Posted in Guest Post, Home School, Inspiring

Check It Out!

An orange check mark.

I’m rather excited, here . . .

A lovely home schooling mom has invited me to guest post at her place, A Homeschool Mom and will published my work, today.

The topic?

“The one thing I did not know, and wish someone had told me, about home schooling.”

I had fun with it and wish you all would run on over to Cristina’s, check it out, leave a nice comment, look around and leave another nice comment, too!

Thanks!

And thanks to Cristina, too!

Check mark photo credit: Wikipedia

Posted in fun, summer

Oh, for the Carefree Days!

Although many people with children dread summer, dread facing and dealing with their own children on a daily basis, I welcome it.

At-home moms work as hard as anyone else during the school year and love taking a break from conducting a school; I love changing from working at a desk to working outdoors; I love having time for some fun stuff with the funnest young people I know.

In my case, I doubly welcome a few days to take on my grandchildren, in a yearly event I call “Camp Grandmother”, complete with fun activities for every day.

Here, two of my dearies enjoy the cool of a summer morn, in the shade on the east side of our house, making chalk art with homemade chalk their older cousins helped make last summer. (Plaster of Paris inside toilet tissue cores you’ve dipped in melted paraffin.)

Not a care in the world, hair not yet groomed, clothing so loose it falls off, they attempt a sailboat and some sort of grid work.

Takes me back . . .

Carefree

Enjoy them while they are young. They are growing up right before your eyes and you will miss them, one day.

Posted in Good ol' days, Homemaking, Inspiring, Photos

Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgia

Nostalgia: homesickness, reminiscence, wistfulness, longing, melancholy…

I miss my grandmother. It’s easy to see it in my writings. I’ve always missed her. I copy her. I want to grow up to be like her.

That’s why I do what she did. In this modern world I do home canning.

home canning
pickles and figs

When I see these beauties, it satisfies my longing like few other things do. I may be crazy, but I’m happy.

Are you?

Dad and son
Dad and son (Photo credit: narice28)

 

 

Having children does not make a rich man poor! Having children makes a poor man rich!

You cannot take your riches to Heaven with you after you die, no matter how much you may try. But if you try hard you may accomplish one day having your children with you in Heaven after you die.

 

Overheard – Kids!