Archive for the 'Family' Category

What I’ve Been Reading

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

I’ve not done a post like this, but have had some fun and/or informative reading choices lately, so thought I would share. The book series I’m reading aloud to the littles is this:

I’m one of those people who don’t like to reread things, and during the season of my two older children and […]

Don’t Get Me Started . . .

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

A great site called Free Range Kids helps me feel right at home in how I think about raising my children. I found this link at The Learning Umbrella from her post called Do Your Children Get Enough Danger.
Here is a quote from the site:
Another mom castigated me for my irresponsibility and proudly said […]

Science in Action

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Warning: Not for the faint of heart
How could a good unschooler resist documenting the birth of kittens? Not us! We decided to take in a pregnant mother cat that had been hanging around our church for a while now. She is really sweet, and a good mommy.
The children were SO […]

Having a Voice and the Power of Words

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Over at Woodstone Prairie, Maura wrote about the discrimination of the mentally disabled, as well as the common word usages in the same category used flippantly to describe negative attributes.  Interestingly, both just recently were part of a conversation as well as an experience today (again).
I was gone for the weekend with four of my […]

Lego Mentorship

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

I came home yesterday and heard some instructional talk coming from behind the couch, which is William’s “quiet time area”. Hhmmm, what’s going on? I was excited to discover this:

I was excited for several reasons. First, there was a time when Eli eagerly sought out “pupils” for Lego instruction (and […]

Faith and Unschooling

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

At the beginning of the year, when I was reading various blog posts, I came across some great thoughts over at Loving Him 4 Ever. Interestingly, as I went to look up the reference, it appears a break has occurred for the blog author since writing this post. I hope there is more […]

Rebuilding Relationships

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Here I go trying to get my blogging habit going . . . again. Only time will tell when my efforts will stick I thought it would be fun to target various children in my focus for my posts if I don’t have a personal inspired thought for the day. Today, […]

Where have all the children gone?

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Warning: An opinion post Also, I can’t get my formatting to work the way I want . . . drat. Everything stays double spaced when I hit Enter and I can’t even get it to Tab so that you can see the spacing. Help! Anyway, here it goes:
I got […]

Thank you 2007; Hello 2008!

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Wow! 2007 has been a blur for me. So much has happened that has kept me from blogging as faithfully as I did the year before. And now 2008 approaches. I wonder what it holds!? I have hardly had a breath to consider my thoughts, goals, or desires for the […]

Bittersweet Memories

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

We’re moving to the country at the end of this month! I’ll post some on that another time. However, we need to downsize a bit . . . in a good way. So, I’ve been trying to put some of my newfound desire to throw things out into effect . . . […]