Hello there, Summer!

Last week it was cold. Seriously. It rained all week and got down into the 40s at night. Yesterday brought Summer - almost 90 degrees, I think, and air so thick you could stir it with a spoon. Welcome to the Midwest.
The camping trip last week was remarkably fabulous. Seriously, [...]

A very cool 4 minute video clip

This little clip has become almost viral around the unschoolers lists to which I belong.  I got it in one email from one group and by the end of the day I had gotten from 3 others and here I am passing it on here!
The last 40 seconds or so are irrelevant - about some [...]

Ah, bad blogger, good life.

I’ve been a neglectful blogger lately.  There was a time when I had an entry every day and most of them were profound or at least thought provoking.  Lately, I just don’t have the desire to write here all that often. Well, no wait, that’s not right.  I do have the desire to write here [...]

Hold the lettuce, onion, pickle, and mustard

In other words, KETCHUP!
I’ve thought of a thousand things to title this post, but am unable to decide. Mostly because nearly 100% of the stuff going on is sooooooooooo good and juicy and wonderful and delicious … but the 1% that isn’t good sucks eggs. Actually, it sucks something much more nastay than [...]

I’m a woman of my word

Today I made good on a promise I made to Stealth 2 years ago and gave him a purple mohawk. I cannot believe how well he did (and Duck, too, who wanted red, we bought red, it turned fuscia - which he loves more than red anyhow… I gave them each haircuts and [...]

Archaeology for 88 cents

I found these really cute things for 88 cents that allows the boys to “dig” for treasures just like archaeologists. Seriously, 88 cents for something that got them dirty, sweaty (it’s surprisingly hard to hack through this clay stuff,) interested, entertained, educated, and excited. They each found a treasure (a sarcophagus and an [...]

Duckism

“I don’t need to do homework, Stealth!  I’m learning on my own now!!”

Classroom pics

We learned that post paints aren’t just for posters, finger paints aren’t just for fingers OR for painting, dismantled washing machines can make awesome forts, parachutes made from grocery sacks and mop handles are cool when shot out of an air cannon, hand prints make awesome leaves, and that teaching makes it damned near impossible [...]

Saturday Stillness

It’s Saturday morning. The boys are upstairs watching cartoons. B is gone. I’m drinking coffee, still in my pjs, listening to Explosions in the Sky, and enjoying being in the now.
now now now now now now now
It’s all we have, after all.
I feel as though I’m coming up for air after a [...]