We survived our first day of “summer school”. And by summer school, I mean finishing work that didn’t quite get finished yet with my homeschoolers, with Mordecai and Avi who are out of school for the summer. Things went quite well, actually. Avi brought home unfinished school books, so I had her sit at the…
Tag: FASD
It’s Not All Strawberries and Sunshine
It’s pouring down rain here. Again. Summer hasn’t quite arrived in our little corner of the Pacific Northwest. We’ve had a day or two of 70 degree weather…other than that, it’s been in the sixties and cooler at night. Our house is still chilly…in July. We heat with wood, and this is the time of…
Plastic Surgeons, Knives and Post-Hospital Doctor’s Visits…
Photo by Tilly…who is an incredibly talented nature photographer. Check out her nature photos all taken with a Canon Rebel and kit lens! Ah, yes, all in a day’s work for a busy homeschooling mom, right? It started Monday night when a child alerted me to the fact that a certain third grader brought a…
Living With FASD
I didn't intentionally leave it out the other day…or if I did it was subconscious. When I was blogging about my struggles with Mordecai I was focusing on his educational needs and how I could meet them, not what the root of the problem is. And to be honest, I've spent years trying to "protect"…
Baby Dreams…
Baby dreams…what expecting mother doesn’t have these? So far this pregnancy I’ve had dreams that the baby was a girl. Dreams that the baby was a boy. All kinds of dreams. The night before last I had the following dream: I gave birth to my baby in Carolynn’s van, which was parked conveniently in…