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Holiday Highlights

Holiday Highlights, Weeks 9 and 10

I can hardly believe that we’ve finished our summer holidays!  After a cooler week, we had a week of hot, hot weather and spent hours in the pool.  More and more garden produce is ripening and I’m not keeping up with it very well.  But we’ve been enjoying company, having a touristy time, and drinking […]

Holiday Highlights: Week 8

Homeschool Preparation:  I finally got our book order sent out, and we’ve been going through previous year’s papers, keeping only the memorable stuff.  In the next two weeks, I need to finalize our school day routine and each child’s weekly goals for the first term.  Garden:  We finally pulled out half of the bean plants, […]

Holiday Highlights: A Piano Recital

The absolute highlight of our week was a piano recital by homeschool graduate Wei Sim, who currently studies at Columbia University.  Well over a hundred people gathered to enjoy the hour and a half program that included Beethoven, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, and more.  Wei, who hopes ‘to continue to use his gifts to glorify God’ […]

Holiday Highlights: Tame Fish, Wild Blackberries, and a Frog Rescue

This week was full of highlights:  Miss 12 and Miss 10 each worked on Miss 17’s dairy farm for a day and hugely enjoyed cleaning the calf barn, as well as being spoiled by their older sister. We all worked together to make 14 quarts of pickled beans.  Miss 17 did the actual pickling, and […]

Holiday Highlights: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the park was the absolute highlight of our week.  We went on Thursday night, and the children loved it.  To everyone’s great delight we went again on Friday night.  In fact, the children even offered their piggy bank money! A Company of Fools presented the play as it should be […]