Archive for January, 2010

 Math Challenges and Suggestions

I firmly believe that God puts challenges in our path so that we can use those challenges to help others.
In our home-school, we’re pretty challenged by math. I was never a math whiz, but I understood it enough to make an A in calculus and then I waved “good-bye” to the math department [...]



 Homeschooling: The Toughest Job You’ll Ever Love (Sometimes)

The most naive thought I’ve ever had in my life (I think) is that in order to teach a child all you have to do is explain the subject in a suitably simple manner, or hand the child a workbook, and he or she would absorb the info like a little sponge and diligently work [...]



 Sloshing Thru the Slush…

Over the past few weeks it’s been colder here than we’ve seen in a long time. In fact, it hasn’t been this cold since we moved here, although that was only 3 years ago.
Our pond froze for the first time. I won’t say you could ice-skate on it (Sarah tried, but that’s another [...]



 Crying over Horse Families, Yet Denying Children Families

It’s really a sad thing when people are mourning wild “horse families being torn apart,” yet at the same time we have thousands of children who need permanent homes. Yet the roadblocks to adopting children (in this country and otherwise) are so prohibitive.