(Fi’s first ever blog photo)
This mellow Sunday morning, as I staggered over to the coffee pot, I heard a strangely familar noise. I got to thinking about the noise. Was it my neighbor mowing his lawn one last time since the snow melted? Was it a freight train rattlling on by? Was it my son [...]

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(the blurry wave of the gimpy santa to usher in the holidays)
I’ve lost count
Of the curriculum I’ve bought and sold
Mining lesson plans
Was never my goal
I’m not in it
For the legwork or the games
And I’m not out
To be a great big pain.
I’m a little bit classical
A little bit unschoolish too
A little bit old fashioned
I’ve often been [...]

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(The first blast of winter has arrived. Ugh.)
I still haven’t gotten to the library, in spite of all of that good advice.
But I do want to add the kid list here. I won’t put down Liam’s great reads because there are so many picture books a day it would get me kicked off the server [...]

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A couple of my favorite Chicago blogs, Mental Multivitamin and Shockingly Provincial have been on about reading as of late. They got me reflecting on my perplexing problem, reader’s block. I’ve been an avid reader since I was about 11. In fact, I’d say I’m a compulsive reader. I hate to leave the house [...]

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(Girl Scouts rock!)
Feeling a little grassroots action underfoot? If you join the Homeschoolers Free Media movement you can get in on the ground floor. 14 year-old Zephyr and his mother have been building this project and are billing it as a liberal progressive website and web radio station for homeschoolers. It just sounds so exciting [...]

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(Yum. Dessert at the luncheon mentioned in the last post. Aren’t we spoiled?)
Akron’s paper sucks. But did you know there are crimes there, in Akron? Did you know every year some people hurt others in Akron? Other times, people are just not very social. There are probably even racists there. And some people who [...]

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(a picture of one of this weekend’s many events, the pow wow.)
Isn’t it weird what a windy path life can take you down? Isn’t it odd how no matter how much of a control freak you are, things seldom turn out as you planned? Wouldn’t it just be easier to smoke pot every day and [...]

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(Bless the YMCA! My kids aren’t climbing the walls at my house anymore.)
Ok, so Daryl has gone on vacation for a few days, and I am without my daily fix of homeschooling news. So, I took it upon myself to search the web. He has secret techniques to dig up LOTS of stuff which I [...]

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(Lakefront stonehenge. I need to remember to go there more for all of my druidic needs)
Okay, this post is about that scourge of humanity. Non-bloggers. What is with them? I mean, I know several hundred people who don’t blog, but why must they say things like “I checked out that thing-that blob you do-”? Why [...]

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Story of the World to the kids about the Moors invading Spain. Usually, I will have taken the time to read ahead and have interesting ideas for crafts or activities we can do relating to the reading. But it’s been a hectic few weeks, so I just read. Later, I had a few minutes before [...]

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