I may be Taking a blog holiday this week

Unless I need to write down my ideas to figure out what I think.

The first co-op is this Friday.  I’m not ready to teach my class yet – I haven’t finished writing the curricula yet.  Meanwhile I’m getting so many ideas for things to sew, scrapbook, knit, write, stamp, and talk about.  B’s Dr Who DVDs are here too.  It’s like being back in college when my friends didn’t have papers due, but I did have a formal lab to work on – and I want to play too!

This week I’ve been attempting to keep the computer turned off  until after all of M’s teacher intensive times, so far we are getting way more homeschool done than usual.  So why am I blogging now?  He’s doing his math paper.

Not that that is smooth and easy though: M wants to erase all of yesterday’s extra pencil marks of the game he devised that made checking the work so confusing for me.  The game must have been artistic, the lines were pretty and he used symbols in a non-random way.  He verbalized the point of the exercise, but he was so disappointed that I wasn’t interested in understanding his complex game – or able to decipher it.  Now he is wanting to erase it all and “do it right.”  I really just want him to practice adding long columns of numbers and gain the insight that where numbers add up to ten, you can note them, and then get the column added easier.

I think I accidentally squished a butterfly in his imagination yesterday.  Why didn’t anyone tell me how inconvenient other people’s gifts were?

OK, back to my inconvenient gifts.  I’ve had pictures flashing in my mind of what to do with the fabric I’ve meant to sew up, but wasn’t inspired about (talk about inconvenient, the pictures came in the middle of church when I should have been paying attention to Romans 8. ) Something exciting is brewing in the design business, but I can’t mention it officially.  And on Friday I get to start my discussion class on the life of Florence Nightengale – the biographies of Miss Nightengale came in on Saturday, and Socratic Circles came yesterday.

If I’m good, I may not be blogging much this week, I need to cram both subject matter and methods.  If only I can write down the fun ideas that I keep distracting myself with, so I remember them when I have time to sew, knit, write, talk…whenever that is next.

Oh, and M?  He is drawing his game idea on a piece of construction paper, so we don’t forget it.  On to phonics, after I change K, her diaper is poopy.