After 6 days, the fire and smoke clean-up is pretty much done. Steve’s aunt, who worked for a fire department at one point, suggested an ionizer to get rid of the smoke smell. Unfortunately, every place that we could find rentals for one were closed for the weekend, and we were looking on Friday evening. In the meantime, we bagged up every scrap of cloth we had ranging from clothing to linens to stuffed animals and filled each bag with baking…
I have to take a quick moment to just say: I love these darn ducks. Steve doesn’t care for them, and he definitely hasn’t kept his sentiments to himself. But before you start worrying that the poor ducks are are waddling around unloved and unappreciated, don’t, because I think they’re my favorite animals around here. And what’s not to love? Let’s start with the way that they’re always playing, especially when there’s water around: Then there’s the fact that in…
After the last homeschooling post, you may be wondering why we’ve already chosen curriculum for next year when it’s only January. Do you really need to get it figured out 8 months ahead of time? Well, there are a couple of reasons we’re looking at choices now. The first is that since every curriculum is different, there will be pieces (especially in math) that we may not have worked on with our current curriculum but were already covered in the 1st grade level of…
Homeschooling has gained a lot of traction in the past few decades, which means there has been a huge leap in the number of choices for curriculums, programs, tools and schedules accessible to homeschoolers. For me, the sheer number of options is incredibly overwhelming. I’ve realized recently that part of my personality is always looking for the “next best thing.” Something that is better, easier, faster, more efficient. I like to take what I call a “sampler plate” at potlucks…
On my last post I indicated that I would be sharing about homeschooling next, as that topic has been sorely neglected here on the blog. A travesty really, because of all the things we do homeschooling seems to eat up most of my time! Anyway, the injustice shall continue because I had to share our theme from this past week: Repurposing. Okay, so we don’t actually put themes to our weeks around here, but if we did ‘Repurposing’ definitely would have…