Just thought I would try posting from my awesome phone. I’m sitting here on the couch staring at five baskets of laundry and a table full of half done school work and a bunch of crumbled muffin on the floor trying work up the moral responsability to call the children away from their dance party to resume their work. But maybe just five more minutes. Read more
I don’t usually get into the minutia of curriculum here (but why not! It is listed on the side as topics I might discuss). For one thing, I don’t want to bore everyone. And for another, in many ways, it doesn’t entirely matter at this level of the game. As long as you do everything every day, one set of materials is probably as good as another. However, I just want to sing the praises of Classical Writing for a... Read more
one The baby is really walking. If she’s holding a cookie she will walk the length of the living room. She is extremely pleased with herself. Marigold continues cloudy. two Elphine had to write a little paragraph about the meeting of Alexander the Great and Diogenes. I don’t generally like to brag but I particularly thought her dialogue and various turns of phrase were riveting. Here is her little vignette (all lovely spelling has been corrected to perfection–boo–because that was... Read more
It seems time finally to post some gratuitous baby/children pictures from the last few weeks. Here is Marigold badly in need of a haircut and an attitude adjustment. She picked out the shoes herself–shunning the pretty black patent leather for her favorite red clunker shoes. Here is Matt after the Christmas Pageant on Christmas Eve administering libations to people like me who were filled with relief and joy that the pageant went off So Beautifully! I await with eagerness seeing... Read more
Ok, so I haven’t been blogging because I’m obsessed with politics. Really….Obsessed….. So obsessed that I stayed up till 1am watching the Iowa Caucus returns and then Got Up Early to read the spin. To put it another way, I suffered a bad bad week of school because of my constant attention to the news and spin cycle. I’ve never really been obsessed with anything. I mean, of course, when I fell in love with Matt I thought about him... Read more
Good Morning! Happy New Year! Today is a big day in the church. Besides being the first day of the new year, it is also the Second Sunday of Christmas AND Holy Name Day. Christmas, you might now, goes on for 12 days before Epiphany and we’re only on Day 8 so I hope you’ll rush home from here and eat some more pie or whatever your decadent food of choice might be. Because really, the feast and joy of... Read more
The house is awash in toys and puzzle pieces, the laundry is piled up, the cool remote control helicopter doesn’t work, so I’ve retreated to the internet for some sanity. Mark Steyn, as usual, is brilliant. And on a similar subject, here’s Tim Challies. I would add to his interesting and astute cultural observation that this same principle is very much at work in All the clothes women are expected to wear today. Fashions of the past were generous and... Read more
I’m watching a cool documentary about earthquakes on Matt’s new Kindle Fire while he snores loudly. He outdid himself in the way of goose, Brussels sprouts (that can’t be right, is that really how you spell that?), Cornish game hens, mashed potatoes, gravy, and the sermon in church. Its the first time I managed to get to church on Christmas day. The girls thought they would come but then changed their minds and ran back home to keep playing. Everyone... Read more
Feel led to blog….can’t think of anything to blog about today.HAHAHAHASorry, I just have Adrian Plass stuck in my head all the time.I do have lots of things to blog about but more pressing is the fact that Matt’s parents are coming in four days and there are a myriad of ways in which I am not a tiny bit ready for this occurrence, among them being my intention to pull off a full week of school, get my laundry... Read more
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