Posted in musings on Jan 31st, 2007 5 Comments »
School has been more “unstructured” lately than either Josh or I feel comfortable with. After things settling down with my own bout with illness, yesterday, Josh’s older brother had 2 seizures within 4 hours of each other. This, after being free from them for over a year. Such a hard thing for a young man […]
Posted in musings on Jan 24th, 2007 3 Comments »
Sorry to have been gone so long from this blog. I had not being feeling well and have been doing the doctor visits/tests routine. Hope to be able to get back on track here soon.
Josh and I have been busy with our studies and are enjoying our new year. I’ll share about those in the […]
Posted in musings on Nov 13th, 2006 1 Comment »
Today Josh headed out to college… with one of his big sisters.
This past Friday my oldest daughter had gall bladder surgery. She attends the Honors College at our University and had a class that she could not get excused from today. Hence needing the services of a chauffeur (mom) and book carrier (little brother).
While she attended […]
Posted in musings on Oct 27th, 2006 1 Comment »
“Life begins on the other side of despair.” Jean-Paul Sartre
The other night my oldest daughter wrote a paper on Sartre for a college class and today I came across these words of his. They speak to my heart and mind right now. Life sometimes has periods of darkness and despair and yet it is all […]
Posted in curriculum, musings on Sep 16th, 2006 1 Comment »
Goodness…what a hectic start to this new “school year”.
My 16yod is a junior at a local high school. She is taking 3 AP classes as well as all her other classes being Honors classes. I have done more work helping her out than I think I did when I went to high school myself! She […]
Posted in musings on Jul 30th, 2006 1 Comment »
As a homeschooling mom who spends most of her time with her children, I was very saddened when I read this article linked from another blog about a mom who is bored by her children.
And then I read this article and had to smile. For every story that is like the first, there is another, […]
