Carbon and I are making his own alphabet book. I’ve got a scrap book, with a page for each letter. We’re doing crafts and things related to the letters, then putting the pictures in the scrap book. There are so many cool idea books out there for alphabet activities, but I wanted some way to [...]
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My family is in the midst of an experiment on alternative homeschooling. My youngest sister, the only child left homeschooling with my mom, was not cooperating very well. She and my mom would just butt heads about any assignments my mom gave, and so her work wasn’t getting done and everyone was stressed out.
They looked [...]
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On a recent play date, Carbon wanted to play farmer, and the other little boy said that was “stupid”. He wanted to play “police helicopter”.
Carbon doesn’t own any toy helicopters, because I still won’t let him have any violent toys or anything I think could be used violently. It wasn’t a very good play date.
Carbon [...]
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I don’t know why I keep reading these books about “the mommy wars”. I suppose it’s because I’m preoccupied with this issue of “status” for being home with my kids. But really, most of these books are not very helpful to me. My real struggles are with things like getting other people to wash some [...]
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I love this latest issue of Home Education Magazine, especially the article by Tamra Orr: “Come and Join F.A.M.U.”. FAMU stands for Families Against Measuring Up, and the tenets include not comparing ourselves to others and keeping in mind that we don’t see others as they really are. I’m reminded of a wise comment a [...]
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We have adopted a new kitten, and I let Carbon name her. Thus, Choo Choo Train Socks and Shoes was chosen. We dropped the “socks and shoes” part, and then call her ChooChoo for short. I’m finding it easier to say all the time. We hit the jack pot for kitten personality, because this little sweetie is very calm and will [...]
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I’m about to go on a long vacation, driving my family to Kentucky and back. I’ve planned exciting stops everyday of the trip, going to see dinosaur museums and what not. I got a great idea from All Things Creative to get a bunch of small inexpensive items and wrap them in gift wrap for the [...]
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When I learned grammar as a child, I remember having to memorize a whole list of prepositions. It was one of the only times I ever memorized something without having a clue what it was all about. And I did have it memorized for years. But what was the real point? I still couldn’t give you [...]
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I wanted to post some pictures from the convention that I attended with my mother, but I’ve used up my space allocation here. I’ll have to take some time later to figure out what old pictures to delete. In the mean time, here’s the one of us and our booth. See all the lovely unit studies? [...]
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