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Weekly Wrap Up: The Climbing Wall

 In my life this week… spring is on its way.  We are surrounded by water including many small streams and ponds.  The Little Misses are strictly forbidden to go near the deep water, but there’s enough safe water in the yard for them to sail home made boats.  In our homeschool this week… we finished […]

Everyday Life and Two Nature Walks

Wow, what a week!  We did bookwork, quite a lot of it in fact, as well as a lot of other things. Mr. 15 had a friend over for two days.  This young man does computer learning, so he was busy with his laptop all morning.  No mess, no books, no answer keys, no fuss.  […]

Of Books, Bookwork, and the Rideau Trail

This has been an incredibly varied week.  Lacking the energy to do much physical work, I sat down much of the time, homeschooling and working at my computer to the point where I feel guilty.  The children did a lot of bookwork, and we’re slowly catching up to where we had planned to be by […]

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: 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’ […]