Have you ever read a blog post and thought, “Dog-gone it!! I was going to write about that!!” That’s where I am as I write, so I am hoping that I am somehow able to neatly tuck my own thoughts into the words that have been marinating on my heart, mind, and spirit. […]
Keeping Priorities in Organized Chaos
With over ½ of our summer gone (scary thought!), and after lamenting that all of our plans for academic studies have gone awry, I find myself asking that all-too-familiar question: where has the time gone??!! To be sure, we have been busy. In fact, I sometimes think that, regardless of what our car might look […]
Summer Reading
Do you “school” all year around? We do. We never cover all of the classes, but the kids are required to complete math on 3 days/ week, and to read for 1 hour each day. In the summer, that reading time looks totally different than during our regular school year. I had taken shots of […]
The Do-Nothing Summer
This post could have just as easily have been entitled “Second Week of Summer,” but my heart is not to document how we spend each week of what I anticipate to be a 10-week break from our school routine. But this was a week of “ah-has,” as we called them in my corporate days–the point […]
Losing Control
We have two weeks of school left. Usually by this time, I would already have summer reading lists compiled and printed off for the children. In my defense, I have at least talked to my son about what I want to do. I plan to simply keep school going with our youngest daughter. When I […]