Archive for May, 2012:


the hamptons

Published by in Uncategorized on May 30th, 2012

i have to be fully and honestly frank. the facade must be put to rest. i am not a camper. i am not a camper in the woods, or in a motor-home. i’m not a camper in the summer, fall or spring. camping does not thrill me because i like clean and comfortable a little

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PA homeschool evaluation

Published by in homeschooling on May 24th, 2012

for the past four years, we’ve been homeschooling our boys. it was only last august that our school district was informed of this information, and i only had to register our oldest. in Pennsylvania, the compulsory age (the age at which your child better at least be registered for kindergarten) of school children is 8,

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we’ve got babies!! (update: and bear)

Published by in bees, farm on May 23rd, 2012

a week and a half after finding themselves traveling from Georgia to the western hills of PA, our bees have settled into their new homes and are already busy making babies. we opened the hives this evening and pulled out two of the busiest frames from each hive (the ones covered with the most bees).

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honeybees, take 2

Published by in bees, earthkeeping, farm on May 10th, 2012

our two packages of honeybees arrive at the post office this morning. at 6:35 a.m. the post office called to tell us they were in. i had been up for an hour already, and suspected we’d be hearing from them this morning. the boys finally woke up around 8:15, and by 9:00 we were in

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Classical Conversations Co-op End-of-the-Year Banquet

This week, our family attended our co-op’s end of the year closing ceremonies where the students got to show off everything they learned, and we shared a big potluck meal in the church gym with our entire families. It was pure meyhem but a lot of fun! Our last co-op class was a month ago,

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happy camping

Published by in family, family fun on May 2nd, 2012

our family of five enjoyed survived our first camping overnight this past weekend! the last time kenny and i camped was when sawyer had just turned 1, and rowan was 2. that was much easier, and from what i remember, we were serenated by screech owls all night long. the older boys had a cub

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