Home School Life

So, after months of agonizing, I did finally purchase a camera, and I’m so pleased with it.
For the longest time I debated between going with a DSLR or a simpler premium point and shoot. I decided that because I really do want to be able to achieve some beautiful effects in the photos I take [...]

It is so interesting to me to have these two back to back days, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, that inspire in me to think in two such completely opposite ways. Today feels like a day to look back over the year that was 2009. Though I usually find it much more difficult to look backwards [...]

A little over a week ago I set up an account with Google Analytics, and I just have to rave about it here. It is so cool! Because of this blog tracking service I know that people as far away as India, Norway, and New Zealand have visited my little blog! I know that most of [...]

Alice asks me at least three times a day how many days until Christmas. I’m not sure if it’s a memory thing (Calvin would attribute it to the brick that the neighbor kid threw at her head when she was 2) or just wanting confirmation that I wasn’t just tricking her the first time I [...]

Tags: baking, blogging, Christmas, holidays, Waldorf education

So, that generous gift from my mother is still sitting in my purse, waiting to be spent on a new camera . . . or something.
Last Friday I spent a good hour at the local electronics warehouse store playing with cameras. I walked away with the following conclusions:

I can’t afford a dSLR.
Even if I had [...]

Well, we’ve officially decided to send The Girl back to school. She’s so excited she can hardly contain herself. Her teacher is excited, too. I’m excited, too. I’m still a little concerned about keeping up with helping her improve her reading, but I think that with my mornings now free I’ll be able to free [...]

These days I’ve been thinking a lot about how to strengthen the will. All three of my children struggle with mustering up enough will forces to accomplish tasks. I was talking to the Little Boy’s teacher about it one day and she said that even when he’s trying and is not distracted, he has a [...]