Here are Laura's and Katie's entries for Practical Homeschooling's http://practicalhomeschooling.com/ envelope art contest.
Cross your fingers for them because the competition's stiff!
School and life are moving along steadily and happily on Providence Farm.
Becky's missing from our family circle since she's helping out family friends who are busy with mom recovering from surgery and moving to a new house simultaneously.
She is sorely missed at home. All of our games and private jokes are just a little lonelier without our big sister. I think big sisters are the most awesome siblings in a family, actually.
But while she's been away, the rest of us have been busy just the right amount. I've been reading the book "Margin" by Richard Swenson, which has caused me to deliberately slow our schedule down and give us plenty of time to do each thing we want to do. The results have been phenomenal! I feel like I have so much more time, now that our days are more deliberate.
The fall weather is hot this year but still enjoyable- at least in the mornings and evenings! The smell of the planted pine wafts past me while I hang out my laundry, and at night, the stars seem so close and bright.
Have you been having trouble with stinkbugs in your laundry you hang out? I have had to give it up temporarily due to the plague they have become!
ReplyDeleteNo, Laura, I haven't - yet! But now that you bring it up I probably will.
ReplyDeleteI was seemingly the last to be affected by them. I saw all my friends posting on face book about the stinkbugs, and I was a little jealous that I hadn't seen any. And then they came!
I can hang out laundry again today so we shall see!
Don't you hate it when you have to use the dryer?