Homeschool Hammock

A Year Can Bring Big Changes

Published on 2010-02-19 08:44:20

The last time I updated my blog, I had made one wedding dress and now I’ve made two…and a wedding cake.  There were certainly no thoughts of moving 600 miles from home, but that has happened, too.  It seems I have been really busy over the past 8 months or so and it would have [...]

2 Boys + Legos + R2D2=Too Good to be True!

Published on 2009-03-30 18:32:56

This weekend the Lego store near our house had a special event where kids could build lego bricks.  A Lego Master Builder was on hand to use the bricks to put together an 8-foot-tall R2D2 built entirely out of Legos.  We went on Friday and Colin and Eamon built a few bricks of each color [...]

Eating with chopsticks 101

Published on 2009-03-09 10:03:21

Eamon usually does surprisingly well eating with chopsticks when we cook Chinese food. However, he is used to eating rice and some version of stir-fry. One night when we had lo mein, he tickled us with his method of getting the noodles to/in his mouth. For anyone wanting lessons on a proper [...]

Basketball 2009

Published on 2009-03-09 09:54:35

Colin’s basketball season just ended and we’re a little sad for it to be over. We enjoyed it more than the last time he played. He improved so much over the course of four months of practice and 7 games. He plays excellent defense and he finally scored two points during the [...]

Snow in Georgia? Sometimes…

Published on 2009-03-09 09:42:34

Growing up in South Georgia, I never saw much snow; as an adult, I’m still excited to see the flakes falling from the sky.  The boys were thrilled that we got snow, no matter how little.  At one point the flakes were huge!  They were the biggest snowflakes I have ever seen!  Eamon said it [...]

Wedding 11/11/08

Published on 2009-02-03 13:18:10

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A glimpse of Spring and Summer 2008

Published on 2008-12-18 20:41:18

Sometimes the drab color palette of the outdoors this time of year gets me down. Just in case you’re the same, I wanted to share some pictures I took of flowers in my yard over the past year. Most of the flowers I planted I chose because they attract birds or butterflies. [...]

Making up for lost time…

Published on 2008-11-22 18:21:16

Here are some of the things we’ve been up to recently. This was the inside of the pumpkin when I cut it in half. I love the way you can see three distinct sections. This is the pumpkin after I baked it. The pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting were wonderful as usual. This was my first experience [...]

Dresses

Published on 2008-11-22 18:05:26

Well, after six weeks and a lot of work, I finished sewing a wedding dress and two bridesmaid dresses. I don’t have pictures from the wedding yet, but I will post them as soon as I can. What a mess! In order to cut out the wedding dress, I had to completely rearrange the [...]

A Beautiful Day for a Walk in the Park!

Published on 2008-11-04 06:55:46

On Saturday, we got up and decided to drive to a nearby park. It turned out to be even better than we could have imagined. We set out to identify trees using a field guide I had checked out from the library. I know the names of a lot of trees, but [...]