I know I’ve mentioned multiple times how much I love the curriculum that Classical Conversations provides for my kids. As a tutor at the Challenge level for the second year in a row, I only appreciate it more and more. As my younger two kids come up through the Foundations, Essentials and Challenge A levels,… Read More Paratroopers, Rescue Dogs, Theater Camps & the Amish
Kayla and Marisol eagerly await the beginning of the show! Kayla and I had so much fun last Friday night attending The American Girl Fashion Show at Old Sturbridge Village. Old Sturbridge Village is a living history museum which allows visitors to experience life in New England during the years 1790 – 1840. It is… Read More A Historical AND Modern Fashion Show for Girls
Maybe you’ve noticed that I don’t always get a recipe up on Fridays. I have posted some recipes lately, but not always on Friday, so I sort of stopped naming the recipe posts “Gluten Free Friday.” In the last couple of weeks, though, several people have told me that they have referred family or friends… Read More Gluten Free Friday ~ 10a.m & 3p.m.. = Snack Time
Our family is hobbling around today due to cramped hands, splinters, sore backs, and aching leg muscles ~ all from yard work! It was time to get the yard cleaned up before winter arrives in full force, and our only obligation yesterday was Kayla’s mid-morning dance class. We started prepping the kids early in the… Read More Leaves + Weeds + Chicken and Rabbit Droppings = Happy Family & Ibuprofen
One great thing about belonging to a CSA farm is that you encounter all sorts of strange interesting new veggies, and are forced have an opportunity to figure out how to use them. I had never even seen Brussels’ sprout on the stalk, let alone cooked or eaten one, in my entire life. Brussels’ sprouts,… Read More Brussels’ Sprouts = YUM!
So, I spoke at church on Sunday about how women shouldn’t speak in church. Well, not exactly, but that infamously controversial verse from 1 Timothy, Chapter 2 was the focal point of Robert’s sermon, along with the qualifications for elders and deacons listed in Chapter 3. He’s been doing a sermon series entitled “Devoted.” He… Read More Not a Man’s Job ~ A Woman’s Reward
Just how many varieties of pumpkins and squash can there be? For the beauty of the earth, For the glory of the skies, My town was also the home of Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost! For the love which from our birth Over and around us lies: We’re surrounded with orchards of various… Read More Autumn Afternoon Awe ~ Part 2
Birthday Breakfast = gluten FULL cinnamon roll from Atkins Market, sausage & egg scramble Last Saturday was Robert’s birthday ~ his 42nd. It’s hard to believe that it was two years ago that we celebrated his 40th by wearing jellies, big teased bangs, rolled jeans, and dancing to Michael Jackson! Such a fun memory and… Read More A Birthday, a Booksigning, and a Barbeque
We’re studying British literature in our 10th grade Challenge II Class and already have these wonderful books under our belt so far: Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Paradise Lost, Pilgrim’s Progress and Gulliver’s Travels. This week we’re on to Pride and Prejudice. I’m almost ashamed to admit that I’ve never actually… Read More Comparative Character Analysis: Mr. Darcy/Kory
This is my Father’s world, and to my listening ears… …all nature sings and round me rings, the music of the spheres. This is my Father’s world: I rest me in the thought of rocks and trees, and skies and seas… His hands the wonders wrought. This is my Father’s world, the birds their carols… Read More Autumn Afternoon Awe