Its hasn't been soo long

Seriously, it felt like I hadn't posted in months and months...its only been 1! hah!

Adore my newfound family in Seattle. Weston A Price foundation and locavore extraordinaires! Thank you all for the tomato buy!

We got together and, using group purchasing power, brought in a truckload of tomatoes, sweet & hot peppers & eggplants. Nightshades abound! All organic and dropped off in the city. We all came in and weighed our orders. We turned it into a math lesson. The kids grabbed the hanging scale and walked around helping people weigh their produce. Then they had to subtract or add amounts to help the people figure out how much more to get or reduce their loads by...successful!

A good day by all! Blessings on my locavore community. Thank you for including me. Can't wait to chat with you all again soon.

Getting ready for not-school

The paperwork has been sent in. After much circling and chasing of the tails, we will be homeschooling using a virtual school as help to keep us/me focused. Very excited! The kids seem excited too...which is good, obviously.

In the meantime, much scheduling must be done to make sure that we have time for events, playtime, school work, classes/lessons, and maybe some kind of income-earning for me. It should be a rich, positive experience, with much time spent at the zoo and museums.

Baby broke his arm

Little G fell on the 4th of July - playing airplane with the neighbor. Bummer!

He has buckle fractures in both his ulna and radius. Woot! Just after the first golf lesson...he tried to swing the club today on the front lawn. no dice. it hurts his arm. off to see the ortho on friday. I don't think the hard splint and ace bandage are going to contain him...

Returning home

The hardest decision has been made. Big A will return home to school. He is having a marvelous time (most days) at school. And this year, I admit, they have actually learned useful things, including how to work with people of different abilities. However, Big A has also learned that he can slide into mediocrity at school. He doesn't push himself. Everything that is easy, he aces and the things that are tough he simply doesn't do or won't do well. His teacher, whom I really like, doesn't push him, because I don't think she honestly knows that he's sliding. She likely thinks that he simply isn't good at math. Actually he is, once he gets the concepts, but since there is rarely ever any kind of meaningful homework, we don't go over it - and also because I don't know what's going on in the classroom. If you want to be an uninvolved parent, send your kids to public school, because they don't tell you anything that's going on and the kids learn to tell their parents nothing (from each other).

If we had no other choices, I would send them to PS, I would. But we do have choices. So home they will be. Now, to learn how to budget the years education expenses, since we can't deduct them from taxes.

oh budgeting, how I loathe thee.

And here I am again...

February sucked. My second Dad died (well, my friend's Dad, but he was like one to me too). Had crazy family issues to go along with that event. March came & went. Its now April and we are nearing the anniversary of not only MY Dad's death, but also my mother-in-law. WTF?

Little G is happy homeschooling. I realised today that no child, save for MAYBE a very precocious girl, should be allowed to start kindergarten at age 5. Most of the kids in Kindergarten turn 6 before the end of the first semester. Any kid whose birthday is after January, is pretty much guaranteed to be in the slow-learner category. They set my kid up to fail. And so did I.

I am thinking that Big A is going to come home at the end of the school year - although, once the kids get to third grade, the education gets amazingly different and the struggles ease, but they are far from perfect and they let your kids flounder until they are two years behind in their studies - then the kids are labeled and the fun begins. Until then, you just get a kid with low self-esteem and no desire to attend school... arrrgh!

Studying for licensing exam for massage therapy. Fun fun! Anatomy all day every day! What knitting business? What spinning wheel that I want to buy? I did? I don't have time for it!! I don't have time to write. Don't want to write the story I'm working on. Its too big and a piece of crap. I should stick to articles and short stories..maybe children's items.

Speaking of children...bath time.

funkee mommee

Funkee Mommee has tooooo many blogs! I need to consolidate & organize (story of my life!)

Will work on this. I wonder if there is some kind of software that will allow this...

writing is good, knitting is better

I have too many (again) projects I want to accomplish. Most of them have been on the table or in my head for years. Time to get them out and done. Spinning, gifts, business, magic. What's a mom to do?