(Look at me, Mommy! I’ve dissected the lens of this scrumptious cow eye!”
You may sometimes wonder, what is Kim’s favorite thing about homeschooling? Is it the unmitigated amount of time with children? Is it how she avoids being sucked in to the rat race? Is it being repeatedly asked where she gets the patience? Is [...]

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(Taken the same time as the sleeping toes picture. Well, what do you want?! We’ve all been cooped up, remember? Plus, it’s good to see those eyelashes up close.)
In the past week, we’ve had some typical Dennis the Menace type scenarios. In spite of their annoyance factors, they are always so classic that they [...]

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(Do they give cookie medals of honor for braving the elements? Faced with days of below zero and snow, we finally ventured out door-to-door in a blizzard to sell cookies. What did we do? Knocked on 20 doors. Number of doors answered? 4. Number of people home? All, because where else would they be [...]

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(Couldn’t resist the sleeping toes)
First off, ahh, sweet ALMOST victory. I guess, at the very least, I’ll always have a great BOB button for my sidebar, once I can figure out how to do that. Thanks again to my street team and lackeys, not to mention family and friends for voting!
Second off, hibernation is [...]

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(Teen Titans chillin’ at the ice hotel)
Hey! Voters, we are in number 2 place at the Best of Blog awards. Currently, at this very exciting moment we are just ONE vote behind, with only 2 voting days left. Keep on voting once a day and thanks so much for keeping me in the running. Wooohoo! [...]

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(We must visit the secret Elvis shrine of Oak Park bi-annually to pay hommage. Or so my kids insist. I just keep saying, “But he didn’t even write his own songs, which was normal for back then. But still…”)
Over at American Homeschool Association’s website, they are embracing the blog format. Helen from Home Education Magazine [...]

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The other day we were singing “The Farmer in the Dell” (don’t ask), and the philosophizing started up again. Lately, any old topic can get my kids overanalyzing stuff. Fi wanted to know “What does it mean ‘the nurse takes a child?’” The mini lecture on nannies, midwives and wet nurses ensued. Then we talked [...]

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Christmas, play division games, do lots with the letter x, and read more of the Secret Language (a Christmas gift from Fi’s friend Lulu) and Hairstyles of the Damned (a loan from Lulu’s mom to keep me sane), start our Human Body unit study,and lastly, break up the fisticuffs, which have been frequent since the [...]

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(Fi resolves to learn double dutch)

Wow, I’m a finalist for best educational blog for the best of blogs(aka Bob) awards 2004. I am honored. Vote for me, early and often (ok, once a day will do. Click the button to the left to go there). Okay, who nominated me? Whoever it is, thanks! The coolest [...]

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(As promised, a link to David Albert’s website . He’s collecting funds for victims of the tsunami in India.)
Seriously, I went out a few days ago to a science store, a diner and a health food store. I had my 2 kids, Bryan had his baby, and I was babysitting a girl. So, in every [...]

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