Posted in family life, fun stuff on Sep 7th, 2007 No Comments »
Josh and I have found a new “The Week in…” that is right up his alley. He is passionate about history and politics so when I found The Week In Political Cartoons I knew it would be a hit with him. Only thing is, half the time he has to explain a few before I […]
Posted in self-education, family life on Sep 7th, 2007 2 Comments »
This was one of my favorite scenes this past week.
Josh and I had been to the library. While I was browsing and searching for various books, Josh found two on his favorite subject… Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway is his all time favorite author with The Sun Also Rises being his favorite book by this author. I […]
Posted in family life on Aug 13th, 2007 3 Comments »
Our beloved family cat, Tabby, passed away this past Thursday night.
Needless to say we have a home of heavy hearts right now. We will miss him so much as he has been a member of our family for over 15 years. The night he died we sat with him and talked with him as […]
Posted in family life on Aug 6th, 2007 No Comments »
The Tale of Hawthorn House - September, 2007
In March of 2006, I wrote this post (on my previous homeschool blog) on a book that I was reading with Joshua called The Tale of Holly How. It is the second book in Susan Wittig Albert’s series, The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter. I wrote another post about […]
Posted in musings, family life on Aug 6th, 2007 1 Comment »
Union Terminal - Cincinnati, Ohio
Our vacation back home was so much more wonderful than words could tell. Time with friends and family was such a blessing to treasure. Things have been hectic since we got back hence the lack of posting. Thank you to everyone for their well wishes for our trip. The picture at the […]
Posted in family life, fun stuff on Jul 17th, 2007 1 Comment »
I took this picture Sunday morning from our backyard. (And no that is not my thumb, it is part of our roof lol)
At lunchtime today Joshua and I will be on one of those big birds in the sky heading “home”! It will be our first visit back home since we moved six years […]
Posted in celebrating the seasons, nature, family life on Jul 12th, 2007 7 Comments »
Sunflowers are my favorite flower and Joshua and I love to plant a “field” of them each year. This field is really just a line of sunflowers along the backwall of our house but to us that is sufficient to bring smiles to our faces each and every time we walk out into our backyard.
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Posted in family life on Jul 10th, 2007 2 Comments »
Yesterday my youngest daughter received wonderful news in the mail. Lauren is 17 and will be a senior this year at a local public high school. (She was homeschooled from grades 3 through 6.) She had a difficult academic year last year as a junior taking three AP courses; English Language and Composition, American History and Psychology, along […]
Posted in celebrating the seasons, family life on Jul 5th, 2007 No Comments »
My husband and son both work outdoors in construction and said by 9 am this morning the temperature was reading 109 degrees. When I was on my blog a little while ago, my weather pixie listed a temp of 117 for us and she is now at 115. Yes we do live in the desert… […]
Posted in celebrating the seasons, family life, fun stuff on Jul 5th, 2007 2 Comments »
Last night we headed up to the garage roof top of a casino five minutes from our house to watch the city’s fireworks. The view is amazing. Turn in any direction of a 360 degree circle and you get a beautiful view of the city lights, mountains and lots of fireworks!
Fireworks watching turned into […]
