How It Was and How It Is

For awhile I wasn't writing much because not much was happening in my life. My life seemed to be all about waiting for the baby and then waiting for recovery. Waiting is NOT an exciting thing to experience or to write about. You wouldn't have wanted to read about it anyway.


After awhile, I awoke to the fact that I wasn't really waiting for things anymore, I was experiencing them! It has become a wonderful and really busy season in my life once more. I find myself in the midst of all of the wonderful homeschooling stuff, and all of the daily chores and the joy of just living with my family all while dandling the most deliciously wonderful little baby on my knee or toting my little one about. It is fun and wonderful and sometimes just a wee bit overwhelming. It also means that my arms are almost always full. I still haven't perfected telekinetic typing, but I am still working on it!


Life is good, life is beautiful, life is full of hard work and hard times, but it is also full of the best times and the most wonderful people. I am perfectly happy even at those times when I am also a bit aggravated or even a bit cross (and yes, I DO unfortunately experience my share of both. Just sayin'.).


My days are often filled with writing out our Summer scope and sequence for each child while keeping a baby entertained and trying to direct the search for our Wildchild's bestest best friend "Frog in Egg" and teaching the rest of the kids who are still trying to figure out how to search through the furniture for Frog while also reciting their list of spelling words or whatever. Madlibs have become a dear friend when it comes to teaching nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs and exclamations. We can shout out parts of speech to each other while searching for the Frog in question. By the way, just how on earth does a toy that gets carried EVERYWHERE and never let out of a child's sight get lost anyway? I'm betting that the Frog is in the same place as my last marble. I'm just sayin'.


So, during these times when you aren't hearing much from me, I'm probably typing my scope and sequence with one hand, while balancing the world's most adorable baby with the other and looking over my kids' daily lessons. You don't even want to know how weird our cleaning routine looks!

Hear Ye, Hear Ye!

I'm afraid that school today was postponed due to a zombie invasion cleverly disguised as a head cold. I think, with the help of some hot tea and a liberal application of kleenex, we might be able to not only tame these creatures, but also help them get caught up on their schoolwork after lunch.

I hate seeing the children all feeling so miserable, but I do LOVE the flexibility that homeschooling has given us. I'm thinking today might just be the perfect day for some extra family reading.

My Hopes For This Blog

I'm starting this blog as a "brain dump" for all things homeschooling (at least, that is my plan so far!).

For those who might not know, my children range in age from 19 years down to one month. I have an adult, a high school student, a junior high student, an elementary student, a preschooler and a little guy. While two to three children can sometimes work together on a particular subject, this is my first year of teaching all grades mostly separately (while bouncing, cuddling and breastfeeding a baby, no less!). This is where I hope to keep my thoughts organized. Make that "somewhat organized" or maybe I should just hope for not TOO chaotic? We'll see!