My musings on our homeschool, coop, figuring out what my educational philosophy is anyway, and will I ever make curtains for the rest of the appartment?
Ah, one way to get out of procrastinating is to make something pretty and useful. Or just pretty and related. Like bullet points that color code to the bookmarks in your Bible so you don’t get confused where to refer Continue reading Organizing my outline with scrapbook scraps and a decorative punch
Saturday is the Family Fun Fair. So I’m practising my gospel lesson, trying to remember all the points, not get too metaphoric that I leave the concrete young kids behind, and stay flexible with the ages who might turn up Continue reading I have so much to do I think I’ll procrastinate, or whine.
And, yes, I swam this morning even though the thunder storm woke everyone up at 4AM. (Go me ;-) I got the scope and sequence written up and mailed yesterday, oh look, blog fodder! I hope I can still call Continue reading Next Year’s Scope and Sequence
I’m starting to keep to-do lists on my computer desk top for organizing my Summer and Fall homeschool and pattern/article writing. They are so long they scare me. Friday Morning M asked me if I’d read my Bible portion yet, Continue reading Random notes
My Mom and M were in upstate NY on the 4th, so we lost the lady who says, “I bought nice meat at Chartley Meat market, lets grill this afternoon.” and the little boy who says, “I am so bored, Continue reading {p,f,h,r} How my Husband Spent the Afternoon of the Fourth
Monday: B unicycled in the Memorial Day Parade, my Mom grilled dinner for us. Tuesday: I took my “in service Day” and organized the last 1/6 of this year’s school – B was in charge of K all morning. Wednesday: Continue reading It’s been a Weird Week.
When I search SAILS set to “Key Word,” if I copy and paste the whole title with author from the Story of the World activity book pdf, the exact book comes up, which is faster than an author search if Continue reading Notes to self about sixths and library searches.
Whirlwind weekend. It was lovely. When I find the camera I’ll post. This weekend I worked on interview questions for another design blog (with one crochet pattern out, I guess I count as a crochet designer? Maybe?) I also got Continue reading Catch up Day
I slashed some of our homeschool so we’d have time to get ready to go to the zoo with cousins this afternoon. Dan said I did a good job with the pizza, I’m writing it down so I can savor Continue reading To the Zoo
I’ve been playing this week backward and forward in my mind, especially since two weeks ago, I thought that this week was last week and almost got all prepared for it. Yesterday M and K woke up early (oh so Continue reading List of Standardized Testing Week
School year, Tax year, Liturgical year, gardening year…all seem to be colliding into busy. This afternoon M gets to evaluate some toys at the Hasbro fun lab (he’s already cleaned out space in his room, they pay him in toys.) Continue reading Which Calender?
I finished the Attleboro Sweater pdf in it’s American crochet terms version. But I got distracted from homeschool, caught M up after lunch (causing him to miss hanging out with the neighbors) and forgot to take K outside until after Continue reading I was bad – but the pdf draft is done