I’m tired of being busy. Or maybe being busy just makes me tired… Either way, I’m serious about cutting down our outside activities this year. Sure, I say that every year and yes, I am saying this while still recovering from our crazy spring, but I *really* mean it this time!
I have this ideal picture [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Struggling against being busy
Posted in Uncategorized on May 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Bird Watching Basket
Posted in Homeschool Set-up, tagged bird watching, learning center, nature notebook on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In our last home we had a bay window with a window seat. It was a great place for bird watching. I arranged all of our books and other nature-ish things there and the kids would sit in the window and watch the birds at the feeder outside.
We moved over a year ago and it’s [...]
BC CHEC 2009
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We had a fantastic convention this year! Maggie Hogan (brom www.brightideaspress.com) was our key-note speaker. She was funny, gracious and practical.
Here’s a picture of Maggie up at the front doing her first key-note. She sure knows how to wake people up in the morning! Maggie is very real and very funny. She had us all [...]
Dinner with Bob and Maggie Hogan
Posted in Day to day homeschooling, Workish Posts on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favourite parts of convention this year was dinner out with our key-note speaker and her husband. Maggie and Bob are full of wisdom and experience, but they’re also just fun to be around.
We planned this dinner as a BC CHEC doorprize so we had a mom and her daughter [...]
