It seems that every April I start thinking of blogging the days on here again. Anyway, here, right on schedule. .. literally, to the day. Let’s see if I can do this with Aidan sitting on my lap saying “Let’s head out the door!” My husband Kevin and I have revived our old habit [...]
Christine at Thinking Things Through has collected a bunch of planning posts in one place. Also, Owl at Owl Flutter has a nice logbook for lollygaggers. There is a possibility that Sean, may go to school not this year, but next year. At age 14, he is the oldest of my never-schooled kids. The older [...]
Maybe I’ll stick with this PressRow presentation for longer than I’ve been staying with other templates recently. You can customize the header, and that’s nice. The one on there now is of Slea Head. That was one of the most beautiful places we went to on our trip. If you ever go there, though, and [...]
I went back to this day a year ago to see what was on my mind back then and um, try to figure out what to write about now. I’m having such a hard time getting back to regular blogging after the break! It looks like back then we had just gotten our new dishwasher [...]
Music: Kilkelly The last two passports came. Whew! Brendan and Kevin can come with us to Ireland after all : ). Our car is back from the shop but has to go in again next week. I got some more raking done. It’s funny. Recently, going out there to rake has been the signal for [...]
I am going to stream consciousness about this past year and how it’s gone in terms of homeschooling. I started this blog almost a year ago while I was experimenting with “total unschooling”. I wanted a way to record and reflect upon what was happening in our days. I continued this during the summer. I [...]
I put up Aidan’s therapy list on a page. Just in case someone else has a child with hemiplegia and some sensory integration issues : ). I also put a planned daily warm-up routine in there… moving from large motor to fine motor to academics, hoping that motor activation will help with his praxis during [...]
Paddy is still asleep was still asleep so I thought I’d write my journal before things got going around here. Later on the day will get busy….. we have our homeschool meeting and it takes up a good part of the afternoon. Yesterday the two little ones had their first T ball game. [...]
“I am really good at focusing on just one thing, down to the smallest microcosm of thought. I can think one thing to death. That is my problem. I can get down to kindergarten level and identify completely with the young child-mind, and live there all day– but don’t ask me to talk about past [...]
As we get closer to summer, I am planning to phase out of a “learning notes” format and into a more unschooling type format of journalling, closer to what I was doing when I originally started this blog. Our CM semester is scheduled to end at the beginning of June. I am planning a few [...]
