A soul that walks on water leaves no footprints, but will make waves."
A trite little phrase crossed her lipsugly words driven hard to leave ripsShe looked over her noseat the husband she choseand drank her own poison in sipsWouldn’t you love to know her? (sarcasm intended)Unfortunately not all limericks ar…
So far Ivan has had one day of school. Yesterday I got groceries. That’s a morning activity in our house and I like it that way. If I cannot do any better about schooling than I may have to change that, but I’m hoping this is just an odd week.
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Ivan and Owen started school today. Ivan is following my homemade curriculum for pre-school until my books come in. Today I covered basics like identifying letters and trying to familiarize him with their sounds. I’m putting an emphasis on Vowels…
Owen was supposed to start school along with every other kid in Wilson county. There was a sad circumstance involving the death of a part time staff member at the school and her funeral delayed school starting until today. Owen did not know her so he w…
I wrote part of this early last week for my Distaff Side blog but I’ve been so behind on that (I have a series of posts on preservation I’m trying to write) so I thought I’ll just write it here and maybe add it to the other blog later. Life has ups…
Woke up to rumbles outside and rolled over to sleep a little longer.
Woke up again to rumbles inside and went upstairs to referee the fight.
Poured “Saturday cereal” (the only day they are allowed to eat sugary cereal) for the boys and then made my…
I actually got this far on Tuesday and took this picture. I ran out of piping and couldn’t finish. It gave me a good idea that I was on the right track though and I was pleased.Yesterday I went to JoAnn’s to get the rope, string, cording whatev…
Yesterday morning we had a couple visitors. They have been here before but this time I was at least able to get a bad picture of them. Last time they wouldn’t let me take a picture at all.
This is Owen’s last week of Summer vacation. Monday will be the beginning of first grade and a new group of friends for him to get to know. His teacher called today and I am looking forward to meeting her in person soon. In reality we are still in…
I have one cushion cover replaced. It’s not professional grade…there are a lot of errors…but I like it. I really do. I feel pretty proud of myself actually.