by Alice Nine | In My Classroom, Literacy |
She wrote: “I’m considering homeschooling my soon to be kindergartner and have no idea how to do so.” I responded . . . Welcome to the homeschooling journey! You can do it. You may feel inadequate. You may wonder what to do and then you’ll...
by Alice Nine | In My Classroom, Literacy |
She wrote, “I am very very new to homeschooling . . .” and asked for help. So I wrote: “Ah! The homeschooling journey! Think of it as another facet of your motherhood. Homeschooling is the best investment (time and money) our family has ever made....
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, For Fun |
Slice of Life No. 25.0423 #Family #Memories #SOL25 It was when we still owned the big lot as everyone called it, the lot that was a block long, the empty lot bordering our property, the lot we mowed with a rented riding mower. It was before we sold that lot and the...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
#SOL2025 0407 This year, I haven’t see the nasty big flies that come in the spring. Not yet, anyway.Maybe we won’t get them.Maybe spring is late.Maybe they will come today since our highs have been climbing into the 60s. Does anyone else get an adrenaline...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Journey of Faith Journal #25-0325 “Pray without ceasing” 1 Thessalonians 5:17 “This, then, is how you should pray: … Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven… ” Matthew 6:9-10 I want to encourage you to pray without ceasing as...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Winter is over; bring on spring with slow walks under a warm sun along a country path bordered by daffodils. Sounds sooooo good! Ah! Spring!How do you define spring?Days turn warmer with nights still chillyLeaves on trees begin again to growFlowers bloom to cheer...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Alice Nine’s Journey of Faith JournalMarch 22, 2020 It is a peaceful quiet Sunday morning. Breakfast in our warm kitchen: A bowl of steel cut oatmeal with a bit of heavy cream and brown sugar. A crunchy heel of rustic bread, toasted almost to the burn stage,...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
On the night of His betrayal, “When Jesus had spoken…, He went out with His disciples … there was a garden, which He and His disciples entered. … Then Judas, having received a detachment of troops, and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, came there...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
It’s July, the month of blueberries! This year we are still waiting for them to ripen… any day now! When I was a girl in New Jersey, we picked them in the wild. Now my dear friend Karen shares her verdant blueberry patch with us. Ah, blueberries are so...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Last weekend we had three days that were over 100. Saturday’s high was 108; Sunday’s was 112, and on Monday, we scorched at 116. The highest temperature ever recorded in Portland was 107 and that was three times–once in July 1965 and twice in August...
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