“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Odds and ends
We had craft mania this morning. A friend and her daughter came over and we did 5 crafts in three hours, some with the bulldozer (who adds a measure of drama to any activity.) Mostly we did the very easy, put together for you Oriental Trading Company crafts. We also made cinnamon applesauce ornament. I […]
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"Take a deep breath."
So says Dr. Al Mohler in his excellent analysis of The Golden Compass. Yes, the author of the books hates Christianity and would love to see the church destroyed. That’s not exactly an original desire. The Christian faith isn’t about to be brought down by a movie. Christians do have a duty to respond, but […]
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What have I been doing with myself?
Well, obviously, I haven’t been posting. And I certainly haven’t been playing this game addictively. (ht Melissa at The Bonny Glen.) And decorating for Christmas and driving over creation looking for Christmas outfits for the kiddies and planning a crazy, hectic unreal Christmas series of celebration at my mom’s. And putting together Christmas lapbooks and […]
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Subversive philanthropy
A group of undercover restorers in Paris have fixed a landmark clock, in secret, over the course of a year. “Since the 1990s they have restored crypts, staged readings and plays in monuments at night, and organised rock concerts in quarries.” Interesting, no? This got me giggling though:”We would like to be able to replace […]
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I may be a serial killer UPDATED
Last September, I was innocently driving my van when a tree jumped out of the woods and attack, crushing it dead. It was, for the record, the most frightening experience of my entire life. The tree hit just behind my head, where the Bulldozer–then 1 1/2–would have been had he been with me. It was […]
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Link mania at the carnivals
It’s a hat trick of carnivals:100th Carnival of Homeschooling,6th Charlotte Mason Carnival (with great Maurice Sendak illustrations!)and the Christmas themed Carnival of Recipes. Some highlights from the COH:April (hey! great name!) at Lunablog has some great organization tips.DHM has some thoughts on putting leaders on pedestals and the dangers therein.Shauna at Treasure Seekers has an […]
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Life’s Interruptions
The baby–who really ought to be sleeping through the night by now (your siblings were!)–keeps waking up. Repeatedly. Math lessons are interrupted for character correction. We take a detour from the regularly scheduled program to talk families and who is related to whom and how and what’s our new cousin’s name again? The to-do list […]
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Thanksgiving exhaustion
Why is it my mother can lay down for a nap and pop up, without an alarm, 20 minutes later refreshed and revived, but when I lay down for a nap, I emerge from my cave three hours later groggy and mumbling about coffee? It can’t be the turkey, that was over two days ago. […]
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Google’s-eye?
Bull’s-google? What do you call it when you hit the google bullseye on the first try? I was looking for an outline map for our groovy Thanksgiving lapbook and hit the map mother lode. This has great maps and great links to maps. It’s a mapapalooza! It’s So, we can say that autonomic neuropathy may […]
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This is autumn?
We recently moved from Virginia to Texas. Although, I grew up in West Texas, I spent 10 years in Virginia and fell in love with the beautiful autumn colors. When we moved back to Texas, I knew what to expect: more heat, fewer trees, more twang. But they do have some trees. And yes, Texas […]
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