Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

MilitaryKid drew up the following contract: I will take total responsibility, except financial responsibility, which includes but is not limited to: poop duty two to three times a week cleaning up messes in the house brushing weekly feed daily walk twice daily provide clean water twice daily take dog out in the middle of the [...]

This is something I’ve been wanting to share for the last 6 months; a project that I’m quite proud of and replying to a post at The Homeschool Library got me thinking that I really needed to share this. High School electives are not something I really thought too much about when I was planning [...]

ScienceKid had decided to build a strip-built kayak and though this project is not complete he has already learned some valuable skills. The strips first went up the boat sides and then he met a new challenge. How to bend the strips so they would now run parallel to the ground? He contemplated that for [...]

In light of dealing with a clogged waste pipe, the main pipe from our home to our septic tank, and water all over the kitchen floor and basement first thing this morning, I’ve decided to share a joke I heard in the car last evening.  After dropping ScienceKid off in NJ for his camping trip [...]

This post is for Sue; in her Christmas card she shared that she enjoyed the recipes on my blog. So, I decided to share some of the food hits from our Christmas this year.  This one is for you Sue! *********** As a teenager and young adult every Christmas was spent at my eldest sister’s [...]

Last evening after the presents were unwrapped, the stomachs were all stuffed, the dishes washed, the boys were off playing their new Age of Empires game, I turned on my PC. And there it was, a comment from a reader: Hello, I just wanted to stop by and tell you Thank You!!! This particular blog [...]

We have a few items to wrap this evening; ScienceKid is hanging fiberglass in the workshop’s ceiling area while Pat watches, MilitaryKid is watching Christmas movies, and I’m re-organizing my pull-out shelves. Pat left a note–the BUILDER is NOT responsible for OVERSTUFFED shelves. Yea, very funny. He enjoys finding me with something disorganized since that [...]

Puppy Bows. I love seeing a dog greet another dog; dropping down on his forearms so his chest and face are on the ground while his butt is high in the air. He’s saying, please play, don’t you want to play with me, as his tail wags wildly. It is a wonderful signal dogs use [...]

So we’re riding home from seeing our friend’s puppies and take the overpass over Rt 95. “Look down there. It looks like a parking lot.” “Yea, that store must be really crowded.” Now, Military Kid has never been one to have great conversational skills, or one to be a talker, or one to articulately express [...]

Things have been rough here and as my mom always told me; ‘if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything.’ Which means I have had to be quiet. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We did and had a celebration full of traditional food and seafood. It was good, for the [...]