Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

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+ […]

Choices. How is one to ever know the effect a choice they make will have? I’ve been thinking about this issue quite a bit lately. We all make countless choices and decisions everyday. Some matter very little; should I have a glass of water or a […]

A neighbor called yesterday and asked if the boys would like to earn $15 each to backfill a 60′ water line trench. We really like this neighbor and they always make time to talk with our boys. Nice folks. I said yes and sent the boys over after school was done […]

So here I was, up on a ladder leaning percariously on a tree limb 15′ up in the air, picking cherries. In the tree beside mine was a 70yo woman also up on a ladder filling her bucket with the precious fruit.
“Hi” I called out, “What are you going to do with your […]

This morning I received the following email from a fellow homeschooler I first met shortly after I moved to Delaware. Wendy and her family had also just moved to our little part of Delaware. In her email Wendy requested that we spread the word about F.O.P. to our […]

What a fun day we had yesterday. Our day started with a late morning breakfast; at least eating breakfast at 10am is late for me, and then strolling along Lake Michigan at the Indiana Sand Dunes for a few hours. What a beautiful area. We finished our day by meeting 758 other people […]

I was cruising around the Blog World and stopped to read Barefoot Musings What type of homeschooler are you? post and decided to take the quiz to see what type of homeschooler I am. Self-doubt raising its head again,…maybe I should be approaching our hs’ing someother way. After all there are allot of […]

There it is, out in the open, I turned the BIG FIVE-ZERO today.
I did a Google search on turning fifty. One site suggested that I should buy a box of chocolates with fifty candies and eat one a day for fifty days? I know me well enough to know I’d eat all fifty in fifty […]

Tomorrow starts IOWA Test of Basic Skills, ITBS, for MilitaryKid, and runs every morning for three days. Several years ago a couple hs friends learned that I administered the IOWA to my kids every spring and asked to join in. We tested in my home and while it was tight the kids used […]

We took off the last 2 days and traveled to visit my Dad. He’s looking much better and the new chemo treatment is not affecting his daily life. No one is sure if this drug will affect the cancer either. One thing is for sure, he has dramatically […]