learning at home
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the state of our garden
Officially, our seeds we started are out. Ryan plans to purchase and invest in a better quality of starter plants. I think I knew this fact all along. I think I was just antsy to start the process and took matters into my own hands with the seeds. Doing things right is better than doing Continue reading
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payday
We had our first true spring day on Sunday. I spent over an hour walking in my neighborhood taking it all in. The vitamin D was needed and I got a kick out of seeing how many of my neighbors “celebrated” the great weather. There were many other walkers, runners and joggers out. Other neighbors Continue reading
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the state of our garden
I’ve got a little good news/bed news situation going here. The good news is that the garden is still ON. The bad news is that the seeds we used for my son’s science fair project are the same seeds that I bought for the garden and Ryan isn’t so sure the seed quality wasn’t to Continue reading
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what I learned in february
Today I’m linking up with Emily P. Freeman at Chatting at the Sky to share what we learned in February. Here’s what Emily has to say about the practice: “At the end of every month, we have a regular practice here of looking back before moving forward. While some of the deeper, more in-process things I Continue reading
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teach them diligently [the oven]
One of my goals for this year is to continue teaching my children some skills to make them more independent of me. A focus of our learning around here is to take full advantage of all the learning we can in and around the home. In addition to math, science, and languages, I feel it’s my duty to help Continue reading
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all the right moves
It pains me to say that on Monday, my son is going to have to walk into his agricultural science class at co-op and turn in a tri-folded project board and some printed up data from a science fair project that yielded exactly no conclusion and no results. It started out so well. We had Continue reading
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the difference between winning and trying
A few weeks ago, my two older children participated in the local level Scripps Spelling Bee. They were competing among students grades 1-8, so I knew, at grades 3rd and 5th, they would have their work cut out for them in order to beat out fourteen year old Bee veterans. They knew this going into Continue reading
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the state of our garden
It’s true that there are countless connections and applications that can be made between our spiritual lives and the theme of growth, nurture, food, nourishment and life. That’s why I’m documenting here the successes, failures and most importantly, the progress of our gardening endeavor this spring. We are no strangers to gardening. We had one every Continue reading
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the day the circus came to town
Friday, I took our three children to the circus. I’ll preface that with I’m not a big fan of the circus. Mainly because: I have a life-long fear/hatred of clowns I read Water for Elephants three years ago and think the circus is weird and cruel We just aren’t “circus” people However, at ages seven, Continue reading
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teach them diligently [ironing]
One of my goals for this year is to continue teaching my children some skills to make them more independent of me. A focus of our learning around here is to take full advantage of all the learning we can in and around the home. In addition to math, science, and languages, I feel it’s Continue reading
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