Monthly Archives: September 2007

Books for rent

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It’s called BookSwim and it works like Netflix. Yeah, I know that’s the beauty of the library, borrowing books, so you don’t have to pay for your reading habit, but my local library sadly is not the most child-friendly place. (See this post for more. I’ll not rehash it all again.)

For about $20 a month, I could avoid going to the library by walking to the mailbox. Think of the gas I would save. Think of the cash in my pocket because I forgot to take back the Barney DVD with a dollar-a-day fine. And BookSwim has a wonderful assortment of educational books for us book-crazed homeschoolers.

I so want BookSwim to be be worth the up-front cost, that I’m going to talk myself into it. Anyone in the BookSwim pool care to share a yea or nay?

Dusting off the blog

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That was a nice break.

I didn’t intend to go completely silent here, just happened, and now the ol’ blog is calling again.

Home schooling: all the old subjects and some new. It’s going okay, never perfect, but what is, right? I have a new phonics book for Peter who needs a bit more help. The kid can read, he just isn’t all that into it. And if ever a boy needed to be able to read well, it’s him. So full of questions and attempts to figure it all out. Oy.

Susan also started up Latin again after about a year away from it. First time conjugating verbs. I tell her to think of it as a secret language used by spies, which she loves. Gotta know what buttons to push for different children.

And I’m writing. Wishing I had more time in the day to sit at the computer. Wishing I didn’t waste time when sitting at the computer doing other things other than write. (Blogging is allowed.)

Doc and I hit the ten year milestone this month. How did that happen? Not that it’s bad or miserable, it just got here so fast. More about that on the 27th.