I’m Back!

I have been off the computer for a few weeks due to a messy hard drive crash.
I did use my time wisely, though.  My laundry is looking better (I reduced the pile by HALF!) and I have been re-organizing our learning spaces.  I need more time though…  (I won’t even deny that I wonder how [...]

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Cleanin up my heart….

Darn those kids!  They show you so many things about yourself that you have to work on.  I am so old…(ok I only feel old)…that I find I want to throw a temper tantrum like a three year old when it comes to too much change.  What is wrong with me? 
Growing pains.
The house [...]

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Homeschooled Wiseguy Gets Brighter…

My dear Young Edison(13)  is inordinately attached to the computer screen…it’s more of a moth-light relationship.  It FEELS like I am always struggling to get him to start on his homework when all he really wants to do is find ANYTHING even remotely related to education on the net.  A few days ago, I witnessed [...]

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Homeschooled Wiseguy

My 15yo dd was getting the table ready for dinner and she asked her brother Young Edison 13 to “Please, turn on the Sun” which in our house means to turn on the big light.
Young Edison quips,”Who do you think I am?  Apollo??!”
…at least I know he finished his Ancient History homework…<G>

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Just when I thought we were invincible…

We made it through the winter without the flu!!!
Until Saturday.
..my 8yo dd got it…then the 4yo dd..then the 10yo ds…who is currently moaning behind me in the chair snuggled in a blanket.
This child is our “class clown”.  His usual chatter  is  laced with  jokes all day long.  Unfortunately, he isn’t one to ever suffer gracefully.  [...]

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New copy work…

Yesterday my eldest dd and I copied and pasted a quote into an email then got up from the computer and went into the kitchen to make dinner.  We overheard some excitement coming from the computer…Sunshine boy (5) was exclaiming in a loud voice,  “I finished my copy work! See?  I signed it…”
sure enough [...]

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Mom?

Dd (7yo) was doing some independent reading and when she finished the book, she sighed, closed the book and asked:
“Do you think Noah had a place for the fishes too?”
Me: “Noah?”
Yes, you know, like Noah and the ARK?
oldest twin dd(14:  “I think the big place that he prepared on the outside of the Ark was [...]

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His heart loveth much

I was eating my quick impromptu dinner which was loaded with salsa…I was trying to get done so I could power-walk at the park.  I was very thirsty and my lips were beginning to betray me and threaten to leave my face as they were on fire.
I asked in general…”can ANYONE get me a big [...]

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At the dinner table…

“Mom? Why do you always tell me to put my best foot forward?”
“I mean…how am I supposed to know which is my best foot?”
ds aged 9

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Oh, the influence of the internet…

We (dh, myself and our twin dds) had just put everyone to bed this evening and we thought about how much we would enjoy having the fragrant aroma of banana bread fill our home not to mention how good it would taste tomorrow. We had ripe bananas and a craving…But! We [...]

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