It's been awhile since I shared an entry from my commonplace book. To be honest, it's been awhile since I've read anything worth entering in my commonplace book. I'm lucky these days to have time to hurriedly scan my childrens' chapters for each week's school work. Anyway, I was skimming this week through some entries … Continue reading From My Commonplace…on family and love
When I was a kid, my step-dad was pretty good at predicting when school would be cancelled because of a storm. If it looked really promising, he would go so far as to give us the "guar-ON-tee"! That was worth something. That raised the anticipation and excitement to a whole new level. I'm not sure … Continue reading It Might Be Time for a Guar-ON-tee!
I realized today that this is our tenth Christmas as parents, and I think I might need another decade for that to sink in! Where did the time go? It has absolutely vanished...at lightning speed. I also realized today that I am a slow learner because I think I am only now just getting the … Continue reading Christmas Parents
This was an unusual week...perhaps a taste of what it would be like to homeschool one child (with the exception of Little Mister underfoot). Our two middle girls stayed with grandparents for the week to allow C-Bear to adjust to being home from the hospital. It was good for her to have a quiet house … Continue reading “School” This Week
The past three weeks have been tense for our family. After two weeks of abdominal cramping, unexplained fevers, and three trips to the ER, it was finally discovered that our oldest daughter C-Bear had a ruptured appendix requiring emergency surgery. I have never seen her so sick. Her recovery has been excruciating to watch. The … Continue reading My New Christmas Lists
My Peace in the Puzzle 