Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

I love making cookies and would have tins and tins of them in my home at all times. They are one sweet item that doesn’t tempt me too often however an adult cookie monster lives in my home and in the freezer too. Cookies are just not safe anywhere in our home. [...]

Yes, that’s MK’s food pyramid.

Since I won’t allow him to eat just that he sticks them on Peanut Butter Blossoms.   Sorry, no photos of the finished lot since they’re consumed FAST. 

Monday began a new chapter in our homeschool. For the first time in a very long time I did not have on my near-term calendar a trip out of town to care for my Dad or one for cleaning his house. Our new chapter actually began this [...]

As I mentioned in my meme, Monday morning very early I took off for my Dad’s home, arriving before 8am, and it is almost a 4hr drive. Do the math and you’ll quickly see that I got up and out of here at an ungodly, and very cold hour.
Once to my Dad’s home I [...]

First, I rarely do meme’s but since I have nothing nice to say these days (which is why I have been quiet) I will do this meme.
Two names you go by: Mom and ‘our baby’.  The first I adore hearing the second I cringed everytime I heard it.  Thankfully I no longer hear it.
Two [...]

I’d return in a heartbeat to paradise. St. John’s, Virgin Island, USA.

HELP!!  The sofa from my Dad’s home smells musty.  How do I get rid of the odor?
This morning I attended a neighbor’s funeral, 58yo man, veteran of Vietnam, firefighter for 25 yrs.  Hard, quite hard.
MilitaryKid got together with his Science Olympiad partner today.   The other mom is taking the lead and getting the boys to [...]

On Saturday we loaded a 17′ U-Haul with furniture from my Dad’s home and moved it into our home. ScienceKid was amazing. He worked his butt off carrying one heavy piece after another into his Aunts’ trucks. We still have much work left before the house is cleaned-out throughly but allot of [...]

The past several months have been super stressful for me since I’m co-executor on my Dad’s estate. I’ve spent many days and weekends at his home going through drawers, organizing items into different areas, and going through piles upon piles of store receipts and checks kept for the last 30+ [...]

Yesterday we moved furniture pieces out of my Dad’s home. ScienceKid worked his butt off carrying heavy piece after heavy piece out of the house and into his Aunts’ trucks. Thank yous were never heard except from his Dad and me. Just another couple of weeks and this affair should [...]