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A Most Embarrassing Moment
Friends4Tea is having a contest. Share your most embarrassing moment and you could win a beautiful little teapot. My memory is so short (which is probably a blessing sometimes) that this is one of the only moments I could recall. My husband, who is the song leader at our small church, was having some of the children read Scriptures of their choice aloud to the congregation. Beautiful, inspiriting verses from the Bible had been chosen. Then my son WE, who was about 6 or 7 had us turn to I Kings 1:1-2 for his choice of Scripture. “Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with…
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Oh, the Opportunities We Have
Our homeschool meeting was this week. It was the first time for many of the moms to be there, so each of us stood up, introduced ourselves, said how many kids we had, how many years we've been homeschooling, and what we are looking forward to in homeschooling this year. There were moms at the meeting that have just started homeschooling and are feeling completely overwhelmed. They don't know if they are doing this homeschool thing right. One lady said her little boy is coming home daily with new words he is learning that he should not know. Her heart is aching for him but she is so concerned about her inadequacies that she is reluctant to…
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Review All Memory Work Once a Month – Here's How
I have been working on putting together a Memory System Recitation Box that has you daily reviewing old and new memory work. I explained in an earlier post that I preivously had used a 3-ring binder to keep all their work in. Each child had an assigned day that they would recite ALL of their memory work memorized thus far. As you can imagine this became tedious. I asked for ideas and a few people directed me to Simply Charlotte Mason and Preschoolers and Peace. So that I don't have to type all the instructions on how to put together the memory box, I'll paste the directions from Simply Charlotte Mason below. Step…
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The Sky is Falling!
Last night we saw two spectacular falling stars. At least that's what we thought they were at first. I know there are certain times of the year when large numbers of them can be seen so I grabbed our book The Kids' Nature Book by Susan Milord to see if this might be one of those times. In this book they have a nature activity listed for every day of the year. So I turned to August and found that the Perseids meteor showers happen at this time of the year. Every year! Isn't that incredible! If you average out the number of meteors falling it's about 65 meteors lighting up…
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Sisters
How do people make it through life without a sister? ~Sara Corpening
