a woman's heart .. tumbled by the Sea of Life!!...Sea Glass, once part of a whole, now after being cracked & broken, water & sand have softened the edges & created a new artistic form. A metaphor for a person who has evolved through various passages, soft & hard sides of life, into something new & beautiful.
I'm a Catholic wife and mom of 3. Living Lord guided homeschooling near the ocean. Our adventures in learning, digital scrapbook, diary & learning log.
Thank you Kevin for sharing your thoughts and feelings!!! It is very helpful to parents to hear from teens who have unschooled. We are still making education decisions for our children.
Watching the Addams Family must have put that homeschool/unschool seed in my brain.
My mother can't understand why I want to homeschool. She says, "You loved school."
NO Mom, I hated school, I was just good at it. I could pass their tests, write their papers and compete with the best of them. All the way through, with the goal of college. I finished college and even earned a Masters. But I never loved school.
I've already learned a lot by 11 a.m. on the internet!!
So I was learning about, Learn Nothing day and following blog posts. I found Sandy Feet and the Addams Family episode.
Man, "But they've got to go to school. Everyone sends their kids to school."
Gomez Addams, "Ridiculous. Why have children, just to get rid of them? Opposed to the whole nonsense."
3 CHEERS!!!
Man, "But don't you want them to learn?"
Well if you watch on YouTube this is part 1 of 3. part 2 shows the kids trying one day at school. Wednesday hated it. part 3 they are thinking of sending them back.
It is over 8 minutes, but it's fun to watch. I'm off to Blockbuster.com to request the Adams Family DVDs. (Right after the Avatar Fire episodes we need to catch up on)
well they don't have adams family at blockbuster but they do at netflix. If you spell it right, with 2 d's They are there!
I was planning on switching back to Netflix last week but I got preoccupied with the packing for our Family Camp weekend and forgot. Blockbuster billed us for another month. Now I have some more dvds to add to our list for the rest of this month.
Get together with your friends and form a "pod" to save sea animals from shopping bags.
Read about how Pol Morsman discovered the problem and developed a solution. http://www.morsbags.com/html/about.html
Create reusable shopping bags out of old fabric, sheets, comforters. How about old clothes?
A great service project for the kids. Even if you use them only in your family. If you make a lot, hand them out as a group at a grocery store. (permission needed?)
They provide downloadable directions - http://www.morsbags.com/
O Heart most pure of the Blessed Virgin Mary, obtain for me from Jesus a pure and humble heart ............................... Mary, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen
Poetry Friday: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
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Some days call for a reliable, beloved, gorgeous one from William Butler
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*The Lake Isle of Innisfree*
by W. B. Yeats
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I have been Julie Bogart’s co-host on the Brave Writer Podcast for over a
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I used to love helicoper shots in films, and now there are drone shots,
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A lot has happened the last 3 years. Our family has grown and continues to
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New Faith, Reason, and Science site
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Word on Fire is offering three large posters of Catholic scientists for the
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Alex is a SENIOR!!!
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Hi! I know I haven't been keeping this blog up to date, but Alex and I have
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Feeling every bit of 46 ... ugh!
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When I was 45, I was feeling fabulous. I was fit, energetic, and I
thought I could easily pass for 40;) Age was just a number and I certainly
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Life Goes on After Separation
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There was a recliner here!Separation and divorce are hard topics for
practicing Catholics to discuss. My husband left me and our boys 7 weeks
ago yesterd...
Votes for Vaginas!
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Dear Susan Sarandon,
As a long-time admirer of both your acting and your activism, I was
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What Really Matters or The Purpose of Life
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Some day I will write more about it because I have more thoughts than I
care to share now.
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Hello, Friends! This tutorial is a re-post from several years ago, but I
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Alive not Dead: an Adventure through Life
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*As sponsored by Netflix.*
*(Kudos to them for this post.)*
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After a few years of drought, May 2015 was the wettest month on record.Â
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Not a Christmas Rant
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It is indeed the holiday season, proven by the fact that I did not have to
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We've moved!
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Hi, there, dear friends! We've moved this blog and we're settling in at a
beautiful new space. Please join the housewarming over there and be sure to
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A New Era
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This week Maria starts high school not homeschooling. Weird to think the
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The Annual Laying Down of the Law
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The Tales From The Bonny Blue House has now moved to WordPress! You can
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Well, I seem to have forgotten all about this little corner of the
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My Last Post
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This is my last post on the old Blogger framework.
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I am often asked by parents what age is best to begin using Catholic Mosaic
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And let me tell you, that up until about a year ago, I was a die hard PC
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