The adjective eclectic is one of my favorite words in the English language. Dictionary.com (one of my favorite websites) defines eclectic as “not following any one system…but selecting and using what are considered the best elements of all systems.”
Eclectic describes so much in my life—from my choice of homeschooling curriculum to the furniture in my [...]
Since our August “End ‘08 Great” Challenge is Face Time with the Kids, I thought I’d post my short list of ideas that may help you find ways to spend quality time with your children over the next month.
Read together. Need some ideas for great books? Check out these sites for inspiration.
Caldecott Medal and Honor [...]
Like Mother, Like Daughter. We are a family who live in Central Massachusetts. My husband is a Boston Irish Catholic from a big family. His upbringing was smack dab in the middle of respectable Catholic America, not untinged by 60s unrest.
I am about as different from him as you can get: I’m an only child, my parents are divorced, my father was an immigrant from Egypt, I was raised on the cutting edge of the feminist/relativist/sexual self-fulfillment/diversity revolution. My upbringing was smack dab in the middle of 70s hippie snotty know-it-all America, not untinged by anomie.
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