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Category: Homeschool

  • Feasting, Hall-Decking, & Hustlin’

    Feasting, Hall-Decking, & Hustlin’

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    For the first time in nearly a decade, we ventured over the mountains to feast with Husband’s folks for Thanksgiving. Once home, we availed ourselves of a stately conifer and set to decking the halls for Christmas.   Besides merry-making, hall-decking, and shuttling offspring hither and yon to activities, I’ve been reading even more than usual…

  • The Misadventures of Home-Education

    The Misadventures of Home-Education

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    Sometimes homeschool isn’t all lollipops and roses, read-alouds and kumbaya… … Sometimes a routine car-ride requires extra division in the back seat. … Sometimes compliant completion of copy work requires extra coercion. … Sometimes it takes three tries to find a suitable film adaptation of Shakespeare’s MacBeth, as the 1970’s rendition turns out to be a…

  • Battle of the Bands Halloween

    Battle of the Bands Halloween

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    For me, Halloween is alllllll about the costumes. I confess I had the girl’s costumes planned and purchased by February. From there we added the others, and though unintentional, a theme emerged– this year’s costuming became a bit of a battle of the bands. Growing up my bedroom walls were PLASTERED with Spice Girls posters– but only…

  • Fall Y’all

    Fall Y’all

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    We’re having an unseasonably warm and wonderous fall. A born and bred Oregonian, I actually adore romantic, gloomy gray days sprinkled with intermittent rain-showers, but even the most passionate pluviophile can appreciate temperate blue skies and organic vitamin D pro bono. We recently gathered chestnuts from a local park, one of our fave fall pastimes.…

  • Homeschool, Inc.

    Homeschool, Inc.

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    We’re in the midst of another busy week of homeschool, pinballing around our city betwixt activities– curricular and extra. Often we tote our studies along, ala carte, including our latest read-aloud: the third enchanting book of the Penderwick series: The kids’ most recent pet-sitting charges include two fiesty flocks of chickens and a blind 17 year old Siamese…

  • Interest-led Learnin’ & Library Love

    Interest-led Learnin’ & Library Love

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    This week’s What to Read Wednesday list is late, yet again, though I’m relieved to report we triumphed over the stomach flu. We’ve simply had a full schedule of activities– these days I feel more like an Uber driver than a teacher. We’ve had the regular lineup of choir, theatre, co-op, speech, field trips, & social events,…

  • What to Read in the Car While Waiting for Kids

    What to Read in the Car While Waiting for Kids

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    This week’s What to Read Wednesday recommends are comin’ atcha on a Friday since this week our household was verily bowled over by an early stomach flu. Ugh, and just as we were gaining momentum on our back-to-school schedule! Still, we managed to squeeze in plenty of reading between body aches, hot baths, and laundering of sheets. On…

  • No Hands but Ours: Attachment Through the Years

    No Hands but Ours: Attachment Through the Years

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    Recently, online champions of adoption No Hands But Ours featured our story as it pertains to: Attachment Through the Years. Check it out here, alongside similar stories, or read on… It’s been four and a half years since we first met our son in China. Sometimes that feels like a split-second ago… I freshly recall the nervous,…

  • Back-to-School Vibes

    Back-to-School Vibes

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    It’s that time of year again: Return to the cadence of rhythm and routine, of cool morning fog, rain showers, sun-breaks, and shadowy evenings; of boots and sweaters and football and hearty stews, of apples and pumpkin spice and… school.  This year I’m teaching an eighth grader, a sixth grader, and a first grader– heaven help…