About a month ago, I was selected as part of the Old Schoolhouse Review Crew to review the Adventus piano software. Adventus has MusicIQ, software specifically designed for the homeschooler, from ages 4-18. I received their software download Children’s Music Journey. I received Volume 1, 2, and 3 to review. For ages 4-10, at first […]
Resourceful boy.
Pierce found the bottle of ibuprofen and was determined to get it open. I watched from a corner as he got a stool, dug out the wine bottle opener from the kitchen drawer, and went to work. Darn child proof caps.
Where’s all the excitement?
Life seems kind of boring lately. We’re working on wrapping up our school year – Liberty gets a prize for finishing the first subject with her math this week – and nothing else much is going on. Blogs are hard to write when there isn’t something going on. It hit me. This has been the […]
A tall, tall tale.
My girls heard through the grapevine that, in their words, a young woman from church had been picked up and carried off by an eagle. I found this out last week when Eden asked me, completely unconcerned but entirely curious, “Did they ever find her?” Really? You think an eagle carried a grown woman off, […]
Baked Chimichangas
(Credit) Ingredients 2-1/2 cups shredded cooked chicken breast 1 cup salsa 1 small onion, chopped 3/4 teaspoon ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano 6 flour tortillas (10 inches), warmed 3/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese 1 cup chicken broth 2 teaspoons chicken bouillon granules 1/8 teaspoon pepper 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 1 cup half-and-half 1 […]
Our morning [in stories and photos].
Liberty was washing out a diaper and asked Sterling to bring the lid to the diaper pail. (A drip catcher in the trip from the bathroom to the laundry room.) He came back empty handed. Liberty asked him where the lid was, and he had the best excuse I’ve heard of in a while. “There’s […]
Reading lesson 101.
Ruby was doing her reading lessons yesterday, and that hard “C” sound was getting the better of her. As a poor child who struggles with the C’s and G’s anyway, learning to sound out those words has been interesting. The word: CAT. “Tat.” “No.” “Tap.” “No.” “Trap.” “Ruby! There’s no ‘R’. There’s no ‘P’. SOUND […]
READS from EGM Educational Systems, LLC: TOS Review
As part of the Review Crew for The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, I got to review the READS Parent/Child Reading Comprehension System from EGM Educational Systems, LLC. Sterling (age 5, doing Kindergarten and 1st grade work) has primarily been using it, but it was written for grades 1-4 and I’ve had fun using it with all three of […]
Time to make soap.
Yesterday was soap making day. I made a double batch of cold-process soap, and separated it out into three batches: lilac, peppermint, and a men’s soap called Sandalwood Bay. My house smelled interesting. I’m not sure I’d recommend all three scents together. Lye water. Fun stuff. Blaine’s idea. When my stick blender had to go […]
The Way They SEE It: TOS Review
I’ve been using The Way They SEE It: A Book for EVERY PARENT About the Art Children Make by Brenda Ellis with Ruby for several weeks now. As part of The Old Schoolhouse Magazine’s Review Crew, I was asked to review it and let you all know how it works, and what I – and […]
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