Posted in Homeschooling and Education on Apr 30th, 2007 1 Comment »
This month I’ve been studying airplanes with Carbon. For a bit we got distracted by rockets, but then some more airplane stuff came in from the library, and we got back to the airplanes. We’re going to do more rocket stuff next month, including building and launching a model rocket.
For airplanes we read:
There is a […]
Posted in Domestic Bliss on Apr 30th, 2007 7 Comments »
Things are better here. I need to respect my husband’s privacy, but he has decided not to move out and is working on issues while still living at home with me. It is my personal theory that we still haven’t faced the stuff that happened to him in Iraq. Just the difference in adrenaline and […]
Posted in Homeschooling and Education on Apr 28th, 2007 1 Comment »
Our much anticipated caterpillars arrived in the mail today. Carbon is thrilled to get to watch them become butterflies. He checked on them many times today, but I’ve convinced him not to shake the little jar. He was convinced one was ready to become a “chrys-wis” today because it climbed to the top of the […]
Posted in My own homeschooled life on Apr 27th, 2007 8 Comments »
The “typical” homeschool family may be a married couple with the mom staying at home with the kids and devoting herself full-time to homeschooling and home-making, but that is not the only way homeschooling can be accomplished. It’s wrong to believe that you have to have the perfect situation before you could consider homeschooling.
My mom […]
Posted in Daycare and Preschool on Apr 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
We made “inchworms” as part of our Letter I theme this month. They were also a great introduction to measurement for the kids. We’d also recently watched an episode of Curious George where George was too short to ride carnival rides and had to measure himself to see if he grew. All the kids got […]
Posted in Domestic Bliss on Apr 25th, 2007 2 Comments »
I play a wide variety of music for the kids, and I think music is one of the cheapest ways to change an environment. A gray rainy day can be dramatic if you play opera or violin music, or it can be rather melancholy if you play lounge music or soft jazz. Picking music to […]
Posted in Domestic Bliss on Apr 24th, 2007 2 Comments »
Thanks to everyone for your supportive comments. Now that we’ve been to counseling, I actually have no idea what will happen. But I’m still holding on to an optimistic idea that we can work through this. And maybe this is just what it took to get the help we/he may need.
It’s really helpful for me […]
Posted in Domestic Bliss on Apr 23rd, 2007 9 Comments »
Well, life can turn on you very quickly. Last week my husband and I were talking to real estate agents and looking to buy land for our eventual “dream home” with space for orchards, bees, etc. Then, as a complete surprise to me, he told me he wants to separate. He’ll be moving out soon, […]
Posted in Happy and Healthy Childhoods on Apr 22nd, 2007 3 Comments »
I would love to raise my kids without gender bias, but there do seem to be some big differences between my son and daughter that follow gender lines. Carbon liked dress up, but he would always be turning into an animal - usually a cat that would growl and scratch at you. Hypatia loves to […]
Posted in gluten-free on Apr 19th, 2007 2 Comments »
So many people have been leaving comments that they are gluten-free also! Wow, I didn’t realize there were so many of us floating about in the homeschooling world. My mom was not surprised, however: “people who care to learn about their child’s special dietary needs will also want to personalize their educations, and vice versa” […]
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