Home Is Where You Start From — a homeschool diary

River Song’s {red} shoes

February 2, 2012

Being a girl, I have a thing for beautiful shoes. However, being the mom of 4 and living on 1 income, I’ve learned to quietly squash that genetic yearning for luscious footwear. I only have a few pair, and they are all [must it always come to this??] Sensible/ and purchased on sale. And then, [...]

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Wordless Wednesday, Bird Watching

February 1, 2012

Happy Wordless Wednesday! We recently had “Flamingo Days” here at {Home}, an occurance that breaks out every-once-in-awhile. My Birthday was the occassion for this flamingo sighting :)

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Nature Walk

January 31, 2012

I love birds, I am always looking for them. This week, I looked out my window and noticed a great deal of activity over at the basil bush in the garden. I looked longer and spied the bright yellow flash of the American Goldfinch. We’ve have mostly boring birds here in the heart of Orange [...]

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7 Quick Takes -birthday edition

January 30, 2012

~1~ We celebrated Josie’s 15th birthday. I can’t believe she is 15!! (and why yes, I shot this with my new 35mm 2.0 lens!) ~2~ Yes, this is a birthday-pie. Josie requested Chocolate Satin pie for her birthday. This did not seem odd to me, because when I was a little, I often asked for [...]

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Notes from Home

January 23, 2012

Sometimes it is the little things that make your day. This soap, they had me with the word “chai” those anemia headaches (iron-deficiency) headaches I mention now and again? …turns out they were migraines. Turning the page on a new chapter, it seems. At least there is medicine that works (hopefully) for this. Pinterest continues [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday, Life of Fred edition

January 14, 2012

~1~ This is Oliver snoozing with Demi-Sky. He actually likes to curl up with the girls in their loft, but because we had company for the Bible Conference, he was locked out of the girls’ room. He fussed quite a bit, and then reconciled himself to cozying-up in Demi’s room. ~2~ Demi Sky’s room is [...]

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days like these…

January 4, 2012

well, it’s a new year- time to kick it up with new resolve, right? Back to homeschool, back to eating healthy, time to get my house all clean after having lots of guests…. and…. I’m sick. Fun times. I spent Tuesday mostly in bed, and today either sleeping or going to the Dr.’s or getting [...]