A Fly On My Homeschool Wall

 We had our annual lighting ceremony on Monday night. And by sewing madly in the late afternoon, I managed to finish 24 gift bags (20 of them were made in previous years) for our Christmas book advent. We've been faithfully opening one a day, and I love, love, love how the kids still gather around and get excited over seeing what book is in what bag and then settle happily down near the fire for read aloud time. This week we opened Dasher, Santa's Twin, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, and The Night Tree.   We're just reading The Best Christmas Pageant Ever a chapter at a time, so it's fun to double up and read a picture book and a chapter book. We're also trucking along rather well with regular school. We did add The Jesus Storybook Bible to our Morning Meeting. We read The Big Wave , and we're almost through with The Master Puppeteer . The Big Wave is the single best book about grieving I...