Prismacolor Art Supplies
September 10, 2008
We have a very modest homeschooling budget and I can be kind of cheap (Damien is curing me of this) so I initially balked at the cost of buying quality art supplies. But with three artistic, creative children this became a necessity, not luxury. I'd rather buy these than boxes ...
Supposed to be working, photo wandering instead
September 9, 2008
Ok, I'm supposed to be working right now (self imposed) on learning objectives for this year. By the way, none of the planning stuff, schedules and such I'm doing is required by the state. I do it because I love planning, I love charts, I love organization. I'm a little ...
Make it From Scratch at GreenStyleMom
September 9, 2008
Make it From Scratch Blog Carnival is happening at GreenStyleMom this week. GreenStyleMom is an interesting blog with a recent tutorial post about one of my favorite things - tomatoes, in this case heirlooms, complete with a lovely tomato photo (I love those also). Speaking of heirlooms, I tried growing ...
Schedules and such
September 8, 2008
Ah... I've got my cup of tea and I'm sitting down for my afternoon hour of writing. I've worked really hard all morning at staying on schedule breakfast, e-mail & RSS, kitchen clean up, hanging laundry, reading with kids, math, spelling and handwriting, make lunch, eat lunch. I even got ...
Late Summer Hike
September 7, 2008
It's been a little over 2 weeks since we last hiked. We were anxious to get into the woods. It was a perfect late summer day with blue sky, gentle breezes and the air sweet with warm pine. This was our first hike with the new camera. I was so ...
Kindergarten, Easy Does It
September 6, 2008
You may have already noticed that we're not really big on formal schooling around here. But there are a few things like math, handwriting and spelling (for Céline) that we work into our daily routine to build skills. It was Céline's desire to learn all of these that got them ...
