Beautiful Calling

We’re still full on doing school. I think I mentioned that with all the appointments and such this past year, we took many days “off” and thus will be schooling through the summer. No worries though. Beautiful days, parks, good stories; the tots and mama enjoy it. Sure, we have some bookwork here and there [...]

The tots got a magazine from McDonalds a while back that had a pop bottle birdhouse craft in it. Since moving here last spring and hanging up our first ever feeder, our family has become bird watchers. The tots love, love, love watching the birds come to the feeder and trying to identify them. But [...]

  Today began with a flurry of excitement; some new birds at the feeder. Immediately Chloe is grabbing our bird book and thrusting it at me. What kind of bird is it mom?!?! Feathery Friends of Our Feeders Chickadees Blue Jays A lot of Downy Woodpeckers {and one special one named Fred} Unidentified Dove {see [...]

Yesterday my husband and I were talking in the evening about the children’s education, goals for the year and past accomplishments. Back in 2010 I admitted to you that Chloe didn’t know the alphabet. Now it is still a fact that Chloe (who is 5 and will be 6 in the new year) does not [...]

Well, we’re using Sonlight’s Core A with Chloe and P4/5 for John. Isaac is just tagging along enjoying life. We had a fun box day – unpacking all our fun new goodies – then daddy helped the kids cut up our Sonlight box to make the cardboard rocket that Isaac has been attempting to destroy [...]

Our church supports many missionaries around the world. Every Sunday during Sunday school class we read a letter from one of the missionary families, hearing about the work that God is doing through them in their little little corner of the globe. We also pray specifically for them at that time. A few weeks back, [...]

A wise old owl sat in an oak. The more he saw the less he spoke The less he spoke the more he heard. Why can’t we all be like that wise old bird? We collected the fresh acorns from an oak tree and put them in a glass bowl with a few leaves. A [...]

We homeschool. We use and love Sonlight; we’re doing P3/4 and P4/5 this year. It’s June and we are no where near finished our year yet. Isaac’s initial health issues, plus the resulting doctors appointments that we continually go to, Nana’s health, our house sale then subsequent move…whew! It’s been quite a year. The beauty [...]

If you’ve been around a while, you’ll be familiar with Chloe’s love of tutus and ballet. We had the privilege of attending the Nutcracker Ballet last year. That was a highlight for us for sure! Though she had asked to take ballet lessons a while back, DH and I said no. Our concern, aside from [...]

September 15th we started back to {home} school. Borrowing an idea from Carissa at 1+1+1=1, I interviewed the children and actually learned a few things about them! I printed these out to go in their school binders. I hope their answers make you smile today. Have you ever asked your children a question and been [...]