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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap-Up: Spring, School, and my Husband’s Wisdom

In my life this week… Aches and pains. Energy and laughter.  Music and strawberries.  Kids full of wonder at what they are learning…and kids full of resentment that they have to learn.  Garden dirt, nettles, and a huge garter snake.  Walks, apple blossoms, and lilacs. And brand new chicks, two dozen balls of fluff and energy. In […]

Weekly Wrap-Up: School Concerns, Projects, and Almost No Books

In my life these two weeks… Warm weather. Cold weather. Gardening. Walking. Black flies. Another funeral. The annual March for Life. Chocolate and barbeques. A sunny afternoon wading in the river. Lemon balm and mint. Projects. In our homeschool this week… Mr. 17 is very busy with ALEKS precalculus. He loves it so much that […]

Weekly Wrap-Up: Plodding Along

In my life this week… It rained and snowed.  We most likely lost some of our fruit during a few bad frosts.  I don’t know at what stage a blossom can survive over 10 degrees of frost, but I’m not very hopeful.  The leek seedlings came up, and I need to plant the other indoor […]

Weekly Wrap-Up

In my life this week… Well, last week Saturday our teens and I attended the annual homeschool conference.  That was the highlight as well as the reason there was no weekly wrap-up last week. To sum up the past two weeks:  we gardened, fed the bees, removed thistles and burdocks from our property, found some […]

Weekly Wrap Up: Getting Behind and Gardening

In my life this week…  We started working on the gardens!  Because it’s such an early start, we’re beginning with the flower gardens this year, and every afternoon the children and I spend half an hour chatting, weeding, and cleaning up.  We’ll start the vegetable gardens in a week or so. Mr. 16 and Miss […]