Camian Academy

Right after we woke up yesterday morning Fritz accidentally hit my eyeball with his fingernail. He left behind a little scratch. Ouch.
Nine hours later the pain was worse, my eye was still very red and wouldn’t stop watering, and my vision was extremely blurry so Jamie called the eye doctor and off we […]

My cousins and aunt came over yesterday to celebrate Christmas. My cousin Susie is a teacher. She specializes in special ed. I was telling her about how difficult it is to teach Cameron because he is so vastly different from Ani. So we had him count for her. Right away […]

For my brother’s family I made a quilt called Child’s Play. 30 blocks have opposite matches, 2 blocks are identical, 1 block is solid colored, and 1 block has no match at all. Also, the 19 letters that appear in their names are embroidered into the centers of some of the squares.

For my […]

Merry Christmas from the ‘Duk Family Elves, Ani, Cameron, and Fritz.

We finished our Christmas in… unit this morning. Now we’ll take off a couple weeks or so from formal school. Not that the Christmas in… unit has been all that formal.
We read the book over the course of the week. This one is a little different from the others. On Monday […]

One of our fish died a few days ago. The big kids noticed it at the bottom of the fishtank. They asked me if they could get the net and scoop it out. Cameron actually jumped in the air and said “Woohoo!” when I told them they could. So Cameron got […]