Informative Reviews for Homeschooling Moms…and a slice of our life as well
We visited a mine. The Silver Queen Mica Mine was just as in all those wonderful story books, but, fortunately, not so deep. The walls were oozing wet and it was very cold and dark and exciting and full of puddles. This mine, at Murphy’s Point Provincial Park, produced a lot of mica. Because the crystals form [...]
No photography, no eating, no drinking, and no swearing. That notice was posted throughout the Whales Tohora exhibit which included skeletons of stranded whales donated by the Maori of New Zealand. The Maori had requested that, in keeping with their spiritual practices, there would be no photography or swearing in the exhibition. I had not ever [...]
One rainy day last week, we visited the Van Gogh Up Close exhibit at the National Gallery of Canada. What a treat! Even though we have books with reproductions of Van Gogh’s paintings, and even though every single one of his works is available online, there is nothing like actually seeing the real paintings. We [...]
In my life this week… Although I did not have high hopes for our staycation, it’s been blissful. What’s surprised me most of all is how much learning went on even though the focus was on everything else. In our homeschool this week… One evening Miss 12 was bored, so we snuggled on the verandah [...]
We’re halfway through the summer, and rather than moan about it, we’ll celebrate by sharing a few highlights of the past weeks. I’ve got all sorts of beautiful, cute, and funny pictures of the kids, but since my husband doesn’t want any of our pictures online, I can’t share them. That’s too bad, but I [...]
Last year we started a new tradition, floating down the river. We’ve been looking forward to doing it again this year, although rather nervously. After all, it is not a completely safe activity, but then, neither are skiing, biking, cooking, or driving. But if you work as hard as my kids do, you need to [...]
When my parents were here, we took them to a sugar bush where maple sap is collected and syrup is made. This is a modern operation, full of pipes, vacuum pumps, test plots, and interesting innovations. Of course, the traditional way of collecting sap is also interesting. This is how they used to do it. Rather than [...]
After unpacking and spending a week madly catching up on the gardening and preserving, I’m going through photos of our amazing holiday adventure. We lived in this tent for most of three weeks. Mr. 16 had his own personal tent since he is too tall to fit in with the rest of us. In total we drove [...]
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