Tag Archive | history
Last Day of the World journaling
In honor of the Last Day of The World, Paperclipping offered these journaling prompts. Here are my answers. If you decide to copy, please comment so I can read your answers. What was the last song you listened to? Probably something my daughter was singing, one of her songs. Who was the last person you [...]
Project 365 Day 127
My family has enjoyed several Renaissance Faires in Virginia and Maryland. The first one I ever attended was with my husband over a decade ago in California. It’s wonderful to be immersed in history, surrounded by period costumes, experiencing activities and foods of the time. Today’s visit to the Faire was even more special because [...]
Happy Mothers Day week!
So many people are sharing photos of their mothers on Facebook. I love seeing the old photos. Here’s one from the mid-7o’s. From left to right you see my sister, me, my grandma, my great-grandma, and my mom. I think this was a Mothers Day luncheon. My great grandmother lived until 4 months before her [...]
some old Postadays
Now that I’ve gotten straight in my mind that I want to mainly write at my blog and share pictures at my smugmug site, and I’ve settled on the design* of my blog, and I’ve opened up my blog to the public, I’m going to write about a few Postaday prompts I skipped earlier in [...]
Be The Change
“Be the change that you want to see in the world.” – Ghandi This is one of my favorite quotes. It’s applicable to so many things from interactions with children to political movements. I think we have to be mindful the examples we’re setting by our own actions, as well as consider how our perception [...]
symbols
This morning, even though I set my alarm because I doubted I could wake up on time without it, I woke up an hour before said alarm was set. I’m a morning bird by nature, so I’m fine with this. It means I have an extra hour of peace at my favorite time of day! [...]
Hiking by the Rappahannock
Today was our first “Last Friday Hike” which I’m starting in my homeschool group. We ended up being the only family to make it today, but we still had a good time. We hiked down to the Rappahannock River from Rappahannock Outdoor, a place that provides canoes and other water fun stuff. This is the [...]
busy, mostly stay-at-home day
Rhiannon listened to more Story of the World today and announced that history is one of her favorite subjects. When I asked her just now to remind me whether she said most favorite, she said math is her other favorite. That reminds me, at one point she had pulled out a math workbook to work [...]
lately
I’ve been working on organizing our home library. The underlying organization is still there. I still have the magazine files sorting our children’s books into numerous subjects including the solar system, deserts, mammals, seasons, and construction vehicles. I’ve had the books organized this way since I began collecting them while teaching over a decade ago. [...]
relatedness
In The Worst Hard Time, the book I finished reading earlier this month, I read a bit about the horse ranches of the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma. They were well suited to the grasslands and didn’t damage the land like the farms that came after them. I finally took some time to start watching [...]
