JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

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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Moms with years of homeschooling experience have been sharing some advice on a yahoogroup list I’ve joined. Here are three pieces (paraphrased, since I’m not allowed to quote directly) that I’m considering:

Spend some time this summer educating yourself.
The best thing we can give our children is ourselves.
Committing to homeschooling one year [...]

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Posing for a picture, Ted and the girls are wearing the hats my brother bought them on a recent trip.

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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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Friday’s edition of NPR’s All Things Considered aired Gender at the Grill: Why Guys Do Most of the BBQing. Quotes from the clip include:

(a woman’s voice)“Of all the women I know, no one enjoys grilling.”
(a man’s voice) “My attention span’s not that good when I’m grilling.”
(man’s voice) “It’s a guy thing.”
(woman’s voice) “It’s definitely [...]

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And Ted is too…

Guess we’re two of a kind…
Speaking of movies, tonight is Movie Night so blogging is light and brief…more tomorrow….now it’s time to snuggle with Agent Smith…;)

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Today I stopped by K’s Cafe for the first time. It’s a wonderful place to go to learn about hummingbirds, bounce with a baby in the mirror, see an air show or breathe buddleia:

I step up to the burgeoning purple tree, expectant. I inspect it from sky to ground and back again. I gently [...]

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Today is Anita Rowland’s birthday. I hope she has fun and enjoys her new present: Dance Dance Revolution.
I’d be curious to try DDR myself, but for the moment I’ll try dancing as I do the dishes, a new discovery yesterday. Usually if I am trying to get through a task I’ll play something loud [...]

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I’m grateful for the three day holiday for our family. Recently I’ve noticed that it takes more than one day off to recover, rest and get ready to go back to work. It takes two days. Or more. One day to do what needs to get done. And another day to breathe, blow rainbow soap [...]

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Yesterday Enoch answered my dishwashing question with candor - here’s a snippet:

Lets see, in the grand scheme of things, being known in the Biblical sense of the word is probably one of the highest ranking motivators for most husbands… but in the balance of give-take of a relationship between 2 firstborns, it’s not always [...]

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