Monday, May 31, 2010

Memorial Day




Remembering those today who gave their lives as a sacrifice for our freedom...remembering the families and friends whose soldiers never returned home. I'm grateful to them and want to honor them today and every day. I'm also so proud of my son who has chosen to serve in the US Army. He leaves for basic training in July. God bless the USA!

"The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree."--Thomas Campbell

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Five in a Row-Make Way for Ducklings







We read Make Way for Ducklings and learned about Boston. We also drew and wrote about ducks and even made construction paper ducks. Then we finished with an authentic, homemade Boston meal: Boston baked beans, Boston brown bread, and Boston cream pie. Yummy!

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Update on Life

We are busy, busy, busy! Our oldest graduates this week and leaves for basic training in July. Our newest addition is crawling, pulling up, and speaking a few words. In the midst of all this, we continue with homeschooling, cooking, cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, playing, etc. I apologize for the lack of recent photos in my posts. For some reason I can't upload photos to blogger on my laptop, and our desktop is currently in the shop; however, if you are my FB friend, you can see pictures there. :)

Self-Care That's Not So Fun

As promised in my previous post, I am now going to talk about self-care that's not so much fun. This kind of self-care involves thin...