On Saturday afternoon Sophie got the sewing bug and Ben joined her. Sophie got some scrap fabric from an old pair of pants and made a little stuffed shark. We thought it hugely funny that she made a camouflage shark because Ben and Anthony have...
The best picture book illustrations are true art. I’ve always loved the art of beautiful picture books, I never outgrew the love of them. Two years ago the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston had an exhibit of Robert McCloskey’s drawings and...
Monday October 15 Anthony: math, copywork, History. Ben: math, copywork, Explode the Code, Bob book. Sophie: math, copywork, French, Geography Bella: math, composition (poetry) Miss Happiness and Miss Flower, Magna Charta, St Louis de Montfort, Men...
Of the Body–Fearfully and Wonderfully for Leticia and A.G. “angel date” the book said, but “he’s not an angel” I replied. And I refused to write it. People can no more be angels than they can be trees. Totally different...
*Spoiler Warning* I’m not spoiling a lot, but I’m not going out of my way to avoid discussing later plot points. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson I originally read Snow Crash ages ago. Maybe when I was in high school or college? I didn’t...
Monday October 8 Sophie: math, copywork, French. Ben: math, copywork, Explode the Code, Bob book. Anthony: math, copywork, History. Bella: read and narrate from Story of the Church, math, copywork, Latin, composition. Stories: Miss Happiness and...
Monday October 1 A slow start to the day and to the week. Before lunch the day looked like rather a wash. Sophie had done math and copywork and read to me from A Child’s Geography, everyone else had only managed to do math. I gave up and figured if...
I knew our first week back after our long road trip would be pretty non-productive. I was right and wrong. Monday September 24 I woke up at 8 am with a splitting headache and went back to bed after texting Dom asking him to bring me a coke. I think...
Sunday September 16: Lake Barkley to Nashville On Sunday morning we packed up the van (and were glad to put some of our overflow into my parents’ rental car) and headed south towards Nashville, caravanning with my sister and parents. As we were...
In which we drive through 12 states, more than 2,500 miles, met friends and family, and see a huge part of this beautiful country of ours that I’d never seen before. My paternal grandfather, William Addison Scott Jr, was born in Kentucky, though he...