New Year’s resolutions

Okay, Deanna. NOW I am ready to talk resolutions. I have three. I guess. Maybe it’s 12. Anyway.
1. I am not going to eat out all year. This is a big and daunting resolution, but I am designing a challenge to make it fun. That can be found here: A Year Without Eating Out.
2. To [...]

I’m feeling really excited about our upcoming school year!

and I don’t know why!
I do know that I keep going back to my calendar, and when I see it I smile. I think its because it seems so manageable for the first time ever. I have every morning open. So there’s some consistency there. I’m hoping that we can have that as our [...]

That’s a big bullet hole in your foot…

Okay, bad Mom confession (no, I’m not an extension-cord-waving crackwhore, but…): On Tuesday I left a *small* list of things for Quinn to accomplish school-wise while my sister was watching him, and he drug his feet taking forever to get those few things done. Yesterday, Quinn and I went head-to-head about piano practice all because [...]

block teaching

recently someone posted on a math board I lurk on about how they run their homeschool, and its certainly intriguing. Tell me what you think….they do one subject each day, and one subject only, but they do that subject for 2 hours and every day for about 2 weeks. So for two weeks nothing but [...]

Minimalism

I am so completely, overwhelmingly, hideously busy for the rest of this month. My work schedule is insane until the 18th, I must complete about 4 or 5 online courses to acquire my prerequisites and education credits for the IBCLC exam application by February 28th, and I have to do my taxes before the end [...]

Our Week

Well, it was kind of a crazy week around here, but I did manage to prioritize homeschooling during it all.
Some days, like my midwifery study day, we accomplished very little. I am going to address that by creating a planning page for the BOYS to use (as opposed to me) so that when I’m gone [...]

Comments rescued

I started to comment on Gina’s post, but realized I was writing a book, so I rescued this from the comment box in order to make a new post:
I’ve decided that I don’t have to be perfect and live up to my standards, I just have to do SOMETHING with each of the girls 5 [...]

Couldn’t have picked a better week

We are set to start this shift in priorities on Monday. From Monday onward, work cannot come first. Well I couldn’t have picked a better week…I am so behind with work it isn’t even funny. I’m on the verge of saying we’ll start school the next week or even wait until Feb, but that is [...]

Curriculum plans ala Deanna

With a vengeance, here are our plans (which may be modified as I see fit at any time without warning)
Allison – 3rd grade

Right Start Math – we are finishing up level B and will start level C by the end of Jan – I adore this program, but it is teacher intensive. I believe this [...]

Curriculum plans ala Gina

Okay, my plans for the big “Homeschool Kickoff” of 2008 are really a return to those things that were working best for us once upon a time. Liam, now seven, is hitting homeschooling territory in a bit more seriousness, and it’s dawned on me that Quinn is fast approaching his middle school years. In a [...]