Monthly Archives: April 2005

A day in our Homeschool

We’ve been a little lax on school lately. Spring is in the air and we’re itching to get outside, but we have stuck to our bare-bones routine. We sing a song (or several if Jonah gets his way) and say a prayer, then Brenna works on memorizing the Articles of Faith. She’s on number 6 now. Then we read. Brenna reads me a book, I read a book Jonah picks out, and then I read a chapter of our latest novel. Right now we’re working on The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S.Lewis. Usually we do some penmanship practice and I set Brenna free to color and draw to her hearts content. She’s become pretty serious about her art lately.

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Here’s an orchestra she drew yesterday while listening to classical radio.

My advice to young girls everywhere:

Marry someone who knows how to do everything that you don’t.

Case in point– this website. I was ready for a change, made a few graphics with an ancient version of Adobe Freehand and, wala! Barry the computer genius did all the hard work. I just don’t have the patience or inclination to figure out all the programming stuff. There are too many things like these <> / [] \ and my brain turns to cheese and my eyes cross. But, being married makes it like I have two brains– and when the nearest one is completely inadequate, I can just turn the problem over to the other.

So, now that I have a new and improved sight, my mission is to have a crafty blog as cool as her (or her or her or her).