Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

The house is quiet today. Too quiet. My thoughts keep drifting off to ScienceKid. What is he doing? How is he doing? Where is he, exactly?
I’m sure he is safe. No news is good news, right?
This is the first time he has been away from me, really away. […]