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Homeschool Creativity – Photography
I think that one of the biggest strengths to homeschooling is that my children get to learn the things that interest them. Because it is self-directed, they often learn faster and retain the information longer. They make connections and learn how to think for themselves instead of just memorizing facts that they will later forget.…
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Christmas Cookies
One thing that I have discovered is that there is never enough time to get done everything that I want to get done. So if something “non-essential” is going to happen, I have to stop what I’m doing to make it happen. Christmas cookies are definitely a “non-essential” thing that is essential to our family’s…
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A Helping Machine
December was a pretty hectic month for Goat Milk Stuff. We were shipping lots and lots of orders while keeping up with bagging soap and making ‘Other Stuff’. My sister-in-law, Heather, kindly offered to come down one weekend to help. It was great. That was actually the weekend that we were selling soap at the Stewart Christmas…
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A Little Levitation
Jim and I ran errands right before Christmas (including getting the boys’ Christmas present). When we came home, I wanted to know where everyone was so we could get the present inside. I called out, “Where is everyone?” I heard Emery’s voice yell from the boys’ room, “We’re levitating!” To which I replied, “You’re what????” The…
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Lather Up!
In economics, there is a principle called “opportunity cost”. It basically means that when you choose to do something, you choose to not do something else. The opportunity cost is what you could have gotten if you had instead chosen the “something else”. There is an opportunity cost to producing a lot of lather in…
