Crafting Away: Paper Cake
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 Posted in Crafts | No Comments »Christmas is a very busy time of year for all kinds of crafters. On Monday, I helped my friend Ansie make ten paper cake pieces to make a table top decoration for Ansie's Christmas dinner this year. The pieces will ...
Crafting Weekend
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 Posted in Crafts, Family, Our House | No Comments »As many of you know I spend a fair bit of my spare time crafting. Whether it be cardmaking, scrapbooking, or quilting I like to make something every day (it doesn't happen every day unfortunately). I had to opportunity to ...
A Car at Last
Thursday, November 12th, 2009 Posted in Family, Homeschooling, Travels | 1 Comment »After much hassle, debate, and troubles with leasing companies, we finally broke down and bought a van. It's a three year-old Citroen C8. It doesn't exist in North American, so that's a novelty in and of itself. [photopress:IMGP8759.JPG,full,pp_image] Pete has been driving ...
Bill’s Wood
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 Posted in Family, Homeschooling, Travels | No Comments »Our children thoroughly enjoy the outdoors and are immensely please to have a back garden this time round in the UK. But despite the yard, it isn't always big enough for their interests. Thankfully we live within a 10 minute ...
Poetry
Saturday, November 7th, 2009 Posted in birding, creation, Homeschooling, Travels | 2 Comments »We've been working on some poetry lessons for school and here is one of the results that Caleb came up with Blue Tit by Caleb Scholtens Blue Tits are fun But they don't like to eat bun. They like to eat sunflower seeds and the seeds ...
Playing Around With Paint
Friday, November 6th, 2009 Posted in Crafts | No Comments »Time is always something people struggle with. Either they have too much time on hand and waste it or they haven't enough and can't seem to find the time to do what they want. Times flies. Time crawls. Since I've had ...
Return to the Sealife
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 Posted in Family, Homeschooling, Travels | No Comments »In May when we began our UK living we lived in an area of the city of Birmingham that was green shy. In order to get out weekly the kids and I purchased a year pass to the local Sealife ...
The Mummies and the Aztecs
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 Posted in Crafts, Family, Homeschooling, Travels | 2 Comments »We made a weekend trip to London and had a funtastic time. The Jeffreys were good enough to find enough places for us to eat and sleep. While the dads went to a study day on Song of Songs the moms ...