‘Hey, mum, I’m going to be an actress!’ Charlotte thus informs me. In the past week she has been through at least five professions. ‘I’m going to move to America!’ Two minutes later, after seeing how much an apartment costs to live in Manhattan, ‘Wait! No I’m not! I can’t afford a place to live!’……
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A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 65
‘Mummy, Mummy!’ squealed Abigail, ‘Oscar pooed all over the dining room floor last night, and I have diagnosed that he has mild diarrhoea!’ ‘I checked it against my Bristol stool chart!’ she finished, very obviously satisfied with both herself and her conclusion. I could imagine Charlotte’s face, had she heard her little sister’s exclamation, and……
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 64
I had organised today that Charlotte make a breakfast of boiled eggs and toast with Becca using all she had learnt the day before. If you read yesterday’s post you would know that I had taught two sceptical twins and their two eager sisters how to boil an egg. They had teased me throughout and……
A Year in the Life of a Home Schooling Family: Day 63
I started the day listening to the end of Joshua. It has been so interesting for me to listen to the Bible for well over two hours each day. This is such a different experience to my normal chapter at a time, and moving from one book to another. This is the first time I……
Art Lab for Kids: Picture Study – Rose Sielian Theriault ‘Pear Squared’
With each of the art labs comes an artist study. I love artist studies, they are one of my favourite ways to teach the children! This study was on Rose Sielian Theriault: Rose Sielian Theriault: Pear Squared The art chosen was an etching called ‘Pear Squared’. The girls cut out, labelled and stuck in their……
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 60
I woke up without a headache today! Yay me! I was up and out of bed by seven. So weird, because every single one of my children were up bustling around the house, having baths, listening to a sermon, eating… I stayed in my room and finished listening to Leviticus. I’ve never read all the……
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 59
Last night I tucked down at ten with a raging headache. I listened to the Bible until I drifted off to sleep. It was such a lovely end to a tricky day for me. I have never had this type of reaction before coming off sugar. I think it is probably reflective of how bad……
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 58
Well, my lovely in-laws have just left, and I am sitting at the computer drinking a juice which is a peculiar shade of orange. This morning I made my way through a juice which was an equally peculiar shade of green. I have a stinking head-ache and feel really really tired. Why? I hear you……
A Year in the Life of a Home Schooling Family: Day 57
I had a really weird night last night, dreaming I was on the run (from whom, I don’t know). But I wasn’t running away on land. Oh no. I was a mermaid type creature, but with legs, and I was swimming away across the oceans. But each continent I came to the people/things I was……
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 54
I have three tired teens in my house at the moment. Thomas, because he is burning the candle at both ends; Lillie, because she is needing to work through some emotional stuff at the moment; and Charlotte because she is working nine hours a day, desperately trying not to get behind on her Latin. I……
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 53
Grandad and Granny are over from Northern Ireland!
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 52
Today is a short post, on account of the fact that the little ones are currently at a friends house; the older ones are at the park studying; Gary is dusting and I am writing a guest post for iHN. I will be returning to Gary and his duster… I’ll do a quick precis of……
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 51
The essence of today actually began at three in the morning. I was lying in bed listening to an alarm going off. On and off. On and off. It went on so long, I was beginning to get irritated with the people to whom the loud alarm belonged. I mean, it was three o’clock in……
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 50
Back to school as normal this week. Well, normalish. We are all very happy because Grandad and Granny are coming over from Northern Ireland on Thursday and staying for a week! We can’t wait! Gary has the whole week they are here off, which is so incredible…can you tell how excited I am?! Anyway, I……
A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Half Term
This week has not been that different to a usual school week for at least three of us. I was glued to the computer, school planning for Charlotte’s Latin and Classics. I am very close to being very overwhelmed by all we have to do in the next 11 weeks, and am wondering how on……