Like it or not, it’s that time of year again. Next week students in our county and the surrounding counties head back to school. People are always asking me if we are ready to start back. Almost always it’s a no, at least in recent years. I have dreaded the whole back to school thing. […] Read more…
Every day I look at my calendar and realize that it’s almost that time. Back to school. I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, I’m ready for routine again and no more of this loosey goosey-ness that’s been going on in my house for the past two months. But on the other […] Read more…
I meant I wasn’t going to homeschool my kids. If you had told me in my college years that I would be one of those “homeschooling moms,” I most likely would have laughed at you. For starters, I wasn’t smart enough to teach every subject. Secondly, I didn’t want my kids to be *those* nerdy […] Read more…
A few weeks ago, I realized….Oh. my. goodness!…I gotta pick our homeschool curriculum for next year! It was probably well past that time of year to be choosing a curriculum for next year. Since “next year” starts in just a few weeks, I was beginning to feel the pressure of what in the world we are […] Read more…
Graveyards. The connotation is most always negative. They speak of lives gone by, days we can never have back. Sometimes, they conjure up terrible memories. And sometimes, they just creep us out. One particular cemetery near our house flanks a beautiful old church, Spanish moss dangles from the old oaks, and the road just kind of […] Read more…
