Year-End Ramblings
As usual, our homeschool year is ending with more of a wimper than a bang. Every year I feel like an injured marathon runner who crawls across the finish line. But today is the last day. But I am a...
View ArticleIn Which I Find the Holy Grail of Homeschooling
Saturday night I stumbled across an idea for using Tapestry of Grace that’s so brilliant I’m a little breathless. Since only about four of you know anything about Tapestry of Grace, I better explain....
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Book Review: Augustine: The Farmer’s Boy of Tagaste
Augustine: The Farmers Boy of Tagaste is a biography of Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430) written for younger readers. The book starts in Augustine’s early years. It tells of his struggles and failures to...
View ArticleThe Accidental Herpetologist
Early this spring, a pair of robins built a nest on the horizontal piece of the gutter along the side of our chimney. I didn’t discover the nest until a few days before the babies flew the coop, but I...
View ArticleTo Build a Fire
My sister has informed me that I need to blog. I aim to please. It’s gratifying to know that she actually wants to hear from me, because I still haven’t quite gotten over the time she told me to stop...
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A Review of Chalkdust Math
A Review of Chalkdust Math Many homeschool parents who hum along quite well during the elementary years suddenly lose confidence during the junior high and high school years. The reason is often...
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A Review of Chalkdust Math
Many homeschool parents who hum along quite well during the elementary years suddenly lose confidence during the junior high and high school years. The reason is often upper-level math and science....
View ArticleTurning the Page
It’s been over a week now since our oldest child went from homeschool to public school. (I wish I had video of him getting on the bus on the first day. He said he didn’t care if I walked to the bus...
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Homeschool Versus Public School: A Few Thoughts
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum / Foter.com / Public Domain Mark 1.0 The school year is wrapping up. I’m finishing my tenth year of homeschooling. This is also the second year...
View ArticleOne Down, 179 to Go
Yesterday marked the first day of our sixth year of homeschool at chez Writing and Living. Due to my prior planning, which was, ironically enough, only made possible thanks to the grandmothers taking...
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