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 . . .
– 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 . . .
Right now on the kitchen counter next to me is a small, smashed, sun-dried snake that my 11 year old found. What is wrong with boys? Yeesh! Continue reading Ewwwwwwww!
In our house when one of my boys does something particularly boneheaded, my darling, ever helpful hubby will often sarcastically remark “Homeschooling, eh?” Yesterday my 11 year old gave a truly spectacular demonstration of the superior results of homeschooling while filling out a form. First he didn’t capitalize his last name, then he spelled homeschool “homeskooll”, then he started to spell his guitar teacher Steve’s … Continue reading Homeschooling at work!
If you have read this blog for any amount of time, you may have noticed that I go through cycles of worry and paranoia about how we teach our two sons, ages 7 and 11. Much of this is fed by the fact that the homeschool moms I spend the most time with are the type who buy curricula and are pretty darn disciplined about … Continue reading Learning by Osmosis
Not only is my 18 month old beautiful, smart and lots of fun to have around, but she’s got great taste – she hates Barney! No purple dinosaurs in this house! Woo-hoo! ; ) Continue reading The Girl’s Got Style
In our house we take a pretty relaxed approach to schooling. Not quite strict unschooling, but much closer to that than to “school at home”. However, it has always been my plan that we would gradually ramp up to a more formalized approach as the kids got older so that they would be sure to cover math through calculus, world and American history, learn a … Continue reading Speaking of preparing for a new school year
We have a mean flu bug working its way through the house. It hit my 6 year old pretty hard today. He’s been running a fever and this afternoon, he fell asleep for a couple of hours on the couch. When he woke up, his temperature was about 102. I asked him how he felt. He looked up at me with his flushed face and … Continue reading Mind over body
The Upside Down World 