One of the coolest homeschooling phenomenons is spontaneous learning. Some people go so far as to “unschool” or leave learning entirely up to the child. That doesn’t suit my son or my nerves very well, but I’m still enjoying the fruits of this nuance. Here are a few things I’ve “caught” Tyke 1 doing on … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2012
The Great Shark Adventure…Ugh
I hate sea creatures. All of them. Don’t try to tell me they are majestic or colorful or intriguing. I simply do not care. They freak me out. Plus, in the water they have 2 advantages: silence and speed. Hate it. So, my lovely son, knowing full-well my aversion to all things aquatic has chosen … Continue reading
Just Keep Repeating, “I Love My Husband, I Love My Husband, I Love My Husband”
I love my husband. I really do. I’m so grateful for hard he works. I’m so grateful he woke up super early this morning and headed off to work. But I swear, if he wakes the baby up at 6 a.m. again just because he doesn’t know how to be quiet…it will take all my … Continue reading
Homeschool SkedTrack Review
A good friend of mine from college is back in town and homeschooling! It is great! She invited me to a homeschool group for Missouri homeschoolers, also awesome, and that lead me to http://www.homeschoolskedtracker.com. I am so excited about this! I was panicking about making sure we reach the required amount of hours each day … Continue reading
Exceptionally Awesome First Week
I have to say that I’m pleasantly surprised about how our first week of homeschooling has gone! I was expecting to feel stressed, overwhelmed, tearful even at times, but Stick Boy has really pulled his weight. He’s eager to get started each day, and even does his “before school” chores without complaint. (I think this … Continue reading
Best News I’ve Gotten…
Since Hubby said we could start trying for #3. There are all kinds of things that pregnant women are told to avoid, and most of those dietary things extend to those women trying for a baby. My biggest concern lately has been that I would have to dramatically reduce my soda intake. For some people, … Continue reading
Finally Somthing New to Make with Ground Beef!
I know, I know. I’m such a housewife. I get really excited about things like sales on diapers and finding new recipes. That’s why you all follow this blog, though, right? Well, anyway, I’ve been sticking to a pretty strict food budget, so our meat choices have been chicken, ground beef, fish fillets when there’s … Continue reading
Sight Word Baseball
Even if you aren’t a homeschooler, I highly recommend this game! It can be easily adapted for spelling words or multiplication tables. We used our wipe board to draw a baseball diamond. Then we used the pack of sight words I picked up from Target dollar bins. Each word said correctly equals one base (which … Continue reading
Our First Day
Our first day went so well that I took 28 pictures! (I will only share a few here). Things were great today. These are just the highlights. We did some math, spelling and grammar, but that was all workbook stuff. I was able to keep Cub from being too much of a distraction by getting … Continue reading
As an Homage to Summer
On our first day of school, I thought I’d look back on our summer and post my favorite pics. I feel a little guilty because there are more of Cub than the Stick boy, but Cub is in that “learning-new-things” phase and Stick wasn’t in the house with us much because he’s in a “I-want-to-be-outside-with-my-friends” … Continue reading
Being Happy... 