Monday, December 21, 2015

Sheer force of Wills

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      There has always been a disconnect between the family of my childhood and me. Always! My youngest memories of my mother are not of a ...
Sunday, May 11, 2014

Mother's Day: The Gift, the Giver, The Grace.

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Gifts come to us in different ways, -sometimes grand, sometimes simple, sometimes expected, sometimes unexpected. The thing is, we don...
Monday, February 24, 2014

10 Things You Need to Know About Tapestry Crochet (a.k.a. graphghan crochet)

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I recently ventured into my very first tapestry crochet project.  Now, I've heard it called Tunesian crochet, but it's definitely n...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Classical Conversations: What about Memory Master?

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Last week was the final day of class on our local Classical Conversations campus. For those who are unfamiliar with Classical Convers...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

A Polish girl's pizza

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(photo pending) Really, who wants to eat the "same old, same old" pizza?  I know my family likes variety.  We have only purchased ...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Mondays aren't so bad.

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Mondays are a crazy blur of discombobulated oxymoronic organized chaos.  Oh my word, it's not easy getting 6 people out of bed, dressed...
Monday, September 3, 2012

"Can I join Classical Conversations with an older child who has never been in the program?"

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Challenge A (a first time CC student's experience) Okay, so! We are "up and running", as they say.  We have officially compl...