I held up my camera and took a picture of myself in the hallway’s 180-degree mirror. I had been praying nonstop and was antsy. The decaf vanilla latte was long gone, the vending machine wouldn’t give me a Snickers bar no matter how many times I tried to insert the money, and I just couldn’t sit still any longer. I…
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As we wrap up what I like to think of as “Graduation Party Season,” there is one thought weighing heavily on my mind: This will be us before I even know it. And the truth is, I’m not ready. Not even a little bit. It’s hard enough to think that Cam is now technically a senior, that he is entering is very last…
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It’s official. We wrapped up our homeschool year on May 11, and then spent a couple weeks putting together our portfolio. All that’s left is to meet with our evaluator and we’ll be able to say we have successfully finished our first year of homeschool. Whew. It’s been a great year. A really great year. But it doesn’t take much…
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Okay, we’re just going to look at the bright side here. At least I’m posting these collages once a month, right? And we won’t talk about the fact that the other blog post ideas get left by the wayside or the fact that I didn’t pick up my camera as often in April. Nope, I’ll just say — Hey look,…
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Once again, a month has passed, and my grand intentions to blog have resulted in exactly…nothing. But I keep taking pictures, which is something at least. Again, birds and cats are prominently featured. Clearly, they are my most cooperative subjects.