MelAR05
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Relationships are so much more important that curriculum. Love being with your kids - farts, dawdling, pencil dropping, and all.
Do something special every day. Make a cool lunch - or just cut the PB&J into a star. Give them candy for memory work. Put a sticker on their math. Wake them up with hot chocolate. Make memories. It's worth being 10 minutes behind schedule. No stress here - enjoy the process and time.
Thank you! I needed the reminder.
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This may have been a typo, but just in case anyone is confused, The Well Educated Mind is a separate book from The Well-Trained Mind. The former is about educating yourself and reading the classics, the latter is about homeschooling.
Yes that was an OOPS! :tongue_smilie: I meant The Well Educated Mind.
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While I don't subscribe to the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson Education, I have used their book lists as a starting point for me. Here are a few Classics lists here .
I second the Well-Trained Mind as well.
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It truly looks amazing!! I feel like I was looking at a Better Homes and Gardens magazine! :)
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Slow, but worked for me! :D Thanks for sharing!
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The white shirt one is my favorite but my 8yr old voted for #3. :001_smile:
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Yup that is what dd3 told me today. I told her to say excuse me when she farted. Her response "I don't have to, it's not a fart it's a butt burp" :001_huh:
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That reminds of my niece who said, "I just sneezed out my popo!"
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I guess this must be a good year so far because I have several I am cheering.
CLE Math
Pictures in Cursive
SOTW w/ AG
WWE
FLL
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The book is Hostage Lands by Douglas Bond. An elementary age Latin student discovers an ancient roman manuscript and has to translate it to uncover the mystery.
Thank you! It's going on my wish list! :D
One thing I told my daughter was that for thousands of years, across much of the world, the most educated people learned Latin. So learning Latin gives her a connection to a lot of the most educated people in history.I'm going to use this!
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The Proverbs 31 woman had insomnia too?:tongue_smilie:It was probably the night sweats that got her up that early.
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Anything that involves getting up before 7am is a nightmare, not a fantasy.And there's no way that anybody in my house would be in bed before 10pm (more like midnight for dh and I) except when sick.
That's the way it is here. Though I do get up at 7am and walk before everyone wakes up. My husband leaves for work right before 8. This allows me my alone time before I am hit with all the demands.
Another homeschool mom once told me that whoever gets up first is who is in charge. In my house, I, unfortunately, have found that to be true. If I get up after them, I feel like I am behind most of the day. :tongue_smilie:
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I know one of the homeschool ladies here who was diagnosed with RA sometime this past spring and heard her doctor started her eating vegetarian. From my understanding, hers is pretty aggressive. It came on very quickly. Here are a couple of her blogs about it - http://rawellness.blogspot.com/ and http://artags.blogspot.com/search/label/Just%20me .
It does look like after reading her blog that she has started taking methotrexate. I don't know much about RA but maybe this will be of some help. :grouphug:
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Your alarm goes off at 4:45 - 5:00 am and you joyfully leap out of bed. You go downstairs for a hot cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee from your Keurig while you listen to worship music, read your Bible and have a blissful quiet time. You then hop on your eliptical machine for 30 rigourous minutes to get those endorphins flowing. You eat a wholesome breakfast while your children are still asleep. You have your second cup of coffee and browse your favorite homeschool blogs, message boards and Facebook.
You take a nice long hot shower and dress nicely head to toe, hair and makeup done, earrings on and shoes on.
Your children rise at 7:00-7:30 and call you blessed as you feed them a wholesome breakfast. Without complaining or fighting or whining, or making a mess, they dress, wash their face, bruth their teeth and are ready at 8 for a half hour of cooperative family chore time whereas by 8:30am, your entire house is clean and spic and span from top to bottom, for everyone has done their assigned chores.
They happily bounce onto the sofa at 8:30am to listen to you read fantastic literature selections from all of the magnificent curriculum you have purchased. They diligently work on their schoolwork and lapbooks, notebooks..whatever throughout the day.
Full of energy after a whole foods lunch, you take them all over kingdom come to their activities, bringing with you your knitting, lesson planning, a good book etc because your hands are never idle.
You come home, freshen up, and have an outstanding dinner ready for hubby as he gets home from a long hard day at work.
The children practice their piano or other instruments, have a nice tubby and the family reads a wonderful read aloud together before agreeably going to bed on time without complaint.
All prepared for tomorrow, you get to bed by 9pm after a relaxing quiet time of reading, so that you'll be all ready to start over again tomorrow.
Oh man..I think I feel nauseas again....:lol::lol:
I am reading this out loud to my family, as I am crying from laughing so hard!!
:smilielol5::smilielol5::smilielol5:
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We eat most of our meals at a tradition dinner table. Breakfast for the girls is at the smaller kitchen table. If the weather is nice we eat outside on the patio, which I try to do as often as possible. That is my favorite!
Growing up, my siblings and I ate at the kitchen table, while my mom and stepdad at in the living room watching tv.
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I've watched it once or twice but don't allow it. And it is because of the lack of respect they show for each other. My girls always seem to be meaner to each other after watching Spongebob as well as Finneus and Ferb. Although, my girls are amazingly more respectful and nicer since not watching tv at all.
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I had one of those moms who was really, really good at being a mom, but was too self-sacrificing. I remember begging not to have to participate in park and rec basketball when I was 12 and getting the "I'm going without new clothes so you can have these opportunities" speech :glare:. So whenever there is any extra money I tend to go straight to "How can I use this to improve DH/kids life?" rather than spending it on myself, even if I need something.
I have felt the same way for a long time then one day it came to me that I wanted it to be different for my girls. I want them to see it modeled as a mom that it is ok to spend money on yourself and still be a good mom.
Don't get me wrong, it is still hard to think this way, but I do want my girls to be free of the guilt that I've had, if and when they become a mother.
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It sounds like Story of the World would be right up your alley. It's a lot of reading, and there are a ton of hands on projects in the activity book.
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SOTW1 w/ Activity Guide
The Activity Guide makes it come alive!! My girls squeal when it's time for Mapwork. Who knew? :001_smile:
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Here we subscribe to:
National Geographic
Cooking Light
Cooks Illustrated
Family Fun
Hobby Farm
Mother Earth News
Food & Wine - probably will not renew
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Sorry to get off topic, but that is a great sentence!
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Impressive!
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We are doing school today. Since it is so beautiful outside, we brought our work out into the sunshine. :) Hoping to finish so we can head to the park for a picnic.
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Nothing to add but I love the spool bookcase coffee table!!!!! :drool5:
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Agree! Sooo cute!!
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I admit I don't know much about this issue but have they checked your gall bladder?
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We are maple syrup lovers and Sam's is the cheapest anywhere.
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Volunteer Ideas for Veteran's Day
in General Education Discussion Board
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Wow! Thanks for all these ideas!
This past Memorial Day we worked with a local girl scout troop to remove American flags from the National Cemetery. So maybe there is a National Cemetery close where you could help place or remove flags.