Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

Mark saw some maggots on the ceiling outside our pantry this morning.  This certainly got my attention.  Pantry moths.   It is fly season here, and moth season, so over the last few days when I’ve seen a moth I’ve ignored it.   First mistake. 
But this maggot got my attention and so I […]

I’m tired.  No, beyond tired, exhausted.  Guess that’s what happens when the dogs wake DH up at 5am, then he discovers poop in the hallway, which results in him getting Mark up to 5:03am to clean up the poop,….with the rug cleaner.  Do you know how much noise a rug cleaner makes?  […]

On the 9th I posted about how I felt like I was pushing a rope trying to teach Mark to add and subtract negative numbers and that it was a Sore Subject.
Today Mark went through his math problems, adding and subtracting negative and positive numbers and got them all correct!   He even admitted that […]

Between taking the boys to skating meets we’ve been working diligently on the kitchen.  Our cup runneth over though and we really want this job finished.   In the last month we have:
wood floors installed in kitchen-eating-area, family room, foyer.  All the furniture from these rooms is still located in the living room […]

I took the dogs for a walk this morning as the sun was rising.  It was actually a warm morning, crisp, clean and for the first part of our 3 mile walk no one was out.  Then the school kids started moving toward their bus stops.
“Good Morning”  I shout out in my […]

The boys entered their first inline speed skating outdoor competition on Saturday.  We left home at the early hour of 5am, before the sun was up.  It was cold, foggy, and boy were they ever excited.
We met our team at the local rest area and drove north for almost 2 hours.  The first race was […]

I was chatting with a neighbor, a school teacher, about her position, classroom stuff, and soon the topic moved to science.  She expressed how she loved doing experiments with her little cherubs and I shared how I was turning Mark onto science this year by doing Chemistry experiments with her.   She was quite interested in […]

Today at the Y while working out, striving to get into better shape and lose weight, I saw the t-shirt I want.
TO DO LIST
* BE THE BEST
Well, actually the t-shirt I saw didn’t SAY that, but when I first saw it I thought it said that.  It actually was a West Virginia shirt, and while […]

ugh!  I feel like I am pushing a rope trying to teach Mark math.  At moments I feel like he gets it and then he doesn’t.  Three steps forward and 5 steps backwards is often how I feel it is around here with Mark and Math. Right now he doesn’t get negative numbers,  or […]

Our friends had decided to advertise the Brutus-Snowball pups as “designer dogs”.  Oh please, I asked them ,don’t do this, just find the pups good homes.  No, they went forward, put a really nice website together with photos, put ads out, ….. and I sat wondering how long it would take before Brutus’ […]