People think I’m crazy
Quick entry, we’re going to Kim’s… it’s her birthday, so we are taking her a cake!
So anyway, yea, people think I am NUTS to home school. I’ve always been "in love" with the idea, though of course, I was always kind of relieved to see the kids off to school… but really, I don’t mind having them home either. What I DO need though, is for them to be at least somewhat self motivating, and not making ME do all their work, or acting like I should do it because I’m the "learning coach" YES, that IS what they call them…learning coaches. Heh. I can embrace my inner learning coach, hee hee, so long as the kids don’t start expecting me to do all their work for them. Sydni especially can get SO angry when she doesn’t understand something right away. Shabree, I suspect, will do swimmingly. She ENJOYS school, wants to work at it, and it comes fairly natural for her. Becca, well, she hates school, and school hates her (her attitude, as stated by Jerry) but she always used to go in and do her homework… of course, then we’d find out later it hadn’t been turned in, she hadn’t ACTUALLY done it, etc… so I’m probably goin to have to watch her for that. But when motivated, Bec will do it on her own. So I guess we’ll see.
I look forward to trying, in any case. We can always put them back into school next year, if it doesn’t work out.
And with that, I’d better go. Bec’s frosting the cakes (we have a lemon, and a funfetti… YUM), our homemade frosting was YUCK, sadly, so we had to make a store bought frosting stretch for two cakes, but that’s actually not that difficult to do. My kids… the sifter got dirt in it, and while it went through the dishwasher, not all the dirt came out, so that’s why the homemade stuff was yuck… plus someone, who will go unnamed, used too much butter, and didn’t have enough sugar. Oops.
Gotta go.
Have a great day!
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Did you ever find anyone to go halves with you on the Debbie Mumm stuff? I noticed it was on sale again and I’d been going through my scrapping stuff. It was a little depressing. I found about 22 books (mostly 12 x 12 but a few 10 x 10 and 8 x 8) that haven’t even been touched as far as getting them ready to fill with pages and stuff. So I’m going to need embellishments, stickers, etc. but ugh, no more books. And I do have some of the most gorgeous books. The Once Upon A Time Book and all of the size paper collections for that one, a few more random books that I just fell in love with the colors with…black and white, Creme de la, a few striped (a pink and chocolate one, a pink and greenish one that’s gorgeous for babies, and I can’t even remember.) So now, like I said, I have to concentrate on paper and stickers, cut-outs, blah, blah. I even have pics stuck in a lot of the pages because I know what pics and papers I want to use in what books, just not sure which embellishments and words, backgrounds. Gotta get my creative juices flowing again. I’ve been doing a lot of jewelry and beading and that’s been a lot of fun. I think about you every time I’m in JoAnn. 🙂
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RYN: lol…yeah, I know. I’m not sure I’ll do them both. We’ll just have to see. Chris was talking like they want to do another journey right away, but Keith and I were talking about trying for one of our own after he gets home after this one is born. So I’ll have to see how deadset Chris & Tim are on it and how keith & I feel as this pregnancy draws to a close. I would have to put my own family in front of a sibling project, which I would feel bad about. But…we’ll see!
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I’m sure that Kim will love the cake, especially with what has happened over the past week, so that will totally brighten her day! Have fun.
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RYN: Who knows? I mean I don’t try to understand how our minds process information, and it really could be related to that. I have had two dreams in two nights where someone else’s son has become injured (the stranger’s) or died (the son of this man that I ‘love’, though in real life I have no idea who he is). They’re progressively getting worse and I really don’t know what to do about them other than to take something before bed that shuts off my brain. The only downside with that is it affects my creativity when I take mind-altering drugs (ie, antidepressants, anti-anxiety, etc…). I just don’t really know if I can handle it if the dreams change to where its me losing the son…
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I don’t think home-schooling is a bad idea. I’ve thought about doing such with my child, even.
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The old command didn’t turn it in, just slipped it into his personnel folder that he had to hand carry over to there. He turned it in, and that’s why I had to get my passport numbers and my car information. We should know more, hopefully, on Monday July 27th. I’ve not mentioned it because I don’t want to get my hopes up.
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