Today was the day our church celebrates the birth of Mary, the mother of God.
Since we are using the fabulous book, Mondays with Mary, as a guide for our religious celebrations this year, we celebrated yesterday (monday).
What’s a birthday without a cake, right? Well, when it comes to my kids and baking, I never [...]
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In honor of the feast of St Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of our homeschool, the kiddos made some gifts for our dear pets.
Here Superboy is using this pattern to whip up some snow booties for our dog, Cassie:
Tell me, ladies, you don’t think less of him just because he can operate a sewing [...]
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Go read this. Please. I absolutely could not have said it so well.
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He is not here; he has risen!
A happy and blessed Easter to you all!
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I just may have to break my crafting fast for this one:Lourdes water mini font
We just finished watching The Song of Bernadette (wonderful movie, btw) so it seems a very appropriate craft to do. Besides, if you’ll recall from my craft rant I do not have a problem with doing crafts that have a useful [...]
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Like many of our friends out there in blog-o-world, we are sick, sick, sick today. Since I will be spending the day snuggled under blankets with the kiddos, eating soup and watching DVD’s, I will have absolutely nothing homeschool related to share with you. So I thought I’d go ahead and post this meme [...]
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I had no idea I was about to experience a miracle.
I was having a bad day and it had just gotten worse. Immeasurably worse.
It didn’t start out that way. Early in the morning I had driven Modgirl to her rehearsals for a concert she was playing that night. It was a very special concert [...]
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I was finally able to find a little time this weekend to make another puzzle! I really do enjoy this and I think I’ve found a hobby that may hold my interests for awhile.
Anyway, here is the new puzzle, a simple nativity scene:
If I were to do it over there are a few things I [...]
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I’d like to introduce you to Isaiah and Micah.
Now that these two prophets of old have joined us, I am finally ready to begin the Advent presentations from Moira Farrell’s Home Catechesis 3-6 albums. I know I am a bit late, but you know what they say: better late than never. It’s not a perfect [...]
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Yesterday, being the feast of St. Nicholas we decided it was a great excuse an excellent reason to skip school celebrate by spending the day making Christmas decorations, eating cookies, listening to Christmas music, and drinking eggnog! Woo hoo! Let me tell you, it was a glittery, sugary, hyperactive glorious time!
Here are the highlights!
JBug spent [...]
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