Saturday was National Ice Cream for Breakfast Day. Pops was in his glory since Ice Cream for Breakfast Day also fell on his favorite holiday, Ground Hog’s Day. Life doesn’t get much better in his world. (And, no, Ty did not get chocolate syrup like this photo may suggest.)
Whatever you call it, Drop Everything And Read (DEAR) or Silent Sustained Reading (SSR), you should definitely implement it in your house. This includes you! Leave the laundry and the dishes and get some face time with a book.
In addition to the specific resources for this week, we are also listening to Story of the World (SOTW) on CD, watching selected episodes of Drive Thru History, and keeping a cummulative timeline of things we learn in history. I am planning appropriate activities for Mia that are a little less complicated than last year...
I went to an adoption and homeschooling workshop last night. There was a lot of talk about school rooms. I’m here to say you don’t really need one. We have 6 kids in a fairly modest 3 bedroom house without any “bonus’ rooms. We have the standard living room, dining room and kitchen set up....
On our way to Port Discovery.
I’ll admit that I’m in a bit of a photo slump these days with everything going on, but don’t you think this was photo worthy?
Being thankful these days that we went with the 15 passenger van over the 12. We are actually having cargo space challenges between Sam’s Club runs and storing Tae Kwon Do gear. Is it weird that I’m considering buying a piece of storage furniture for the inside of my car?
But right now life is also hard. Harder than normal…whatever that is. Ironically, life is hard right now because John, Kayla, and Grace are grappling with the concept that life IS hard. It requires hard work. It requires us to do things we don’t necessarily want to do. Our pastor recently quoted a football coach...