Part of the fun of homeschooling and particularly unschooling is that you are restricted to time tables and curriculums. Today we felled the big pine tree in our garden. It was really sad to have to cut it down but the pine needles make such a mess and the get into the gutters and clog the drains. The soil also gets very acidic from the pine needles. The... Posts Tagged 'life'
Life as a classroom
Part of the fun of homeschooling and particularly unschooling is that you are restricted to time tables and curriculums. Today we felled the big pine tree in our garden. It was really sad to have to cut it down but the pine needles make such a mess and the get into the gutters and clog the drains. The soil also gets very acidic from the pine needles. The... I am a grown up
I was in the kitchen today making crumpets for the kids. Rachel had a little friend from swimming come around for a play date and I was being the good Mommy and making snacks for them. It suddenly hit me how I am all grown up and doing the Mommy thing. I know I have been doing it for almost 7 years but sometimes we don’t stop and think where we are in... Blog challenge – Your Wishes
I went with Annatjie to fetch the ashes last Friday. A strange experience. Annatjie amazes me with her strength and ability to cope and keep her composure at times when I am sure you would be scrapping me off the floor as a blubbering mess. I just kept thinking, no mother should have to do this.
The family now have to decide what to do with the ashes....
Catching up
Sorry I have been slack, but seem like the end of pregancy is a bit like the beginning leaves you feeling very tired, but no moaning here. I did enough of that over on Pinky and the Geek
But to catch up a little I will do a short run down of our lives at the moment
-35 weeks can you believe it? Nearly time for #Koos to make his arrival, I am sort of ready....
Laws of attraction
I am reading something about birth, surprise surprise and she was talking about what we think influence what happens to us. To a certain extent I think that our thoughts to become our actions but then she went on to say that those that are struggling financially or never have enough money to afford things, talk about not affording things and so it is an...
Instructions for life
a photo from the beach with my mom and the kids yesterday
I found this when I was packing up and I quite like it. Yes I know it is a tad arb but there are some good tips.
* Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully
* Memorize your favourite poem
* Don’t: believe all you hear, spend all your money, or loaf all you want
* When you say...
To do list:
I am hopeless at to do lists I always misplace them so I thought if I wrote it here I had more luck of finding it again. Lets see if this works, helps with being paperless and all too I guess. I understand that it will make ittle sense to everyone else so feel free to move on if you like.
sort out tax number – get book keepers number from Barbara.
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