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The Tea Cup

Several years ago when a dear friend of mine turned 40, I wanted to give her something special.  An expensive gift and shipping to another province were not an option, and no idea seemed right…until one day someone gave me a picture of many lovely teacups.  Tea cups symbolize so much about my friend.     Timidly, I […]

First Day of Our Summer Holidays!

    Well, they made it!  All the required work was finished, and our summer holidays officially started on Friday afternoon.  By Saturday afternoon I realized, once again, how much we actually do and learn when we’re not ‘doing school’.     We read books:   6 year old:   –Storm at Batoche by Maxine […]

Our Proverbs Study Using Hidden Treasures: Searching for Wisdom

  You may recall that our family wants to learn the entire book of Proverbs, God’s curriculum for wisdom, and that we have progressed a bit in memorizing it.  Currently, rather than memorizing Proverbs chapter by chapter, we are concentrating on a few verses per chapter using a unique study guide that the children (ages 6-16) […]

Holidays? What Holidays?

   Near the end of an exhausting day of Driver’s Ed, a dozen teens stared wearily at the instructor. “Cheer up,” he encouraged them.  “It’s a long weekend!  You’ll have three days of no school!”   The entire group scoffed at the idea.  “You’re forgetting something,” they informed the instructor.  “Don’t you know we’re HOME […]

Outings with a Purpose: National March for Life

  When all our children were young, we were able to go on many field trips.  For various reasons, this is no longer possible, but we still have occasional outings, such as today.   This afternoon is Canada’s national March for Life in our capital, Ottawa.  The children and I used to make a big […]