I have so many little matters to tell you of, that I cannot wait any longer before I begin to put them down.
Posted in Annie, Children's Books, Elizabeth, Friends, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 31st, 2022
Little Women! And this year, Tommy opted not to participate in the group costume. Instead, he and Quinn were Men in Black. We trick or treated with the Hedts and Schroeders again!
Posted in Children's Books, Janie on Feb 15th, 2021
Janie and I finished Anne of Green Gables yesterday. And all she wants to do today is read Anne of Avonlea. I decided that the Charis Classical Academy Second Grade program is pausing our regular programming for an in depth study of Canadian Children’s Literature today!
Posted in Children's Books, Homeschooling on Jun 24th, 2019
Last school year, we managed 37 read-alouds together. This year, with only 25 books, was not the epic read-aloud year that I had hoped for, mostly because of Annie! It’s hard to read together with her around, so we had to wait and only do it when she was napping. She and I were gone […]
Posted in Children's Books, Homeschooling, Musings on Jun 29th, 2018
Last year I made a list of the books we’d read together as a family, and I was disappointed at how few books we’d actually done. My vision for homeschooling is centered around reading aloud as a family, so this was an area that I wanted to improve on over this past year! I feel […]
Posted in California, Children's Books, Elizabeth, Friends, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Jun 28th, 2018
I thought that we had a pretty low-key summer planned, but we actually have barely caught our breath all month. This week the kids are doing just a six-day swimming lesson session to kick start their skills before a summer at the pool. We couldn’t find anyone to teach lessons on campus, so we’re driving […]
Posted in Children's Books, Elizabeth, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Jun 24th, 2017
Our friends the Neals hosted a summer book club for The Cricket in Times Square. It was fun! We shared our favorite characters and scenes, snacked on Lorna Doones and orange cream soda like Chester and Tucker and Harry had, ate spaghetti and listened to Italian opera singers like the Bellinis did, then made cricket […]
Posted in Children's Books, Homeschooling on May 15th, 2017
So I’ve been struggling for months with intense mom guilt that this school year did not go how I’d planned. Last summer at the reunion, I was so challenged by hearing my friends talk about how important reading is in the homeschools, and gosh, that is what Derek and I have wanted for our family […]
Posted in Children's Books, Elizabeth, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 30th, 2017
Tommy reading The Wizard of Oz aloud to his sisters.
Posted in Children's Books, Elizabeth, Janie, Susanna on Jun 23rd, 2016
We love that Derek’s schedule has been more flexible this summer. Sometimes we see him for breakfast, lunch, and dinner! And of course now that we have four readers in the family, there’s lots of reading aloud going on around here…
Posted in Children's Books, Elizabeth, Homeschooling on May 18th, 2016
Since we’re switching charter schools this summer, we have to give back all the books that Golden Valley bought for us. I’d hidden away the 4th grade Beast Academy guides so that the kids would have something to look forward to for next year, but I figured we might as well get a bit of […]