Author: EllaP

March Book Reviews

April 17, 2024 Uncategorized No Comments
Greetings all! I can hardly believe we’re through the first quarter of the year! So far still hanging in there with my reading challenge, although I was really hoping to have finished more of my education reads by now and be moved into new ones. But March wasn’t a bad…

February Book Reviews

March 20, 2024 Reading Challenge Reading Life No Comments
Happy second day of spring! It’s later in the month than I like for my monthly reading update, but it’s technically still March, so we’re just going with it. We spent a week on spring break and I kept thinking I would write the post while we were gone, but…

January on the Books

February 3, 2024 Reading Life 3 Comments
Happy February, friends! We’re more than halfway to spring now, and I have daffodil shoots poking up out of the leaves outside. I’m a happy camper! January was a great month for reading and hitting other goals. I was pleased with the progress I made in my education reading loop,…

2024 Reading Challenge

January 13, 2024 Reading Challenge 2 Comments
You all should know by now that I love my reading challenges. I love making them, seeing how far I get in a year, what comes easily, what doesn’t. Truthfully, I don’t know why. But I love learning new things and challenges help to keep me focused. This year I…

2023 Reading Recap

January 6, 2024 Reading Challenge Reading Life 1 Comment
2023 was quite a year! I did make it through my reading challenge, although my monthly updates here were few and far between. Determined to do better at that this year! So far I am at least writing this in the first week of the new year–so that seems like…

What I Read: July 2023

August 23, 2023 Reading Challenge No Comments
It has been a MINUTE since I did any writing to speak of, but here I am, trying to fit it into the edges of my day again. And what better way to start than with a recap of a month of reading?! July was a busy month! We started…

The Glass Castle

December 23, 2022 Creative Writing Daily Life: Raising My Peas No Comments
We entered this glass castle together, across the the moat of uncertainty, into a morass of tangled hallways and rooms. The rooms all different shapes and sizes, all made of glass, unique prisms entangling and reflecting the light around us. Attendents conduct us along the pathways. Brief flickers of the…

Homeschool Beginnings

August 30, 2022 Home Education 4 Comments
Ah, September… when thoughts turn to education and new beginnings.  We’re entering our sixth official year of homeschool this year.  I use the word ‘official’ just to clarify that we’re talking about the arbitrary length of time in a year, during which most people agree that children ought to be…