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What to Read Wednesday (books about books)
This week’s installment of What to Read Wednesday will be regretfully brief as I am presently adrift in a sea of cardboard, actively boxing all our earthly possessions for our upcoming move. Our theme is books about books, or libraries; and I couldn’t help but think of our pal Klaus Beaudelaire… Bibliophile, bookworm, researcher, etymologist– Klaus is…
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K is for Kinesthetic Learning
I’m still blogging through the alphabet with A Net in Time and Hopkins Homeschool. This week we are on the letter K… Growing up, when my family of origin would pile onto the oversized sectional to enjoy a movie I’d almost always opt to sit solo on the hardwood floor where I’d spread out my belongings. Whilst passively watching whatever was…
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J is for Journaling
Blogging through the alphabet with fellow homeschoolers online has become a wonderfully introspective exercise that’s helped identify my mission & aim in educating my kiddos here at home. This week we’re on the letter “J”… While packing up our house and sifting through boxes for our upcoming move, I stumbled upon a bounty of treasure in a homeschool keepsake…
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What to Read Wednesday: Train Edition
Planes, trains, and automobiles… I love that Little Man most definitely had a train phase. He was so completely enamored with all things railroad that his third birthday was even train themed. The girls’ first train ride, before Little Man: Then there was that time we rode on a miniature train-set in Oregon and it very nearly blew his mind. Though…
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Blogging Through the Alphabet (the letter i)
I’m blogging through the alphabet with fellow homeschoolers online. This week we’re on the letter I… The secret to our (relative) sanity during a typical homeschool day is music… namely sedate, instrumental music. Pretty sure the single best piece of equipment we’ve purchased for our homeschool is the wireless speaker that Husband hooked up to my kitchen iPad to pump soothing…
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Last Weeks in Montana
This week has been especially fun-filled, what with Saint Patrick’s Day, Pi Day, and Spring Break on the calendar. We’re making an effort to squeeze every last drop of fun from Bozeman before heading westward for our upcoming big move. We will miss homeschooling here. Relocation can be hard on kids in general, but might especially trigger issues unique to adoption.…
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What to Read Wednesday: Horse Lit Edition
This week’s What to Read Wednesday collab is geared around horses. I confess that thus far the only horse-centric book I’ve read aloud to the kiddos is Black Beauty– a terribly depressing tale that in my estimation only Debbie Downer would enjoy. One might recall my girls learn all about horses at 4-H, because I have so little personal…
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Westward Ho!
How’s the move going, you ask? I’m not really ready to talk about it, actually. Allow me instead to answer you in a series of memes… Ghosts of Relocations Past (related links): Preparing Little Man for a Big Move, Little Man Cave, New Nest, Settling In, Moving Day, Room With a View, Back to the Grind
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A Series of Most Fortunate Literature
We’re on the 10th installment of Lemony Snicket’s thirteen woeful chronicles of Violet, Klaus, & Sunny Beaudelaire… and though the luck of the siblings indeed often seems dismal at best, we are still rooting for them and enjoying the literary journey regardless. As when we devoured the Harry Potter series last year, the girls are a book ahead reading independently while I also read aloud…
