Cylinder seals are one of the most fascinating artefacts to come out of Mesopotamia. In fact, Mesopotamia is known for these small, cylindrical stamps, which are considered to be its unparalleled artistic accomplishment. Read more: This lesson on Mesopotamian stamp seals gives you lots of information about the cylinder seal's earlier cousin Also, do check…
Category: Homeschooling
Happy 21st Birthday Girls!
My gorgeous twins turned 21 today! Twenty-one? How on earth did that happen? I'm so grateful to have spent the last 21 years with you both in my life. It's been a blast!! I could not be more proud of the loving, thoughtful and caring girls you are. We love you so very much ❤️
Book Log for October
For all the books I’ve read this year, click on the following links: January to March April May June July August September And these are the ones I have read in October: 77. The Complete Guide to Therapeutic Parenting by Jane Mitchell and Sarah Naish 78. The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron 79. Halloween Party by…
Home Business Log #002
I don't know about you, but I love watching the trajectory of someone's journey. It can be an actual journey or a metaphorical one...it doesn't really matter, I just enjoy the progression of someone's dream coming true. In this vein, I thought I'd share my home business journey. I'm aware that this might wholly back…
Art Journal # 10
The Golden Bull {Book Review}
The Golden bull is a staple in our house, with it being read aloud (or read alone) each time we study Mesopotamia. There is very little good fiction set in Ancient Mesopotamia. And to be honest, not much has changed over the last decade or so. It's a shame because we love to learn about…
Sea-life Sticker Sheet {Small Business}
Each day of the week, I focus my attentions on one thing. I've found I get much more done this way. Monday is my small business day. This doesn’t mean that I do nothing towards my business on other days, just that Monday is when I schedule most of my small business tasks. So, each Monday, you…
Reading, Watching and Listening
I'm always astounded by how little time I have and how much I actually manage to read, watch and listen to over the course of a week! I guess one prioritises. Here is what I've been up to this week... Reading I finished Neuroparenting, which I talked about last week so won't go into it…
Insomnia and the Sleep Clinic
If you've been reading this blog for any length of time you'll know that I've had severe insomnia all my life. Like, all my life. Since I was a baby. Before the doctor put me on amitriptyline when I turned 40, I averaged around ten hours a week. Over the years I've been offered Zopiclone,…
Proto-cuneiform Homeschool Lesson
Proto-cuneiform was a pictographic communication which grew from the accounting tokens we learnt about last week. The Mesopotamians began to denote certain information using, first, stamps and then accounting tokens which finally developed into proto-cuneiform tags and pictographic tablets. Pin this post to bookmark it for later! Read More: The Ubaid culture created beautiful artwork and…
Mesopotamian Ziggurats Homeschool Lesson
In this homeschool lesson about Mesopotamian ziggurats we will explore what ziggurats are, where and when they were built and by whom. We will then investigate why ziggurats were built, looking into depth at the Anu Ziggurat and White Temple at Urek. Pin this post to bookmark it for later! To recap so far, the…
First Day Back to Homeschool
Today was our first day back to homeschool. I realised I may only have four more of these, depending on whether Becs decides to head off to school in the future. I wanted to mark it in some way, but because most of the girls courses are online, I have no adventure boxes for the…
Progress with Goals in August
I almost didn't write this post because there has been so little progress...I felt a post that consisted of one word 'zero' would be wildly boring, not to mention a little short. Then I realised that I hadn't set any goals this month. Ha, clever ol' me! If you don't set any then you can't…
Reading, Watching and Listening for the Weekend
Reading I finished such a good book this week. So good, I could not put it down. I took it with me everywhere I went just in case I could squeeze in a couple of minutes of reading. The book? Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. From the back of the book (because I couldn't…
Ubaid Culture {Mesopotamia Unit Study}
The Ubaid culture is an immense prehistoric period of history spanning from about 6500BC to 3800BC and developed from the pottery neolithic era of the Natufians. There are three such cultures (Halaf, Samarra and Ubaid), Halaf being the oldest. The Ubaid's name came from Tell Ubaid which is a mound close to Ur in Southern…