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April 2011

April 01, 2011

Attention Spark

ADHD. While only two members of our family have an official diagnosis, I wouldn't be...

March 2011

March 31, 2011

Anxiety Spark

I read that nearly one in five people in the US has a diagnosable anxiety...

March 30, 2011

Shaping Our Dreams

Too sad to write tonight. Having a delayed reaction to Bill Stuntz' death. Bill was...

March 29, 2011

Reignited

I long ago promised to continue my review of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of...

March 26, 2011

Colonial House

I thought I would use a slow day (which really means a day when we...

March 18, 2011

Little Revolutionaries

"Ezra? Why are you going into the basement?" "I've gotta get some really sharp tools."...

March 15, 2011

Trashing Europe

Ezra proudly read the sign outside the gas station. "God Bless America!" A few seconds...

March 12, 2011

She Likes It!

Several people I met over the last three days asked me how I liked homeschooling....

March 10, 2011

CutiePie Rivalry

Poor, Ez. He's been the adorable baby of the family for his entire life. A...

March 09, 2011

Harsh Realities

"Why is life so harsh sometimes?" asks Ezra this morning on the way to the...

March 02, 2011

A Mayflower Tribute

Mayflower Story I How many times have you heard about the poor Pilgrims who didn't...

February 2011

February 25, 2011

Apples to Apples

What do barbershops, winter, and dead fish have to do with the word miserable? What...

February 18, 2011

Cancer Sucks

Barbara was an early supporter of this blog. She commented on several posts, both on...

February 15, 2011

The Birds and The Bees

Did you know that NONE of the kids' books on bees or frogs or penguins...

February 14, 2011

Milk and Honey

Your lips drip nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your tongue; the fragrance...

February 11, 2011

So What?

So, I helped them. So what? So what if I typed every other sentence for...

February 08, 2011

Thank You, Sorry, Please

The most common type of prayer we do as a family is called Thank you,...

February 03, 2011

New Year’s Poetry Slam

Today is New Year's Eve. And Ground Hog's Day, but that's beside the point. In...

January 2011

January 29, 2011

The Day in Numbers

I ïnvented¨a new game today. Of course, it´s so obvious that I´m sure others came...

January 26, 2011

When in Costa Rica…

This morning, we saw coffee plants, learned how they are grown, saw the roasting and...

January 15, 2011

E-u-n-u-c-h-s

The Edelschick girls are notoriously bad spellers. My sister Brenda is the worst. When she...

January 12, 2011

Public School to the Rescue

I woke up this morning with a sense of dread about having to homeschool the...

January 11, 2011

Superior

This lady would definitely NOT approve of my version of homeschool these days. If she...

January 07, 2011

Facts and Figures

If you live in Boston and you have a 1st through 4th grader, head to...

January 05, 2011

A Day in the Life

8:20 am Come downstairs to get my coffee before school begins. Jeff is reading Harry...

January 04, 2011

A Long Runway

A long runway. I can't stop thinking about it. We had breakfast yesterday with dear...

December 2010

December 21, 2010

The New P.E.

So here's the deal with PE. It was all wrong for the last hundred years....

December 21, 2010

Spark

What's so special about Naperville, Illinois? Is it that their 8th graders scored sixth in...

December 16, 2010

True Believer

I wrote yesterday about the boys' inability to keep secrets. Their inability to keep anything...

December 07, 2010

A Quiz

Here's a little quiz for the day. (I know. I said no testing. But that's...

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