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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 […]

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