I’ve been published again

Back toward the end of summer, I submitted an article to Christian Light Publications for consideration. They accepted it as a stock article, meaning it would be published when they felt appropriate. Well, it was published in this month’s LightLines for Homeschools! It’s a full page article about using discretion when evaluating free books.
They’ve now [...]

Stomach flu

Saturday night our son was very sick to his stomach. I had it last night and it was after 7 this morning before I was able to get some rest. Today my husband has it too. I think stomach flu is worse than regular flu because you can’t eat.
At least with my son it didn’t [...]

Our fertilizer grows on trees

The last few days we’ve been taking advantage of our unseasonable Indian Summer. Last year there was 8 inches of snow by this time, but none is on the ground now. We had some a few weeks ago that melted.
Our garden is low in organics which is part of the reason it didn’t do very [...]

Poster child

Last spring, I took the kids to the North American Open dog sled races in downtown Fairbanks with my sister in law. While we were there a photographer took some pictures of my kids. Yesterday, one of those pictures of my son was chosen to be on the cover of a brochure and posters for [...]

A new color: white

Last night we were introduced to a new color: white. I don’t mean we studied white for kindergarten homeschool. No, I mean white as in snow. That’s right, we are having our first snow of the year. It is a week earlier than last year.
It started yesterday late morning with rain/snow mixed then turned to [...]

Woe to us

I’m in the book of Isaih for my Bible reading. This afternoon, I was reading Isaiah 5 and was struck with all the things mentioned. It sounded like he was describing the current state of our nation, specifically in verses 20-23.
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, [...]

New dress fabric

When I was in WalMart this evening I browsed their cheap fabric and found a cute, middle weight, cotton print. It’s small checkers of dusty rose color on a pink background with dime sized blue flowers on dark green stems. I thought it would be good fall/winter print. I got 4 yards for less than [...]

08-09 school is over

Yesterday Richard took his final 2 unit tests. That concludes his second grade year.
However, learning isn’t over for the summer. We didn’t manage to finish all the history so he will keep working on that through the summer. This week was Bible camp at church in the afternoons where he made a new best friend, [...]

We’re in Rio

We arrived in Rio Friday. We went on a tour to the huge Christ statue on the mountain yesterday and my family was blessed by the priest at the chapel up there. This morning we went to the beach today. I bought a light dress from a street vendor for just $5. It’s the [...]

Snow, snow and more snow

I just got some unexpected exercise. It’s snowed like a foot Thursday on top of the 8 inches we got earlier in the week so our driveway is a mess. I’m stuck just out of the garage and spent the last 20 minutes trying to dig the car out. Unsuccessfully. I had to crawl out [...]