The Carnival of Homeschooling week 206 was published today at The Homeschool Post. I have an entry in this blog carnival. This Carnival provides a lot of homeschool-related reading. Take a look! If you have a blog or a website and write about...

A story from a few days ago... My twelve year old said he used his last homeschool assignment list. I was busy and asked him to print it off of the computer upstairs. He has not used Microsoft Word much but he knows enough that I could tell him the...

Four hours of my time last night and this morning: the start of my Thorn Hailfly cardigan sweater based on the Roving Moss cardigan in the Jane Thornley Feather n Fan pattern. See explantion here. If my blogging is light see here. Disclosure: I...

Red Oak trees produce acorns every two years. This was a bumper crop year. Some acorns were an inch long and quite fat! Photo copyright ChristineMM. Taken in my yard on 11/14/09, Fairfield County, Connecticut.copyright 2005-2009 The Thinking Mother

Just throwing it out there that sometimes a person is busy doing the stuff. Other times the person wants to talk (or write or blog) about the activity. Other times the person isn't doing the stuff but feels like talking about it. Sometimes a person...