Stuff We Like :: 12.23.16

Happy Holidays from all of us at home/school/life! 

around the web

• Please stop saying “I’m not a math person.” Everybody is a math person because humans are math people.
• I have always found Leslie’s story in Anne’s House of Dreams so heartbreaking—and now maybe even more so.
• These little stores for mice in Sweden may be the cutest thing I have ever seen.
• How the internet is changing our brains—maybe not for the better. (My New Year’s resolution is to read more long-form journalism and fewer BuzzFeed lists.)

at home/school/life

We’re taking this next week off for Hanukkah, but we’ll be available via email if you need us. 

These were our most popular blog posts of 2016. Did you miss any?

• The Best Cities for Homeschooling Families
• 6 Surprising Signs You’re Actually Doing a Great Job Homeschooling
• Summer Reading: If You Loved the Little House Books
• Jot It Down!: A Supportive, Interest-Driven Curriculum for Young Writers
• Getting the Education I Didn't Know I Craved
• Joy Should Be a Priority in Our Homeschool Lives
• This House Is a Mess
• How We Plan to Homeschool High School
• Your Child Doesn’t Have to Be a Homeschool Poster Child

Reading List

• We are wrapping up our holiday themed readalouds with The Box of Delights.
• I got a copy of The Underground Railroad as an early present, and I can't wait to to read it.
• Also on my holiday reading list: The first book in the Colors of Madeline series, which Suzanne has raved about.

at home

• Yes, we are having sufganiyot and rugelach for Hanukkah. (I made a batch of rugelach with red currant jam, which isn’t traditional but which was so delicious.)
• Jason and I are spending the last week of December getting everything set up for his new school, and I think many of you will appreciate that I get to put all the library card envelopes into our book collection.
• My exciting holiday plans: Binging The Crimson Petal and the White while I cast on for Whistler.

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