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The Fish Ladder Trip

The boys and I went on our monthly field trip recently. We met my folks at a museum to look around a bit, then took a walk to the city fish ladder. I remember seeing it as a child and have wanted to take the boys there for years but I didn’t know exactly where...

WeSeed – A New Way to Learn About Investing

Sadly, the WeSeed project has ended. I’m probably going to be mentioning things I learned at SOBCon09 for a while yet. 😀 But this is a good thing! It was an awesome conference and I came home with so much you won’t even believe it. Today we’re going...

State of the Home School, October 2008

So, here we are at the several-weeks-into-the-school-year point, and things are going well. I KNOW! Wonderful, in’nt it? The older boys have finally stepped over to the dark side. They actually believe that they can do the work set before them. On top of that,...

The Power of Words

A person I regard highly had a bad day this week and wrote about it on her blog (warning: language alert in link). IttyBiz – When You Feel Like A Raging Failure. As of the writing of this post, there were over 50 comments from readers offering support and...

Benefit to Homeschooling #84

Benefit to homeschooling #84? Starting the day over. Captain Earthquake crawled into bed and slept on Hubby’s pillow for a while this morning. Usually that makes for a cheerful start for him, but today it just wasn’t so. First he got into trouble for...