Melissa | December 29, 2011
Christmas morning reactions are my favorite to catch on film. They are usually so indicitive of their personalities.
This year, the kids had the chance to shop and wrap completely independently of me thanks to this awesome homeschool Christmas bazaar in which we participated. It was so fun to see what they picked out for everyone.
To: [...]
Melissa | December 27, 2011
History: 14th Amendment and Civil Rights
We’re going to take a similar approach to Civil Rights that we took with the second week of our Civil War unit–study some of the key people.
Susan B. Anthony (Right to Vote)
Read a book about her.
Coin rubbing.
Song (Appendix B).
Jackie Robinson (Baseball)
Read a book about him.
Do some baseball drills.
Identify African American [...]
Melissa | December 26, 2011
Our neighborhood (like many others) has a Santa who comes via fire truck a couple days before Christmas to deliver candy canes.
MIA (whispering): Mom, I’m whispering because I don’t want PJ to hear. I know Santa isn’t real but how does he do it?
MELISSA: Do what?
MIA: Get to all the houses in one night?
MELISSA: I [...]
Melissa | December 22, 2011
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Melissa | December 21, 2011
It’s times like these that I really wish there was a better way to be a fly on the wall of our life than this blog. My fear is that typed words cannot paint the picture of the story I want to tell with all its nuances and intricacies. My fear is that it’s really too [...]
Melissa | December 15, 2011
Five years ago, even though we didn’t know it, our bouncy, pouncy, Ty-ger of a child entered the world albeit 15 weeks early. He joined our family at 2 1/2 years old and our lives haven’t been the same.
Unlike our other two, he didn’t respond to cause-effect discipline or intuitively learn anything. We still have [...]
Melissa | December 12, 2011
Sometimes even a 15 passenger van (ours actually just has 11 seatbelts right now) isn’t big enough. We actually had to take two vehicles to go Christmas tree hunting.
Everyone needs a chance to hunt for and cut down a live Christmas tree.
Needing to fell the tree must be an inherent male trait.
Having 6 kids brings out my [...]
Melissa | December 12, 2011
Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.
It was NOT me who made our 4-year-old take a shower at 11AM this morning just so I could have uninterrupted time with the [...]
Melissa | December 10, 2011
It’s hard to believe that the fall semester of CC is coming to a close. As I looked ahead to the spring and how to cover Chemistry with a 1st and 3rd grader in a classical way, I found this book that I would highly recommend. It has tons of hands on activities and covers [...]
Melissa | December 6, 2011
I love free stuff. Even if I don’t normally use whatever the free thing is. I might have a problem.
Regardless, I was super-excited when I was chosen to receive a new Bounce Bar to try out. I was mostly excited that it came in unscented which meant I could actually try it out since we [...]
