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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.

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

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

Here’s our boy today… He got a good thumping and a face plant in a wave he thought he was big enough for. It was interesting listening to the men around him talking to him about it. It was universal – they didn’t frown disappointingly at him, tell him he should have been more careful,

I found this poem in a book I picked up at the Childlight conference for $3 called Readings and Recitations for Juniors by Eleanor O’Grady. The Discontented Buttercupby Sarah A. Jewett Down in a field, one day in June,The flowers all bloomed together,Save one, who tried to hide herself,And drooped, that pleasant weather. A robin

I found this lovely poem today in an old copy of “Favorite Poems of Emily Dickinson”. I came across it at the library in the used books they were selling – along with Black Beauty, Stone Soup, and Famous Poets for Young People (which my daughter said “Pleeease can we get it?” {sigh of pure

Today was one of those days when I had planned on getting outdoors, but by the time 3 o’clock rolled around, we still weren’t ready to go. I thought “Forget it, it’s too late now. I’m too tired. Don’t feel like it.” You know how it is 🙂 Thankfully, my 7yo daughter gave me the