1. What is your current occupation? Is this what you choose to be doing at this point in your life? Why or why not? I’m a Mommy. I do volunteer work maintaining websites and helping to run an online safety…
Who Should Homeschool
The same woman who made the Shakespeare comment has a very different view of homeschooling than I do. This lady (who was really very nice) homeschooled one of her sons one school year, but it wasn’t by choice. He’d been…
Homeschooling Stuff
Current Mood: 😐okay
They Shouldn’t BE Homeschooling!
Okay, an acquaintance of ours has repeatedly moaned to me recently because her daughter isn’t learning anything. Truly—they’re supposedly homeschooling the kid, and she is still completely stuck on the same math concepts she couldn’t learn over two years ago…
Library Visit
Katie and I had a lovely visit to the library, longer than we’d planned due to the thunderstorm that came up while we were inside. I didn’t want to go out while the rain was coming down in buckets, so…
Sleepy Baby
Katie slept until about 2 pm! We were up until 1 is, but I didn’t expect it to hit her that hard. I tried to wake her earlier and she was obviously very solidly asleep, which is generally a sign…
Shakespeare
Katie and I didn’t get to watch A Midsummer Night’s Dream until last night, because we wanted to wait until sambear could watch it with us. He was extremely late getting home from work, though, and then he couldn’t stay…
Literacy
Today’s cool site: http://www.wiretapmag.org/ “WireTap is the independent information source by and for socially conscious youth, showcasing investigative news articles, personal essays and opinions, artwork and activism resources that challenge stereotypes, inspire creativity, foster dialogue and give young people a…
Movies, Mommying, Miscellany
We watched Galaxy Quest last night. That’s always fun. It’s one of the movies I want to own on DVD, but we sorta need to get a DVD player. Katie is doing her math, then she’s going to finish reading…
My Math Whiz
Okay, Katie just brought me her math book so I could check the pre-test for the next chapter. She got every problem right, so she’s skipping yet another chapter. That makes seven chapters in a book that only HAS twelve…