Welcome to our family blog! These are the chronicles of our family, as we practice our deep faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, travel around the world, educate our family at home, and raise birth and adoptive children. Please feel free to leave comments!
Introductions
Da is the behind the scenes earner of money, homework helper, body guard and dance partner. We want him to be a “guest blogger” here, but he is afraid that the readers will fall asleep, and so has declined. He says that he has, “a giggle of girls.”
Marmee is no Jane Austin, but she loves sharing her thoughts on this blog. She also loves being behind the camera, so there is a dearth of photos of her here. She likes to read, hike, and kayak, but travel is her passion. Marmee has visited 36 countries in her life time, including driving with her family from Dhahran, Saudi Arabia to the Rhine Valley (and back) in a VW Van.
Xuxu is the blond girl who can speak Chinese. She has also been known to entertain using a viola. She likes to work out and chat with friends on FB.
Star is the one one with her nose in a book. If you don’t find her there, she’ll be at the computer working on her latest novel. She is also in the 99th percentile for height! Pretty cool for a Chinese girl!
Mouse is our resident bunny hugger, taste tester, hug giver, and snuggle bugger.
Pie is the “camoose.” Strong willed, but eager to do what is right.
Our family is currently chasing our dream in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Nanjing, China.
Our dream you ask? To learn Chinese!
Hi Anne
My name is Belinda Letchford and I just read a comment you made over at Jimmie’s blog about how you do apologia. You said you are reading apologia’s book out loud and then do the experiments with dad on the weekend. I’ve just started reading it out loud to my girls too and I’m wondering how you move on from the experiments (as the explanations etc) are there in the text and then recap on the weekend with dad. That sounds like a great idea but how? when it is so integrated. Do you just miss the experiment and explanation in the read aloud?
No doubt you have a simple way of doing this and I’m complicating things but I would be interested in hearing from you.
Belinda