I read somewhere a while ago that we can’t be the “Fun Mom” all the time. Our children need parents, not friends. We must discipline and provide order and direction. There will be time when they are grown to be friends with our children. While I technically agree with much of this, I think sometimes… Read More Be the Fun Mom – 11 Ideas to Engage your Kids in Family Fun
The last couple of weeks have been travel weeks, so I have been unable to update on what is going on around the garden. I have instead been checking out the natural beauty around me. Pretty much the only updates I have for this week are the harvest tallies. I managed to harvest a bit… Read More Garden Update 6/19/18
And this is why homeschooling is such fun. We were studying the Maori Warriors. He-Man was voted to be our guinea pig. We had lots of fun using (washable) crayola markers to try and replicate some of the designs we saw. This is going to be a lovely blackmail shot later in life. Hee, hee,… Read More Story of the World – Social Studies
It’s pretty sad when you are so distracted that you forgot you put your 5 year old in the time out corner (for what was supposed to be about a three minute time out) about six minutes ago. “Mom? Can I get out of timeout?” Smiles calls from the corner. “Oh – are you still… Read More Where Did My Brain Go???
Muscles hereby hates the decimal point and decided the world would be much better off without it. He says that whoever invented the decimal point must be crazy because inventions are supposed to be beneficial. He is working on figuring sales tax amounts in his math. Hmmmm. I am sure we can work this into… Read More The Dirty Decimal Point
He-Man cracked me up today. We have been picking up yummy produce from the stores and he recently learned some tricks for picking a good watermelon. Today, as baby Warrior Princess was sitting in her highchair, he leaned over and put his head next to hers. At first I thought he was giving her a… Read More Are Ya Ripe Yet?
Muscles is in love. At least he is in 9 year old love. Which sounds a lot like regular love to hear his description of it. “You feel in heaven and worried and rushed all the time to get back to talk to her.” He said it makes him feel nervous. He said that “two… Read More Romance is in the Air
As we are winding down our homeschool year and heading toward summer we are finding it a little repetitive and we are ready to be outside. So today, I went ahead and booked us for a little field trip to the Idaho Botanical Garden with the boys’ Charter School IDEA. Sorry, no pictures, I forgot… Read More Homeschool – Field Trip!!!
This is how my morning went today. At 8:00 a.m. I had two fillings replaced and two cavities filled. This left my face half paralyzed. My face was numb and when I tried to talk I lisped. Hubby made chocolate chip pancakes, which I could not eat because I could not feel my face. Instead… Read More Spring Cleaning with Children
Today, as we were working outside in the yard, my four year old had to go to time out for fighting with his older brothers. I was in the front yard with no seat available, so I had him sit beside me on the driveway while I worked on removing some grass from the flower… Read More A Different Kind of Time Out