A Fly On My Homeschool Wall

 We had company over last Sunday, so I didn't get to write. So, here we are with another week having passed . . . and so many things have happened! My own kids were coming and going all of the days. At first, Mister Man and Brother left for Boys' Camp.  I have no pictures of that adventure (the men leaders are not as adept at taking and sharing pictures as are the women leaders), but the list I've heard so far includes cliff jumping, tubing, kneeboarding, wakeboarding, shooting (with shotguns, pistols, and potato cannons), hiking, and lots of eating. They came home happily rosy, rumpled, and stinky! We sent them to the showers immediately. :) But they came home to no power in the house, so it was just as hot inside as it was outside.  We'd had a gigantic storm the day before that knocked out the power of well over 100K people in the general area.  We'd already gone 24 hours without power--which means we'd already hit the laundromat, I loved watching them watch t...

 I have taken as my official philosophy concerning religious holidays that I prefer for our family worship to be a consistent daily effort instead of a special effort around holidays.  I believe that I should have as much reverence for God on June 3rd and September 29th as on Christmas Day or Easter Sunday. So, I let the holidays be about presents and baskets, with a nod to the history of the holiday, and put a lot of effort into our daily Morning Meetings and other family worship habits. But in General Conference a couple of Sundays ago, there were several suggestions to really celebrate Holy Week.  I had been planning to ignore it (mostly), and just keep putting one foot in front of the other in our usual daily worship. But . . . there was this counsel from church leaders that I believe are inspired by God. So, I got to work trying to plan and implement a special week. It ended up being all about eggs . . . which sounds like a secular Easter celebration . . . but it was...