Category: Homeschooling

The news starts to report something new. We enter the new year with barn dances and singing and we are so happy and there’s nothing to worry about yet. But. They keep reporting and reporting and reporting and I’m starting to get worried and I’m panicking a little but it’s okay because people are sure……

My sister helps me draft text messages and jumps on the sofa with me We scream before church because I’m in my first official relationship and he’s special. We remember those Wednesday nights when we used to have tea in our great grandmother’s china and curl our hair the old-fashioned way and scrap book and……

I start to get bad again. Mum drives me to school and buys me smoothies and my twin sends me videos of the puppy and kittens and we laugh when I get home and we still dance in the kitchen to Christmas music in October because we never really grew up. I cut my hair……

Life comes and goes and ebbs and flows and nothing changes between us. My twin and I were born to our best friend. The three musketeers. No one can hurt us when we are together. Sixteen slides by, falling apart and then back together again as we experience life at its finest and at its……

I remember when I start to feel a little better. I am sixteen. We play Christmas music too loudly and dance while doing the dishes, wearing matching jumpers and celebrate. When I wake up on Christmas morning and I know I’m better. I’m sure of it. We do GCSEs and visit schools and one of……

We make birthdays important. It doesn’t matter our age; we make it important.. We spend hours decoration and wrapping and blowing up balloons and we wait at the top of the stairs until we are allowed down to count our presents and make chocolate croissants and chocolate milk. We sing happy birthday off key, even……

It’s Christmas morning and we are all small and snuggly and excited and wearing panda onesies early in the morning. Mum and Dad rub sleep out of their eyes as we choose presents. Dad twinkles and Mum yawns and we laugh and joke, gentle carols playing behind us. Our little sister crawls and plays with……

We’re eight. Blue paint on our faces and furs on our back. We wear curtains and make bows and arrows from sticks and string and paint a target on the fence to practice while our brother makes a Viking warship out of wooden pallets. We are free. We are young. We capture prisoners and dance……

We buy too many books. At least, that’s what dad says, but mum and I laugh and open packages and they bring a smile to my face. And I’m never too tired to look at a good book. Some might say we’re obsessed. But the books hold up the 200-year-old ceilings and cakes the walls……

I fall asleep while reading and my sister takes my books and gives me coffee when I wake up. They create cards and pictures and come to show me and I muster enthusiasm because they are trying to help. I stick their pictures on my bedroom wall and read the messy writing at night and,……

Every Mother’s Day I receive letters from each of my children. My love language is time and words of affirmation. My whole life is my family, so to read words of love and appreciation fills a deep need in me. Last Mother’s Day Charlotte surprised me with an extra long letter…in the form of a……

Becca receives one art box a month from Scrawlr Box as part of last Christmas’ presents. We work through them together periodically, although usually Becs does them on her own. This time was a ‘work through it together’ box. I’m actually quite jealous of her Scrawlr boxes, so any chance to get in on the……

Over the last few weeks I have been reading Black Ships Before Troy to my younger girls during our morning time together. Written by well-known historical writer, Rosemary Sutcliff, this retelling of Homer’s Illiad, is beautifully illustrated by Alan Lee (concept artist for The Lord of the Rings). As you can see, our copy is……

Welcome to May’s edition of our homeschool log book. As you know, we start our mornings with chores, followed by morning time. This year, we are working our way through Apologia ‘Anatomy & Physiology’, Apologia ‘Who is God?’, Mystery of History Book One: We finished both Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff and Aesop’s……

I literally have no idea if this will post under the blog section or not… I have been a tampering all week and now I am not really sure what works and what doesn’t! Seriously. I should never start fiddling. Especially with things I don’t understand. Like, anything computer related, for instance 😬 So much……