Our Waldorf Homeschool Journey

Hi Everyone

Last night we celebrated the Festival of St Martin. The story very briefly goes like this….

St Martin was a soldier in the Roman army, who out on patrol one cold winters night, came upon a beggar and took his cloak off and cut it clean in half. In those days the cloak of a Roman Soldier was treasured as it was only given once you became an officer. Needless to say that night St Martin had a dream that he saw God wearing half a cloak, his cloak and from then on wouldn’t fight and led a life of giving, a holy life of kindness and love.
This is the briefest summary, I told the kids the full long story last night, but lets start at the beginning. On Saturday we made Waldorf-Inspired Martinmas Lanterns (see earlier post, if you want to make them), then on Sunday we put the handles on our lanterns and again discussed StMartin – briefly.

Then yesterday, Monday was the Eve of Martinmas. We spoke about St Martin in the morning and learnt a verse which I’ll share with you….

Sharing, Caring

Kind and True

StMartin we Honour you.

It seemed to say it all, the children learnt it easily as we were painting, and chatting about honouring St Martin this day.

StJohn painted a beautiful picture of St Martin with his Red Cloak and Sword…

Juliette decided not to paint StMartin, she just painted a flat blue sky…..on an A1 sheet of paper. She often gets huffy when she thinks she may have to part with some of her possessions, and at this point she smelt a rat…..

Then we spoke about sharing and sharing our possessions, with people who have less than us, or are in need in some way. John came in from his study, and we each found a few things to donate to charity. John gave clothes, I gave clothes and shoes, StJohn gave shoes, clothes and a mountain of toys (it was a great time to move those plastic toys out the door ;o)) and Juliette…well she gave a few little old toys with difficulty. But that said, when we drove down to the charity shop and delivered our gifts she said she felt so good. She just is like that, it’s not that she’s selfish, she constantly thinks….what if one day I need that?!

Anyway, that done we started to prepare food for the evening, I tried to make something everyone would like, so there were (vegetarian) hotdogs, chickpea burgers, salads, we baked bread in the shape of an M, leek and potato soup and then made pancakes for dessert.

We then had dinner as we were waiting for darkness to fall. Then as dinner was ending I told them the story of StMartin, how cold it was, and how much his cloak must have meant to him. As the story came to an end I gave each of them a small StMartin Gnome that I’d made….

They absolutely loved them, and this morning, I noticed StJohns’ gnome had developed super powers and used his cloak to fly!

Anyway, after the gifts we said our verse again, and lit our lanterns, went on a short lantern walk, and then came back to the front garden, where a bonfire had been prepared by John. I spoke to them about each of our small lights of goodness and when we put them all together, whoosh! (John lit the Bonfire) Look how much light we have.

Each of us has one small light, but put it together and we have a raging fire of Light!

Then we shared pancakes next to the fire, and then it was bedtime. I got a million hugs and kisses as they made their way to bed. So I guess they had a good time.

Hope your Martinmas was full of love and laughter as well.

Sue. xx

Filed under: Festivals, Handwork & Crafting, Verses, Waldorf Homeschooling on November 11th, 2008 | No Comments »

On Saturday afternoon we made a lantern each. I couldn’t face the paper ones this year. I saw what happened to them last year. They just got crumpled and ended up in a toy box. So we went with glass. Another reason being we live in a seriously windy area and the candle will continue to burn, if it is protected within a glass jar. These lanterns can be made for any festival, just change the colour of the tissue paper and stick different things on the side.

We’ll be making them again for advent in red, green and white. But then we’ll be gluing
beads, and glittery goodies on the outside.

Here’s a pic of the Martinmas lanterns in the light of day…

I’d like to share with you how we made them. They make beautiful Waldorf-Inspired gifts as well, not only for the Festival of Martinmas.

For the Lantern You’ll need:

A clean,dry glass jar per person.
Cold Glue/Wood/craft glue
Glue/paint brush
3 different colours of Tissue paper (we use yellow,gold and light gold (not metallic) )

For the handle you’ll need:

Baling or Florists wire
(we use baling as we’ve always got it lying around for fences and stuff)
Wool (we use a cream colour)

I used a square jam jar (250ml) for mine, and 2 Mayonnaise jars (750ml) for Jules and Sin. I then mixed decoupage glue, being 1/2 cold glue (that white wood glue) and 1/2 water.

Then you’re ready to go. Start tearing small pieces of tissue paper off. I tore them about
2cm x 2 cm. You can cut them but then the lanterns take on a bit of a Picasso Cubism look, which doesn’t appeal to me.

Paint the jar little bit, little bit and stick your tissue paper on. If the tissue paper stands up, just paint over it, it them sticks back down. Don’t forget to mix all the different colours as you go, and to overlay them.

When the entire jar is covered with paper, then give the whole outside of the jar a light
paint with the glue. Then allow it to dry.

I left ours overnight and then John put the handles on for us. You just take a piece of
wire, tie it around the rim, really tight. Tie it off using pliers. Then make a handle, a
semi-circle with a hook at each end. Hook the hooks under the wire attached around the rim. And again tie off with the pliers.

Then you wrap the entire wire handle and around the rim with wool.

Place a small piece of tic-tac/prestik at the bottom of the jar on the inside, Push a
tea-light candle onto the tic-tac and you’re good to go!

Here’s a pic of the lanterns in the dark last night. They stood up to the high wind, and a
lantern walk. We came back with the candles still burning.

There is a beautiful story on Melisa’s blog, which I told the kids as we made our lanterns, it’s all about Brother Sun and how he gives you a tiny golden spark to keep safe inside your lantern.

Enjoy making them, they become treasures that will always remind you of a beautiful day.

Blessings to you as you craft,
Sue.xx

Filed under: Festivals, Handwork & Crafting, Homeschool, Waldorf Homeschooling on November 11th, 2008 | No Comments »

Hi Everyone

Well, yesterday’s telling of the story the Little Red Hen obviously was absorbed overnight, because when I went to clear another vege bed, harvesting the last brocoli, onions and beetroot and tying up tomatoes,that sort of thing (and weeding….), StJohn asked if he could help, and he did. He dug out brocoli plants, cleared the few weeds around, and then dug beds over ready for new seeds. He did an amazing job.

Now to put things in perspective I need to explain that for our piece of earth we try our best to follow Bio-Dynamic principles. I found this incredible, as I’ve done this for most of my adult life, and never knew that Rudolf Steiner wrote a book and gave lectures on the subject.

More and more we see the echo of Rudolf Steiners wisdom in our lives. Places we never knew to look. Our Journey is one that is best described as a Waldorf existence, I guess. Or at least what people perceive and call “Waldorf”. It is just a discovery of Steiners work among others, that resonates with our 4 souls.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that we’ve been living it and didn’t realise that it was all waiting for us in Steiners teaching.

Anyway back to the bio-dynamic garden….our pests have been few this season.When we first bought our property the snails were awesome, thousands in a season. We removed them by hand, couldn’t keep up and they just ate everything. It was the first season digging over soil, composting and planting few things, as the ground just wasn’t ready. The entire property had been covered with stone in an attempt to have a maintenance free home. It took nearly 6 months to clear all the rock and gravel, just to find more rock underneath. We have a property covered in sandstone, which we collect now and use to build either a wall or an edging for a bed.

We’re now in the third spring, and between planting the right plants, using companion planting, and planting plants next to each other that ward off insects etc, we’ve managed to keep the pests to a minimum. Then the snails, well, we have the chickens and they love a good snail, initially they cleared large patches of snail homes. This cut down on them to such a degree we have about 10 or so a week that appear, but they don’t get near the plants, as we have a few resident snakes that eat snails and slugs. We haven’t bought anything to spray on the plants, or dig into the soil. It has all just arrived, and works well together. It’s amazing to watch and see how nature just sorts these things out. We set it up as close to how it would be naturally and then Mother Earth takes over….

This is a pic of our one bed that gives us, peas, or beans depending on the season, 2 different squashes, carrots,lettuce, cucumber, and 2 medicinal herbs, being lavender and bulbine, and mint for so many things. You’ll see a space at the back, beans have been planted and should pop out in a week or so. The yellow bush, with the climbing rose behind,provide a ready home for our little snake, who we see regularly as he protects our food from a snail invasion…bless him.

One of his friends nearly caused me to pass out this afernoon, as we grow our potatoes in grow bags. I was moving them to reposition them and fill them with soil, when I looked down and saw a fat scorpion in the space I had just had the bag. I backed away and yelled for John, he came and was attempting to help the scorpion cross the Rainbow Bridge, when a close relation of my helping snake shot out from the other side of the bag. I of course scream and freeze. I still struggle with snakes moving fast. The smaller ones I can just manage and I respect and am grateful for what they do, but the others, yugh!

Now I have to go and bottle the beetroot we’ve harvested. I’ll cook it now and do the pickling tonight last thing, when I have some quiet time. I need to start getting out of bed earlier, as my days are too short to achieve all I need to at the moment.

Be blessed this day,
Sue.xx

Filed under: Bio-Dynamic Gardening, HOMESTEADING, Waldorf Homeschooling on November 6th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick post to let you all know that the winner of our Re-Home a Gnome Competition is Cristal Brouwer. I’ve emailed her and she has chosen the Waldorf Inspired Choleric Gnome. Which has already been knitted and posted off. Cristal you should receive it in the next 5 days or so.

We put all the names of everyone who entered into a glass jar, and then closed our eyes and pulled a name out. If you weren’t lucky enough to win, we’re sorry, but you can still order one, so all hope is not lost.

Many blessings,

Sue. xx

Filed under: Handwork & Crafting, The 4 Temperaments, Waldorf Homeschooling on November 5th, 2008 | No Comments »

Hi Everyone

Life here has been busy over the past few days, we’ve celebrated the festival of All Souls (Halloween), been to a craft fair and spend the day with friends, had a sleepover for Jules, and have today been harvesting. Hence my lack of blog posts!

We have 5 chickens which provide us with more eggs then we need, and compost, 2 of them are pictured below. The fat brown one is called Babs and the orangey one is Mac. The names came from the movie chicken run, but morphed into ke”babs” and “mac”nuggets. We don’t eat meat so it was merely a family joke, the chickens are in no danger!

Needless to say we have a love of hens, I have hen salt and pepper pots, a chicken shaped timer, a chrome chicken shaped egg basket and the list continues. Each hen is completely different from the others, own personality and likes and dislikes. So it’s easy for me to tell the kids stories about hens as they are well acquainted with them, and understand that they are not just stupid birds. Not at all!

So we were weeding one of our vege beds this afternoon, and I’ve found lately that both kids are a bit reluctant to help maintain the beds. You know, the weeding, clearing pruning etc. They’re the first ones out there when it’s time to pick something for dinner!

So as I was pulling out a row of dead pea plants and they were weeding behind me I started a story, just slowly slipped into it. Once upon a time there was a Little Red Hen, she was given a gift of a handful of wheat seeds by the farmer…. and so it goes on. The hen asked all the farm animals along the way to help her, to grow, harvest, mill and bake the bread. Every single animal says,”No, not I!” And when it comes time for the eating of the bread they all want some and the hen says….No.

I finished the story, and did not expand on the life lesson I wanted them to learn, and then took them to the veges that needed harvesting today – beetroot, onions, lettuce and tomatoes, and a small last bit of broccoli. We all shared in the work of pulling up and settling the soil afterwards.

They went a bit quiet as we were harvesting and hopefully overnight will digest the story’s moral, the moral being…help with the damn gardening if you plan to eat in the future!

I’ve just found using the Waldorf principle of not actually stating the obvious to the child, not saying for example; the little red hen got no help from the animals, so they couldn’t share her bread, so don’t be like the other animals, be like the little red hen…in other words, work hard and the rewards will be great.

The child then hears it but does not absorb it into the body, soul and spirit. Immediately they will feel defensive, that Mommy has said that they’re not helping out enough. So the lesson is not learnt, but self esteem is lost. This is not what we want. We want to educate with love, so we tell the story, they are given time to absorb it and I promise, that overnight they process it, and it is absorbed into their very being. Rudolf Steiner describes this in many of his lectures, including, The Study of Man.

I’ve put the link to the Little Red Hen book below, it is an easy reader for Grade 1 or 2 I’d say, but the moral of the story for me is most important, the fact that it is a reader is just an added bonus.

Now I have to go and see how dinner is progressing on the stove, I left it bubbling away about an hour ago. We had many scraps of our veges left, broccoli, pumpkin, potatoes and a few other odds and ends so I popped it together to make a vegetable curry. And I still need to go and feed the animals, take in the washing and sort out a bath or 2 for the kids! Okay I have to go!!!

Many blessings to you all this week.
Sue

Filed under: Homeschool, Waldorf Homeschooling on November 4th, 2008 | No Comments »

Hi Everyone

Our Days have been full and very satisfying. I’ve learnt recently to rest more and take time for me. A huge migraine finally got the message through. Melisa is pretty clear about this in all her curriculum packages….I on the other hand need to experience a flash of my own mortality before it sinks in. Needless to say, today has been a day of rest and a trip to a friend of mines internet cafe/restaurant for toasted sandwiches and coffee.

I’d like to share a little of what Juliette and I have been doing. I’ve introduced the Vimala Alphabet to her. Now my understanding was that it is an accepted part of a Waldorf Curriculum. Until yesterday when I read a footnote on Bob & Nancy’s Waldorf Book website, that they do not feel that it fits in to a true Waldorf curriculum. I’m going to email Melissa and ask her opinion, but I don’t get it. It is a beautiful script with each letter performing a specific soul task. Isn’t that what Rudolf Steiner put forward?

Each letter performs a soul task, the shape of which is echoed in Eurythmy. By practicing different letters we can help our children with their inner work. Helping them to strengthen their weaknesses. I find that at different times of their development they obviously need more practice of a specific letter and of course form drawing.

Below is a pic of Juliette’s first letter, Aa, she is using a fountain pen for the first time.

The book that I would recommend as a resource for the study of the Vimala Alphabet would definitely be:

I love the Vimala Alphabet and have no hesitation in using it. For me it ties in beautifully with Rudolf Steiners teaching. Juliette will be 10 in a few days, and she is absolutely loving every second of this art form, it’s not just handwriting, it is an art form.

I firmly believe that this script would have been blessed by Rudolf Steiner, but then again I’m just a Waldorf Mom, and don’t have years of study behind me, just gut instinct, intuition, feeling and the self study of Steiners lectures and written work.

Many blessings to you on your journey,
Sue.xx

Filed under: Homeschool, Waldorf Homeschooling on October 29th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Hi Everyone

Getting back to Rudolf Steiners 4 Temperaments…I’d like to finish with The Choleric Child.
There is at least one of these children in every class, often 2. They are the born leaders. The children who appear to constantly want to be the centre of attention.Every act seems to be geared towards, the “look at me!”idea. They are wonderful friends to have, and are warm hearted and giving. Often their favourite colour is red.

I do not have one of these children. Bear in mind that every human has all 4 Temperaments in them, so the choleric temperament will raise it’s head every now and again, no matter what the dominant temperament may be. I’m seeing quite a bit of it with StJohn who to date has been completely sanguine,with the odd melancholic mood.

Well as he nears his 7th birthday, his choleric temperament is raising it’s head. How to deal with it??? Again patience is the key. I must admit I’m finding it difficult at the moment. The need to be louder and more visible then any other member of the family gets on my nerves. I work hard at everyone having a place and creating a gently calm atmosphere. Not just for school, but for the entire day. StJohn at the moment just digs his heels in. Things like, No!I’m not doing that! or wait for it…this mornings joy…picking my cat up when we’re quietly having breakfast and carrying her down the stairs because he doesn’t want her in the dining room. He does it knowing full well that under normal circumstances I’d go beserk. Usually saying, “Put the cat down,she always sits next to me on the floor, sit and have your breakfast.”

But to his apparent disappointment, I continue eating my yoghurt (which at this point tastes like cardboard). I do not rise to his bait. I wait him out (which let me tell you being predominantly sanguine and wanting to just get on with the day, takes some doing!)

The key is patience…waiting as long as a day, picking a calm well rested time and discussing it in a firm and direct manner that his leaving the breakfast table and getting rid of my kitty down the stairs, is so totally unacceptable. Explaining that breakfast time is the time our family joins together for the first time each day, we have a verse and focus on our blessings, to just up and rearrange the family is not in his job description.

So dealing with this child or at least the temperament when it arises is damn difficult. I was listening to a Rudolf Steiner lecture briefly before lunch today,as StJohn had stormed out of the room after a whopping tantrum. I was feeling pretty low, but keeping it in as Juliette was having such a good time with her work. Anyway we finished our work Jules and I and I told them I needed some quiet time and went to listen to some words of wisdom. Searching for help at this point….I focused on the problem and found the exact lecture.

Dr Steiner talks about watching this child as he storms around and causes chaos. Take everything in that he does but do not reprimand at this point. Absorb the details, and then the following morning, after a healthy breakfast and a good nights rest, you talk it out.

I do this in detail, in other words I will say… Yesterday, at this time, when we were about to start our form drawing you threw your block crayon across the floor, remember over there in the corner of the room? This behaviour is unacceptable, because in our classroom/home we treat our crayons with respect and gratitude. We treat each other with respect. You did not treat your belongings or your family with respect yeasterday. This is wrong. Please do not let it happen again.

Generally StJohn will apologise and then that is it, it is over and sorted. But it’s not easy, for me I find the choleric temperament the most difficult to deal with. Most of the time I just don’t see the point of the whole hoo-ha!I generally just want to say…Just chill out! But that would have absolutely no effect!

May you be blessed with patience and wisdom if you are blessed to have a choleric child. Remember choleric adults are the ones who change the world, or at least make the world sit up and listen.

Please remember that this is just a brief look at Rudolf Steiners 4 Temperaments, to really understand then, a good place to start is his small easy to read book below:

I have this little book, and I read it often…It sleeps next to my bed. It gives you a great understanding of your fellow man.

Now I was planning on telling you all about the Vimala Alphabet but my headache from todays dramas with StJohn is horrid! And I still have to research the Mule Deer. Strangely enough I’ve never heard of the thing. Go figure.

Have a fun filled week.

Sue.

Filed under: The 4 Temperaments, Waldorf Homeschooling on October 28th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Hi Everyone

Just a quick note before school starts that you can now view our old and current newsletters by clicking on the link, Our Homeschool Journey Newsletters, on the right hand side of the page in Blogs and Sites I love to Visit. In the current newsletter you’ll find the Re-Home a Gnome Competition. It closes in a few days so don’t forget to enter!

Have a fun filled day!

Sue

Filed under: Handwork & Crafting, Homeschool, Shop, Waldorf Homeschooling on October 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »

Hi Everyone

Today was a really fun day, and I also wanted to share what happened at dinner last night…Our family has a rhythm that we try and stick to, well we have a rhythm within a rhythm within a rhythm. We have a daily rhythm, a weekly rhythm, a seasonal rhythm and of course a yearly rhythm.

I’d like to share our daily rhythm with you all, as I get a lot of emails asking me to do just that. In the morning we get up, me at 6/6:30 when I spend time sitting and contemplating my day and the kids lessons. I also work on my blog or website at this time.

I’m then able to greet the kids at 7am. After this I start making breakfast which at the moment consists of french toast, honey, fruit and yoghurt, or poached or scrambled eggs forJohn. I do make a special meal for him as it truly makes his day. It takes me an extra 10 minutes or so, and it is a gift that I give to him. (Also we try not to do the animal slaughter thing…) The kids want meat every now and again, but we try to at least get them to accept what they are eating. It’s not just a piece of meat from the shop, it was a living breathing creature. My feeling is that if you don’t have the balls to kill the animal yourself, why get someone else to do your dirty work?

After breakfast we have a quick general tidy up time for EVERYONE! I’m not going to get into it in this post but for us we need to keep the house not only clean but tidy. It shows that we are grateful for our home and what it provides for us, being shelter, a safe place to live life the way that we feel is right.

Then it’s circle time, where we say a blessing for our day, and then practice our recorder. I throw all the windows open and damage the neighbour’s eardrums and drive their dogs to distract.LOL! No, seriously we practice our recorder, and we’re getting quite good. It’s not so much the sound we’re trying to get right. It’s the act of breathing. The gentle rhythm of breathing in and out. Rudolf Steiner teaches in his lectures “Practical Advice for Teachers”, the importance of breathing. It definitely calms us and centers us. I looooove my recorder. It chills me out.

Then we do our main lessons, then it’s snack time (about 1/2 an hour) and finally either a maths lesson,craft time or baking time depending on the weekly rhythm.

Then it’s generally a bit of play time and lunch and then we look at our weekly rhythm again. Is it play date day? Or shopping day? Or just chill out day!!

Then at 4:55pm, yes I actively do it at an odd time, to try and focus myself, otherwise if I said 5pm, then 5ish is suddenly okay….It’s a way for me to control the sanguine nature of me. We then feed everyone, cats, dog, chickens and any other creature that may have moved in.

Then it’s usually a quick story. This helps the kids seperate the playing time from the bath and evening time. StJohn baths first while Jules does a quick tidy up in her room, once she is done then she either helps out with dinner or sits outside with the animals or reads. StJohn does his tidy up after his bath.

We then set the table and have dinner together as a family. We have a meal verse and then slowly wind down to bath time for Jules, and quiet time for StJohn, he tends to either draw, look through books or build something, depending on what he’s busy with at the moment. Today is tents, all manner of tents!

Then it’s bedtime, where both children are able to read in bed, StJohn usually draws or pages through a book. Then sleepy time for StJ at 8pm and Jues at 8:30 or 9pm if she has an exciting book that she just can’t put down.

But after all that I want to tell you about dinner last night. We are sitting chatting and discussing man and animals and whether we have the right to eat them and I plonked the cat on the table and asked the children if we should maybe help her cross the rainbow bridge and pop her in the roasting pan? Why not her if we’re happy to eat someone elses chicken? Anyway they were laughing at my antics and John was saying,”Siss Man! Get the cat off the table!”

When we hear the kids 2 houses down screaming at each other and then the Mom screaming at them and their parrot started screaming! I say”Good God!”

Juliette says…..”They’ve got no rhythm that’s their problem!” And carries on eating her dessert. We virtually fell out of our chairs laughing. She’s so cool.

Have a stunning Tuesday…

Many blessings, Sue. xx

PS. In these really dodgy economic times, John has a recruitment blog which specialises in alternative jobs, that can fit in well with homeschool families. One of these is for Dad to work on an oil rig. You see he’d get 2 weeks on and 3 weeks off. Meaning you can school the kids like crazy for those 2 weeks and then take quality time off with Dad when he gets home. Just an idea, and something that is becoming more prevalent the more the economy worsens. You can check out the options by clicking here:  drilling jobs!

Filed under: Anthroposophy, Homeschool, Verses, Waldorf Homeschooling on October 20th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Hi Everyone

We’ve been so swamped this past week. We’ve started a new Waldorf Curriculum, you can have a look at www.alittlegardenflower.com. It’s been truly amazing, the kids are loving it, and as importantly I love it and am able to teach it with an ease that makes life much happier for me.

Juliette has been doing a bit of local geography and history and map making. StJohn has been doing mainly form drawing and I’ve been reading him a good few stories. They’ve both being doing maths exercises, which they enjoy as the gnomes help out!

On the home front we’ve had a swarm of bees move into our roof which our local bee man is in the process of getting out. We just can’t keep them as much as we’d like to. It’s not practical or safe come to think of it. The bee man arrived and he was thrilled with our plants he said,”It’s fantastic to see people planting bee food!” Which I thought was funny, as when we put our fruit trees in, we specifically planted flowers to attract the bees. Not for a minute thinking they’d want to move in!!!

I love spring, as the garden is just amazing with it’s colours. I thought it was quite interesting that this coming week we start a lesson block with Juliette comparing man to animals, in respect of thinking feeling and willing, and we have a swarm of bees to study. Which I couldn’t have asked for more. They are a great example of working together as a team on pure instinct. Many times I’ve spoken to the children about how bees communicate in that funny little dance thing they do, and yesterday they were able to watch it in real life.

We have no TV! Yes I know, gasp gasp, how do we survive? Actually quite well.LOL! Anyway so they’ve never seen a hive close up on DSTV’s nature channel. Now they get to see it in a truly natural way, and honestly we’ve all been awestruck. As I watched the children’s fascination and joy at being a part of this, again I understood the reason for not letting them near a TV.

Oh and on a lighter note, John got stung on the top of his head, as the bee man handed him a new piece of beeswax. I’ll post a picture of it later today, the beeswax, not John’s head. So maybe the Bee also has a seagull mentality….You know the typical human (we call it the seagull mentality) response, “Mine!Mine!Mine!” I Know, I know, they’re just protecting their hive and it’s contents. But it was interesting that the bee picked that moment.

Anyway blessings to all of you for this coming week. I’m off to finish the painting in our upstairs dining room/school room, I’ve done the bottom part now its up on the ladder to do the top part of the wall, I don’t feel like it at all, but I’m forcing myself to finish tasks as that is one of my weaknesses…starting and not finishing something.

Love Sue.xx

Filed under: HOMESTEADING, Homeschool, Waldorf Homeschooling on October 19th, 2008 | 1 Comment »