A Fly On My Homeschool Wall

 Pixie is working hard and playing hard! She's just now home from safari and prepping for a week of teaching and loving on the orphanage babies.   Get this! Uganda honors International Women's Day as a full-blown holiday--everything closes for celebrations. I'm not asking for that here, but I'm sure impressed with Uganda! Here at home, we're freezing--not every day, but a lot of the days.  We're facing overnight lows in the 20s this coming week, but there's going to be one 60-degree day, and I've got nature studies planned for that day! In the meantime, we're reading together a lot. We finished Along Came a Dog , and now we're reading this at bedtime: We finished The Children's Book of Heroes , and now we're reading this: It's full of fables, poems, fairy tales, and sweet little stories that are fun for the younger set of kids. We finished Mary's Garden and How it Grew , and we replaced it with: We started the section called Fores...

  Hurrah for being healthy! I got up grateful every morning, and I went to bed grateful every evening, and I was just plain grateful all day to feel capable of being present. Monday Random shot of Little Princess working on research.  She changed her essay focus from The Wright Brothers to History of Aviation It was clear and sunny and cool enough for coats, but also perfect for playing outside (It would normally have been teen school time, but Nature Angel was really sick.).   At first, I tried to keep the babies away from the two puddles in our driveway, but then I gave up and directed it a little by encouraging them to throw pebbles into the puddles.  I figured they'd love throwing rocks, the pebbles would raise the puddles so they'd drain, and it didn't require sitting in the water. They did love it. And they sat in the water. I love how patient my kids can be as they teach the babies how to do stuff! The younger kids and I couldn't do our usual school becau...