Author: Jamie

  • Practicing Gratitude: Gifts 851 – 875

    Join in and count your “one-thousand gifts,” too: 851) a delightful new loofa in my shower (sometimes it really is the little things!) 852) finally being able to make copies on my printer! 853) doing a nature study last week 854) a new pen-pal for Kathryn 855) a tour of our favorite radio station 856)…

  • Weekly Wrap-Up & Radio Interview!

    Every other Monday gets off to a slow start because that’s when Kathryn returns from a weekend at her dad’s. It’s hard to make her sit down and start schoolwork the minute she gets home, and sometimes we never seem to get on track until the next day. (One of those blended family challenges we…

  • Nature Study: Cattails in Winter

    Once again we’re trying to get back into the habit of nature studies. It’s been too long, and Kathryn and I have missed it. I think we’ve only done one or two with Lindsey, but now that we’ve made some schedule and homeschooling changes, I’m re-implementing nature study! I rummaged around Barb’s blog to find…

  • Pushing the Rules

    Just a bit of randomness from our family. 🙂 Lacy the WonderDog is not allowed on the furniture. There are two main reasons for this: 1) she sheds like it’s going out of style, and 2) she once ate a couch pillow. (Actually just a corner of the pillow, but that’s beside the point!) However,…

  • Practicing Gratitude: Gifts 826 – 850

    826) Discovering more green tea in the cabinet when I thought I was out of it! 827) Another blog sponsor. 828) I completed my first post for Raising Homemakers 829) New, more mousing/editing/typing-friendly desk… 830) which was a great deal and purchased with Christmas money from Dad… 831) and arrived safely despite the abused-looking box…