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day fourteen: all about weeds

January 13, 2017 @ 3:41 pm | Filed under: Books, Family, Fun Learning Stuff, These People Crack Me Up

1. A bonus post for today! But this one’s mostly for me: another little addition to our family collection of All About Weeds stories. Strangely, I can’t find the first All About Weeds …

Tags: All About Weeds, booknotes, memory lane

Bonny Glen Firsts

May 19, 2011 @ 3:53 pm | Filed under: Bloggity

It seems I’ve had this master-list-of-recommendations idea before: two years ago. I remember creating this Booknotes page in an attempt to link to my reviews more easily than scrolling through the “books” …

Tags: mining the archives

About All That Reading

February 16, 2007 @ 2:26 pm | Filed under: Charlotte Mason

Things to Do While Your Mother Is in the Hospital

April 17, 2006 @ 7:22 pm | Filed under: Family Adventures

Story or Stuff?

March 14, 2006 @ 11:43 am | Filed under: Books

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The Tide Is Going Out

March 13, 2006 @ 4:11 am | Filed under: Charlotte Mason, Methods of Home Education, Nature Study, Tidal Homeschooling

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In 2006, a year after I began this blog, I coined the term Tidal Homeschooling to describe my family’s homeschooling style, an ebb and flow of
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