C’est Bon!

UPDATE: Apparently Rosetta Stone was not making enough money with all of us using versions at the library, so they have terminated all library contracts. The only way to use this amazing program is to pay a lot of money for it. We ended up saving for a year or so and purchasing this program.

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Make Way for Ducklings

Things have been far too serious around here, this week. Last night was a beautiful breath of fresh air as we enacted our own urban version of Robert McCloskey’s Make Way for Ducklings.

Our neighbour interrupted our dinner to let us know that a Mallard Duck and her eight ducklings was caught between our . . . → Read More: Make Way for Ducklings

Time Out

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ~Robert Orben

MrPages and I are going away on a marriage retreat this week to a little cabin in the boonies, so we will be away from the blog for several days. We’ve scheduled a few posts to come up, but . . . → Read More: Time Out

Parenting Quote for the Day

“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.” Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Parrots and Rebels

Lyndon made a wise point in a comment on my last post that I think is worthy of addressing.

When I got on my soapbox about our children doing as we do, it was a response to the question, “How do I get my child to read? He hates reading!” from a fellow home schooler . . . → Read More: Parrots and Rebels