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RSSWhoever says you can't form real friendships over the internet is completely wrong. Toni, Kate, and I started our friendships through reading each other's blogs in February of 2008, and our friendships grew through our interaction on the internet. Then earlier this year we all met in person (and found out that we like each [...]
May 29, 2009
A Love Affair With Her Thesaurus
May 29, 2009 By 3 Comments
If you know me at all, you won't be surprised that I can wax elloquent about a thesaurus. I'm just a geek that way. But apparently Jerah is the same way, because there's a particular thesaurus which she has fallen in love with. This love affair with her thesaurus began when she started to sprinkle [...]
May 28, 2009
How To Improve Your English Skills Painlessly
May 28, 2009 By 2 Comments
I've heard many homeschooling parents say that they don't know how they're going to teach English grammar or writing to their kids because they've never been very good at it themselves. But my question is this — if we expect our kids to learn things when they don't know much about a subject, why can't [...]
May 26, 2009
Schooling Out of Doors
May 26, 2009 By 13 Comments
One of Jerah's drawing assignments today called for her to draw something outside. And since I'm the paranoid mother that I am and I refuse to let my 10-year-old daughter stay outside in the front yard for extended periods of time by herself, I moved everyone outside and we did our schoolwork in the sunshine. [...]
May 24, 2009
Guns & Gun Safety
May 24, 2009 By 4 Comments
As Americans, our right to bear arms is — or at least should be — protected under the Constitution. Guns are an integral part of American life, and as such, I want my kids to be knowledgeable about guns. Not that I'm going to take them out on the gun range and teach them to [...]
May 22, 2009
Gecko in the Buff
May 22, 2009 By 3 Comments
We've been pet-sitting a leopard gecko for a friend of ours for the last week, and we noticed today that the gecko's skin had turned white and she was much more lethargic than normal. Of course we imagined the worse, fearing the gecko would die while we were caring for it. But earlier this evening [...]
May 22, 2009
How to Link Images in Your Sidebar (or HTML for Dummies Like Me)
May 22, 2009 By 7 Comments
May 21, 2009
Finer Things Fridays: Milk and Cookies
May 21, 2009 By 5 Comments
Some things never get old. As a child, I remember my mom making us chocolate chip cookies, limiting us kids to three or four cookies each…and how we would sneak a few extra whenever we could…and how we'd always eat the raw cookie dough! Even now as an adult, making homemade cookies and eating them [...]
May 20, 2009
Understanding Idioms
May 20, 2009 By 1 Comment
One could argue that idioms falls under the umbrella of the three R’s, but in reality, idioms are generally taught—if at all—only haphazardly in regular curriculum. Yet understanding idioms is so important. And it’s not because our children need to be taught how to use idioms in their daily speech; idioms are in such great [...]
May 20, 2009
13 Books My Avid-Reader Daughter Highly Recommends
May 20, 2009 By 8 Comments
My daughter, Jerah, is a voracious reader. And by voracious I mean she spends nearly all of her waking moments reading (she reads at the dinner table, in the bathroom, while walking, while she is supposed to be doing her schoolwork…). I asked her to collect 13 books she really liked reading so I could [...]
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