Dewey's Treehouse

The Dominion Family blog had a name-that-quote game that I didn't see until it was over...so I'm making my own. No bar of soap to of...

1. Eddie Condon's jazz music 2. Crayons' doll Blueberry Eyes (her name makes me smile) 3. Getting extra Timbits in a box 4. Gre...

Climb up into our Treehouse and join us for another round of things we make when we don't want to spend all day cooking. Stay for dinner...

Ponytails came home from Vacation Bible School and said that the kids went outside and played blog tag.

This is what the Squirrels ate for dinner tonight (with frozen chicken strips and green beans). The two youngest Squirrelings were somewhat...

To the Birds by Peter McArthur HOW dare you sing such cheerful notes? You show a woful lack of taste; How dare you pour from happy throats...

Crayons: Let's play Eye-Spy Colours. I know a colour and it starts with D. Ponytails: There aren't any colours that start with D....

The Deputy Headmistress at The Common Room started a post about The Cost of Homeschooling that now has a dozen comments after it. Rather t...

The Squirrels celebrated Canada Day today by taking the squirrellings to a nearby "heritage crossroads" (what used to be called a ...

Ponytails' story is The Miraculous Pitcher, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's A Wonder Book. Once there was a lady and a man and then there...

1. Crayons, age 4, perusing an alphabet place mat: How come the O is HERE but not HERE? The alphabet goes H, I, J, K, L O MEN O P. Mama ...

This is one of the exams that I wrote this week–it’s about King Arthur, The Once and Future King . I didn’t actually interview anybody–it’s ...

I finished history for this year, almost. I'm doing history about the Wars of the Roses. It's where one side is red and one side i...

It's funny that the Deputy Headmistress at The Common Room just posted about homemaking and (not) worrying about needing to be June Cle...

I found a great quote not by Northrop Frye but about him, on a website by Jean O'Grady of the University of Toronto, who is Associate Ed...

Kathryn Judson, at Suitable for Mixed Company , has a game of blog tag going over books. Here is her question: Imagine that a local philan...

Mama Squirrel has friends, online ones and nearby ones, who eat healthier meals than the Squirrel family does. She has friends who use more...

The Squirrelings have been watching the 1940's version of Henry V, and it is so good that Mama Squirrel would like to recommend it to an...

While commenting on a sort-of-related post at The Common Room , Mama Squirrel heard for the first time about Egg Corns. Being a Squirrel, s...

I guess Mr. Fixit had been asking for rhubarb around the office too, because when he went to work yesterday he was sent off to another frien...