(The local homeschooling group ran a fun Olympic day this week. Here are our highlights. The throwing of the doves and the 50 yard dash. Too bad I didn’t take a picture of the awesome food.)
Quote of the day:
“The main problem we face comes with parents telling us their children are being homeschooled and yet [...]

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A few weeks ago I was in a public park with about 4 or 5 moms and dads, and about 10-15 kids, ages ranged from 2 to 16. The kids were mostly playing color tag. I was chatting with various parents about our upcoming year of girl scouts/boys club when suddenly a mom said “Look! [...]

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(Gene and Jude’s. All they sell is hot dogs and homemade fries. The line snakes out the door most days. They can afford to be bossy.)
Narry a week goes by without my 7-year-old boy asking “When will it be backwards day?” Sometimes he switches it out and calls it opposite day. The appeal is strong. [...]

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(The first attempt, captured in pixels.)
We went to get shoes. At the mall. Why would I set foot in a mall on the weekend? Because we had spent the better part of the week earlier visiting every shoe store I knew existed searching for Mail’s gym shoes.
After hours of searching for the perfect, affordable, wide [...]

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One of my girlfriends and I have a joke. We say we’re members of volunteers anonymous. We are trying to recover, and so one way in which we help each other is if we happen to be together in the presence of other women, and one woman asks if anyone would like to volunteer [...]

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(The day the neighborhood sticks had their block party.)
Yesterday’s topic was a bit heavy. So, in the interest of lightening things up, let’s talk sticks. How do you feel about sticks? Chances are, if you are a female and reading this, you haven’t given sticks much more than a second thought. Maybe you have [...]

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It is hard to believe that just 6 years ago we started the homeschooling journey with Anoif. What is weirder still is that, like many parents of 11 year olds, our homeschooling days began amidst the terrorist attacks of 2001 on the US. At the time, we were all deeply traumatized by the events. So [...]

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(Try to get a good picture of these little buggers flying! I dare you.)
Okay, I’ve been wanting to do one of these “Here’s my schedule” posts for ages now. I know, in my heart, that it would be of interest to absolutely no one. Probably not even the grandparents really want to know the details [...]

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After a long day trekking around Lincoln Park visiting the nature museum and watching my kids at their absolute happiest (immersed in nature) I handed them the camera for the bus ride home. They were getting antsy and this was a perfect funnel for their energy. There are about 30 blurry pictures, but these are [...]

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How do you define a mellow holiday weekend? I guess for me it is characterized by the most stressful thing you did was hang out for several hours waiting for a steam powered train to come by your house, because some friends told you it would. It did. Eventually. It was cool to see. [...]

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