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Dura Mater: (Latin) Tough Mother.
First time here?
Me
- C
- I'm mothering five gorgeous, perfect children, and homeschooling three of them. I am one of the best-blessed mamas in the universe. Oh and -- there's the small matter of neuro issues here. I suspect that somehow the littlest one's Special Needs behave as some sort of condenser that delivers unusual configurations of Rainbows, Butterflies and Bliss, right in the midst of the ubiquitous and itinerant crazy bits. So we have some stories to tell.
Followers
Cast
- Carrie - me, the mama
- G - firstborn boy
- E - firstborn girl
- K - middlest girl
- S - youngest girl
- Q - the caboose, the boy that makes it bookends, the last little duck, who has polymicrogyria, moderate spastic quad CP, and a smile that melts glaciers.
I read (not necessarily G rated)
- Because I Said So
- Bird on the Street*
- Confessions of a Pioneer Woman
- God's Politics
- Healthy Mom
- Helping Mason*
- Homeschooling the Doctorate?
- Inside the Foil Hat
- Just C
- Livin' In a Blue Hick Town
- Lutradur and Lace Adventures
- Mental multivitamin
- Miracles: Because they do happen....*
- My Sons Three*
- New Mercies Every Day
- notes from the trenches
- Out of the Gray
- Percytruffle's Place
- Run Mother, Run!
- SCHOLA
- Schuyler's Monster: The Blog*
- Skyward Journey*
- Soliloquy
- Style with Purpose
- Terrible Palsy*
- The Classical Circus
- The Country Doctor's Wife
- The Funny Farm
- Tree River
- Under the Sky
- Zoo on Wheels
Blogs, etc. that link here
- 5 Minutes For Mom
- and the mama
- Apollos Academy
- Bad Mama*
- better than normal*
- Classical Beginnings
- Doc's Sunrise Rants
- Life and Times of the Justinich Family
- My Two Blessings
- Redefining Paradise
- The Cul-de-sac Chronicles
- The Next Generation
- Trivium Academy
- Turtle Works (fka: Needleroozer's Blog)
- Writes-and-Wrongs
What? No! Um, yes, actually.
* Denotes people I've "met" because of Q and his PMG.
Curriculum, or: Stuff We've Used and Liked
- Prismacolor Pencils
- Dover Coloring Books
- Notebook covers
- Kingfisher Encyclopedias
- Usborne Reference Books
- Brock Magiscope
- Science in a Nutshell
- Story of the World I - IV
- Rosetta Stone Language Instruction
- Latin For Children
- First Language Lessons
- Zaner-Bloser Handwriting
- Dover Thrift Edition Series
- Writing Strands
- Rod and Staff English
- Spelling Power
- Spelling Workout
- Developmental Math
- Singapore Math
- Saxon Math
Special Needs and Brain Stuff
Favorite Books - Young Children
- Eric Carle boardbooks
- In the Night Kitchen
- Jamberry boardbook
- My Bible Friends
- No, David!
- Prayer for a Child boardbook
- Sandra Boynton boardbooks
- The Toot and Puddle picturebook series
- Where the Wild Things Are
Favorite Books - Kids
- Anne of Green Gables series
- Diane Stanley biographies
- Heidi
- Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire books
- Lord of the Rings
- Madeleine L'Engle books
- Shakespeare Stories for Kids
- Story of the World series
- The Bible Story set
- The Door In the Wall
- The Emily series by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- The Jungle Book
- The Little Princess
- The Secret Garden
- The Wheel on the School
- Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories
Favorite Books - Grown-ups
- Expecting Adam
- Finding Your Own North Star
- Ruthless Trust
- The Message and the NIV, side by side
- Traveling Mercies: Thoughts on Faith
- Woman: An Intimate Geography
Favorite Books - Reference for Grown-ups
- Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline
- The Challenging Child
- The Out of Sync Child
- The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce
- The Well-Trained Mind
Labels
- advocacy (1)
- bucket list (2)
- do something (30)
- funny (7)
- garden (3)
- good tools (3)
- homeschool (29)
- info (45)
- kid stories (3)
- laughs (2)
- misc (10)
- misc. (202)
- musing (168)
- once upon a time (32)
- photos (14)
- poetry (3)
- Q (206)
- quotes (65)
- recipe (1)
- run (2)
- silliness (2)
- thank you (22)
- three good things (13)
- update (213)
- whine (51)
- wish list (6)
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But what is happiness except simple harmony between a person and the life they lead?
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sing, dance, throw your head back...
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2 comments:
I hear ya!!! The open-ness of my house is nice but the fact that there are 12 stairs to get to different levels of the house sucks!!
Worthy of your thoughts.
Barbara
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