When Parenting Throws (yet another) Loop

It was 4am early hours Sunday morning. Pitch black. I had been struggling to sleep and was feeling restless, and anxious. Lillie burst into our room, yelling that Charlotte was having seizures and I needed to come. Not knowing what to expect we tore upstairs. Sure enough, Charlotte, whilst being fully conscious and aware, was…

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Precious Moments

We have thoroughly enjoyed having Gary here the past two weeks! We've managed to get bits and pieces done around the house and I've also done school every day (more's the miracle!). It's half term next week, so I just wanted to finish up all the things we had started. The biggest chunk of our…

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Mystery of History: Lesson 19 – Moses and the Exodus

Moses and the Exodus: Reading Along with the Mystery of History text, I read Exodus, and Wonders and Miracles to the girls. These are both excellent books, especially Wonders and Miracles - it is full of stories, poems, readings, songs and incredible drawings. I consider it one of the more special books I own. The…

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Precious Moments

Another excellent week! I am loving being back to my normal homeschool! I'd forgotten how freeing it was to simply follow interests. Not once in the past five weeks have I needed to persuade the girls to do homeschool. They are loving it as much as I am, and are so thankful that workbooks form…

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Learning About Flight Efforts in the 1900s

It was during the early 1900's that flight took off (pardon the pun😁), with the very realistic possibility that man would take to the skies. I have to be honest and say that teaching flight wasn't necessarily something that filled me with excitement. Choosing it as our science study for our 1900-1910 learning was maybe…

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