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Hooray!  I can’t believe it.  He is caught up in his school work.  I really think Serious is going to be one of those people that can start a major term paper (10 plus pages) the night before and get it done to turn in the next day.  I am so not one of those [...]

Silly today woke up very excited because we had the “Den School” set up.  When it rains I put a sheet between two couches and bring in the blankets and pillows to create a “den” where we do our school work.  He immediately got downstairs and transformed into “Mrs. Fox” ready to read books and [...]

Serious has taken it into his head recently that he doesn’t want to do school.  I’ve tried a myriad of approaches and nothing has really worked successfully until today.  I decided that his education will change from reading and math to learning to accept me teaching him and not the other way around.  So, I [...]

Homeschool is a different lifestyle than public school. I’ve been feeling guilty lately that the boys haven’t been completing their reading or math curriculum for the last four days. We went skiing on Friday, Saturday and Sunday were busy along with skiing again on Monday. Tuesday they were in their classes and that leads us [...]

I’m sitting in Silly’s room where he built a roman arched bridge to go with his roman aqueduct, but the arched bridge has been a bit modified.  The arched bridge is now a ramp where his mini-motorcycle man is driving and jumping off the ramp.  I wonder what the Roman’s would have thought about motorcycle’s [...]

So, it’s the end of the week off of classes for the kiddos.  We had a such a lovely week that I am a bit sad they are going back to classes this week, but I know they are excited to see their friends.  It was nice to not be on-the-go everyday and just do [...]

I just love Magic School Bus.  It makes for the nicest dinner times.  My two boys just can’t stop laughing at the table.  Don’t get me wrong… I love to hear them laugh but I also like them to eat their dinner.  I call it a prime time to get in some fun science education.  [...]

A few thoughts today, I enjoy the imagination and excitement when kids learn something new and want to know everything about it.  Silly is learning about Great White sharks, so after writing about how the shark communicates and what books he read about the shark, he wanted to be a shark.  So, I helped him [...]

Watching a child play with flour and see the pure joy on his face makes you stop and think.  It makes you think of how sweet and innocent they are, how the simple things in life can be fun and enjoyed, and I also wonder what he is learning from, putting his hand into the [...]

The mind of a child, especially a six year old child, is truly a wonder.  Silly has a very interesting imagination, and it hasn’t been squashed.  One day we woke up to a firefighter complete with coat and helmet (around town during errands) in the morning to transition to a race car driver in the [...]

Serious was just that this morning.  He asked before breakfast if he could do his math.  After I got myself off the floor I told him to eat his breakfast first.  He did so and then got to work on his math.  Silly was just that this morning.  He wanted a big breakfast so he [...]

Boys were in classes today.  Serious was up with a start this morning and started practicing his piano lessons.  He really enjoys it.  It has been an interesting progression.  In the beginning of his lessons they were very basic in nature and he didn’t really enjoy practicing, but as the lessons have gotten more difficult [...]

We had a complete homeschool day today, which means no classes.  It’s fun but exhausting at the same time.  The education part isn’t what tires me, it’s the keeping the boys separated so they can focus on their work.  My favorite part of the day is sitting and listening to the boys read on the [...]

Kids are so much smarter than we give them credit for.  I have to share two glimpses into the mind of a child.  One day Serious was writing his spelling words and he didn’t want to write them five times each, so his solution was to write each word once with lots of space in [...]

Have you ever had a day in which you can’t stand being around your kids?  Don’t get me wrong, I love my kids more than my own life, but the whining and rolling around on the floor with an out of control body I can do without.  It’s amazing to me how quickly things can [...]

Today the boys were in their charter school classes and when they got home they were very energetic.  They had quite a bit of work to complete so the energy level had to be re-directed to calm focus.  I sat in the middle bouncing between each child assisting and re-directed when needed.  At one point [...]

If you saw a little boy in a tree eating apples pretending to be a monkey today…yes that was my kid.  Silly decided to be a monkey today.  Of course Serious had to tell him “You’re not a monkey.  Do you have opposable thumbs on your feet?  So, you’re not a monkey.”  Yes, he was [...]

Have you ever had a situation where you want to take the conversation somewhere but you don’t know how to get there without offending the person?  You think the other person is open to the conversation but you aren’t sure how to approach the subject?   Recently I had such a situation.  I said a few [...]

The day began going to the gym and then home for school.  MS6 was interested in getting started on his science to finish his Platypus lapbook.  MS8 disappeared to his room to play.  After sometime MS8 came downstairs to complete his reading and spelling.  We worked together on his reading assignment and ended up in [...]

I went into MS6’s room to find MS8 in there hugging him.  It was precious.  They got up and dressed for their physical education day of motorcycle riding with their dad.  However, it was Sunday – prize box and goal setting day!  MS8 came downstairs first and headed straight to see if he won the [...]