Communication is a beautiful thing

I had surgery almost 6 weeks ago and have given up all sorts of duties.  One of them was the grocery shopping.  Lots of people told me that pushing the grocery cart is hard and so I willingly let my Beloved handle this.  I made up the list and sent him off every Saturday morning.  [...]

A Giveaway on a Friend’s Blog

Go here and look for the Nathan Clark George DVD Giveaway: http://www.counterculturalschool.blogspot.com/ The contest ends Saturday, May 23rd and you don’t have to be a homeschooler to enter — she links to her other blog where she is posting links to all sorts of free audiobooks and there is a beautiful one of Treasure Island. [...]

Tell me this makes me the funnest mom ever and not the worst mom of the year

Breakfast:  Donuts.  Okay, they had milk — that was good right?
Lunch:  Chicken nuggets, french fries and root beer at Chick-Fil-A.  Okay, FM#3 had fruit.  Oh, and they had a shake to end the meal, so there was some dairy in there too.
Dinner:  An assortment of hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken nuggets and chicken sandwiches at McDonalds.  All [...]

Because I know trouble when I see it

Last week, on FM#3’s birthday, FM#2 woke up complaining that his ear hurt when he yawned.  Hmmm.   Strange.  I took his temperature and there was none so I dismissed it.  I thought “If it gets worse, I’ll take him to the dentist,” thinking that it must have something to do with his jaw.
Since it was [...]

The long journey of homeschooling

The week between Christmas and New Year’s did not go well in our homeschool.  Many would say it was because we were actually doing school but the week before was worse because we took off and they were bored, bored, bored.  Our main problem is that we have an 11 year old in the house [...]

Steal second?

About a month ago, the kids sang at the beginning of our church service.  Not FM#1 of course because he’s a big boy now but all the rest were up front.  In our family, there is always the tension of getting there early so the kids can be in place and practice once or twice [...]

I never knew

FM#2 and FM#3 had a science book down the other day and were studying it very seriously to see how a baby grows in his mommy’s tummy.  FM#3 later reported to my Beloved that first you’re made and you look yucky and then you grow some and you still look yucky and then you grow [...]

Our biggest homeschool field trip yet

I say yet because I do aspire to be like EuroMom and take the kiddoes to Europe.  Of course, I don’t know if we’ll ever manage 5 weeks away but 3 would be nice.  Anyway, this trip was much less lofty in ambition — we went to Williamsburg and surrounds as well as other points [...]

The Pressure, the pressure

So people think that FM#3 is funnier more often than I post and they are probably right but it’s all a blur.  Last night he didn’t say anything funny but he did something funny.  Does that count?  I met my Beloved at work to take his car and one kid to Scouts while he took [...]

A couple of funny comments

Since I’m getting complaints about no blog posts and since FM#3 has finally come through with a couple of funny things, I will bow to the pressure.
FM#3 is into all things invisible.  He has been playing with an invisible paper airplane which I encouraged wholeheartedly and he is always talking about the disappearing [...]