Thank you, thank you, thank you for your comments and emails, for encouraging me, inspiring me, holding me accountable, and for being a friend! What I really should have done, was take my feelings to Father and not the blog. But I was both hurt about what w…

I took a scroll through the FIAR Facebook group for the first time ever this morning while drinking my morning cup of decaf, and left in tears because of a comment regarding my blog, after a link to my Storm in the Night and weather unit  was shared:  &quo…

Our life. . . Week 27 ~ July 1st-7th This week. . . we went to the city pool  we were invaded by carpenter ants and discovered they were nesting in the worm compost bin in the mudroom, UGH! Bad day! So Nathan and I deep cleaned the kitchen for 5 hours on Mond…

We are using Sonlight Core A this school year, but when I pulled out our first day-5 Science book,   Tadpoles and Frogs , and realized that   it is meant just for us to enjoy reading (no activities or discussion questions), I decided to focus on that b…