May I just take a mommy moment to celebrate my two oldest??? We took “The Well-Trained Mind” advice and aimed to complete most of “The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading” BEFORE starting “First Language Lessons“…SO–we began “First Language Lessons” this week with my precious little kindergardener and 1st grader. Our first lesson consisted of […]
Soooo…I completely stink at teaching history. Really–I do. We have been studying the Roman Empire all year–not because I ordered a history curriculum that is only about the Roman Empire–but because I can’t seem to get past chapter 4 as we have been focusing on reading, math and lots of Home Economics (aka: you really […]
Ever have one of those moments–where time stands still–and you just realized you were in the presence of someone REALLY amazing? Someone–who GETS it? It happened to me today. At Publix. I ran in by myself (EXCITING, huh?!)! My parents are in town–and of course we needed to go to the grocery store so we […]
Alright folks. It’s been pure craziness here. I’ve got about FIVE minutes and I just had to update some of our crazy! These are things I mustn’t forget:) Frank called the law… Sooo…yesterday–it was the perfect storm of sorts. *I* was on the phone trying to order some last minute things for the Created for […]
Today is the day Christmas is celebrated in Ethiopia! We celebrated it by gearing the whole crew up… LOVE my sweet crew! Aren’t they the cutest:)!? I could just gobble them up! We met up with some other Ethiopian families downtown to celebrate. Here’s ITY baby on our way down. He was doing what he […]