The girls and I have finished reading Charlotte’s Web. They’ve enjoyed it to the point of assigning roles from the book to each other. Michaela often ends up as Wilbur while either Elisabeth or Abigail is Charlotte. Sometimes Abigail is Fern or sometimes she is Mr. Zuckerman. The girls have been talking about the end […]
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Charlotte’s Web
June 30th, 2004 · 1 Comment
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Literary Daddies
June 21st, 2004 · Comments Off on Literary Daddies
The beginning of this Seattle Times article reminded me of our own family…from Saturday’s Seattle author wants parents to reclaim role as teachers and mentors, connect with kids Dr. Jeffrey Lee made his daughter cry the first time he showed her how to throw a ball. Like many parents, he got impatient and expected his […]
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I Saw the Angel in the Marble
May 31st, 2004 · Comments Off on I Saw the Angel in the Marble
I like to think I don’t need to read any more books like this one. Sure, I can recite the 543 reasons why someone should (or perhaps shouldn’t) homeschool. For years, before we had children, Ted and I read books, observed friends and discussed how we wanted to educate our family. I feel that homeschooling […]
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Getting deeper in love every minute
May 31st, 2004 · Comments Off on Getting deeper in love every minute
I can’t describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a while that she’d throw me over, but she didn’t, because she was in love with me too. She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her…Well, there I was, […]
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Ever felt this way?
May 17th, 2004 · 6 Comments
I order it and it takes a while to come. An email says it will be slow. I keep the email in my inbox, keep the order in my mind. I’m waiting. Watching. Where is it? When will it get here? Then Friday morning I swing open the little door with the key and find […]
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