This has been a really strange week at my house. Both Einstein and I have been feeling really off-kilter, not as a unit, but just thwarte...

"So give your children your greatest gift: strive to become the person you always wanted to be." --David H. Albert, from Homes...

We use chalk for everything-- making pictures for our elaborate stories, studying forms, writing lessons, playing games... and I love the Ze...

As you know, we've been doing a lot of counting over at our house. I recently introduced the four mathematical processes, er math gnome...

We've been sunk. Do you ever find yourself most of the way through a good children's book where everything is goodness and light ...

"The test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. Similarly, any sit...

While out driving yesterday, I spotted something that stopped me dead in my tracks: a 1969 Volkswagon Beetle. For Sale! I almost never ...

Last night I found myself telling an old friend about a recent work dream I had. She and I used to work at a movie theater when we were in...

Sunburst is making another book. This one is called, "The Magic School Bus with Snakes." She has been making books for about ...

Sunburst and I met with our new family doctor yesterday, and the inevitable question came up. "Are you in school?" "Well, no...

Yesterday we talked about the Big Zero. Minus, our resident math gnome, counted the cups of water that spilled from his bucket onto the s...

Sunburst has been learning to play the pentatonic flute since February. I've been using David Darcy's booklet/cd set Playing the ...

This past week I introduced math gnomes to help Sunburst understand the four mathemtical processes. Math can be pretty abstract, and usin...

I once saw this Waldorf School video where the students had learned to make hammer dulcimers in woodshop. Not one hammer dulcimer, as a ...

Moonshine simply doesn't want to be left out of the mix, ever, and I don't blame her. I didn't formally sign her up for the I...

She's a brave wee lass to stand up in front of a crowd of folks and give a presentation. It's painful to be the parent watching ...

I was waiting in line at the craft store when I found myself standing in judgment of another woman and her kids. It was just Kitty Bill a...

Today Sunburst worked on her Scotland project. She has been speaking in Scots Gaelic (apparently different than Irish Gaelic) for three d...

My original intent in setting up this blog was to share what we're doing as a homeschooling family. I've read so many inspiration...

The thing we were most taken with at the Native American camp was the flute performance by William Whitefeather. Sunburst has been learni...