How Common Core is Slowly Changing My Child
Reblogged from mrsmomblog: A Letter to Commissioner King and the New York State Education Department: I have played your game for the past two years. As an educator, I have created my teaching...
View ArticleWhy? Why? Why?!
The question of WHY has been coming up a lot the past few days. Why do you choose to homeschool? on twitter, and even the Pagan Blog Project has teaching as a topic. Maybe the universe wants me to blog...
View ArticleThe goose egg
Twenty days since my last post, and a lot of things have been happening. The littlest, Bug Hunter, tripped on a step up when going out on the upstairs porch. Banged her head right into the wood and...
View ArticleStraightening the girls room
You can see here the bed is partially painted, and I’ve not yet started the bookshelf. The walls eventually are going to be a darker gorgeous purple, and the trim will be the same brown as the rest of...
View ArticleOatmeal, Checkers and Mr. Peabody
Lazy Friday morning as usual. The girls have made wooden projects (that little checkers game is a Lowe’s Build and Grow) this morning and are eating big bowls of warm oatmeal while playing and...
View ArticleMarriage Isn't For You
Reblogged from Seth Adam Smith: Having been married only a year and a half, I've recently come to the conclusion that marriage isn't for me. Now before you start making assumptions, keep reading. I...
View ArticleLucky little ducks
Yesterday afternoon I got a call from the Mr. while he was working. One of the owners of the company he works for was helping a friend clean out and relocate an element sport store. In the back room...
View ArticleOld fashioned food stuffs
I have been meaning to try making sauerkraut but all of my crocks have ‘shoulders’ so trying to put something on the top to keep it submerged would have been an interesting task without buying those...
View ArticleBullying, homeschool’s double edged sword
I was looking around Netflix today and found two movies that I had planned on having the girls watch, ‘at some point’. Cyber Bully and Bully and it occurred to me to ask them, “Do you know what a bully...
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