Posted in Daily log, Full Disclosure, personal on Jan 28th, 2013 6 Comments »
The “typical day” we decided to go start fires for homeschool Every time I read one of those “a day in our life as homeschoolers” posts, I feel as if I’ve accidentally wandered into another dimension. We have about as much in common with your standard homeschooling blogger family as we do with French royalty, [...]
Posted in deep thoughts, Full Disclosure on Dec 9th, 2011 10 Comments »
So far, this holiday season is not looking like it’s going down in our family history as one of the best. Everything is just a little off… We didn’t have snow until the first of December so it didn’t feel like Christmas until very recently. I’m busy with baby Fiona, so I have less time [...]
Posted in Alex, Full Disclosure, Jack on Feb 7th, 2011 7 Comments »
Last week I took the boys to the Windom library while Daryl took Anna ice skating with friends. After I was there a little while, I started to feel pretty weak again (I was very sick last week) and went to get my purse. I called Daryl and asked if they could be done at [...]
Posted in deep thoughts, Full Disclosure, personal on Dec 30th, 2010 17 Comments »
I’ve never used the unschooling word to describe what we do. It does come awfully close to how we homeschool around here much of the time, but I’ve always preferred to call us “eclectic” and “child led” and “relaxed.” It’s not only because I’ve been kicked off of unschooling lists (true story — twice!). It’s [...]
Posted in art, Daily log, Full Disclosure on Feb 14th, 2010 4 Comments »
Alex and I are up late and he’s sad, so I’m going to make this quick. Here’s eleven shots of life here lately, typed with a boy in my arms. Keywords (in no particular order): Spanish feast, the Macarena, random fridge notes, even more random fridge art (Sweetie, firstly — better spell-check businessmen, secondly — [...]
Posted in cool sites, Daily log, Full Disclosure, pictures on Dec 13th, 2009 3 Comments »
10 pics of life here lately: A few shots taken by Victoria…. And lest things look too sweet and peaceful, this is what I came down to after I made the mistake of watching TV with Daryl while the kids played the other night! Ah well. It cleaned up! (Do you know how hard it [...]
Posted in Full Disclosure, personal on Dec 4th, 2009 5 Comments »
You know how some days are so perfect that you want to store them and keep them to remember always? Well, today was not one of those days. A few highlights… Daryl and I both woke up with bad headaches, body aches and general how-did-we-get-so-old achiness. Daryl let the stray cat onto the back porch [...]
Posted in Daily log, Full Disclosure on Nov 20th, 2009 2 Comments »
I don’t know if we’ve had a typical homeschool day in our lives and I don’t know if anything could be typical for us since it’s always different. Today may not have been typical but it was an “us” kind of day… We did a hydrogen peroxide experiment on damaged cells to test a hypothesis, [...]
Posted in Field trips & tours, Full Disclosure, nature on Jun 10th, 2009 3 Comments »
My girls are spending 3 days at a Survivor day camp in Lakefield this week and Daryl is off in the wilds of Lakefield with them this afternoon. This afternoon the library here in town sponsored “Underwater Day” at the community center during library club. That sounded like something that would be perfect for two [...]
Posted in Anna, Full Disclosure, personal, um... not much!, Victoria on May 8th, 2009 1 Comment »
Tiffany has posted about their week with Victoria so far on her blog. That’s it. My child is never coming home. I can’t compete! Also, she posted what is perhaps the most unfortunate photograph of Anna ever taken. My poor girl. I was already wracked with guilt about the dreadful haircut I gave her and [...]
