InsomniMom

1. My dad bought a new bike recently. He's always been a big walker, and goes around the White Estates neighborhood where I grew up, pic...

This picture, taken outside the Indiana Roof Ballroom at about 12:30 Saturday morning, is proof positive that the prom finally got here afte...

It's May, the glorious, blooming month of May. The month when our school year, like everyone else's, starts winding down, but in lot...

Last night we all tumbled into bed with a gentle rain pattering down and the (mistaken) idea that we were going to have little to no snow ac...

How could it possibly be that it's been TWO WEEKS since I last wrote on my blog? And perhaps an even bigger question is how have all of ...

A few random thoughts, nothing enough to write an entire post about.... The Stratford trip is coming up in a week -- ONE WEEK -- and I am fl...

I firmly believe that every profession has this kind of person in it, but my field is teaching, so I know the kind of person I'm talking...

This is a picture of the Fishers Police Department in Fishers, Indiana, a building which we frequently drive by on our way to the Fishers P...

This is what a ninth grade home schooler looks like on the last day of school at Our Lady of Good Counsel high school. This winds up our ni...

Yep, Friday it is! Friday is our last day of school for this year. Not Thursday, not Wednesday but FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY, that's our last...

Yesterday, Aisling came up to me and gave me a sour look. "You've ruined me," she said flatly. "Completely ruined me....

Meelyn is taking an art theory and appreciation course this semester, one of Alpha-Omega Publication's excellent Lifepacs series for mid...

An unspecified teenager, murmuring to herself: "How many states are there? Fifty? No, that doesn't sound right. Fifty-TWO! Fifty- t...

Aisling just asked me, "What's the difference between a participial phrase and an adverb clause?" I sat and thought for a mome...

Meelyn and Aisling have really been suffering through this first half of January. First of all because January is the very divil of a month....

Today is our first day back at school -- actually, the dining room table -- after two blissful weeks of Christmas break, and it hasn't b...

Today was one of those little unexpected gifts that you sometimes get before Christmas Day has even arrived. Meelyn, Aisling and I went to ...

Tonight was Moms' Night Out, the last one until next year. We won't be getting together again until January, since the last Monday i...

Last night, I went out for a Mom's Night Out gathering with home schooling mothers Katie, Michelle, Gloria, Stephanie and Mary Jo and h...

Okay, so The Scarlet Letter hasn't exactly gone quickly. Meelyn says she likes it, although she uttered the word "like" in a ...