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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap-Up: A Busy Week

In my life this week… Someone once said that stress is doing one thing while you feel you need to be doing something else.  After this busy week, I know the truth of that saying first-hand.  Yet, each of the things I did was enjoyable and worthwhile in itself.  The seed order for our 4000 […]

Weekly Wrap Up: Warm Weather, Math Tweaks, and Classical Literature

In my life this week… We had a few days of summer weather. The crocuses are blooming, our hyacinths are coming up, and some trees are budding.  We heard frogs croaking. The trampoline is up a month early, and there was some talk of swimming…. But today Miss 9 wore mittens to gather wood chips […]

Weekly Wrap Up: Grandparents’ Visit and Spring

In my life this week… The weather is so warm, and we’re so motivated to spring clean that I almost decided not to do a weekly wrap up this week.  But I want to tell about our week with my parents.  It was such a wonderful time! We played Rummikub, Geo, Quirkle, and Blokus, worked […]

Weekly Wrap-Up: Warm Weather, Testing, and Dangerous Legislation

In my life this week… We’re busy with schoolwork, housework, and grandparents visiting. We had two very warm days, and now the weather is back to normal–too cold for maple sap to run.  The forecast is for very warm weather here, but while we’re warm, the rest of the world is expected to be colder […]

Weekly Wrap-Up: Winter, Learning, and Reading

In my life this week… It’s been a busy week with two days of snow.  It seems like winter has finally arrived, but we’ve already used 12 cords of wood in our new fireplace insert.  If we hadn’t covered our windows with stretch plastic last fall we would probably have needed a lot more to heat our home. […]