These five family goals are probably more important to me than my personal goals. Last term was so incredibly busy we struggled to eat together at the table, or spend any time together just having fun. I can see as the teens get ever older and become more and more separate from the family (for……
Category: Homeschooling
New Year Goals: Personal
This is a quickie post to document my goals for this year. I have spent a lot of time thinking and praying through some of the more unbalanced areas of my life. The following goals, therefore, attempt to address these issues. Read one book a week: I asked (and received) lots of books for Christmas,……
Happy New Year…
…from my family to yours! Normal posting will start again tomorrow. Here’s to a great year ahead!
Yearly Wrap Up {2017}
As this year comes to an end, I am left pondering where it has gone… It seems like I have blinked and Thomas has become a young man, Charlotte and Lillie young ladies; A9 has crept into adolescence with her usual placidity and B6 is no longer a toddler, her podginess has left her and……
Precious Moments: Reflecting
Last Saturday night Gary and I were attending a close friend’s 40th birthday. There were lots (and lots) of people and usually I would find every excuse possible not to go. This friend however knows my propensity to opt out of large gatherings and made me promise I’d go. So I did 🙂 Whilst we……
Interviewing the Sassy Sol!
Each Thursday the older girls get out of maths to spend some time doing a bit of school work with the little ones. They are (un)surprisingly enthusiastic about this. I mean no maths….what more needs to be said? This morning they were putting on a reader’s theatre type play as Charlotte became an interviewer and……
One Girl, One Passion, One World
For the past couple of years my youngest twin has been passionate about the plight of trafficked humans and human slavery. At 13 (when this notion of slavery really took off) I wasn’t sure what I should be doing – encouraging her or dissuading her. I mean human trafficking is a sordid, excruciatingly painful and……
Forgetting about the urgent and concentrating on the important…
It has been no secret that I am struggling for time right now. Our lives have become a type of busyness that I always promised myself would not be a part of my life. Yet we have become sucked in somehow. And I wonder how it got so out of hand. Nothing we do is……
Precious Moments Over the Past Few Weeks
We’ve all been beavering away for the past few weeks, the older ones on their IGCSEs and the younger ones on their Life of Fred Maths, Astronomy and Ancient Egypt. Everyone is involved in the up and coming production of Raggedy Doll at our local theatre, whether it be in sound and lighting (Gary and……
Holiday in Northern Ireland
Welcome to my precious moments post, a few weeks too late but nevertheless here now 🙂 I am struggling so much to find the time to do everything I need to do. I understand now why home school bloggers of older children tend to write fewer posts. Even though my three older ones are to……
The Magic Stories {Review}
Today I want to introduce you to The Magic Stories from Allsaid & Dunn, LLC, publishers of The Reading Game and authors of the Wordly Wise series. The Magic Stories are an additional supplementary reading program, and follow up Allsaid & Dunn’s The Reading Game. However, you do not need to have used The Reading……
Let the Little Children Come {Review}
Today I would like to introduce you to the Gospel Tracts and Evangelism Tools Sampler Pack from Let the Little Children Come: What are the Gospel Tracts and Evangelism Tools Sampler Pack from Let the Little Children Come? As the name suggests, this is a sampler pack of ten of the company’s most popular gospel……
Oooh, so much to say, so much to share….
I realise I’ve been missing for the past couple of weeks (thank you for the lovely emails). Nothing is wrong, I was simply on holiday, having a pretty amazing time with my lovely Northern Irish family and friends. I was brilliant at remembering to take photos of the first few days, but got worse as……
My Son’s Latest Endeavour
Thomas has embraced all things scootery and skate boardery over the past year or so, including all the injuries which go along with the sport. Fortunately he has not yet broken anything, but we have had a few nasty grazes and a big toe’s nail pulling off….urrrrg (imagine cringing here!). But in general, it makes……
Brinkman Adventures {Review}
Do your children enjoy listening to stories read aloud? Mine certainly do! That is why I jumped at the chance to review Brinkman Adventures? And I’m so pleased I did! A9 really struggles to sleep at night, and one thing we have found is that she relaxes if she listens to stories being read aloud……