October 13, 2011 at 11:11 pm (Blather, Cub Scouts, E, Education, Field Trips, Following Bliss, Homeschooling, N, Parenting)
Tags: ADHD, Bear Grylls, Halloween, Man vs. Wild, PostaDay2011, Shakespeare
No joke, I don’t even know what to say about today.
E started in about the Halloween decorations before I was even out of bed. I told him I needed to wake up first and clear out the cobwebs. Before I was even to the bottom step downstairs he was already asking “Are you awake yet?”
I had to explain that I wanted to get the house cleaned first, then we could continue decorating. Then he was all about cleaning. It was enjoyable to finally be on the same team with this kid. Too bad it only lasted 8 seconds, kind of like a bull ride. Read the rest of this entry »
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October 11, 2011 at 10:31 pm (Aspergers, E, Education, Family, Field Trips, Homeschooling, Jeff, N, Parenting)
Tags: Babies, Halloween, Memories, Minecraft, MRU, Music, PostaDay2011, Sensory, Tolerance, Video Games
We ventured into the land of Billy Graham today and kicked off our day with a free symphonic band concert at Wheaton College. We go to this children’s concert every year and always enjoy it. We even snuck into the second showing the year they had the planetary theme, though we weren’t exactly going rogue–they just had a lot of no shows and the enthusiastic usher enthusiastically ushered us to some excellent seats.
Anyway, some of this year’s highlights: swastikas, guns and shooting people, punching, explosions, music and scenes from the video game Halo, pots, pans, kitchen blender, garbage can lids, and also… The Chicken Dance!
Heck yes, I said Chicken Dance, and it was awesome. During the audience participation portion N, E and I rocked that chicken and made it cry for mercy. Scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark provided some of that other heartwarming visual candy. Read the rest of this entry »
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October 6, 2011 at 12:11 pm (Cheating, Close Call, E, Elderly, Homeschooling, Lying, N, Parenting, Stealing)
Tags: PostaDay2011
Yesterday the kids and I went to Morton Arboretum to hang out with friends. It looked to me like everyone and their brother, and their brother’s neighbor, and the neighbor’s stepson, were at the Arboretum yesterday. This made for a parking lot reminiscent of Thunderdome, and there was one old man wearing a hat who wanted to pick a fight. Read the rest of this entry »
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October 5, 2011 at 10:46 am (Attitude, Close Call, Crazies, Hindering Bliss, Homeschooling, Jeff, Logic, N, Parenting, Personal Injury)
Tags: PostaDay2011
Yesterday we had a fabulous day at MRU. The weather was superb, the friends were plentiful and entertaining, the kids seemed to really enjoy each other…
Then there was N. My sweet, adorable, lovable N. Quirky, argumentative, baffling N. Sometimes I wonder: If I was a hamster, would I have eaten him as a baby? Read the rest of this entry »
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October 3, 2011 at 1:31 pm (Art, Blogging about Blogging, Cub Scouts, E, Following Bliss, Homeschooling, Literature, Math, Monday Re-cap, N, Personal Injury, Poetry, Science)
Tags: PostaDay2011
I was planning to do a weekly wrap-up of our previous week, but I can’t remember most of the details of what we did. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 30, 2011 at 2:22 pm (Blather, Blogging about Blogging, Crazies, E, Homeschooling, Jeff, Mornings, N, Not very interesting)
Tags: PostaDay2011
I’ve been away for awhile. Not in jail or the looney bin or anything, but things got busy and all of a sudden more than a year went by. I fully intended to resurrect the blog on the one year anniversary of the last post, but I think we can all deal with that particular deadline coming and going. If you can’t hang with my tardiness, we probably shouldn’t be pretend online friends anymore. Just saying. Read the rest of this entry »
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June 2, 2010 at 4:31 pm (Addicted, E, Following Bliss, Homeschooling, Math, N)
Tags: Addicted, E, Following Bliss, Homeschooling, Math, N
E says he doesn’t ever want to go to school. In his opinion, this means he will not have to learn anything, ever. He is absolutely addicted to math videos from the library. Every time we go, he must check the shelves for new math videos. He’s four, so that’s cool. Maybe when he’s five I’ll let him know how much he’s learning…or maybe I’ll wait until he’s six and has moved on to Teaching Company stuff. Read the rest of this entry »
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April 22, 2010 at 12:00 pm (E, Following Bliss, Homeschooling, Jeff, Little League, N, Pictures)
Tags: E, Following Bliss, Homeschooling, Jeff, Little League, N, Pictures
Jeff’s company put together a cool program for “Take Your Child to Work Day” and not a single explosion or workplace fatality resulted while N was on the premises! Yeah! E and I played on a lot of playgrounds and enjoyed our Earth Day together… Pictures and video follow! Read the rest of this entry »
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April 20, 2010 at 10:21 am (Art, E, Following Bliss, Homeschooling, Lifestyle, Mornings, N, Physics, Poetry, Time)
Tags: Art, E, Following Bliss, Homeschooling, Lifestyle, Mornings, N, Physics, Poetry, Time
Today is starting slow and groggy for me. E is an early riser and even he crawled in bed with me and fell back to sleep until 9:30am. 9:30am?!?! N is late for Physics! Curses! Read the rest of this entry »
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