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Easing into high tide

August 17, 2016 @ 8:14 am | Filed under: Fun Learning Stuff, Homeschooling

Wrote this post yesterday and then didn’t post it. We’re swinging back into high tide here, some of us. Wonderboy started seventh grade today (I KNOW, RIGHT?!) and I’ve planned a little block of time …

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In which I pluck a lot of photos off Facebook

August 4, 2016 @ 4:35 pm | Filed under: Photos

Argh, Facebook, Facebook. You make it so darn easy for me to slap up a photo or funny kid quip, and then a year from now I’ll be sad I didn’t preserve those memories …

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Tags: Brave Writer Retreat, high school reunion, Photos, Rangeview High School

tuesday muffin

May 24, 2016 @ 2:23 pm | Filed under: Books, Early Childhood Education, Fun Learning Stuff, Homeschooling

A lot of the replies to my blog-topics post asked for more glimpses of our tidal homeschooling days, especially how I work with my teens and my elementary-aged kids at the same time. …

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Tags: Homeschooling

April days

April 13, 2016 @ 1:18 pm | Filed under: Assorted and Sundry, Family Adventures, Nature Study, Paper & Desk, Photos

Actually, I guess the first couple of photos here are from March. (1) We hadn’t been to Old Town San Diego in a while and made a quick pilgrimage there one day during Wonderboy’s …

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Tags: bullet journal, Midori, nature study, papery days, Photos, travelers notebook

year twelve

February 25, 2016 @ 2:30 pm | Filed under: Assorted and Sundry, Bloggity, Family Adventures

My last post was February SECOND? For real? I don’t think I’ve gone three weeks without blogging since the summer of 2005 when Wonderboy had an unexpected surgery. Even when we moved cross-country and …

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Tags: metablogging

Throwback Thursday

October 22, 2015 @ 8:42 pm | Filed under: Assorted and Sundry, Bloggity

Today I cleaned my desk. I organized my shelves. I cleaned under my bed. Can you tell I have a revision to finish? I was reminiscing on Facebook about when we drove …

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Our Week in Books, October 10 Edition

October 11, 2015 @ 2:52 pm | Filed under: Books, Fun Learning Stuff

Our past few weeks have been a swirl of doctor appointments and deadlines. I had to skip a few of my weekly Books We’ve Read roundups because usually I put them …

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Tags: booknotes, Homeschooling, hucklebooks, kidlit, picture books, readalouds, Rillabooks, week in books

Our Week in Books: August 30-September 5

September 6, 2015 @ 5:28 pm | Filed under: Books, Fun Learning Stuff, Graphic Novels, Homeschooling, Read-Alouds

Time for another weekly roundup! Here are the books we read alone and together this week. Zita the Spacegirl, Legends of Zita the Spacegirl, The Return of Zita the …

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Tags: booklists, Books, History, hucklebooks, picture books, Rillabooks, week in books

Our Week in Books: August 16-22

August 23, 2015 @ 3:19 pm | Filed under: Books, Fun Learning Stuff, Graphic Novels, On My Bookshelves, Picture Book Spotlight

The Curious Garden by Peter Brown. Little Brown Books for Young Readers, 2009. Review copy received from publisher. Read to: Huck. Gorgeous art in this sweetly captivating tale of a …

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Tags: booknotes, Homeschooling, homeschooling high school, hucklebooks, living books, read-alouds, Rillabooks