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  • I Have a Dishwasher

    Yes, after a decade of hand-washing, I have a dishwasher.

    Last Friday my husband and I decided it was finally time (actually we got tired of not seeing the countertop for the dirty dishes) so we sat down out the computer and started researching makes and models. Our [...]
    Posted: October 09, 2009, 8:45am EDT
  • Oh Yeah...My Birthday

    Forgot to mention that it was my birthday yesterday. I'm now 36. I only mention that because I wanted to crow over my gifts.

    The hubby and kids gave me two things: chocolates and an MP3 player.

    Chocolates - These came from a local shop and' [...]
    Posted: October 01, 2009, 10:38am EDT
  • Homemaking and Feminism - Is There a Term for This?

    I've been bothered for some time by some elements of feminism that seem to dismiss the value of work that's traditionally done by women. This would be things like baking, needlework, housecleaning, etc. All the stuff I'm learning to enjoy, value and am becoming increasingly determined my kids should learn.' [...]
    Posted: October 01, 2009, 10:02am EDT
  • Another Scary Story About Canadian Health Care

    As a Canadian I feel I'm in a good position to let my American friends know what health care in Canada is like. I know you guys are having a bit of a debate down there and I know stories about Canadian health care and how horrid it is are' [...]
    Posted: September 22, 2009, 2:36pm EDT
  • Need a Belly Laugh?

    Head on over to FUPenguin. It's the perfect remedy for LOL Cats overload. Lots of bad words but I promise that if your sense of humour runs a little on the snarky side you'll be thanking me. [...]
    Posted: September 18, 2009, 9:58pm EDT
  • I Got Math All Wrong

    I read a post at Kitchen Table Math the other day which linked to a presentation (in pdf) by H. Wu called From Arithmetic to Algebra.

    It's an excellent read and led to the revelation (for me anyway) that Algebra isn't about letters stuck in math [...]
    Posted: September 14, 2009, 10:52am EDT
  • Do You Know Where Our Homeschooling Stuff Is?

    After our false start in August I was eager to get back to homeschooling this week. Did I? No.

    Why?

    I have no idea where anything is.

    Singapore Math has dissapeared. Writing Tales is nowhere to be found. First Language Lessons for [...]
    Posted: September 12, 2009, 10:54am EDT
  • Back From Toronto

    Wonderful trip.

    I got to re-connect with my brother who I haven't really had a decent conversation with in over a decade. I got to know my sister-in-law better. She honestly seems to fit into our family so comfortably that qualifying the sister label with in-law hardly seems' [...]
    Posted: September 09, 2009, 11:46am EDT
  • My Mind is in the Gutter

    One more quick post.

    I don't know what's with me lately but I've been misreading things in disastrously wrong ways lately.

    The first instance was a couple of weeks ago when I noticed the word "hospice" above the headline of our community newspaper. The "o" was also' [...]
    Posted: August 31, 2009, 5:35pm EDT
  • Leavin' on a Jet Plane

    Wednesday morning Catherine, my sister and I are flying up to Toronto to see one of my brothers, my sister-in-law and my one year old niece. I'll only be gone until Sunday but I'm looking forward to it. I haven't seen my brother or my sister-in-law (a wonderful woman -' [...]
    Posted: August 31, 2009, 4:57pm EDT
  • Getting in Shape (with actual content this time!)

    Sorry about the last empty post. I have no idea what happened to make it publish before I was done. Weird.

    Anyway, about getting in shape. Today was a beautiful day in the neighbourhood, all sun, blue skies and cool breezes, so I was outside stacking wood and [...]
    Posted: August 27, 2009, 6:53pm EDT
  • Getting in Shape

    Posted: August 27, 2009, 6:51pm EDT
  • Long Time, No Type

    Next summer, around the end of July, please email me and let me know that, for the love of all that's fluffy, homeschooling in August is an insanely stupid idea.

    There might be parts of the world where it's okay but here in Nova Scotia where no [...]
    Posted: August 18, 2009, 4:31pm EDT
  • No Place for Kids

    Joanne Jacobs has a post about a Montana mom who was charged with endangerment after dropping 5 kids off at the mall. Two were 12 and supposed to be responsible for the three younger ones. Full story is here, Endangered at the Mall.

    There used to be [...]
    Posted: July 09, 2009, 8:45am EDT
  • Tomatoes and Bird of Prey

    Sometimes, life is just too cool.

    Yesterday I was getting supper ready and I grabbed a tomato and began slicing it up. I only managed to get as far as the first slice however because when the slice fell away I saw what looked like maggots inside the [...]
    Posted: July 08, 2009, 10:19am EDT
  • She's Riding a Horse!

    Catherine's two weeks of riding lessons are almost up. The lady who's teaching her kindly sent along some pictures. I don't really know anything about riding but I don't think she looks to bad in the saddle.


    Of course she's got to pay for these' [...]
    Posted: June 25, 2009, 7:20pm EDT
  • An Excellent Text for the Safe Use and Storage of Firearms

    Yesterday I took a drive into town and went to the local community college to register for a firearms safety course on the weekend. This course is mandatory in Canada if you want to get your FAC (Firearms Acquisition Certificate). Without an FAC you can't use a firearm or even' [...]
    Posted: June 24, 2009, 8:22am EDT
  • I Get Pi

    I've never liked Pi. In school I was told that it was 3.14 and I remembered after school that it had something to do with circles and that it went on forever but there my understanding ended and I was lost.

    Until recently when I decided to' [...]
    Posted: June 22, 2009, 3:06pm EDT
  • Here's Our Black Bear


    I'm not convinced this is the guy we saw a couple of weeks back. This guy seems smaller. It was at around 6:45 am when I heard something banging about on the porch off the master bath. Then the dog started growling at the french' [...]
    Posted: June 13, 2009, 9:18pm EDT
  • We Have Horses...And More

    Well, not us but the new neighbours across the road. Ever since we first moved in the gossip on this country road has been about how the other new folks were going to move their horses in. The new neighbours moved in at the end of April and have been [...]
    Posted: June 11, 2009, 7:12am EDT
  • Carnival of Homeschooling!

    I'm late with this post but Dana was right on time with her edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling! ' [...]
    Posted: June 10, 2009, 9:47pm EDT
  • Finally, Pictures of the House

    I finally took some pictures of the new house (click on them for a more detailed view). I'll do a series of blog posts for you all. First up is the outside.

    The front of the house:


    As you can see I'm in the [...]
    Posted: June 10, 2009, 9:21am EDT
  • Migraines? Me? Who knew?!

    That's right. I've suffered from migraines for years and never had a clue. How is that possible you ask? Well, it takes a misunderstanding about migraines and a great lack of self-unawareness but I assure you, it's certainly possible.

    A few weeks ago I was at the eye' [...]
    Posted: June 05, 2009, 8:52pm EDT
  • Kids Have the Best Punchlines

    About ten mintues ago Harry stomped up from the playroom after yelling at Catherine. I asked him what in the heck he was upset about.

    "Catherine said there's a thing called Hi-purple-lee and I said there isn't!"

    "Hi-purple-lee? Oh, do you mean hyperbole?"

    "Yes! And she said" [...]
    Posted: June 04, 2009, 10:26am EDT
  • Ovid in Our Day

    To say Catherine and I are enjoying Ovid is an understatement. I don't think I've ever read anything aloud as well as Metamorphoses and that's due to the fact that I don't think I've ever enjoyed reading anything aloud so much. Catherine is constantly interrupting with giggles or with connections' [...]
    Posted: June 02, 2009, 10:46am EDT
  • Broadband is Coming!

    I just learned that I will have high speed internet access by the end of this year! Our province had made it a matter of law a couple of years ago that every Nova Scotian have broadband access by the end of 2009. I'd sort of forgotten that.
    [...]
    Posted: June 01, 2009, 2:36pm EDT
  • Be Careful What You Wish For

    Part of the reason this house enchanted Shannon and I so much when we were looking this past winter is the fact that it's surrounded by woodland. Our 2 acres are cleared but we back on woodland that goes back for miles and miles. It's not a green belt but [...]
    Posted: May 29, 2009, 11:36am EDT
  • Ovid! Can You Believe it?

    So how do you get a 10 year old girl to giggle and snuggle in with you on the couch and keep her smiling for a good hour and make her so happy that she ends up hugging you and dancing around the living room?

    Why, you start [...]
    Posted: May 26, 2009, 8:05pm EDT
  • She's in Horse Heaven

    My daughter had a call from my mother today. Seems a neighbour of mom's has offered to teach my daughter how to look after horses and to ride. For free. Catherine would have to spend a couple of weeks at my parent's house but she doesn't seem fazed by that' [...]
    Posted: May 26, 2009, 12:00pm EDT
  • Bird Watching Resources

    In the new house a lot of spare time has been devoted to watching the birds that come out to our feeder. Being on the edge of woodland seems to be a boon as we've been getting quite a variety. Evening Grosbeaks, Purple Finches, Common Grackles, Redpolls, Bluejays, etc. Our' [...]
    Posted: May 03, 2009, 9:56am EDT
  • ALEKS Again

    Okay, we have the month long free trial and Catherine loves it. Too excess. She'll spend and hour and a half to 2 hours a day on it between the site and the worksheets. She thinks exponents and geometry are cool, likes the variety and speeds along at a good' [...]
    Posted: May 01, 2009, 6:16pm EDT
  • Please Help Bring Him Home

    I have been alternately angry with and disappointed with my government for weeks. This is why:
    That's Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Canadian citizen who's been trapped in Sudan for years. He traveled their to visit his sick mother and was jailed and tortured on suspicions of terrorism at [...]
    Posted: April 27, 2009, 6:11am EDT
  • ALEKS Math

    In my last post (from long, long ago) I wrote about Teaching Textbooks. I mentioned that my daughter really liked it but I wasn't all that sure of it. In the comments concernedCTparent pointed me in the direction of ALEKS Math. She mentioned a one month free trial but' [...]
    Posted: April 15, 2009, 10:40pm EDT
  • Teaching Textbooks

    I recently bought Teaching Textbooks Math 6 from a fellow Canuck blogger. It's a program I've been curious about for awhile for a few reasons. The first is that I sometimes find it really hard to explain concepts, even simple ones, to Catherine in a way she understands. TT [...]
    Posted: March 31, 2009, 5:58pm EDT
  • Internet Freedom

    In being away from the cluttered, compressed mess that was our former house I've made a discovery about me and my use of the internet. Formerly, I was pretty much an addict. When I didn't need to be doing something else I was surfing the web, visited forums or reading [...]
    Posted: March 27, 2009, 11:19am EDT
  • More Than Just Owls

    The previous owners of this house dumped a pile of parsnips about 20 feet from the back of the house to feed the local deer through the winter. This parsnip pile was actually one of the things we were most excited about when we moved in. Imagine, sitting at your [...]
    Posted: March 19, 2009, 10:16am EDT
  • Another Sighting

    At dusk tonight I was sitting in the living room playing Mahjong on the computer. I looked out the window and there in ine of the telephone poles that lines our driveway was an owl. He was huge and I think, a Barred Owl.

    [...]
    Posted: March 17, 2009, 7:52pm EDT
  • Finally...

    I'm back. It's taken forever to get hooked up to the internet again for a variety of reasons I won't get into except to say that I still can't get on on MY computer which irks me to no end because I hate pounding on this stupid laptop keyboard.
    [...]
    Posted: March 13, 2009, 3:07pm EDT
  • For Real This Time.

    The cable man is coming this morning to take away my high speed internet. I'm not sure when I'll get the internet connection sorted out at the other house so I could be back on the weekend or it might have to wait until Monday.

    Either way, [...]
    Posted: February 25, 2009, 7:45am EST
  • A Guessing Game

    I know I said I wasn't going to post but...I don't know. Maybe knowing I'll be withut high speed in two days is inspiring a sort of post rush. Regardless, I have a riddle for you all.

    Harry and I played a game today. We watched TV and' [...]
    Posted: February 23, 2009, 8:22pm EST
  • I Just Have to Say This About Sean Penn.

    I've already heard people speaking up on message boards about how insulting they found Sean Penn's acceptance speech. He implied, they say, that anyone who voted for Prop 8 was motivated by hate.

    Sean Penn drove past this on Oscar night:


    [...]
    Posted: February 23, 2009, 4:42pm EST
  • I'll be Back in One Week.

    Okay. This is it. Only a few more days until closing on both this house and the one we're buying.

    I'm going to take a break from posting until next Sunday when hopefully we'll have the basics set up in the new house and I'll have my [...]
    Posted: February 22, 2009, 4:01pm EST
  • Shhh! It's a Surprise!

    With the move only one week away we're picking up some furniture we'll need. Last week we found a 7 piece Maple dining room set for $450 on Kijiji. This week I ordered a new mattress set for us and a mate's bed for Catherine from Sears. This weekend we' [...]
    Posted: February 20, 2009, 9:05am EST
  • The Places a Nintendo DS Can Take You

    My daughter has 100 Classic Books for her Nintendo DS. She loaded it up yesterday and started looking through the titles which range from Dickens to Shakesspeare, from the Bronte sisters to Jane Austen. There are also quite a few childrens book; Alice in Wonderland, The Secret Garden, Black Beauty...I [...]
    Posted: February 17, 2009, 7:06pm EST
  • Waiting

    It's going to kill me, this waiting to move thing. I'm not good with anticipation. Waiting for something big is almost painful and this new house thing is huge. 11 more days.

    See, I still can't get to sleep, stay asleep or sleep in at Christmas. When I' [...]
    Posted: February 16, 2009, 9:11pm EST
  • Guess that Genre

    Harry came up to me while I was on the computer. He said he wanted me to find some music for him. I asked him what kind.

    Him: "The kind that goes like this...Da da da DA, da da da DA."

    Me: "Um, that's helpful but do you'" [...]
    Posted: February 13, 2009, 7:10pm EST
  • Stay off my Doorstep.

    I had a visit from my JW lady. She comes around a few times a year and I generally look forward to her visits. She's pleasant and it's a nice break in the day.

    Not today though. Today she thought she'd tell me about all the signs' [...]
    Posted: February 09, 2009, 11:28am EST
  • House Inspection

    We had the house inspection today. The inspector was pleased, said we were lucky and that it was nice to inspect a house without any real problems. And he loved the view. Everybody loves the view. And why not, today we looked out the window and saw a windtower that [...]
    Posted: February 07, 2009, 1:23pm EST
  • We Got the House

    Part me can't believe this. We're supposed to live in little cheap houses where there's always a long list of stuf to be done. Not a new build that looks spectacular and only needs some trim.

    The inspection is on Saturday and we close on the 27th.[...]
    Posted: February 04, 2009, 7:08am EST
  • The Decision

    Last night we looked at one last house. It was a huge century home with a 1 acre lot in the middle of a nearby village. It had a wrap around deck. It had gorgeous firplaces all over the place. It had hardwood floors and original trim. It had a [...]
    Posted: February 02, 2009, 7:57pm EST

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