Archive for November, 2006

New Family Picture!

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

My friend has been taking her family for photos to a place called Portrait Innovations for a few years and I liked how they looked. It seems to be a marriage between the professional photography and the mass-production of photography. The photographers take a bunch of different pictures “free-form” with their camera that can click […]

Individualization and Collaborative Learning

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Willa, at Every Waking Hour, talked recently about my Collaborative Learning and Unschooling. She made some great points that I would like to expound on.
. . . perhaps the collaborative learning component has something to do with the visual-spatial RB learner’s needs. The reason I’m wondering is that both Cindy and Stephanie mention that […]

Thanksgiving Weekend

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

Our family was going to pack up and go to Michigan for Thanksgiving and stay with my sister at her house, have Thanksgiving with my hubby’s family on Thursday, and with my family on Friday. We were to leave on Wednesday. It takes a good long day, about 12-13 hours, to drive there. Tuesday night, […]

Sleep

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Sleep has been heavy on my mind.  That tends to happen when you feel you are not receiving enough of it.  I know I could sacrifice some personal time to get what I need, but I find that I’m not often strong enough to discipline myself in that way.  So, the big question is:  How […]

Trying to Get Back in the Blog Saddle

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

I started this blog to be able to share some of the insights I’ve gained through homeschooling my children, a place to put some of the stories that I tell over and over again, a place to put resources that I have gathered to share with others, and a place to act as a journal […]