Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

Today was a ME day. Just me, myself, and I doing what we wanted to do. This is something I have not done in years. I started planing this this morning, right after I heard the boys making a ruckus of noise at 6:30AM. What the heck were they doing up [...]

MK and I went out food shopping this morning. Just a quick run to the store to pick up coffee, milk, doughnuts, mail a book-box, and pick-up Starbucks coffee. Ummm, is that good. On the way back I listened to NPR and heard a Dad talk about his young dd who died [...]

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This is that time of the year when folks start debating and thinking about standardized testing.
Should we or shouldn’t we? What will it tell me that I don’t already know? Do I really want to put my child through this process of being compared to some ’standard’? Do I really [...]

I wrote before about Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva, and about a little boy in my town, in my homeschool community who has this disease. A story about Justin is in my local paper today and about his mom.
Here’s how you can help:
The association is sponsoring a “Stride to Cure” on May 6 in [...]

“If we head out west next summer can we go through the Badlands again?” asked MilitaryKid.
“Sure. You really liked the Badlands?”
“Yea, It was a neat place. Did you know that Teddy Roosevelt really liked the Badlands?
Of course that was before he was President.”
Actually it was while he [...]

Unfortunately there isn’t a Ben & Jerry’s anywhere close to my home so I won’t be having a Ben & Jerry free cone on Tuesday.  But maybe there is one close to your home and you can go there and have a Free Cone for me.  I love Ice Cream.  To find the store near [...]

What a fun day we had today, well, right after I checked on MilitaryKid to confirm that I had been dreaming that he was being beaten up, and that he was OK. Ever have a dream like that? I hate those kind, where you aren’t sure if what just happened was in your [...]

Today at noon we returned from a trip to my Dad’s home, and our visit to Penn State University’s Earth and Mineral Science Museum. Sometime in my youth I visited PSU’s Mineral Museum and google-eyed all the minerals and rocks. Vast displays of these ‘things’, all labeled and neatly [...]

Something I have been hearing often, way too often, is the misuse of the pronoun ME. It grates on my nerves, I shudder, and I slip into quickly stating when I hear:
Me and Sam want to get together to play, can we?
Sam and I ….
And then it happens again by the [...]