Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

This is Thanksgiving week for us which means field trips, cooking, book reading and craft projects. But not this year. This year I didn’t want to go anywhere, but wanted to do something different. Plus we have had this dissection kit sitting around here for almost a year, which will go bad […]

Military Kid is studying Earth-Space Science this year and for the first time this hs’er is using a science textbook. ScienceKid for Logic Age Earth-Space Science used Reader’s Digest books How the Earth Works?, How the Weather Works, and How the Universe Works? They were just the right books for SK […]

ScienceKid and I went into Philadelphia this morning and attended the NACAC College Fair held at the Philadelphia Convention Center. I know I said that we wouldn’t go to another college fair but I changed my mind.
Lots of people, many more girls than boys, walking the aisles and looking at colleges. Why is […]

ScienceKid attended another YESS session last evening. They posted all the speakers notes on the web under the 2007 button so you can see what they are covering. Last evening for the design-project task the kids were given a dry solids mixture and worked in groups of 5 to separate out the […]

ScienceKid and I went to his first college fair at U of De last evening. Crowds! Folks pushing to get around tables to talk with the recruiters. And the questions — what’s the minimum GPA you accept at your college question was the one I heard most frequently. Ours was […]

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 […]

Finally we had our first full week of school. Actually it included our first full day of school too. I haven’t been much in the mood to post about it either. It just seems strange to have such a late start but that’s life. We had other life happenings take place.
This […]

ScienceKid had a BLAST on his trip to Mt. Washington. He talked non-stop since I picked him up at 8:30 until we got home at 10pm. He gave me a minute-by-minute account of his days. Details galore. I introduced myself to each of the leaders when I picked him […]

And so the question was posed to me.
MOM, Can I make pretzels?
What could I say? It’s too hot to cook. But no, I said GO FOR IT.
MilitaryKid went to the net and found the recipe for Auntie Anne’s Pretzels or one claiming to be quite similar to it. And this […]

MilitaryKid loves pretzels. So I wasn’t too surprised when he asked for me to purchase the make-your-own pretzel package when we stopped at our Amish Grocery Store. I suggested though that MK make the pretzels and he agreed.
Once home he happily pulled out the bowls, gathered his supplies, turned on the oven, […]