A Homeschool Story

Motivation and children, motivation and employees, motivation and self...it is a topic that takes up a whole lot of mind and soul space for...

It has been four years since we visited family in France, and it is over-due. This year, we will set out with only three children, how stra...

I can't fix everything, but I can rip and repeat, something not all knitters love to do. You can consider it an opportunity real life ...

Booties , in my series of "future grandmother knits". Nothing in view! But I have five kids and I am a slow knitter, nothing lik...

The greatest fear of any mother is for the loss of a child. I came face-to-face with this fear three days ago and I am grateful to be on th...

Dang; do I need two apostrophes for "don't's"? That looks stupid, never mind. Your list then, ladies and gentlemen: If ...

Grumpy me HATES Daylight Savings Time. To which we just switched, here in the U.S., this past weekend. But I caught myself with a smile as ...

The Midwest, like many places, is not the best place to get in a good daily walk or run, or even play in the backyard, in the winter. If the...

We have come to the last celebration of the Christmas season; Epiphany, or La Fete des Rois; the day the wise men finally arrived after fol...

...and he came, deep in the night, to fill them with care. One was delivered to a college student's apartment, the others here, in th...

I cannot resist holiday pictures...it is such a happy time, with all of the family here. Waking up to the full feeling of all of my children...

Happy Thanksgiving to all, from our family, and from the bird who is not in the oven today.

The first thing that came to my mind today when I thought of my little blog, was that I keep getting interrupted by unimportant  details th...

"Are we there yet?" has taken on a whole new meaning. It's been 43 hours, but who's counting? We are still not there, not...

We sat at a table with HIS table within sight. Gaël took small, distracted bites of his sandwich, but forgot to chew, had to be reminded. H...