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Friday, April 06, 2012

A busier day than we planned.

Today I had to work and my daughter had her spine center checkup at 2. I was talking on the phone to a friend and suddenly realized that it was 1:00 so we ran out the door. After we got on the road, I realized that her shorts had a hole in them, so we stopped and bought her new pants. We were very, very quick and got right back on the road and should have been within a couple of minutes of getting there on time but then we ran into a traffic jam. We ended up being half an hour late, but we had called and so they went ahead and saw us. Oh, and I forgot to mention, while we were in the traffic jam, the engine needs coolant light came on and so I called my husband and he said that after the doctors appointment, just to wait in the parking garage and he'd come and put coolant in. Then we went across town (basically) and out to dinner, then to the grocery and then finally, at long, long last (I'm talking 7 hours!) we got HOME. Then I had to finish work and the girl had to finish school.

Monday, March 19, 2012

Whew.

Thursday I had an appointment early then had to clean the house, then had skate night.

Friday, I had to work, had an hour and a half break then went to a concert and was gone from 5:30 to 11:30.

Saturday, up at 8:30 to work until 3:00, then met my friend at 3:15, then took my kids to the party, then went out to eat with my friend, then to the salvage store and then to the regular grocery store to get dog food, then home. Then back out from 9:00-11:00 p.m. picking up the kids from the party (driving in a terrible storm which is why it took so long).

Then, Sunday, we had commitments at 10:00-12:00, 2:00-4:00, 4:30-5:30 and 6:00-7:45 and in between these, I managed to go to the grocery from 12:30-1:30 ish.

A nice surprise when I came home from the grocery, the washing machine and dishwasher were both running! Go kids!

What a crazy weekend. I am glad it's over and all I've got to do today is work. The kids are still sleeping and I'm halfway done with work. :-P

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Busy x4. I mean 5.

We've got 4 events today, 1 right after another and I also needed to go between 2 events and pick up a gift for the bridal shower and while I was there, I went ahead and got groceries. Fortunately, the bridal shower was only about an hour and 15 minutes (Yay!) so I got a tiny break between that and choir practice. Whew. Only 2 more things to go.

I've been on the road a lot this weekend.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Rut Roh.

I just hit a snag in my carefully planned list of activities today. I ran out of work in my account. I need to get 750 lines today before 3:00 p.m., then I'm meeting my friend to go to the salvage store and then we'll drop off my kids at a birthday party and then we'll go out to eat and then I'll bring my friend home. Then much later, I'll have to go pick the kids up. Yes, it would help if I'd let my oldest just drive everyone everywhere but I'm just not ready for that yet. He's had his driver's license how long? 7 months. Is that enough time? Plus he complains about not being able to see that well at night and he needs to have an eye exam. Also, if I let him drive them, I'd miss my trip to the salvage store since he and I share a car and I loves my trips to the salvage store. (It's very close to the birthday party location).

This has nothing to do with Scooby Doo except when I got the "no job available" message I automatically said "Rut Roh" to myself. :-P.

Yesterday's news is my son and I had a great time at the concert we went to last night except at one point, the balcony where we were sitting, started to shake. It was a sold out show and everyone was standing up, dancing, swaying and clapping and the balcony felt like it was rippling under our feet. It kind of freaked me out a little. :-/ Still wonderful fun. It's nice to have such a handsome, polite, fun young man to go places with and have him not be embarrassed to go out with his mom. While we were waiting for the concert to start two girls did come over and make a point to say "Hi" to him. Apparently he went to camp with them last year. :-)

Homeschooling Advice.

1. Try it. You might enjoy it. It might change your life. It might not be your thing, but you won't know if you don't ever try.

2. Find out what your state (or country) requires, the bare minimum. Do this and then with the rest of it, have fun with it. It doesn't have to be all serious and it doesn't have to look like the inside of a classroom. You're at home. Relax. Play. Read. Learn together. Enjoy your kids. They grow up way too fast.

3. Don't let a written curriculum boss you around. If it works, great. If it's not working for you, throw it out. If only parts of it work, use those and throw the rest out. It's not the boss of you. When shopping for curriculum, read reviews. Try to go somewhere where you can actually hold the book in your hands and look through it. Print out a sample day or week and try and implement it or borrow it before buying. It's kind of hit and miss buying books without being able to see them.

4. Find a homeschool support group. Or two. If you can't find one in real life, find one online. Get support where ever you can.

5. Make a mess now and then. Go outside and put some mentos in coke. Make alka-seltzer rockets. Make some great art. Make a timeline and a map. Grow some borax crystals. Use levers to lift things. Make a trebuchet out of whatever you can find around the house.

6. Go on as many field trips as you can.

The point of this blog.

"there is a theme, if you read, you'll get a growing conviction that homeschooling is a lifestyle that is worthwhile, that it is extremely good for kids and families, that it promotes bonding, is a personalized education that is superior to what you can get anywhere else for your kids, is fun and can be done even if you have a 400 track mind, no math skills (thankfully my husband does though), through working, job changes, bad hair days, home remodeling, deaths, illness, surgery, broken bones and various other things and it actually makes dealing with these things easier, not harder, than it was when we were in the public schools, because homeschooling is so incredibly flexible. That's the point I've been trying to make for the last 5 years or so."