“Mom, I wish I had a mirror that could see my insides. Then I could be a scientist and maybe other people could show me their insides, too.” – Harry, age 5.
I’ll add a tip of the day as well: It does not save money to buy Halloween treats at Wal-Mart one week before Halloween. [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Quote of the Day
Posted in Uncategorized on October 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sumptuous Saturday
Posted in Uncategorized on October 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was hoping for Fine Dining Friday but DB wouldn’t give up Fun Food Friday so we settled on Saturday instead. I’ve decided, since I have so much time on my hands, I’m going to learn how to cook. Actually, Jamie Oliver is going to teach me how to cook. He has this great new [...]
Weekly Report #7
Posted in Weekly Reports on October 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This is our last week of TOG Year 1. We kind of fizzled out at the end. It was my fault, really. I was tired of Year 1 and really wanted to start Year 2. I read to Sam and Harry and had Sam read on his own as well. They listened to the chapters [...]
Weekly Report #6
Posted in Weekly Reports on October 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“No, I don’t want to see the rest of the museum – I just want to work at the taco shop!”
Harry fell in love with the taco shop at the Seattle Children’s Museum and it was all I could do to pry him away from it. Eventually I did and he found the grocery store, [...]
Seriously?
Posted in Life and other stuff on October 25, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I don’t know about you, but scary stats or no scary stats I’m not carrying a flag across the street. My geek radar goes nuts just thinking about it (not that there’s anything wrong with geeks or with carrying flags across the street). I can appreciate the fact that 62 people have died whilst crossing [...]
Weekly Report #5
Posted in Weekly Reports on October 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
We ended our week (last week) with The Feast of Good Cheer at co-op. We had actually opted out of the Canadian History portion of co-op since we are doing the Middle Ages this year and needed a couple of hours at home to complete math and music before venturing out to co-op on Fridays. [...]
Math Woes
Posted in Math on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I put an email out to the listserve for math teachers in BC asking about rigorous texts for grade 9. So far (about 24 hours later) I have received two replies. One, from a teacher who taught Dolciani in California years ago and one from a private school in BC that uses New Elementary Math 2 for [...]
How I know I’m a bad mother
Posted in General Fun of Parenting on October 13, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Growing up the way I did scarred me for life. I had a certain set of core beliefs during my formative years. Things like:
1. Boys like girls with long hair
2. It’s better to leave a bad first impression than no impression at all
3. It’s Ok to be nice to a geek, but it’s not Ok to hang [...]
Oh, no.
Posted in General Fun of Parenting on October 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Let’s just start by saying I had a rather hectic morning. In the midst of the chaos, I ended up on a work phone call that needed my attention. Then I was interrupted by Daisy who reminded me that LO’s music class started in 30 minutes. Five minutes later (still on the phone) Daisy told [...]
Wrestling with Homer
Posted in Homeschool Planning on October 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We’re moving on to the second half of Classical Writing Homer. I have mixed feelings about this because I’m going into unchartered territory – Homer without a student workbook. We went through Aesop without a student workbook and I really enjoyed it. I wrote my own lesson plans each week and they really didn’t take [...]
