Still grey outside, but not pounding rain any more! The trees are quiet again, with silver-drop glimmers on their branches. I am quite happy about how things went last week. We didn’t get to everything on my list, but what we did, we seemed to do fairly well. I am not using “we” here as [...]
The boys are still asleep, so since I have already scurried around the house picking up bedding to launder and getting the kitchen back in shape, I will type for a few minutes, since I expect that today will be quite busy. Homeschool to do, piano lesson, Bible study tonight, and a few other things [...]
You know, I said I had requested Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior from the library. But I was mistaken. It was Kevin who requested it from my card. I couldn’t remember where I had heard the book mentioned, so I knew I recognized the title but was puzzled about what context it was [...]
I finished reading City Kid. It was mostly an account of how Mary MacCracken, who wrote the book, went back to school to get a degree in order to continue working with troubled children in the city. The pointlessness and bureaucratic tyranny of her college experience was described in juxtaposition with the helplessness of the [...]
It’s been quite a while since I did a “What We’re Reading” so I thought I’d do one now. I have been reading quite a bit recently. On Sunday when we traveled to Thomas Aquinas College I read Last Man Down — one of the dime library rack grabs that gives me a lot of [...]
At the Real Learning board, a mom with young children asked what older homeschooling moms would do differently if they could it over again. Really, I have few categorical regrets about what I did or did not do. Yes, I made plenty of mistakes — but mistakes can be fruitful. I learned something from every [...]
I should probably have mentioned it before, but life quickly got quite busy …. I put some photos of our trip here. Now that homeschooling season is here, most of my online time seems to be going to my learning-notes journal, Schola et Studium. What I’ve been doing, besides normal daily-life-and-homeschooling: Re-reading Latin Centered Curriculum, [...]
We have been on holiday; my oldest is at home and goes back to college in a couple of days. As he says, in a month he’ll be halfway through his college undergrad years! The kids played Settlers of Catan yesterday after we got home from Easter Mass and family festivities. They were going to [...]
I wrote several posts with notes on Mel Levine’s Myth of Laziness on my other blog. I’m going to list them here because I thought it might be of interest to some of the homeschooljournal community too. The Myth of Laziness Writing difficulties Project Checklists When I wrote about Laziness once before on here, I [...]
Quick catch-up: Our friends left today. Thursday: While Kevin and I drove to TAC to pick up the 3 prospective college students on Thursday, our middle boys stayed with their friends and watched a couple more hours of Liberty. WE got back pretty late — got to see Liam and the 3 young people [...]
