Well, June 14th, as I was offhandedly celebrating year 15 of marriage I was accidentally neglecting a very important opportunity to represent for the knitting community. That’s right, I missed Knit in Public day.I had my knitting close at hand, but I got so busy at the homeschool curriculum sale that I let it lie [...]

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(Guitar, campfire, sunset, toasted marshmallows…sweet summer. We still have the burns to prove it.)
Today the real summer swelter kicked in. Huge storm clouds are building up high in the sky but the haze peeked through and made the air look wobbly. There are all sorts of tornado warnings and flood watches and all around our [...]

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On Monday we were conducting a simple experiment withtin cans which demonstrated Bernoulli’s law. Sounds impressive, doesn’t it? Basically, you blow air between the cans and the air pressure lowers and instead of the cans going apart as you’d figure, they come closer together. Anything hands-on and my kids are all for it, so I [...]

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(Remember when we used to do stuff together? Before you got all big-headed?)
Dear Homeschooling,
You’ve been good to us. So accommodating and thought provoking and full of surprises. Remember the fire ants in the kitchen? Or the water wheel we made that one time? Ooh, ooh, how about when we hatched praying mantis babies, [...]

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Anoif’s girl scout leader is a lovely brave woman who is taking them all to Canada next week. In preparation, she’s decided to make identity cards for all of these homeschooled girls and asked that we all email her the name of our homeschool. This has caused a small kerfuffle over here. Because 7 [...]

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(what Easter looked like at our house)
Okay, get out your interpretation journals. This one isn’t an aimless, rambling recollection. It has a punchline.Last night I had a dream that I was at a beachside casino (Ken and I used to work for one in another life) for our annual homeschooling conference (really? At a casino? [...]

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(View from the window this AM. Even though I have called a moratorium on all further snowfall this year, it appears that the memo did not hit the press.)
After reading a bit about homework today, and recalling that the number one question my kids get from friends who go to school is “Do you have [...]

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(Snow in our window.)
This is an ode, an irregular sort of ode by one who never really studied odes, to my kid’s writer’s workshop that they love to attend each Thursday morning. Classically, I am honoring the workshop but in a simple bait and switch it is the mom who sets it up and [...]

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Mail thought this story blog worthy. Before he hears my version he will write his version and then we will compare notes.
The sun sort of poked out its face today and we lost no time in tossing the books, video games and other learned things aside to go for a walk. We had a really [...]

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It has been a helluva a week or two here in Candyland, Illinois. As you can see, the snow and ice(ing) are just clinging to the eaves. That shiny silver stuff on the ground is actually black ice, so watch it Erlene the mail carrier! Salt is not to be found this time of year [...]

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