My kids found out a week ago that the middle schoolers in our homeschool group had dissected a pig, a frog and an eyeball this year. “What is dissecting?”, they asked. When I explained it to them, it became apparent that this is something we will need to partake in sooner, rather than later. This […]
Category Archives: Everyday Life
The Perfect Pumpkin
October 28, 2011 – 6:47 pm
Yesterday we went with my parents in search of the perfect pumpkin. Of course, for Emery, that meant finding one that weighs almost as much as he does. “Hey Emery…you might want to choose a smaller one. If you drop that, it’s going to bust right open.” “Ugh. No, Mom. Ugh. I’ve (ugh) got it. […]
October 2011
October 24, 2011 – 5:07 pm
Well, I thought that giving myself a topic (like the homeschooling stuff) to post about every Friday would keep me writing, but apparently this was not a fool proof plan. With the “fool” being ME! October got really busy, really fast. My neighborhood had a garage sale the first Saturday of this month. We didn’t […]
Summer Two Thousand Eleven
August 21, 2011 – 3:12 pm
It’s hot. The end. What’s that? You’d like to hear a little more about my summer? Well, okay. But it mostly revolves around being too hot to do anything that doesn’t involve air conditioning or a swimming pool. Except for this: I went to Youth Camp for a week with the middle and high schoolers […]
Christmas in July
July 16, 2011 – 5:12 pm
Well, maybe not exactly. But waking up to a rainy 64 degrees in the middle of a deep south heat wave sure felt like Christmas! In addition was the fact that we all got to spend hours outside doing what we love most. For one little boy I know, that meant playing in the rain, […]
