We celebrated our last week of summer this week with a trip to the zoo, several visits to the neighborhood pool, and Phillip’s first dentist appointment.
Phillip had a wonderful visit, despite the fact that he promised us over breakfast that he would not open his mouth for anyone. His successful visit was thanks in large [...]
Filed under: Homeschooling, Little Rock, Memphis, Phillip, hot weather, kids on August 14th, 2009 | No Comments »
I haven’t blogged much this month. One of the downsides to using my iPhone constantly is that I hardly ever get on my laptop anymore. I can email and Facebook from my iPhone, but I haven’t really figured out how to blog from it yet.
We are settling into Little Rock. It seems a little easier [...]
Filed under: Caleb, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Little Rock, Phillip, church, family, kids on January 24th, 2009 | 4 Comments »
So, for those who follow me on Facebook, I’ve alluded to this a few times in my status updates, but I haven’t really talked about it in-depth. Lannie will start a new job at UAMS in Little Rock on Monday.
In an odd twist of events, this is the same job that he accepted at UAMS [...]
Filed under: Homeschooling, Memphis, family on November 15th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A few days ago I inadvertently got into a political argument about race and Obama with two other homeschooling moms. It’s been a while since the incident, so I feel comfortable writing about it rationally. The day of the incident, I was so mad that there was no way I was going to try to [...]
Filed under: Homeschooling, Memphis, voting on October 30th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am so proud of Caleb’s efforts in school so far this year. He has really been motivated to work hard, and he has come so far in just 7 weeks. He finished reading Call of the Wild today, marking the sixth classic book he has read so far this fall. It’s hard for me [...]
Filed under: Caleb, Homeschooling, kids, parenting, school on September 27th, 2008 | No Comments »
The plot thickens in the ongoing saga of Elizabeth’s school situation…
To bring you up to speed, she had to change teachers after the first week of school because her teacher was moved to third grade. The explanation offered by the school was that there were not enough second graders registered to warrant the number of [...]
Filed under: Elizabeth, Homeschooling, family, parenting, school on September 18th, 2008 | No Comments »
I haven’t posted anything about Elizabeth’s new school yet, because frankly I was waiting until it got better to post about it. I realized that I was beginning to sound like Debbie Downer in my blog lately, so I thought I’d try to be more positive.
She had a great first week at school, but [...]
Filed under: Caleb, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, family, kids, school on August 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
After nearly two months of trying to decide what to do about school next year, we’ve finally decided to continue homeschooling Caleb. Elizabeth will go back to public school. I’m not sure what I expected from this homeschooling experiment of the last semester, but I certainly thought it would be temporary. I [...]
Filed under: Caleb, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, family, kids, parenting, school on June 9th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Elizabeth asked Caleb for help with her geography lesson today. The topic was “community helpers.”
Elizabeth: I have to write a sentence about what my mom does. What does mom do? Is she a teacher?Caleb: No, she’s a homewrecker.Me: Do you mean homemaker?Caleb: Yeah. Or you could say [...]
Filed under: Caleb, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, funny kids, stay at home mom on March 13th, 2008 | 1 Comment »