Box checked: my 8 year old can finally tie her own shoes.

Quizlet has my kids loving Latin vocab practice!

My oldest will be in 7th grade this year. 7th grade! How did time go by so quickly?

I will not look at curricula just because I find an interesting thread. I WILL NOT. I have everything I need.

We will miss you Spock! :(

They say Confucius does his crossword with a pen.

My son asked today if he could draw a picture instead of doing the writing assignment I was explaining to him. He said, "You know, a picture is worth a thousand words."

The kids are fighting over the one Ticonderoga pencil #homeschoolproblems

The big news here: We're going back to homeschooling next year! Yippee!!!

Try saying 'Good eye, might' without sounding Australian

What would behoove DS8 to put a piece of chocolate up his nose?!?

But I don't WANNA report grades!

At Dh's company's Christmas party ds4 out of the blue announced to Dh's boss "My Mommy makes BABY MILK for my sister!"

Socoldallthelettersinthisstatusarefrozentogether.

Van broken, house payment late, hospital bills, birthdays coming, Christmas coming...no money to pay it all...oy enough already!

We have been working on school for three hours. One child is done. The other hasn't completed a single subject. Sigh.

Threads aren't loading, I'm getting proxy error messages. ??

Is it wrong to be excited that my 15yo made a list of schoolwork all by himself?

they see me rollin' my backpack, they hatin'

Hurray! We get chocolate pie!

Finally finished a classic! The last 50 pages of "Madame Bovary" were awesome! Now for a Jack Reacher novel to reward myself!

8.5 hours of gymnastics per week is killing me. I can not wait until we are done with the extra summer workouts. Good news is that DD8 leveled up 2 times over the summer and will compete on the new level 3 (old level 4) this meet season. At least the extra hours have paid off!

Neighbor child just walked away from me as I was telling him it's time for him to go home. DD11 commented that he was *not* a well-trained child. I think she's been seeing that I've been reading TWTM and thinks it's a book of manners!

Waiting...waiting...oh, duh, my coffee pot isn't plugged in.

Bought a Chromecast. Three months free Netflix, even for existing subscribers, drops its net price considerably.