Hate having to read how to work a program, hate how convoluted they are, hate having to look at one book while teaching out of another, hate having to keep track of yet another book! They are big, unwieldy and boring! why can't all the info be right in the student book? Why? Geesh! Just had to get it off my chest!

Hate having to read how to work a program, hate how convoluted they are, hate having to look at one book while teaching out of another, hate having to keep track of yet another book! They are big, unwieldy and boring! why can't all the info be right in the student book? Why? Geesh! Just had to get it off my chest!

Yesterday I ran 4 then did an hour of yoga. That was nice :-) Today I'm scheduled for cycle and sculpt classes

Pinterest has tons of workout sets. Pick one...put on some music and have fun! If you like it, put it in your rotation....if you hate it, you only "wasted" a few minutes. I have found some pretty good circuits/ HIIT workouts! There are also some phone apps like sworkit which are pretty good.

Us too! Right now I am in HATE with curriculum, pretty much everything until I can refigure how I want to drive this ship, but SOTW is always a part of our reading time. We also love the coloring pages and maps...even my adult kids will grab one and color! LOL. We are on our 4th run thru, and my high schooler uses it as a jumping off point to study in and around and through the topic and time period. Fun times!

Oh, the GUILT!!!

I am having a terrible time with my body recovering from workouts....sigh! Does anyone have any ideas to help? I am dairy, soy, grain, sugar and sweetner free, so protein powders are out! This is more than soreness, this is exhaustion too! This week I ran 10 Sunday, cycle and sculpt on Monday....took off Tuesday, barefoot exercise and cycle on Wednesday, took off Thursday and Friday trying to get a grip....and will cycle this morning, but I am achy and exhausted! Not thinking this will be my best workout, but I already reserved my seat and paid for it.... So, any ideas nutrition or yoga or something?

CLE across the board with their record keeping system. I was THAT desperate this year! Whoooooboy! That was a big fat expensive mistake that taunts me daily because now the subjects we loved: math, reading and la, Cause us to want to tear our hair out and run screaming from the room! :-(. Made me feel like failure extraordinaire!

Shocked?? Not in the least! Pissed! Oh yeah! It should nt have taken this long to get that creep off the high horse! How many destroyed families and lives shattered is he responsible for? Ugh!

Ok...never thought I would say this, but I just switched my 2 boys into Saxon.... Yep, I said it! Reason: I needed to reteach EVERYTHING! From DAY 1! Saxon was the only book I could find that reviewed ( spiral approach alright! ) everything in both kiddies grades...therefore, they do not feel as if I started them off with baby stuff!! They love it. It gets done! I am still using bar diagrams and all I learned in teaching Singapore, but using the Saxon books for problems.... So far, so good!

Feeling Stronger everyday by Chicago.

Eeeekkkk!!!!!!

Awesome! So, you use the tub like a box....I use the step from my kitchen to my living room. Lol. I still can't do a pull up. Planning to buy some bands to help, but ever get to it...sigh.

Tub push ups?? Share! Ok, tried to run outside....still way too icy. So took my butt to the gym... 10.3 Miles...2:05:13....first mile was a walking chat with my brb....still...longest run I have hadsnce last fall. Felt great and could have kept going....but had to get home to do Mom stuff....

This week starts 1/2 marathon training...for real....lol!!! Ok, I still have to find the 1/2 I want to run.... I am signed up for 2 10ks, one road, one trail....and a 5k mud run in May.....want to run my 1/2 at the beginning of June....hopefully it won't be TOOOOO hot. It is my 50th birthday present to me!!

I am ignoring the fact that I have to be somewhere 45 minutes away in 20 minutes and I am on here instead. I am tryin to ignore my husbands really crummy depressed mood and stay cheerful. Rah, rah, sis boom bah!!!! Yep, that's me....a freaking cheerleader!!!

I think the issue is not relaxed or vigorous academics to where your kid feels punch drunk. You sound like you are an interested mom. I think the issue with kids having bad homeschooling experiences is the same as kids with bad public school experiences.....disinterested teachers. Not meeting kids where they are at. Sounds like you are doing a great job!

Great story! Thanks for sharing. How do you feel, looking back on your education and childhood.? We're you happy? We're your sisters happy? When they look back, is it with fondness and good memories, or with anger or regret? These are the things I wonder about with my kids. Homeschooling really is the best option here. If there was a better choice, I would have made it.

These stories are fascinating. I am tempted to ask my kids to write up their experiences, but quite frankly....I am not sure I am ready to hear their take on it. All my grown kids say they are thankful. We homeschooled them and it gave them a chance to figure out who they were and to develope their passions. They all were sort of freaked out that we were planning on sending our younger kids to public school. They asked us to do whatever we could to avoid that. I think my kids sometimes still feel like the oddballs out, but for the most part, they are ok with that. :-)

Right this minute?? A 2 bedroom condo with a maintenance company that shovels and mows! What is practical?? A kitchen not in the middle of renovation, a well that can handle more than one shower and a garden big enough and sunny enough to grow real veggies. I am a woman of simple needs.

Yeah, me too. I keep thinking 10/15 years down the pike!

I was out shoveling snow in my t shirt today. It made me happy.

We do this a lot...especially movies with story lines from Shakespeare or Grimms, dd's favorites!

WOOT!!!!! 🎉🎉🎈🎈🎉🎉🎈🎈🎈CONGRATS!!!!

This thinking was prevalent in homeschool circles back then. My kids were not allowed Pokemon or Harry Potter or all kinds of stuff like that because of those reasons. We were not ATI...but surrounded by Gothardites. If my kids were allowed those things, they would be shunned from the other homeschooled kids. As it was, they found something to shun them for anyway once we decidedly turned down the invite to an ATI conference. ( my daughter wore a fitted denim jacket to a homeschool ice skating session. She was labeled a " harlot". Nice, huh??