Tag Archives: Creating
A Quick And Easy Dress For Mouse (Tutorial)
Mouse keeps growing and growing and I’m left scrambling to keep her in dresses ( it doesn’t help that she is a “full steam ahead” kind of a kid and it hard on clothes)! The other week I went fabric … Continue reading
Posted in Beauty, Creativity, Life, Sewing, Uncategorized
Tagged Creating, Life, Mouse, sewing, Su, tutorials
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Easter 2013
On this rainy Easter morning, I step outside to move my seedlings to their spot on the front porch for the day. The rain is dripping down steadily and I breathe deep. This is a spring rain and I haven’t … Continue reading
Posted in Celebration, devotional life, Easter, feasts, feasts, Life, Memories, Thanks, Uncategorized
Tagged christian calendar, Creating, Easter, Feasts, Life, Reflections, thanks
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T is for Tracks!
Bull’s B book was so much fun I decided to do another one. Focusing on the “b” sound for a week started to help him hear it in words he mispronounces so I decided to do a T book last … Continue reading
How Many Blocks Between The Sun and Pluto?
This year I’ve been teaching our early elementary age Sunday School (1st through 4th or 5th grade) and we’ve been going through the account of Creation in Genesis 1 looking at what we are saying when we say “God created…” … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Elementary Education, Life, Science, Uncategorized
Tagged Creating, Elementary Education, F, Science, spiritual formation, Sunday School
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Engineering Problems
Toys seem to go through phases around here. Sometimes the only thing that is popular is the Legos, other weeks the children “cook” endlessly. Lately the thing that has been popular is blocks. Bull started it. I showed him how … Continue reading
Fine Motor Skills
One of the things that I have noticed about Bull is that he is much more athletic than the other two. This is a very good thing as his surgery at two months old severely effected his stomach muscle development … Continue reading
Create: Project Time
For quite some time I’ve wanted to have a regular space in our weekly schedule to work on projects with the older children. They both love to make things but aren’t yet old enough to do much unsupervised. I’ve tried … Continue reading
Unit Study: Exploration- The Vikings
The first explorers we looked at were Eric the Red and Leif Ericsson. The children colored a page from their “Exploring the New World” coloring books, while I read to them. This counts as art as well as history, so … Continue reading
Posted in Elementary Education, History, homeschooling, Uncategorized, Unit Studies
Tagged Creating, Elementary Education, F, History, homeschooling, Su, Unit Studies
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Beginning Again: Preschool Part 2 (Five Little Ducks)
Part One One of the things I have come to realize about Bull’s learning style is that he is much more kinetic than his siblings. Although he was slow to crawl and walk due to stomach surgery at 2.5 months, … Continue reading
Foggy Morning
Sitting here on a foggy morning, feeling more than a little foggy myself since Jack has an ear infection and has woken me between 4 and 5 am the past two days. He’s not uncheerful at that hour- I’m just … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Memories, Quiet, Reflections
Tagged Creating, Jack, Quiet, Reflections
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