This photo really tells it all…even in a tiny room, Elizabeth’s bed is made neatly, and Susie’s is just a cozy heap. I had originally had Elizabeth’s bed along the wall, but that left the egg chair awkwardly sitting in the middle of the room, so they rearranged to have a cozy reading corner. And […]
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First Watercolor Project
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Feb 25th, 2020
WordPress finally let me upload pictures from last week! We invited our little neighbor Hannah over for a homeschool art afternoon and did our first official watercolor tutorial. Our teacher told us to have fun and be kind to yourself instead of comparing to everyone else.
We spent the weekend in Michigan because we’re just four hours away! On Saturday we introduced the kids to bowling, and Henry, Sterling, and Woodleigh joined us! Most of the cousins thought it was pretty fun.
Halloween 2019: Alice in Wonderland
Posted in Annie, California, Elizabeth, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 31st, 2019
Underwood with the Lynns
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 15th, 2019
I panicked last week when I realized we hadn’t gone pumpkin picking this fall. With Annie’s standard 6 therapies a week, plus 2-4 evaluations this week getting her ready to transition to new service providers at age 3, plus just all the other kid activities, fun things like field trips have been on the back […]
Today started at 4:50 am, when I woke up thinking about all the appointments we had today, all the things I needed to do, and all the appointments I needed to schedule. So I got up and made muffins so that the kids would actually eat something for breakfast (also because baking soothes me), quickly […]
Chocolate cuneiform
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Aug 29th, 2019
Ancient Mesopotamia studies are always more fun when your “clay” is chocolate cookie dough!
Noah’s Ark model
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Susanna on Aug 28th, 2019
Today the girls made a roughly-to-scale model of Noah’s ark to go along with our history timeline card. Back when Tommy did this project five years ago, it was all brown, but my girlie girls wanted some pretty color!
First Day of the 2019-2020 School Year
Posted in Annie, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Aug 21st, 2019
This week Charis Classical Academy commenced our eighth year of classical Christian education with classes at our Malibu campus. Our students range from therapeutic preschool to seventh grade, and in addition to our regular studies of Mark’s gospel, Latin, English language, literature, and poetry, mathematics, and French, we are excited to start our history and […]