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 Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Tommy on Nov 12th, 2012
I’m trying hard to do more messy art projects with the kids now that we’re officially doing kindergarten, and I got this idea on pinterest. We harvested the seeds from a couple of our smaller pumpkins, painted them, and used them to make autumn tree art projects with our friend James. I helped Elizabeth with […]
Posted in Friends, Homeschooling, Tommy on Oct 12th, 2012
This week, I did a kid swap with a homeschooling friend from church–I took Joey for the morning, and she took Elizabeth to play with her daughter. Joey loves arts and crafts, so Tommy and I decided we’d plan a fun art project, and we got the idea to do apple stencils from pinterest. The […]
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 5th, 2012
It is so nice to know people where we live. Last year, we visited the pumpkin patch by ourselves. This year, we went with a homeschool group from church, and the kids had ten times as much fun running around with their friends! Tommy recently met his new friend Jonah at Community Bible Study, and […]
Posted in Homemaking, Homeschooling on Sep 24th, 2012
So kindergarten has been going a little differently than planned, due to morningsickness. I’ve been so sick this time around that I’m actually on anti-nausea meds. Thank the Lord for modern medicine! I’ve tried every “natural” remedy out there the past four pregnancies, and zofran works so much better (which is to say, it works […]
Posted in Homeschooling, Tommy on Sep 21st, 2012
My approach to geography at Tommy’s age is to expose him to countries, making it as hands-on as possible, and to focus on countries for a few weeks at a time where we have a personal connection. Since our friends the Hopsons are missionaries to Albania, we started there! We’re using Window on the World […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Susanna, Tommy on Aug 22nd, 2012
This morning, I’m flying down to Florida to see my brother John get his wings. Since I missed his graduation and commissioning (due to an overdue Lizzie), I figured the least I could do was help celebrate finishing flight school! So Derek’s on single parent duty with the kids for four days. Should be interesting. […]
Posted in Homeschooling, Tommy on Aug 20th, 2012
Posted in Homeschooling, Tommy on Jul 23rd, 2012
If I hadn’t gotten to do my top career choice of stay-at-home-mom, I would be a schoolteacher. I just love lesson planning, buying and organizing supplies, and looking through curriculum. Now that we’re wrapping up preschool, Tommy and I can’t wait until September to start kindergarten. So we’re making plans now, and we’ll officially start […]
Posted in Homeschooling, Movies, Tommy on Jul 2nd, 2012
Posted in Homeschooling, Tommy on Jun 15th, 2012
Tommy and I haven’t done much schoolwork lately, what with the month on the road and all, but as part of the Barnes and Noble kids summer program, Tommy has to read 8 books aloud to me and write a recommendation for each of them in his journal. I decided to make it handwriting practice, […]