A while back at Why Homeschool, Henry Cate mentioned that your satisfaction with curriculum seems to have an inverse relationship to how much you paid for it. What you shell out big bucks for rarely works, but what you get for free is usually just what you needed. I completely agree! My oldest son Noah is moving into high school level work, and truth to … Continue reading Free is good!
I got to do something today which I had once planned on spending much of my life doing, but never really got the chance to do after getting waylaid by children and life and my own insecurities. I got to take a kid who thinks poetry is boring and meaningless and show them the magic which is present in those short, truncated lines with the … Continue reading There are elves in the fire
So I’m getting ready to take a picture of my kids for our Christmas card. I have them all dressed up and arranged in front of the fireplace. But before I start, I say to my problem child, “Collin, this always takes forever because you do something goofy like make a face and ruin the best picture we get. And then we have to do … Continue reading My son, the pimp
Someone seems to have erased all the cookies on our computer and it took me 2 days to remember my user name and password for blogger – so I’ve had an extra long break from blogging. I’ve had some really big ups and really big downs in the past week and a half. However, dwelling on the ups is almost always better for a gal … Continue reading Ups and downs
This weekend, my husband took our boys, ages 7 and 11 to the movies. I was a bit surprised when my husband said he wanted to take the boys to see the new Jet Li movie “Fearless”. He loves karate movies and thought the kids would be interested since they have been taking karate for a while now. But the movie is rated PG-13 and … Continue reading Children’s Movies
Since my 11 year wants to be a herpetologist (reptile scientist), he decided he needed to get more serious about his science so we’re studying biology right now. We’ve been looking at taxonomy (the classification of living things) and I came up with a fun activity I thought I’d share with you. It’s basically just a worksheet on a wall, but my son enjoyed it. … Continue reading The Wall of Taxonomy
I’ll share this sweet photo of little Sophia. Don’t ya just want to eat her up? 🙂 And no, I don’t ever put clothing on my children – we just let them run around naked like monkeys. It’s part of our homeschooling cult religion, you know! ;p J/K Continue reading Since that last picture only took about 5 minutes to load . . .
You’re glad you know how to type because your toddler pried off half the keys on the laptop keyboard and you’re typing by touch on rubber nubs until the new keypad gets in. I love you, Michaela Rose! Continue reading One more for "momhood" . . .
You’re glad you know how to type because your toddler pried off half the keys on the laptop keyboard and you’re typing by touch on rubber nubs until the new keypad gets in. I love you, Michaela Rose! Continue reading One more for “momhood” . . .
– You go to the bathroom while holding a baby (bonus points if you were breastfeeding at the time). – You find yourself saying odd combinations of words like “don’t lick yogurt off the window”. – It occurs to you that if you kick your oldest child really, really hard you could have everyone in the house crying at the same time. – You yell … Continue reading You know you’ve achieved full "Momhood" when . . .
