http://themindfulhomeschool.homeschooljournal.net Life with three kids and a yoga mat Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:12:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Love is the greatest commandment on which all other commandments are based;  We are here to bring a particular gift of talent into the world, without which the world would be a poorer place;   Time is a gift that is only given to us moment by moment; The gifts of ... http://themindfulhomeschool.homeschooljournal.net/2008/10/13/mindfully-celebrating-birthdays-and-childhood/ Today was my 8 yo's birthday.  We started the day with coffee cake and ended the day with chocolate birthday cake!  We went shopping, ate yummy food, told stories about what W was like when he was little, and swam and "hot-tubbed" at our local health club.  He and his ... http://themindfulhomeschool.homeschooljournal.net/2008/10/09/grateful/ I have got it.  Don't know what to do about it.  Stuck. Here's the thing.  I don't know who my audience is.  I want to communicate with other parents and love to talk about yoga and homeschooling and books and poetry and motherhood but ...  who is listening?  I have tons to say and I ... http://themindfulhomeschool.homeschooljournal.net/2008/10/08/writers-block/ I am always amazed ... ... that doing just 10 minutes of yoga stretches and mindful breathing can make me feel so much better. ... how much my 7 yo son loves animals.  (On Friday we saw chickens at a farm we were visiting.  W just adored them.  I guess I am going to have ... http://themindfulhomeschool.homeschooljournal.net/2008/09/27/i-am-always-amazed/ Dh and I were able to go out for a night on the town on Saturday.  We were able to drop the kids off at my brother's house and go out for dinner together.  This is such a rare treat for us.  And it was a win-win situation because our ... http://themindfulhomeschool.homeschooljournal.net/2008/09/22/our-night-out-to-a-local-cafe/ We have had a few moments over here that are notable.  Today my dd was able to read the Chinese character for "mountain" on my Chinese tea box.  All but the name of the tea, which by the way was "Lingtou Single-Bush Tea" (???), was written in kanji and she spotted ... http://themindfulhomeschool.homeschooljournal.net/2008/09/15/todays-brighter-moments/ You taste delicious and of beans.                                                                                                                                       ______ Summer juice mist go. (P.S.   I could only use refrigerator magnet words.) http://themindfulhomeschool.homeschooljournal.net/2008/09/13/refrigerator-magnet-poems-by-c/ We spent the earlier part of this week camping and vacationing on the beautiful shore of Lake Superior.  We tent camped at a site that had a good view of Split Rock Lighthouse and a path leading down to the rocky shoreline.   We hiked and ate wild raspberries along the ... http://themindfulhomeschool.homeschooljournal.net/2008/09/13/family-vacation-to-lake-superior/ We have "officially" started back to school.  We are concentrating on a Charlotte Mason approach this year and I am borrowing lots of good ideas from Ambleside Online.  We are doing short lessons in the morning in math, copywork and reading.  There is still lots of time to play outdoors ... http://themindfulhomeschool.homeschooljournal.net/2008/09/04/hurt-no-living-thing-and-our-start-to-cm-hsing/ Songs of Innocence-The Schoolboy by William Blake I love to rise in a summer morn When the birds sing on every tree; The distant huntsman winds his horn, And the skylark sings with me. Oh, what sweet company!But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh! it drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn The little ... http://themindfulhomeschool.homeschooljournal.net/2008/08/31/the-schoolboy-by-william-blake/