You know you're a homeschooler when...

This is a serendipitous thread as I have been thinking a lot about my grandfather and his stories in our family. Briefly, we were told stories that made him a hero, and the more I read about his impact on the world, the less it's true. I have all of his papers and I toyed with years about writing his heroic story, but I can't. It's not that simple. Some parts of it are definitely courageous and others are actively wrong, some are just incompetent. I've decided that rather than write the story we were told, I'd like to write a graphic novel about my own progression from grandfather-as-hero to grandfather-as-complicated. I would use pictures that he took and quotes about him from other peoples' books, but the focus would be on my own knowledge unfolding.

What we usually have: Dutch babies with lemon and powdered sugar, random snacks for lunch, beef tenderloin, roasted veggies, balsamic onions, salad, twice-baked potatoes and Buche de Noël for dinner. Christmas Eve is usually appetizers, charcuterie, or raclette. This year - I am spending Christmas with my family of origin and not my dh or children as it is likely our last all together. And this group has some interesting dietary restrictions - one sister's family won't eat beef or pork and is mostly gf, one is vegan-adjacent with no processed food, and the last is veganish with lots of processed food (fake meat, milks, etc.). Two sisters are lactose-intolerant. My oldest sister is kinda high maintenance and usually asks me to make her food. My 95-year old mother is hosting us all and I think we should plan our shared meals now so we don't have to waste time pondering and polling. Non-beef and pork sister's husband makes 7 fishes for Christmas Eve, so maybe that? Plus a vegan squash soup and green salad. Bread, gf crackers. Breakfast? I can't even think of one thing that everyone will agree on aside from coffee and chocolate. Maybe some open-faced rye toasts with toppings: lemon-dill sour cream and smoked salmon, blue cheese and pear, pickled mushrooms and frisee. Lunch: maybe a wild rice salad with feta on the side. Leftover squash soup. Supper: nut roast if my UK sister makes it, maybe the roasted chicken with tangerines and arak recipe from the Jerusalem cookbook, salad, Buche de Noël. Christmas pudding.

Yesterday I had 2 cups shredded cabbage and wild rice for breakfast leftover veg and lentil soup the teeny-tiny brussels sprouts from our garden plus a salad of greens, cabbage, zucchini, carrots, walnuts, cucumber

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For my musician dd I teased out music-related academic learning (theory, music history, aural skills) from performance practice (lessons, practicing, rehearsals, and performance.) Performance practice went in the activities slot. For the rest - she put in the hours, she earned the credit. In the OP's context, I would guess there are elements of theater that can be divided this way: history, stage management, tech? I don't know if your ds did any of these but if you want to acknowledge his mastery of theater practice other than rehearsals and performance, you might see some credit-worthy units.

I hope all is resolved. Happy to keep this challenge going into the new month. Yesterday was 2 cups of brussels sprouts then many bowls of lentil, carrot, celery, leek soup. I need to go produce shopping.

I've changed my travel plans to include staying at my mom's over Christmas so it will be we four sisters all together, probably for the last time. This week's goals are to finish putting the garden to bed today before it snows, find the right pictures and frames for mom's Christmas gift project, buy some more beechwood, start carving birds, and buy some hooks for hanging them, eat 800 g of veg every day, hike/walk/ruck every day. So I did move the piano and also changed the living rom and pantry pretty dramatically. The house feels so much more spacious and I'm quite pleased with it. I bought two new lamps and they help a lot. I did not find my desk space but did come to terms with the thought that my favorite area is on the couch next to the window. So I've moved a sturdy stool and a lamp and will call this my space until further notice. The new spaciousness of the house makes this feasible. Under the must-get-worse-before-it-gets-better category, I moved all the books from the house to the back house, and brought zero in from the sauna. This is the right move to be able to bring them pre-sorted to new homes but it is sort of funny that my two enormously compelling goals were to make myself a new desk and bring in all the books are the two I am unable to execute.

Aaaawww, sweet!

I've read about it as an Appalachian tradition. https://blindpigandtheacorn.com/june-is-the-mon/#:~:text=Appalachia has many interesting customs,banging%2C hollering%2C and serenading. https://www.ncpedia.org/shivaree

I find they make the soup or stew too sweet. The flavor is great for stew but I would cook them separately so they don't sweeten the whole pot.

The rain has saved my procrastinating rear-end. It rained enough the last few days to thaw the beds so I just put my garlic in the ground. I picked some fresh kale and thyme from under the leaves too.

Mmm, I love parsnips and think they would be delish mashed with potato and/or celeriac. They're quite sweet tasting. My grandmother used to make parsnip ice cream which was really good! You can also boil them then finish them like homefries.

Not covid, since I'm entirely better. Whew! So glad to have older dd home, we can start to get holiday-cozy.

Not about first year dd but grad student dd - I'm going to pick her up today but all of a sudden I think I might have covid, ugh. I've been tickly-throat coughing all night though don't feel too bad. We can both mask for the 8 hour drive home. Not great.

Blueberries Turnips, kale, tomato, onion Cabbage Today I'm traveling so will bring some cucumbers, carrots, and blueberries with me.

Great news!

My high school was a K - 12 public alternative school. We had an enormous and very complex wooden castle, it probably took up close to half a city block. The high schoolers would play a form of tag/hide and seek/Calvin Ball at top speed during lunch and occasionally take out a younger student. It's gone now but it was wicked fun.

Yesterday was a zucchini fritter with onion A whole delicata squash with a salad of lettuce, cabbage, zucchini, carrots, olives, celery. And, a burger, ahem. Ketchup counts, right?

Oh, 2012, what a terrible year for zombies.

I wonder if it's related to this high fiber challenge? Yikes!

"Listen to understand, not to agree."

I would guess that it is normal in that so many homes are now airbnbs, bought up by investors and furnished like little hotels. Not snarking on your use, just thinking it might be totally normal. The name thing is very weird, though. Trying to get around local regulations by using different names?

Yesterday was turnips, tatsoi, curried lentils with veggies, zucchini. I'm only measuring them as generous cups and have consistently gotten more than 6 cups each day. I'm hooked!

This question - and his wonderful answer - has really started me down a grammatical/theological rabbit hole: "going" to heaven as opposed to "in" heaven.