So. I’m disappointed with the lack of sign-ups for the book contest. What gives? Do you just not want the book? Are you all shy? Scared I’m going to sell your emails to spammers? I sure would like to know.
Doc is gone. Something to do with a men’s retreat where there will be great feasting, fellowship, maybe goofy pranks like short-sheeting a poor saps bed, and no domestic responsibilities for a Friday evening, half-Saturday. Am I jealous? Yeah. I’ve been on one retreat and it wasn’t even with my church, it was with a bunch of gals I didn’t know, save one, so that doesn’t count. Okay, it counts, it just wasn’t as fun as it could have been.
Anyway. Just rambling today. It’s been a nice week. No homeschooling, so it’s been very calm here with lots of time for me to feed my new addiction to Twitter. Next week, back to normal. Oh, to be an unschooler! I’m way too driven to be that relaxed.
We started kind of rigid with my 8 year old. Now, well, now we are pretty darn close to unschoolers and I LOVE it. It is very freeing in a sense, but the cool thing is – she is learning so much! It was hard for me to make the leap to homeschooling (I’m a teacher so you know I had a lot of classes about group learning and the benefits of the classroom and all that stuff). And when we did decide to do it, I always used to joke how I’d never homeschool because of 1001 reasons I had all listed up. But somehow we were led to this and I LOVE it and the kids LOVE it. DH is still pretty unsure of it. He requests worksheets get done every so often for his benefit LOL! But they really do learn so much. I do think though as my 8 year old gets older we will move back to more structure and stuff, but for now what we do works.
(and I did sign up for your contest, I just didn’t see it until today!)
yeah, my 8 year old is on the no-frills plan, just the basics. no extra worksheets here, lots of oral work. my 9 year old – totally different story. different kid, different approach. thanks for the comment, Brandie.