weekly review:

time sure does fly when you're having fun! 


it's been an incredible summer, embracing family and our coastal life-style:

we even boat a tube for our boat!
  
and the deer and wildlife which surrounds, never disappoints!

and my Etsy shop, now four years old, continues to grow and thrive...and the heart-felt connections and reviews just make it all worth while...so grateful!
 


 

Homeschool Writing

I am SO excited about homeschooling this year! Not only are we continuing with Moving Beyond the Page (LA) and Life of Fred (math)...but we are starting a fabulous science program tomorrow called Supercharged Science....and now I just ordered a new writing curriculum that looks like it will be a blast, called---Cover Story:
"Create Your Own Magazine in One Year!
Cover Story writing curriculum takes middle school students on a guided tour through the universe of Story as they create content for their own magazine in one school year.

In this exciting curriculum from Daniel Schwabauer, the creator of the popular One Year Adventure Novel, students are led, step by step, on a fun, thought-provoking journey of exploration and creation.
Your student will write poems, short stories, non-fiction articles, letters, and many other short pieces. They also learn to notice and record their thoughts and ideas by following the creative structure of The Remarkable Journal of Professor Gunther Von Steuben.
A 12-lesson optional grammar component is included with purchase.
Cover Story also allows students the freedom of choosing a theme for their magazine, and a subject for each assignment. This approach gives the structure and guidance they need to understand the principles in each lesson, but allows them to create from passion rather than pressure.
This one-year program is appropriate for grade levels 6–9."
I plan on participating not only as their teacher, but as a student myself, and creating my own Magazine this year. I've had all these writing ideas, but so little opportunity to truly just sit and write..but now I found my opportunity!
If any of my homeschooling friends are interested in viewing or ordering "Cover Story," please consider ordering via the link below; will save you 10% through a homeschool buyers co-op; and give my family some "points" toward our next purchase. This is a fabulous website for learning about curricula options and saving some money.
link for Cover Story:
https://www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org/cover-story/…
link for Supercharged Science:
https://www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org/Supercharged-Science/…

Homeschool Science

After spending hours and hours and hours (over the last few months) doing research for a new homeschool science curriculum, that would not only be a really good quality program, but one that will prove to educate, engage, and excite my girls; I am thrilled that with the girls' input we have selected a very well-designed progam called Supercharged Science! We're all very excited about it! I ordered through the Homeschool Buyers Co-op, which gave me a nice hefty discount from the retail price. If any of my homeschool friends are looking and interested, please view through the link below. If you decide to order, please consider ordering using the link below, which will give us some points towards our next co-op purchase.

Thank you

p.s. I'm not a science-techy mama, this is a program that is designed for the girls to work independently!

https://www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org/Supercharged-Science/?source=235315

our weekly in review:

Celebrating 16 years of Marriage:


My parents took the girls for the day, and J and I set out on my absolute favorite adventure....our beloved boat, Little Sea Hunt!  But first, we headed out to Stacks for brunch, so he could have a seafood omelet.  It was nice...a breakfast date with my hubby...I can't remember the last time we did that.  It was definitely BC!  From there we headed to the boat landing preparing to take the boat over to Daufuski Island where we were going to rent a golf cart and spend the day...only we made a slight detour to a different boat landing in Old Town Bluffton...you know, because J wanted to see a seafood recipe book down there (notice a seafood theme so far....the poor guy must be feeling some deprivation being a prisoner to a vegetarian wife and all;)  Anyway, as I mentioned we took a slight detour down the May River to go see his book.  Yes, we easily could have driven or ridden our bikes there, but isn't this fun? And interesting to note, when you arrive via boat, instead of land transportation, you see things from a whole new perspective.  We spent several hours talking to local shop owners, walking around and seeing the sights, some of which have been there since before the Civil War!  And with J's nudge and encouragement, some of my Dragonfly Inspirations Creations may be in a couple of those shops in the very near future!!!!  SO excited!  J and I sat on a patio for awhile and just hung out, and then we headed back to the boat.  We were kind of procrastinating a tad, as the weather was iffy....but as it turns out, the storms stayed west of us..like they missed us by a mile or two, literally.  And trust me when I say you do NOT want to be out on these open waterways during the storms...even if we don't (or rarely) take the boat right on the ocean, we are pretty much almost on the ocean, and it's all connected....been there, done that! Anyway, when we returned to boat, we were slightly hungry, so we sat on the boat for a snack...and then a police officer came down, and we actually just wound up chatting with each other for probably a good hour and a half to two hours!  At that point, we had to leave or we were going to lose daylight and be unable to go out for our anniversary dinner via boat....but we found a restaurant and dock on the way, and stopped at Buffalo's on the very beautiful Palmetto Bluff.


We enjoyed, perfect weather, and breezes, and dolphins, and sunset....amazing and beautiful day together!  Wow time flies, 16 years, 19 together!


 



Fairy Girl making pancakes from scratch:


Perfect night! Good music, good food, good scenery, good people!  Palmetto Bluff!

About a year ago or so, some of you may recall when I applied primer to the dark cave of a tiny half bath (dark wine...was like that when we bought the house five years ago.). The primer was such a relief, I just let it stay as is. But now tired of plain white, and I literally despise painting bathrooms (after two bathrooms in our WI house where I had to tear down wall paper)....so my compromise, a cute inspirational/coastal border. NOW I'm happy 

 

Celebrating 16 Years of Marriage today!

 
   

my beloved Etsy shop is now four years old!

www.etsy.com/shop/DFInspirations

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Picnic and pool night! And as an added bonus, grandma took the girls to their house so J and I could have a date night at the pool...he napped (came straight from work:) and then swam laps and I floated and then hit the hot tub 🤓

And, I bumped into a fellow clarinetist in the pool!

Grateful for another beautiful night in Paradise


 
our beloved hummingbird and fairy garden, midsummer: 


 
Beautiful night at Shelter Cove Park...picnic dinner on the marsh, and great music by The Headliners! 
 Sunday tea with grandma...third generation sipping tea from this set gifted from my mom's Aunt and Uncle, from Japan. Some of the original pieces still survive!
 
pancakes and shoe shopping with grandma and grandpa!
 
sweet backyard visitors!
 
 
Another fabulous Lowcountry night: brought a picnic to Palmetto Bluff to see The Blue Dogs....a fundraising benefit for Family Promise, an organization that helps get families on their feet with jobs and housing and education. My parents do some volunteer work for this through their church.

We started out sitting amidst the crowd, until I suggested (ahem told them 🤓) that we'd like it better by the river, behind the band: much quieter, more breezy, and a great atmosphere... There were big camp fires going too! Great night! 
 
16 years ago today: