My energy levels have been abysmally low. But then that is to be expected, I guess when you are just days away from that magical “due date”. But we did manage to do this fun Montessori inspired activity that correlated with our discussion of opposites. I’ve had fun revisiting a preschool curriculum that I wrote […]
Archives for September 2011
Confident and Grateful Graduates…
I loved my homeschool experience while I was in the midst of it, but my appreciation has only grown as I’ve moved in and out of the subsequent seasons in my life. I had the opportunity to share a bit about that this summer at the Arizona Homeschool Convention. It was fun to reflect on […]
Life Learning: Lessons in Patience…
(photo courtesy of my sister, Bethany) One of the beauties of homeschooling is how life circumstances can lead into so many learning opportunities. When we discovered that I was pregnant back in January, I looked over my ‘plan’ for the rest of the year and decided to make some tweaks. I thought this would be […]
Tinkering…
We’re just tinkering around this weekend! I’m in full nesting mode and so we moved the archaic computer that I just recently used to spend hours and hours on out of our bedroom and the boys decided to take it apart and investigate! The bigger boys are thrilled with getting to learn how to use a […]
Getting Ready for Greta…
We have been busy over here getting ready for Greta’s arrival. Last month at the cabin, Xander and I went for a walk on his birthday and I told him all about the day he was born. Since there has been so much excitement with learning about pregnancy, babies and anticipating Greta being born I […]
It’s A Date!
While up at the cabin last month, I decided to take each of my boys out for some special one-on-one time before Greta is born and life gets a little crazy. Do any of you do that with your children? I remember my mom taking each of us girls out for a special ‘date’ each summer. […]