A Fly On My Homeschool Wall

 I think we were busy more nights than we were not.  I can only remember doing bedtime reading twice during the week. One night the kids just played outside until really late. One night Sir Walter Scott was helping Belle buy her first car, and I was dealing with our van being in the shop. One night was the Civil Air Patrol annual awards dinner. One night was Uncle M--'s birthday. One night was our Friends and Family dance finale. Ceremonial cake-cutting with a sword! Waiting while honors are read aloud before receiving their Mitchell awards The big girls and I love it when there's a matching/timeline/grouping/card-moving activity for history. I found that Lola had been busy with spring wildflowers. Just sitting by the front door. :) We're still running 3x weekly.   Except for Lola. She's going to the park with us, but she's studying flora and fauna. There's a bird's nest with a mama bird in there . . . actually more than one! She seems to have bewitched the ...

Nature Angel graduates in about 8 weeks.  She took a series of gorgeous photos with Pixie, but the emotions of the day were so hard that when she looks at those pictures, the hard comes back to her.  She's not able to separate the emotions from the quality of the pictures. So she hired a friend who is just getting her photography business started and had a totally different photo shoot. Here are some of my favorite results. My main reaction is "How gorgeous is she !?!?!" (I admit, I do react that way to all of my daughters.) And then I wonder how it is that she's a young adult . . . I remember her like this most of the time: Nature Angel:  1 year As more of my children reach adulthood, the sense of change--of time gone by--gets stronger. But this week, Nature Angel didn't feel well, so we only had high school on Monday.   On Tuesday, Little Princess had the opportunity to go to the state capital as part of a CAP event.  She got to tour a few buildings, meet...

Random picture of Lola--it's so classically her.  She's got drawing supplies outside without permission; she's on the front porch surrounded by chalk drawings; she's got her manicure set for company as she works on Pokemon art.   We have a couple of birthdays in September, and our activity schedule has been rather full, so we shuffled birthday celebrations around to less full days.  However, that made the first week of September very, very full! Little Princess is our resident baker, cake decorator, and cake decorating teacher, so she was quite busy!!! One simple, elegant cake One fun Pokemon cake--this is Gastly Little Princess could quite successfully open a gluten-free bakery.  These cakes were so delicious, so moist, so fluffy, so perfect!! But she doesn't want to.  So we get to enjoy everything she bakes. :) On the subject of Little Princess' baking, we've accidentally started the tradition of her making us all homemade chocolate chip cookies on dance d...