To get the full effect of the story I am about to tell, I must preface it with the following: First, a couple of weeks ago, Emery had to give a presentation at school about what he wanted to be when he grew up. He stood confidently in front of the class and told them […]
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Tiny Talk Tuesday
Picture this: it’s the end of the homeschool day. A particularly LONG day where my daughter had been thinking that paying attention wasn’t necessary for school work because she already “knew everything”. It was the last thing on my planner and I thought about moving it to the next day, except that it was really […]
Tiny Talk
It’s been a while since I’ve posted some of the crazy things I hear in this house. And trust me when I say it’s not due to lack of material. But today both kids had a couple of doozies, so I thought I’d take a minute and write them here. First there was Savannah. This […]
Putting His Own “Spin” On It
Today I gave Emery a job to do. It was something I had been putting off doing myself, then I realized he’d probably actually think it was fun. When we closed down our homebuilding company we had tons of sales and marketing material. Some of which just happened to be cases and cases of Coke […]
How Old, Question Mark
Emery doesn’t get as much formal teaching time as Savannah, but he’s always hanging around, absorbing bits and pieces of whatever I’m telling her. We’ve been doing a lot of work on punctuation marks and sentence structure type stuff. One day in her Sight Words book she was learning the words “how”, “old”, and a […]