Images from Tokien’s Letters from Father Christmas Our last meeting was on the Holidays and there were some great ideas so I thought I’d post them all here. This is really just a list of my notes from the evening of things other than the typical advent calendar, caroling, etc. that are in no particular […]
Having played violin in an orchestra in Japan, my Mother loved classical music and often played it in our home when I was a little girl. Sometimes we would visit her older sister, in whose tiny home in Tokyo sat a Grand Piano, far too large for its surroundings, but an essential in their home.
We couldn’t find our bedtime free read last night, Caddie Woodlawn, so I asked my daughter to pick another book. She picked Robin Hood, which we never finished from last year, YR2, which never sat right with her (the not finishing). It was her favorite book last year she said because of the ‘words’ and
And the winner is…. jennebeker!! Congratulations!! You have won an autographed copy of “Raising Real Men“!! (jennebeker, please contact me with your address by Email and we’ll get your prize to you asap.) To make our giveaway interesting, I asked everyone to include with their submission, one thing most people do not know about them.
If you’ve ever been to Laguna Beach, you’ve most likely driven by Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. It sits on the only main road in to Laguna Beach from the freeway that curves its way through sandstone canyons. It was the spot of our nature excursion this week. We headed from the Nix Nature Center under
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My husband took this picture at the pumpkin patch the other day – I just love it. Everyone is looking at the camera, we’re all smiling – these are the moments we like to remember; the ones we love to share with everyone. The ones we frame and hang on our walls. Here’s the one
Okay, we don’t normally do narrations at bedtime. We usually reserve evenings for free reads and stories that may help them fall asleep, not something that they have to be so attentive to as to narrate afterwards. But we were getting behind in our Robin Hood reading last spring, and the day before I was
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We read the first few lines of Caddie’s Recitation tonight at bedtime… A traveller through a dusty road strewed acorns on the lea;And one took root and sprouted up, and grew into a tree. I had to learn the rest, so I looked it up and found this poem that I just loved: Small Beginningsby
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I’ve been in a bit of a slump lately, it’s true. No inspiration to blog, no charge to my camera battery, no desire to draw in my nature journal, dishes in the sink, a list of errands left undone, kids prodding me to make dinner, a strange growth taking over the crawdad tank… It happens
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Today is the last day to file a Private School Affidavit in California. You can find detailed information on how to file the Private School Affidavit here: http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/ca/affidavit/AffidavitInstructions.asp California’s compulsory attendance laws only require that children be enrolled by their 6th birthday in the year in which they turn 6 on or before December 2
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