weather/seasons

7 Quick Takes: April 9, 2010 (Vol. 36)

~ 1 ~ This weather is just crazy! In the seven day forecast on the local news, there is a 50 degree difference between tomorrow’s low and Wednesday’s high.  I can’t believe we were sweating wearing shorts and t-shirts a few days ago, and then are wearing jackets and shivering in the wind today.  Oh, [...]

7 Quick Takes: March 19, 2010 (Vol. 34)

~ 1 ~ I decided on Sunday that I was going to go to reconciliation (confession) on Wednesday evening.  I then spent a ton of time during those days dreading going to confession.  I dreaded it more than I have since the first time I went (on Palm Sunday in 2007). When I went though, [...]

7 Quick Takes: March 12, 2010 (Vol. 33)

~ 1 ~ I got to have the loveliest experience this week.  I sat for two hours in the waiting room of an occupational therapy/physical therapy clinic while Jack had two different appointments. That may sound like I’m being sarcastic, but, the beauty in it was that Eric had taken the afternoon off of work.  [...]

7 Quick Takes: February 19, 2010 (Vol. 30)

~ 1 ~ The biggest event of the week around our house has been sickness.  Lots and lots of coughing and stuff noses.  Quite frankly, with three of the five of us on antibiotics, I’m getting really tired of it.   As I mused on Facebook the other night, “I think my lungs are trying [...]

In Defense of Taking Snow Days

Three of my favorite words when I was a preteen up through my high school years were “blowing and drifting.” My husband and I still joke that those are magical words. What would be so special about these words? It’s not so much these words by themselves as what those words mean together with words [...]

7 Quick Takes: January 8, 2010 (Vol. 26)

~ 1 ~ As I already mentioned earlier this week, Brenda and I have been busy the last few months working on two sites that launched earlier this week — The Homeschool Classroom (which is not new, of course, but moved to WordPress) and then Homeschool Lifestyle Media. If you haven’t stopped by the big [...]

Four Months Makes a Big Difference in Our Backyard

It’s hard to believe that in just four months, our backyard and vegetable garden will look very similar to the above picture. This is the picture that Eric took of the same general area of our backyard tonight while he went out to fill our bird feeder: Today, we had a more hands on school [...]

7 Quick Takes: October 16, 2009 (Vol. 18)

~ 1 ~ Molly is having a birthday party this weekend (though she turned five a couple of weeks ago).  It will be her very first party with friends, instead of just family.  She is so excited, and it sounds like a lot of her friends are too (from what I have heard from some [...]

Reading in the Bathtub During the Tornado Warning

It had rained off and on throughout the day on Wednesday, but during a nice part of the day, I had the children out with me working on picking some grape and cherry tomatoes. We had only picked a few before, out of nowhere, the tornado sirens began to sound. Having a couple of naturally [...]

Do you think that the sun might rise tomorrow too?

When I watch the news, it is usually our local news. This is not, however, because it is a stellar news cast. As a matter of fact, sometimes it is almost painful to watch them stumble over foreign names, occassionally look like deer in headlights, and sometimes looking in the wrong camera for longer than [...]

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