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Being the student

I’m still trying to get the circus to sleep so that I can have a couple of hours to do some research. It’s always nice to have the house quiet while you’re trying to read on various topics, and I need to be alone sometimes for sanity.
Tonight, I’ll be sitting in the club chair in our family room for a bit enjoying either a glass of tea or wine while I learn more about the universe-some interesting topics.
You really have to make yourself become a student again when you’re homeschooling, and that takes time and work. You have to read what your children read and learn what they learn for an optimal teaching environment. When I first began homeschooling, I thought the idea of learning together sounded like so much fun. Now I know it takes a great deal of work on my part.

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Weekend blues

Wow! We’ve had such cold weather over the last few days where we live. It’s the kind of cold that makes you want to stay inside and eat an entire pot of warm soup and chocolate cake and stay in your sweat pants. Of course, if we are eating my cooking, we may end up ordering pizza!
Anyway, the weekend had our usual activities along with under-the-weather kids. Still, unless there’s some emergency or my kids are throwing up, we keep right on going with learning. They can still read while resting or I can read to them. I guess that’s an advantage of homeschooling versus sending your kids outside of the home. You don’t really have sick days so academics aren’t affected when you need to slow down at bit.
Finished academics with my daughter tonight (9:00). As long as she’s doing well with it, we keep going. Sometimes we have to do late nights because there’s just only so much time that I can give to each kid one-on-one. Extending our teaching time into the evening sometimes has to occur.
Well, now it’s 11:00, and I just printed out Paul Lockhart’s “A Mathematician’s Lament”. This will be my midnight reading before retiring. But, hubby and I have to watch our recorded “Fringe” episode. This is one show I actually watch off of TV. Other than that, I couldn’t really tell you what shows are on.
I need a shower. My hair is so dirty it is sticking to my scalp!

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How will you be remembered in this life?

In the midst of the circus that runs around me, I paused to attend a funeral for a loved one today.  During  the service, you heard this lovely Christian woman described as gracious, generous, and a legacy.  And she was every bit of that in real life.  Sometimes things can be exaggerated at funerals, but not so in this case.  She was an inspiration to so many people in the local community.   As I sat there, I began wondering what people will say about me when I leave this earth.  Will they call me gracious?  Times like these make you reassess what you’re doing in your everyday orderly chaos…