We went strawberry picking this weekend. We brought home 4 boxes of strawberries and a gallon of strawberry cider. While there, we couldn’t pass up the strawberry slushies. We started with one large to share but it was to good we had to go back for a second one 🙂 I had lots of questions…
Archives for May 2011
Friday Funnies
Heard from Jonathan this week: “I like Antartica. I want to go there, but I’m too little.” “It is chilly in Antartica, but it is my favorite.” Jonathan has suddenly become interested in the world map that hangs on the wall in our office / schoolroom. When we read stories from our Sonlight curriculum, we…
Which Science?
I gave Jonathan two Apologia science choices for his Kindergarten science curriculum: Astronomy or Zoology 1. He and I have been talking about Astronomy for a while, but I really thought once he saw the Zoology 1 book about birds and insects that he’d choose that. We have been watching birds in our backyard while…
A Little About Feminism… or Stop Beating Up the Women Around You
Most of my formative years were spent living with my single mom and my little sister. Unintentionally, it was modeled for me that a woman can (and maybe even should be) ultra-independent and self-sufficient. Don’t get me wrong, my mother was amazing and probably should have super-mom status for what she did to keep things…