How Much I Enjoy This.

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Now that I have had my blog for a couple of months, I just want to comment on how much I enjoy blogging. It is fun to have an outlet for my thoughts and opinions and to record the fun things my kids are doing. I especially love to get comments on my posts, so please, keep those coming! If you leave a link to your blog, I will visit!

Homeschool Planning.

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I have the KONOS curriculum for this fall and we've kind of already started on it, by reading Swiss Family Robinson. It is one of the recommended books. Now I'm off in search of a math curriculum. I'm really not sure where to turn for this. My youngest child loves math and wants to talk about it and work on math problems in his head all day long. My daughter is pretty good at math, but it isn't one of her favorite things to do. My older son came out of public school with a math phobia. He believes that he is not good at it and will never be good at it so why try? I'm not sure what to do with him.

While I was searching, I did find this site which looks good. Math Worksheet Site.

I can't wait.

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I'm re-reading the fifth Harry Potter book in anticipation of the sixth one coming out on July 16. I am very interested to know what is going to happen next. Anyone else? I love these books.

Let's Pretend ...

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The other day my daughter and my niece were riding in the middle seat of our van. They were pretending to be on a roller coaster, so they would scream whenever we went down a hill. After a while, they started playing another game and it was nice and quiet. Then my daughter said, "Let's pretend we are on a roller coaster again." My DH said, "How about we pretend we are on a roller coaster and we are mute?" They didn't go for it.

Sleeping in the Bathtub.

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My younger son has a tendency to eat too much sometimes, if we have just gotten a lot of groceries that he likes or if we are on vacation and have a lot of food in the hotel room for snacks. We have learned that it is best to restrict his eating after about 6:00 p.m. or he will throw up in the bed. The other day we were in a hotel and had a box of the cheese crackers shaped like whales. It was after his eating deadline had passed and he reached his hand towards the box of Whales. My husband said "Dan, if you eat even one Whale, you are sleeping in the bathtub!."

How Do You Get There?

Last night, I was printing a map from Louisville to a specific point in Indiana. my older son asked why I started the driving directions in Louisville, since we don't live there. I explained "I know how to get to Louisville." My older son said "Everyone knows how to get to Louisville." I asked my younger son if he knew how to get there he said "Sure, you just go mmm, mmm, mmm (showing the route with hand motions) and you're there." My older son did the same thing, "mmm, mmm, mmm (with hand motions)" and said "I'm not there." Smarty pants. Fortunately, my younger son thought it was funny too.

Toleration/Tolerable

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Last year in public school, my older son had a spelling assignment that included the words toleration and tolerable. He had to write sentences with each word. He wrote "I am practicing toleration of school." "My homework is barely tolerable." I hope it is easier to tolerate the way we school at home!

Everywhere I Go.

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I love music. When we are in the van, we almost always have the radio on, pretty loud, and my daughter and I are almost always singing along. Sometimes the boys too. Occasionally, I have some trouble with the lyrics, especially, for some reason, pronouns. A couple of weeks ago I was singing along to a song that goes "Everywhere I go, I know you're not far away. You're right here." and I sung "Everywhere I go, I know I'm not far away. I'm right here. " The kids are still laughing at me over that one.