Posted in Family, Friends, School, Travel on Aug 14th, 2010 3 Comments »
We moved away from Ithaca, New York 5 years ago. We lived there for 2 years during graduate school at Cornell University and it is still one of our favorite places we’ve lived. We, admittedly, went back every once in a while afterward to get our fill of the scenery, people, and used-book sales! Our [...]
Posted in Kids, London, School on Jul 16th, 2010 3 Comments »
Today is our last day of school for the school year. Beyond the excitement of having 6 weeks of summer ahead of us, it’s fun to look back at some of the activities we experienced in the last few weeks. Falconry One week the kids had a falconry visit to their ‘Flexi-school.’ Cami and I [...]
Posted in Becca, Cami, School, site-seeing on May 26th, 2010 No Comments »
When I asked Cami what she wanted to do yesterday while the other kids were at “Flexi-school”, she said she wanted to go to the fair. It seems little traveling fairs do creep up here quite often, but usually not during the week. I tried to come up with the next best thing and could [...]
Posted in Caleb, Cami, School on May 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
I thought I planned a really fun activity for Cami and I to do this week, while the others were at Flexi-school. Obviously, Caleb thought so too as he refused to go to Flexi-school and tagged along with us. We went to a little place called “Shire’s Farm,” which had a number of farm animals [...]
Posted in Becca, Cami, Hannah, London, School on Apr 21st, 2010 5 Comments »
The older two kids attend a special Homeschool “School” one day a week. It is quite a distance from where we live so I’ve been trying to come up with some fun things to do with the younger girls while we are out that way. So, this week we went on a ‘Wind in the [...]
Posted in Cami, School on Feb 19th, 2010 4 Comments »
Cami has been able to spell her name for a long time. If you ask her, “Cami, how do you spell your name?” She will very readily reply, “C-A-M-I ‘Cami’.” But, I don’t really think she knew what those letters she was saying meant. A few weeks ago, I had one of those ‘wake-up!’ mother [...]
Posted in Kids, School on Oct 24th, 2009 5 Comments »
This sale occurs twice a year, but we usually only make it to one. Our ‘one’ was this past Friday. We weren’t sure what to sell this year as we wanted to do our standard (homemade bread) but also a craft or two that wouldn’t take too long to make. We made a long list [...]
Posted in Kids, School on Nov 11th, 2008 8 Comments »
We participated in a homeschool craft/bake sale a few weeks ago and life has been full-tilt since then. I couldn’t let it slip away from our memories by not recording it. This is the 3rd year for the sale. We participated the first year with some random baked good we threw together, like bread, cookies, [...]
Posted in Kids, School on Sep 7th, 2008 6 Comments »
Last week (our last week of break) I stepped out of my comfort zone and let the kids have a craft/project day. I’m not one to encourage my kids to make messes so this has always been a hard one for me to do. Yes, art is a subject that isn’t pushed very heavily in [...]
Posted in School on Aug 14th, 2008 1 Comment »
We got a “special delivery” yesterday. This is the bulk of our school books for this next year. We’re still waiting on a few stragglers and already have quite a bit. Can’t wait to get going on our plans for the next school year. I love the first day of school!