Week in Review–October 8-12, 2012
This has been a busy, fun, and fairly productive week for us, and the weather has been cool and rainy, which always makes me want to bake something delicious and curl up with a good book. This season...
View ArticleThis week in bullet points
I really should be using my blogging time this weekend to catch up on a couple of Armchair Cybils reviews, but I’ve gotten into such a habit of wrapping up our school week here that it doesn’t feel...
View ArticleHighlights of the Week
I’m running out of time and steam for my usual lengthy weekly wrap-ups. As much as I love having a narrative record of what we do each week, life has gotten significantly busier over the past few...
View ArticleFriday catch-up
(Please excuse the lack of pictures and the overabundance of text in this post. I’m long-winded, and I’ve misplaced my little point-n-shoot camera on which are most of the pictures I’ve taken in the...
View ArticleIn between
I have overflowing laundry baskets and three beds stripped to the mattresses, so I thought I’d take the free hour or so I have this evening and update my blog with a weekly wrap-up. (And now that I’m...
View Article‘Tis the Season
This week has been jam-packed full of Christmas fun! In fact, going into the week, I tried to set my expectations achievably low in terms of “real” school I intended for us to accomplish. This was...
View ArticleThis week by the numbers
90: the number of peanut clusters I made to bag and give as gifts 2: the number of batches of peppermint bark I threw in the trash after it didn’t turn out so well (I should’ve just stuck with my...
View ArticleNew Year’s Fun and Back to School
This has been a week of highs and lows, which isn’t quite as dramatic as it sounds. We started off the week with school planning and New Year’s celebrations and ended with me having a dreadful...
View ArticleA Day in Our Life–January 31, 2013
I’m joining in today with Simple Homeschool‘s Day in the Life round-up. I enjoy writing these posts from time to time just to document what life looks like around our house in this particular season....
View ArticleFriday’s Favorite Five
I have several book reviews to write and share, but I haven’t the brainpower or energy to tackle them now. Instead, I thought I’d share some of my favorites from this past week: 1. A Saturday...
View ArticleFriday’s Favorite Five: New baby edition
Can you believe it? Two posts in two days! Here are a few of my favorite things from the past few weeks: 1. My mother and mother-in-law. My mother has been at my house every day that someone else...
View ArticleFriday’s Favorite Five
It has been something of a trying week here at the House of Hope, with three of our four children (everyone but Benny!) having dreadful coughs and the DLM having a fever at the beginning of the week...
View ArticleHMJ: September 30-October 4, 2013
In my life this week…we completed our seventh week of school. Although we didn’t take a big break to signify the end of the first six weeks, we did manage a day-long getaway for Steady Eddie and me...
View ArticleHMJ: October 7-11, 2013
We’re coming off a busy, busy weekend of high school reunion festivities (Steady Eddie’s twentieth–eek!), a birthday party, and a supper date with a good bloggy-friend-turned-IRL-friend. I didn’t want...
View ArticleHMJ: October 14-18, 2013
In my life this week…It has been one of those weeks. Sigh. I just haven’t felt good, and the magnitude of what I’m trying to do–educate my two big girls while simultaneously caring for my rather...
View ArticleHMJ: October 21-25, 2013
In my life this week…I was expecting a super-busy week, and while all our trips didn’t pan out, we still had a fun and productive week. I was initially very disappointed that one of our planned...
View ArticleHMJ: October 28-November 1, 2013
In my life this week…it hasn’t been all rainbows and unicorns. Somehow I hurt my leg at the end of last week, and I’ve really been in some pain, mostly at night. I’ve seen a chiropractor and a...
View ArticleJanuary 6-10, 2014 happenings
This was our first week back in the school routine, and boy, what a week it was! 1. The main reason it was a big week is that we got new flooring in most of our house this week–from the kitchen back....
View ArticleOdds & Ends
Over the past several years of blogging, I’ve participated in several different kinds of weekly wrap-ups. Many of them have related to our homeschooling week, but now that we’re about half way through...
View ArticleOdds & Ends
1. Steady Eddie was off work on Monday (after taking off last Friday–an extra long weekend!), so we managed to paint our living room, hang the curtains, and get a little bit closer to finished. We...
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