My musings on our homeschool, coop, figuring out what my educational philosophy is anyway, and will I ever make curtains for the rest of the appartment?
Constance Savory The Reb and the Redcoats (Revolutionary war from a sympathetic but British perspective) Elizabeth Pope The Sherwood Ring (ghosts, Revolutionary war, romance, mystery, hidden passages, more romance) and also by Elizabeth Pope The Perilous Gard (Elizabethan gothic, fairies Continue reading Enjoyable, not too fluffy reads.
I asked M to play with K one morning so I could get cleaned up and dressed. When I returned to check on them, she was singing in the chair, and he was testing his pyramid. He didn’t have a Continue reading M’s Pyramid Trap
The boys are easier to get out the door, so B often unicycles down our hill with M running behind. He waits at the corner to cross M. Once K has her shoes on, and I find my watch and Continue reading 11AM at the Park
I spoke to grownups without interruption, in complete sentences; Saw an off Broadway play, throw acorns with my children, and did not cook dinner for 4 days. DH took Friday afternoon off so we could drive down to his parent’s Continue reading Lovely Weekend
DH just bought me a new ergonomic mouse: the SRM Stress Releaving Mouse (sic). He was re-doing his desk to prevent those lopsided backaches he gets when programming too much, bought an SRM for himself, then decided that I needed Continue reading My New Mouse
K tried to persuade me at breakfast that she was dead, by answering every question with “I dead Momma.” We just read about the crucifiction this week in her Beginner’s Bible (I read on to the resurrection that night, I’m Continue reading Random Ambitions
The windows are cracked, because it’s still warm. I hear my neighbors who also have their windows cracked, especially the children who all seem to get tired and cranky at predictable times – the same times in fact that my Continue reading Neighboring Strangers
Yesterday we came home from Sunday School early, because M didn’t feel at all well, he was voluntarily sitting still too, so he wasn’t faking. Today he’s still off, and we are butting heads, I’m trying to remember why he’s Continue reading Today’s Homeschool
Usually M gets roped into helping K with the puzzles. She’s sort of a throw the pieces when mad sort of girl. She got some vocabulary practice in too – This PIG Momma. I was so pleased that she did Continue reading K’s First Ever Independent Puzzles
I’ve been helping B set up his timeline notebook this afternoon. We had an off by one error, and a Mom impatience error too. Once the procedures clicked, B remarked, “This is a lot like organizing a book cart at Continue reading Analogy from B
Those first few months of being home with my baby were weird; Science fiction weird,”Woman wakes up in uninhabited suburbia weird.” Who was I? What was I doing but holding a disconsolate child; I was certainly not getting any dishes Continue reading Colic and Kant: That Chapter in Nancy Piercy’s book
I just noticed that there are 699 posts in this blog, as I was logging into Homeschoolblogger. Wish I had something really profound to write about besides, wow, it feels like I started this thing yesterday, but getting organized will Continue reading Post 700 – How Time Flies