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When You Dance - Friday, March 11th 2005 11:00 AM
    When you dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that. ---William Shakespeare, *The Winter's Tale*, Sc. 3, line 140  
Old Fashioned Games - Thursday, March 10th 2005 11:53 AM
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Make Me Strong In Spirit - Wednesday, March 9th 2005 9:53 AM
  Make Me Strong in Spirit   Make me strong in spirit,Courageous in action,Gentle of heart,Let me act in wisdom,Conquer my fear and doubt,Discover my own hidden...
Gales Of Life - Sunday, March 6th 2005 11:11 AM
      Botanists say that trees need the powerful March windsto flex their trunks and main branches, so the sap is drawnup to nourish the budding...
My Laundry - A Place for Quiet Reflection? - Monday, February 28th 2005 9:45 AM
Yesterday... 16yo son was sick and rotated from couch to chair to bed crying "Mommy, help me!"  He's the kind of sick person that you want to just strangle...
Book Fun - Friday, February 25th 2005 8:16 AM
Wanna play?  Fun Journal Activity1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your...
Goodwill? So where the HELL is it?! - Thursday, February 24th 2005 3:34 PM
So, I'm at the Goodwill. I go there a lot. The people who work there all know me and I know all of them, by sight, not by name. They know we homeschool and they'll...
When Pigs Fly - Tuesday, February 22nd 2005 11:27 AM
Love words and expressions? I do. Always have! Surely, you have some sayings around your house that you use even though you have NO IDEA where it came from or what it...
Valentine's Day! - Monday, February 14th 2005 2:22 PM
Happy Valentine's Day! For those equally as "trivial-fact-obsessed" as I am... here's a link where you can learn everything you ever wanted to know about...
Armed with a Paint Brush - Sunday, February 13th 2005 9:24 PM
When I get extremely stressed, my mind hazes over and my hands instinctively reach for a paint brush, wallpaper, scraper, sander...anything work related will do ~...
Letting Go - Monday, February 7th 2005 4:13 PM
Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go. -Sylvia Robinson This afternoon, I dropped my 16yo son off a a...
Sugaring ~ Signs of Spring - Sunday, February 6th 2005 12:18 PM
On the wind in February Snowflakes float still Half inclined to turn to rain, Nipping, dripping, chill. -- Christina G. Rossetti (1830 - 1894)...
Ecological Footprint - Saturday, February 5th 2005 10:37 PM
Take a minute to find your Ecological Footprint. Our family is a 20... that's bad. =O If everyone lived like me, we'd need 4.6 earth planets... see? BAD! Try it, read it and...
Home Education Tax Credit? - Thursday, February 3rd 2005 11:25 AM
Well, it's that time of the year again, tax time! Hey, don't kill the messenger! Well, ok, the big rush is still a couple of months away.. but if you are at all like me, you are...
Advice - Monday, January 31st 2005 10:23 AM
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.-Erica Jong
Chinese New Year - February 9th - Thursday, January 27th 2005 12:24 PM
I love the website Very Best Kids!    Our favorite section is Reading & Singing Together.  When my two youngest were smaller, they'd run around all...
Inaction - Tuesday, January 25th 2005 2:36 PM
"Inaction saps the vigor of the mind." ~~ Leonardo da Vinci
Fired for Blogging? - Tuesday, January 25th 2005 11:05 AM
Can you imagine being fired from your job for blogging?  These people were!   I could, perhaps, see the point if the person were compromising the safety of...
Snow Angels - Saturday, January 22nd 2005 9:05 PM
Chili and A Funeral - Friday, January 21st 2005 9:05 PM
My aunt passed away yesterday... mostly from liver failure, but she had other problems too. She wasn't actually my aunt at all, really she was my second cousin ~ but when we...
Education Without Values - Wednesday, January 19th 2005 9:15 AM
"Education without values, as useful as it is,  seems rather to make man a more clever devil." ~~ C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
Devilishly Delicious - Three Day Coconut Cake - Tuesday, January 18th 2005 9:48 AM
THREE-DAY COCONUT CAKE 1 package white cake mix16 ounces sour cream12 ounces frozen coconut (thawed and drained)  1-1/2 cups Cool Whip1 cup granulated...
Darkness & Hate - Monday, January 17th 2005 8:49 AM
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Josh Haws - Homeschooling Gaining Momentum... - Monday, January 17th 2005 6:14 AM
Finally ~ a recent, fair article about homeschooling! This article indicates that "1 to 1.5 million children and their families in this country alone" are homeschooling...
The Power of Patience - Sunday, January 16th 2005 5:43 PM
For those unfamiliar with Unschooling ~ in a nutshell, it’s the idea of allowing a child to dictate the “how, what, when, where & even why” of learning. It’s...