I am so excited to share these with you! These are the three new books that we are adding to our Christmas literature basket this year: Merry Christmas Amelia Bedelia Amelia Bedelia is a much enjoyed series in our house, so I think there may at least one super excited little girl about this book 🙂 … [Read more…]
Our daily routine or schedule changes from term to term, and sometimes it changes a couple of times each term. Thought I would post what our day looks like at the moment. 5am – I am usually up and having my quiet time, Bible reading then computer work or school planning. 6am – Everyone else is … [Read more…]
Look what arrived this week? Minds More Awake And… When Children Love to Learn Books for me! Usually the books that arrive are for the girls, which I am usually equally excited about 😉 It is nice though to have some especially for myself though! For the first time ever, I have joined an online … [Read more…]
So this happened in my kitchen on Sunday! A few weeks ago, I realised we had fallen into a rut that I didn’t like, one that is not healthy for us. To unwind on a Sunday, I had been allowing the girls unlimited time on their electronic devices. I don’t want my children’s memories to … [Read more…]
So, we have had a storm every afternoon/evening, sometimes two, for the past week. And it’s not even summer! Yet!! After five nights of storms, my youngest became a little apprehensive. She had been asleep in my bed for a couple of hours and woke to the thunder that was making its presence known. We watched the … [Read more…]
It is Saturday morning and the house is all quiet. My oldest daughter is the only one awake, she is preparing her Christmas shopping list. Today, her and I will spend some quality time together, shopping for loved ones for Christmas. Yes it is only early November, but this same girl actually inspired me at the … [Read more…]
So this arrived yesterday afternoon! I am so excited to finally have a copy of this 😀 It was a few years ago that I first heard about Charlotte Mason and her philosophy of life and educating children. And during this time I have seen many books referenced, to help in the CM way, Karen … [Read more…]
As we approach one of my favourite times of the year, I begin to prepare how we will celebrate the Christmas season and what special memories I would like to make for our family. We also have five birthdays in our immediate and extended family, that we celebrate in December, so that makes December slightly busier … [Read more…]
Okay now lets get one thing straight – I am not your typical sporty type gal. In fact, I was the high schooler who would purposely forget to take her sports uniform on PE day, because if you didn’t have your uniform, you couldn’t participate in the sports 😉 I would be given 100 lines … [Read more…]
Okay so after a lot of research, I decided upon teaching Latin for my 5th Grader as her grammar component. Rewind to September 2014 and she had completed her spelling curriculum for the year. I felt like her and I both needed a change rather than more spelling to finish the year off with. We … [Read more…]