Caspers Wilderness Park, located on Ortega Hwy (a freeway alternate to the Inland Empire that winds through the Santa Ana mountains and spits you out in Lake Elsinore) is one of the places that really starts getting you into the local mountains of Orange County. I recently took the kids to their Wildflower event and […]
One of my favorite things about reading Robinson Crusoe was his thoughtful reflections on what was happening in his life. The author gave us a window into the thought process in Crusoe’s mind as his character is forged through circumstances hand placed in his life by God Himself. I was reminded of this today as
We’ve completed reading through Henry V, our first Shakespeare play! Well, we’d read many of his plays in story form in Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare, which I’m now re-reading with my 8yo son, but this was our first ‘real’ play in full Shakespeare language. Here’s a list of the Lamb’s tales we read over the
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It’s a little funny that I’m writing about the benefits of gardening, seeing how I’m happy if my plants survive the season, my composting hasn’t decomposed at all lately, all my red worms fled their Rubbermaid habitat, and I’m occasionally in danger of getting kicked out of my community garden plot. In order to not
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This school year, my nature group tried our first attempt at foreign language plays. It has always seemed out of the ordinary to me that of us ten or so moms, seven different languages are spoken or being studied. One mom is fluent in Japanese, another in Afrikaans, one in Armenian, and one is fluent
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