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That Movie Viewing List
Sometime recently I mentioned that once a week the kids and I have a movie night featuring a movie (or sometimes a show) that I want the kids to watch. These are not the usual just-for-fun films that we find ourselves watching too often. These are movies that serve some other purpose. Many of you emailed or commented that you’d…
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Five Finds Friday (Saylor’s reading and Ryder got a haircut)
We’re beginning to find a rhythm to school and to work again. Which, you know, means that some glitch will happen soon. When my kids were babies, it always seemed like as soon as you figured out a good sleep schedule or as soon as baby learned to nap routinely, then a growth spurt happened or we took a trip…
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my social dilemma
These kids I live with always want to watch movies. Always. But the movies they choose are primarily veneer, shiny, high dollar sort of films. On their own, it seems they seldom click the documentaries, the historical films, the movies that grow their empathy or their understanding. So I started a family movie night (weekly-ish) where the movies are all…
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An Ode to EB White
Classes have fired back up and I have ten students in my World Lit. & Writing class this year. I don’t always follow through on this ideal, but I try to do assignments with my students from time to time. (Not the research papers or critical analysis papers – come on, you guys, I already served my time and paid…
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Five Finds Friday (face cream, Community and Carlos)
The days have been too full and the time has felt too short and I’m beginning to feel familiar again with that line from The Hobbit (I think) about feeling like butter spread too thin over toast. Or something like that. This week I’ll make this list short and sweet because I am currently feeling ambivalent about writing. A word…
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Five Finds Friday.
Somehow, when the calendar says September, I keep thinking it should FEEL like fall already. It does not. We live in the wrong state for it to feel like fall in September. funny Bergen started it. He wrote, printed and posted this sign. (After acquiring a signature from every family member.) Now there are at least two other similar signs…
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mid-week ramble. is that a thing?
Well. It is now. It’s already September and I don’t know anything about anything except that TIME ALWAYS DISAPPEARS. Even when you think it’s going slowly. Our homeschool co op begins this week. Prepping for teaching other kids, therefore, also begins this week. Honestly, that prepping started a while ago. But the routine, week part of prepping is upon us.…
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Lists: The Only Way I Ever (Sometimes) Get Stuff Done
You know, I forgot. I always forget. How challenging multitasking is when the school year officially begins. I mean, it’s hard always. Multi-tasking. Parenting. Life. But this homeschooling gig is a FULL TIME JOB and I already have a FULL TIME JOB. This week I’ll have FOUR teenagers (and I’ll surely post and whine more about that soon so you’ve…
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five finds friday. (celebrating two years in our home & pleated skirts)
Greetings from Recovering From Sunburn Still. Population: 3. Ah. Those freckles and fair hair are not serving us well currently. funny Finding this on my phone. What is happening??? fashionable It’s so funny how styles come and go. And how, if I had saved most of my clothes from the 80s, my daughters would be in heaven about now. But…
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Losing Time: The Cost of Spontaneity This Week
Do you ever have one of those weeks where you just feel as if you’ve lost time? As in, you look around you and you have, you know – basically nothing – to show for your days? I mean, it’s not true. Entirely. There’s been the care and the feeding of the folks I live with. There has been work…
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Wile E. Coyote Science: A Timberdoodle Review
This is a sponsored post. I received this item from Timberdoodle in exchange for an honest review. These thoughts and words and opinions are, as always on this page and in real and regular life, all completely and totally my own. _________________________________ Everyone’s a homeschooler! Wheeeeeee! It’s a weird world, am I right? I’m not making light of our current…
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Five Finds Friday (last first day, a giant sweatshirt and tomatoes)
Oh it’s Friday? I didn’t know. funny I was opening my car door and I noticed the side pocket. What’s in that pocket made me laugh – and kind of offers a snapshot of my actual life. A knife. Because – safety and preparation. You just never know what the future holds. Bubbles. Because – fun. Lotion. (That almost never…
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camping with the boys: lake jocassee is a wonder, but what happened to the hammocks?
Some birthday gifts take a while to bring to fruition. That’s kind of true always, but it’s especially true during this season. Otto tuned 11 back in May. Last week he and I and Bergen headed to the always breath taking Lake Jocassee for an overnight camping trip. Really, it was always more about the fishing than the camping. It…