Math Club

In an effort to follow through with a New Year’s Resolution to get out in the homeschool community more, I signed Golfer up for a Math Club. Today was the first day, and I packed the kids up so we could meet the other club members at a coffee shop for a little math [...]

Maybe Wordless Wednesday: Release.

From Mama Podkayne’s photo challenge about release:
1. To set free from confinement, restraint, or bondage: released the prisoners.
2. To free from something that binds, fastens, or holds back; let go: released the balloons; released a flood of questions.
3. To dismiss, as from a job.
4. To relieve of debt or obligation.
5. To relieve of care and [...]

Vertigo

Hubby experienced some crazy vertigo last week, after getting a cold. He just couldn’t stand up or walk around for very long without falling over or feeling sick. I pulled the standard mom-ism and suggested bedrest and lots of water…a good start to combat any sickness, yes? It passed after a day [...]

The Battle of New Orleans.

Lego style…

When I charge/load songs onto my kids ipods, I always slip a song or two on there that is of my choosing. At one point I was slipping in songs from Johnny Horton..someone that I wasn’t familiar with until I started dating Hubby. With him being in the [...]

Internet Killed the Video Star

(In which I ramble on about the demise of public school as we know it, sound generally crazy while talking about my theory of evolutionary shifts, and quote a high school teacher who is my new BFF but doesn’t know it yet.)
Hubby and I watched a really fascinating program on PBS called “Growing Up Online“, [...]

American Idol

Listening to an hour of people trying to sing: painful.
Listening to Simon reply: funny.
Spending an hour snuggled under a blanket laughing and talking with a usually too busy preteen: priceless.
We seriously LOVE this show. Hubby, Golfer, Naturalist and I squeeze together and watch religiously every week. And yes, we vote. [...]

Wordless Wednesdays–Lines

Q: How do you know Sassy Princess has been in a room?
A: She leaves behind her calling card…things lined up in rows.
Stickers on her headboard:

Game pieces:

My cosmetics, both horizontally and vertically:

The tiny Colonial people:

Muffins, each with exactly one bite taken out of them:

And anything else she can get her hands on.

(P.S. I [...]

Baby, it’s cold outside!!!

Yeah, that’s me hanging out at -6. The day started off cold and snowy and has only gotten colder and snowier.
Today is my scheduled grocery shopping day, and I briefly considered not going out into the negative degree weather…but then I thought of all the carbs, dairy, and pastries that were waiting [...]

Grief and the Holidays.

Connections. To me, this is the central theme during the Christmas holiday season. Taking time to connect with people and do things that I am usually too busy for. A rearrangement of priorities and small moments of, “A HA! I should take more time from the small stuff (that takes up [...]

Unschooling thoughts.

I was looking back through my recent posts, and reading through some other unschooling blogs when I realized that lately, none of my posts have been about unschooling. Used to be, it was all I could post about.
I’d sit and wonder (and blog)…was I doing it right? Was there even a right [...]