So, tonight is the premier of Descendents 2 and the kids are going to my parents' house to watch it. DH and me?? Woohoo!! Big date night at the Afsa. Can't wait. Actually it will be nice to go to the Afsa sans children. Maybe we'll get icecream after.

Uhhhhh..... I like fishsticks. I also like Kraft American cheese squares. :leaving:

Honestly, Slashie.... i have been thinking about this all morning and I think you are really on to something. I do make things waaaay too hard.

Broccoli is like that. I'm eating it right now. It's one of those Adkins frozen meals thingies. Broccoli and chicken Alfredo. It's edible. If you sprinkle enough extra Parmesan cheese on top.

Of course it is. It's not even a year old. And they're Milk Duds.

well, yeah!!! Why do it the easy way when you can make it extraordinarly complicated?

Well, I don't think that's necessarily a given, but... A lot of people (me) go through a lot of disillusionment after a while. You start out and your copy of TWTM is all shiny and new and underlined and highlighted and you have young, fairly cooperative children and you do fun little preschool unit studies and the whole "I taught my kid how to read" thing is pretty exciting. And of course there's the Chicken Mummy thing, that everyone on FB reacts to and you're feeling pretty good about yourself because everyone else's kid in PS is doing Common Core worksheets and your kids just mummified a chicken. And then they get older and they become less cooperative and your copy of TWTM starts gathering dust because you discover that they'd rather read history out of an A Beka textbook and your grand dreams of what your homeschool could be start to crumble and you deal with the frustration that your kids are rejecting "The Best Education" that you are hand-crafting for them, which you never got yourself..... So, yeah.....I can say I don't love it, but I still do it because I believe in it.

I agree with this statement. I have spent a lot of time this summer fiddling with curriculum, writing curriculum (History Odyssey: The Middle Ages looks nothing like it did when I first bought it). Sometimes it's very tempting to just buy "A Box" and be done with it, but where's the fun in that?

Robins are carnivores. Or at least omnivores. I don't know if they eat seeds, too. But there are two big beautiful robins on my lawn hunting for worms. We generally have a pretty good worm population in our backyard.

Good Morning!!! COFFEE!!!☕ï¸â˜•ï¸â˜•ï¸â˜•ï¸â˜•ï¸ Friday!!!ðŸ‘ðŸ‘

Boring is good. I like my life being boring, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying me some good drama in other people's lives.😜

You know, when I was a kid, unless your dad got "those" kind of magazines, basically the worst you looked at was the underwear pages of the Montgomery Wards catalogs. And now.... we have the Internet. And I have adolescent boys. And yes, we have all sorts of barriers and firewalls and everything else you can think of, and I know it is normal curiousity.... But for the love of all that's holy...... I need a drink!!

I am so sorry, Susan. Send my children home right away. I have no idea how they got over to your house!!

That's how Rosetta Stone teaches. They show you pictures and then you learn the Spanish word for the picture. I hate that. I would never be a good truly second language learner unless I learned it as a small child. Or was in a total sink-or-swim environment. Drop me off on some island in the South Pacific somewhere and I'd have to figure out how to communicate with the natives. DH is doing Duoling and is getting frustrated, too, with the whole immersion thing. I like to see the big picture and then fit the parts into the whole. That's why I like studying Latin systematically. And this is a Language Learning Booya/h!!!

My college roommate used to do that. She'd get on the phone with her mom and speak both Low-German and English, at the same time. We'd unobtrusively listen to the conversation. Just couldn't figure out how someone could do that.

Aaaack!!! Good uses for 1/2" binders!!!! Run away!! Run away!! Ok, I'll listen. Are these the 1/2" binders where they have the clear pocket thingie on the front and you can print up a paper with the kids name and the subject and a fun picture or something like that?? I love those binders. Aaaaack!! I'm not ready for binders!! Not ready for school!!

Good Morning!!!! COFFEE!!!☕ï¸â˜•ï¸â˜•ï¸â˜•ï¸â˜•ï¸ It's Friday Eve!!👠Not quite so hot again today!!☀ï¸ðŸ‘. But, just so you don't forget we live in the outer reaches of he!!, there will be ash and smoke in the air thanks to the fires in the mountains.

OK, well, people.... I'm going to bed now!!! I want everyone to sleep well and long and no weird and/or vivid dreams. Or headaches. That's an order.

I aerobicized. The water was cold, which was really surprising, since it's been so dang hot.

Binders?? Binders?? Aaaack!! I'm not ready for binders. Blueberry jam sounds good, though. I'll take a dozen jars!!

Who's Gabriel??

oh good!! I hope you like it!! I have Leonardo, Raphael and Durer. I really like them. ITT will do that to you. It's a fact.

We're back, we saw Cars 3. I slept through it. Literally. Well, not the entire time, but a portion of it. It was inane. No clever dialogue, boring plot. Ugh!!

Yay, the mail came. I got two books for art. Warning: educational post Reported If this post makes you feel faint or uncomfortable in any way, please make your way to the nearest safe place and sit with your head between your knees until the feeling passes. So, if anyone is looking for good artist books, I have found a good series called Art for Children by Ernest Raboff. They're fairly short (but not too short) and have plenty of full page examples of the artist's work. The one that came in the mail today is about Leonardo. I also got a Mike Venezia book about Botticelli. His books crack me up. I like them, although somehow I find the Raboff books more appealing.

I use any kind of fruit. My favorite is putting a pineapple core and some fresh strawberries in a pitcher, putting in a little stevia, filling the pitcher with water and letting it sit several hours in the fridge. The key to infusions is letting them sit. Citrus works well, too. I also like to take mint leaves and steep them in boiling water like you would tea, adding stevia and then putting that in a pitcher of water. It's like chewing mint gum. Yummy!