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Category Archives: Homekeeping
Cookies, Armchair Cybils, and a Book Club
This is going to be a happy little jumbled-up post, so proceed with caution. You have been warned. First off I wanted to join in this week’s fun over at Three Thinking Mothers. This week bloggers are invited to share … Continue reading
Christmas School and a Tour
We had a nice Thanksgiving break, which included lots of family time, reading, sleeping, some game playing, but absolutely no formal school work. I realized during the break how vital it is for me that we have some school-free time, including … Continue reading
Posted in Bloggy Randomness, Books, Education, Holiday, Homekeeping
Tagged Memory Work Monday
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School Day Snapshot–August 22, 2011
I documented our day today in order to participate in this year’s {Not} Back-to-School Blog Hop over at Heart of the Matter Online. It’s day-in-the-life week, which is probably my favorite week of the entire thing. It’s fun and instructive to … Continue reading
Weekly Wrap-Up::August 8-12, 2011
This week was the first week of the new school year! Although we schooled some this summer, starting this week was like turning over a new leaf, with all sorts of possibilities (and yes, problems) yet unforeseen. I’m going to … Continue reading
Posted in Bloggy Randomness, Books, Education, Homekeeping, Nature, Weekly Wrap-Up
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Sunday Afternoon Rambles
Steady Eddie and the girls are gone this afternoon to set up for a training for his job, the DLM is asleep, and I have spent some quality time already in reading, journaling, praying, and napping, and now I’m ready to work on the … Continue reading
Worth documenting
Thanks to having company on Saturday night, our school room is clean for the first time in. . . how long? Maybe since we moved into it. I love it, but I do wish I could figure out how to … Continue reading
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Weekly Wrap-Up::August 30-September 3, 2010
This week at the House of Hope might aptly be called “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” or perhaps “The Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat.” This was our fifth week of schooling, so I suppose it … Continue reading
Read Aloud Thursday
I admit that while I love a good book of any kind, I’m not always great at turning books into projects. I’m mostly okay with that; to me, the real joy is in the reading of the story. However, … Continue reading
Our School Room
This post is almost a year overdue, I am sorry to say. Long-time readers here at Hope Is the Word will remember that late last summer, we decided at the last minute to enclose our garage and convert it to a … Continue reading
