Parental Ramblings
Today
What do you do all day is probably the most common question I hear. And every day can be different. Compared to people who have full curriculum and do it at home we are very unschool. Compared to some unschooler the fact that I make suggestions or that they attend a homeschool enrichment program run … Continue reading
That’s How We Roll
That’s how we roll…well that could be referring to the bike ride everyone not still coughing took today. But I was actually thinking of spending the last few days with the boys making new Dungeons & Dragons characters. For the first quest they did, the dad who is the dungeon master and teaching them to … Continue reading
We’re Back…hopefully
After months and months of ignoring it and shaking my head, I just spent the morning with tech support. Even they were shaking their heads and had no idea how this really basic blog got quite so bogged down in crazy error files. So after my productive morning, here we are. We’re back…online. Hopefully … Continue reading
Watch It Wiggle
(no I don’t know, nor can I figure out, what is suddenly  up with  my lack of paragraph breaks no matter now often I put them in. grrrrr)Jello. Yup, jello, or gelatin at least. We’ve been making a ton this summer. It’s fast, easy, cool and a friend happened to give me a big box … Continue reading
The Life of Unsocialized Recluses
As common as homeschooling is getting in the US, I still frequently hear concerns about my children not being socialized. I’m gonna guess they mean the second definition, 2. To make fit for companionship with others; make sociable, rather than the first, 1. To place under government or group ownership or control. Although placing them … Continue reading
What holds the universe together?
This morning D, who just turned 9, asked to learn to make scrambled eggs. The other two quickly followed. So we started an assembly line, each making their own scrambled eggs from cracking the shell to whisking, which is somehow considered much cooler than stirring, to cooking. C and B both grated their own cheese … Continue reading
Supplementary Magniloquent Articulations
I can’t believe I forgot to mention one of the best big words of all: defenestrate. My friend Em gave me that one. Defenestrate: To throw out of a window. Specific, to the point, and makes the kids giggle. A lot of the words that are no longer actively used have specific meanings. We now … Continue reading
Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
The kids have been into big words lately. It started, oddly enough, with an argument between them over panties versus underwear. Somehow that evolved to all clothing having been called garments at one time and that the stuff underneath was simply your under-garments. From garments, we got to spectacles. That one developed during a discussion … Continue reading
Crapouflage
We talk to the kids about practically anything. From explaining the lyrics to Pink’s U & Ur Hand to watching YouTube videos of tongue piercings gone wrong. I have this small fear about being approaching at playgrounds by parents saying my kids told their child Santa doesn’t exist, exactly how babies are made, or exactly … Continue reading
Lifestyle Choices
A few weeks ago we were at a housewarming party for a friend (Hi Amy!). I was complaining that our house is always a disaster area and she said it’s what we chose. At first I disagreed. But she explained that we did choose to live the way we do with kids and chaos and … Continue reading
