant. (Not the kids, they do great, just the kids… you know. […]
Cold Potatoes and Firetrucks
We’re wrapping up school for the year! We survived! The last math lesson and English lesson were finished today, and all that remains are the final spelling tests for Sterling and Ruby. To celebrate, I ordered next year’s school books. I know, the irony. Just when I think I might have my sanity back for […]
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