Adventures with an ADHD homeschooling mom.
This song is on my Apple Music playlist of “Happy Songs”, which I frequently listen to. I simply adore this band, and especially this song. Today, I heard it with a different ear… Today it felt like it actually had […]
I‘m doing a lot of cleaning up of my websites and finding old blog posts that I never posted. This is one of them. Judging by the fact that I mention in it that it is my daughter’s last year […]
This post is going to be all over the place because that’s how my thoughts are at present. But I feel really compelled to write right now. This isn’t a good picture to represent this topic…I just needed an image […]
Today I’m working hard on various projects in the making…and reflecting on something I have learned over the years from all my experiences and especially the failures. One, never give up. And two, don’t rely on or trust others with […]
Doing some reorganizing and decluttering and I found an entire crate FULL of kids’ music! That’s right! This is a square milk crate and it truly is ONLY filled, right to the top, with kids’ CDs! Yes, I did […]
This post was inspired by my (at the writing of this) 10yr old son. I wrote this post several months ago and for some reason never hit publish. Since then I got offtrack with all that I wrote here. Today […]
I shared the state of our school room/art area/”Big room” last post…That actually hasn’t changed yet. So today I want to talk about overwhelm. You know the feeling. I know you do. You can’t be a mom in America and […]
Hi! You don’t know me from Adam (LOL!) But I just wanted to take a second to put a bug in the ear of all the bloggers, podcasters, Scopers (that’s the people making broadcasts on the new Periscope app), […]
Not sure where this train of thought will take me…but I woke up today and immediately got on Facebook, as I always do, and got into a conversation on Facebook that made me think… The conversation content isn’t entirely relevant […]
I hate blogs that make homeschooling seem like it’s super duper fun and always goes well. Moms who only blog about their good days, I feel, are doing a great disservice to the image of homeschooling. Yes, homeschooling is a […]
I am a member of a TON of Homeschooling groups on Facebook. A TON. Seriously. I like feeling like I have my finger on the pulse of the homeschooling community. The common thread, which I literally read in post after […]
I woke up this morning, as I do every morning, thinking thinking thinking. One thing led to another…and I started to have a sort of epiphany. Sort of. I’ve gone around this idea for a little while now, but I’m starting to […]
I am a minority amongst a group of minorities. (Using the word “minority” to mean literally “a number that is less than the whole number”, not in any way saying I have ANY idea what it means to be a […]
I am horrible at consistency. Seriously. Horrible. But I understand the value of being consistent and keep striving for it. Blogging is something I’ve wanted to be more consistent at for awhile…but with everything else I’m also trying to improve […]
I read an interesting article this morning, which I found because someone had tweeted that site’s previous article about altered history textbooks. Fascinating, and scary, stuff! It makes me really wonder what books to believe, and what I should be […]
Saturday I got a blast from my past. Very interesting to me because I just am usually not exposed to this crap anymore these days…so I really notice it when it happens. A kid was visiting a neighbor and lurking […]
We’ve all heard it. Probably a million times. Here’s my response today to a teacher/friend on Facebook telling me: “I don’t know how you do it.” Well, it really all depends on how you look at education. 🙂 And I […]
I’m always evaluating our homeschooling adventure and thinking up new ideas to grab my children’s interest and enrich their lives with new learning experiences. I’ve not yet found what I would call my “groove” and don’t in any way feel […]
so i spent the vast majority of yesterday plotting out what i feel i need to get done to feel better about maeven’s education. i’d been going in an unschooling direction (though not radical) for awhile, but not really in […]
Very interesting blog post: http://freakonomics.com/2008/09/29/do-good-grades-predict-success/ i would agree with many of the comments on this post that grades measure very little…as some of the most intelligent and successful (in my mind) people i know did horrid in school. my husband […]
i was just doing some thinking while doing laundry (i do a lot of thinking while doing housework)… i recently had this thought, i think i posted here about…the “what if…” thought about most of us being stuck in public […]