“I take the backpack. I open the book. I close the notebook. Watch me. What are you doing? Excuse me. Are you American?” French phrases are rolling over and over in my head as I try to prepare for both moving to France and teaching a language I don’t know for homeschool. Isn’t it …
“Never be within doors when you can rightly be out. ” Charlotte Mason, Home Education, page 42 The littlest is sucking on a stick, posing ponderously, like Gandalf with his pipe. She looks far into the distance, perhaps thinking of the beauties of the Shire. The two oldest volley back …
We have made it through another school year. Soon the new will begin. Sweet boy, your character has improved so much in the last year, and that is what I value the most. Yes, you are reading voraciously. Yes, your appetite for learning and flair for drama still cause collisions …
A few weeks ago, I took the older two boys to our public library, thinking it would be a great time for them to get away from the younger two. It’s become difficult to bring all four of the kids to the library at the same time unless Michael’s available …
