What sharing a Sabbath meal means… I am pulling this post out of the archives, because I think it deserves to be told. A short account of our two Sabbaths in two different strange locations, and what it meant to us. Five years ago, our family was on a work/road trip combined. We stayed in…
This is Little Bit, the cat, and I’ve decided to take over the blogging for the next little while. I don’t get my voice heard as much as I’d like… My humans woke up today and they seemed all excited. I finally got out of bed and stretched as I sauntered out to see what…
Today I was fired. Just like that. Told I should not come back to this job, and that if I did, I’d be chased right away! That’s some pretty rough treatment, isn’t it? But, I will have to say that I showed up at the jobsite without the supervisor’s approval, and so was never hired…
We studied this week some about the stars, and how God garnished the heavens (Job 26:13). This naturally led us to a discussion of what a garnish is and how it is normally used, like in decorating food. Our lesson suggested that when you use a garnish, it can make the person receiving the food…
We did a hands-on math day today in honor of Fall. Pumpkin Math!We took weights, lengths, circumferences, estimates, and graphed all of our results on a bar graph.Each boy got a pumpkin and got to experiment with many different math terms and calculations.To estimate circumference, each boy cut a string corresponding to the length that…
Little Acorn Boy and I jumped at the opportunity for free green beans for the pickin’ by some of our friends here. We picked and picked and got two buckets full. Not bad. Little Acorn is a great talker and a pretty good picker too. Next day for part of our school, all of the…
