Homeschooling

Life with my Teen (& Book Review)

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Our youngest daughter is deep in her 11th grade year, when a lot of kids feel an enormous amount of stress. She just took the ACT for the first time last Saturday, and she’s got the SAT as well as SAT Subject tests coming in a couple months, which is a lot for a homeschooler … Read more

New Poem: Back to the New Normal

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Back to the New Normal Open nesting is challenging. The revolving door brings in gusts of cold air and crunchy-crisp leaf-litter as well as delight. So very good to see them, but your world clutters and clangs to a stop like musical chairs in suspension waiting frozen, like in statue tag as the house becomes … Read more

Two Cool New Science Books

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Our teenaged homeschooled daughter is very enthused by these two new books. Originally seeing both in a great local independent bookstore, she was able to get one through interlibrary loan and begged me to get the other for her, “and not to wait for Christmas either, please.” I have a homeschooling budget and have learned … Read more

I Picked Our Daughter Up from Her Summer Program

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When I picked our younger daughter up from her Summer Field Institute Program at the College of the Atlantic, there were presentations (above), lunch and a bit of a tour (photos below). Our daughter had a phenomenal time, or to use her words, “It was beyond awesome.” She saw 12 whales, and some seals and … Read more

Our Daughter at the College of the Atlantic

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Yesterday, I dropped off our younger daughter for the two week “Islands through Time” program at the College of the Atlantic’s Summer Field Institute. For two weeks, she’ll join 14 other kids with five professors in an intensive course that will give her 3.3 hours of college credit. She is considering this school as a … Read more

At the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival

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I recommend this Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival held on the lovely grounds of Boscobel with its outstanding view. We saw All’s Well that Ends Well last night, preceded by a picnic with friends and ogling the majestic panorama at our feet; it was wonderful. These actors perform to an intimate three-sided audience as entertainment instead … Read more

Our Daughter Moves In and Starts at Syracuse

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Yesterday and today we have been working hard to settle our daughter in her new apartment in Syracuse. Her lease begins today and today was also her first day of school. We were grateful to able to start getting her in the day before, but she needed help finishing the move-in task because she is … Read more

Love my Knitting Girls

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This year I taught a knitting class to some precious nine year old girls whose siblings were in older classes with our homeschooling group (that our youngest daughter was taking.) Since these girls were at lose ends while their siblings were busy, I volunteered to give them a constructive activity during the same time frame. … Read more