Journal

I'm off this morning, bright and early, with my boys to join in our Cub Scout District Day Camp. I'm approaching the prospect with a bit of trepidation - I'm a Den Walker, so basically I've signed up for a…

I'll admit that I don't often visit my website from the front end. I'm usually quite happy just hanging around in the dashboard and post-creation area of things, so I got the front end looking good enough and have basically…

I'm not sure why I can't seem to schedule the end of the school year better. You'd think, given that we homeschool, that I would manage to alleviate some of the stress of this time of year. And yet, as…

Remembering those who gave all to secure the freedoms we hold dear. Photo courtesy of dan at FreeDigitalPhotos.net

I'll admit it, I'm not a big fan of Mother's Day. I never really have been. See, my mom's birthday very often falls on Mother's Day (if not the actual day, a day or two on either side) and, as…

It's May first. Aside from having to stop and ask myself where the year is going (because, really, it's May?!? How did that happen??) I find myself singing songs from the musical Camelot today. It all starts, of course, with…

I'm sitting out on my deck with the kids playing on the yard down below and the stream that runs through the conservation area just beyond our property is gurgling happily. It's cool (but not cold) with a lovely, delicate…

Spring break has come to our little part of the world. And yet, as home schoolers, we don't really do spring break. The way I've organized our school year this go-round, we only do school 4 days a week (Monday…

This is a bit of a continuation of my musing from Wednesday. The latest thing on Facebook that I'm seeing six, seven (thousand) times a day is some sort of picture - ranging from cutesy to inspiring - with the…