It Was Never Meant to be Easy!
I’ve just got back from HEART (Home Educators Annual Retreat) where we were shown a great movie clip made by a homeschooling family (Team...
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Rosie's Blog
- Jun 13, 2011
- 1 min
Co-op Dinner
On Saturday we had the inaugural dinner and divvying out of the first food order of the family co-op we have set up. It was a lot of fun....
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- Jun 13, 2011
- 2 min
Fun at the Field Days
It’s Mystery Creek time again, and this year will be a special time for me! My twin sister Penny is going to be there representing the...
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- Jun 11, 2011
- 2 min
The Bare Bough
Years ago I saw a photo of a bird singing his little heart out on a bare bough. His song is seen as vapour coming out of his throat on a...
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- Jun 11, 2011
- 2 min
Infobesity
What a weird word! I just read it in the latest Parenting magazine. It’s a new word coined by Susan Maushart to describe the addiction to...
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- Jun 7, 2011
- 2 min
Starry, Starry Night
The other night after dinner we climbed out of Ellie’s window and set pillows and blankets out on the verandah roof and settled down to...
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- Jun 5, 2011
- 2 min
Double Surprise!
On Wednesday night Chris and I had an evening at home on our own while Ellie took the younger three to soccer practice and then youth...
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- Jun 1, 2011
- 1 min
Rosie on Radio Rhema
In February I was interviewed by Peter Shaw of Radio Rhema for an hour. He talked with me about my childhood in New Guinea, how I started...
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- Jun 1, 2011
- 1 min
The Three Ugly Sisters
Yesterday Chris mentioned that he heard a farmer speaking about his farm at a farming conference. He told his listeners, “When things go...
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- May 31, 2011
- 2 min
Lesson From the Olive Tree
Yesterday I heard a message from Ps. Alun Davies of Australia which really inspired me. God commands the Israelites, “When you are...
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- May 28, 2011
- 1 min
Maori Potatoes
Last night we had visitors over for dinner, and I prepared a beef roast and roast vegetables, including some delicious maori potatoes....
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- May 28, 2011
- 1 min
In the Treetops
This afternoon I took Ellie, Milly, Sam and Jacob out to the Adventure Forest for some high tree top challenges! I decided I needed to do...
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- May 27, 2011
- 1 min
Stone Wall in Ruins
The children and I have been learning a new memory verse from Proverbs 24. “I went past the field of the sluggard, past the vineyard of...
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- May 24, 2011
- 1 min
Chimneys and Lawns
Last night I went down into the meadow and took a photo of the house. I was trying to capture the sweet sight of smoke coming out of our...
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- May 19, 2011
- 2 min
Our Homewood is in!
It was really cold in Whangarei last night! I came home at 9.30pm with the kids after an afternoon/evening of soccer and youth group. We...
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- May 17, 2011
- 3 min
Why I LOVE Homeschooling!
It is seventeen years since I first began the exciting and somewhat scary journey of homeschooling. I have six children, but my two...
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- May 15, 2011
- 1 min
Making Mozzarella
Today we moved over our old cream separator from the barn to the new house and set it up ready to use again. Blossom (the house cow!)...
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- May 14, 2011
- 1 min
Haiku at the Booms
This morning we had fun doing Haiku poems together. Haikus must have only three lines, with five syllables in the first and third lines,...
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- May 11, 2011
- 1 min
A Safe Refuge
It’s hunting season again and the guns have been going off around our countryside. 🙁 But yesterday two very noisy visitors came and...
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- May 10, 2011
- 1 min
The Big Read!
The Big Read is a nationwide event, as part of the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards festival, to encourage kids to read. I was...
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