It's quite exhausting for me to keep up with two kids and two blogs.
So I'm combining them, finally. The new blog is on Wordpress, and you can find it here.
I hope you will all keep reading and commenting. I know I haven't blogged much at all lately, but I'm hoping to start blogging daily/semi-daily again. So for regular updates about my adventures in the worlds of Craft and Unschooling, as well as any future patterns, please update links and/or bookmarks. I have already exported all the files from both blogs to the new blog. If you are interested in the knitting but don't care about the unschooling-- or vice versa-- I've categorized everything accordingly.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Bubbly
I've been wanting to blog. Truly. Just haven't gotten in the mindset much. Oh, I do have tons to say. I probably won't say it all today. But I think this must end the unscheduled blogging hiatus I've been on here in the last couple of weeks.
Last week we all got sick one at a time. The kids got sick and got over it in about 3 days. I, however, was sick for a week and a half. Some sort of evil cold/flu thing got me and then moved into my lungs for a few days. But we're all better now, thankfully.
This week has been good.
Sunday my dad got a dog, and told Rowan it was her dog. He's a brown husky named Buster, and I think I was hit the hardest by the puppy love. I hope to get pictures soon! Oh, the puppy love.. the fuzziness of it.
Monday... was the perfect unschooling day. Everything flowed and was beautiful. Dairbhre did some pegboard puzzles while Rowan did some bigger puzzles, and I helped them back and forth so they wouldn't get frustrated. Ro looked up a bunch of pictures of fawns on the computer and we talked about them a lot. Then she went to Etsy and we looked up items made with pictures of fawns on them there. We spent about an hour on National Geographic Kids, looking at pictures of animals and watching the videos, but her favorite thing was reading the facts. At one point I was afraid I was boring her by reading the facts (they're pretty lengthy and thorough) and went right to the video, and she said, "I don't want to see the video, I want to read about it!" She seemed to like to read about the ferocious animals the most. We had a simple conversation involving addition while I was cooking, using bottle caps for illustration. We made pictures by drawing with glue on a piece of paper, then putting coffee beans in the glue. In the evening we doodled together, and I wrote the descriptions of what I was drawing under the picture. I was so amazed at my patience all day!+
Tuesday, we went to the park. We were there for over three hours! Rowan stole a bunch of little girls away at the top of the slide tower and they made up games. Dairbhre got really interested in the creek. He was about to just walk into it. So I gave him some rocks, and he stood there throwing one rock after the other into the creek, completely hypnotized, for an hour. Ro joined us and even after my warning about not getting too close to the creek, she fell in. Which was really really funny (since she wasn't hurt of course).
Yesterday, well... wasn't so great. I got a lot done. I scrubbed the kitchen floor on my hands and knees. That's how exactly insane I was. But I was sort of in a pissy mood and wasn't the best mom....
But today, we had a great great day. I just got back from our homeschool group. We were there about 4 hours. I love those people. Guys, if you're reading this, I LOVE ALL OF YOU!!!!! *Imma get mushy* Our group means so much to me, and to my kids, and I'm so grateful for it. When I got there I was all feeling a bit down on my abilities. Lately I've been trying to give Rowan reading lessons due to homeschool split personality disorder, and she's been so NOT INTO IT. She sighs and pulls her hair and just slumps over and makes wild guesses without thinking (in fact, absolutely refusing to think) just so it will be over. And I was all worried about that, and after talking to you all, I feel so much better. Thank You. I really think she isn't ready. There is a lot of research to support me when I say that a LOT of kids are not ready at age 3 like I was... that age 7 is much, much better... and that pushing it on her NOW, when she isn't ready, is not going to do anything but make her dislike reading. I feel like I'm being hounded by family members to sit down and give her lessons, but hey, I know her learning style best. And that's the beauty of homeschooling. For those of us who unschool or school-at-home or whatever, the beauty is that we know how our kids learn best! I'm not going to put my little one in a box any longer. The reason I've been so attracted to unschooling is because of how Rowan learns, which is amazingly similar to how I learn.
Re-reading over this post, I see it's full of run on sentences and possibly makes no sense in places... but I'm excited to be blogging! I think I'll be posting regularly again!
Last week we all got sick one at a time. The kids got sick and got over it in about 3 days. I, however, was sick for a week and a half. Some sort of evil cold/flu thing got me and then moved into my lungs for a few days. But we're all better now, thankfully.
This week has been good.
Sunday my dad got a dog, and told Rowan it was her dog. He's a brown husky named Buster, and I think I was hit the hardest by the puppy love. I hope to get pictures soon! Oh, the puppy love.. the fuzziness of it.
Monday... was the perfect unschooling day. Everything flowed and was beautiful. Dairbhre did some pegboard puzzles while Rowan did some bigger puzzles, and I helped them back and forth so they wouldn't get frustrated. Ro looked up a bunch of pictures of fawns on the computer and we talked about them a lot. Then she went to Etsy and we looked up items made with pictures of fawns on them there. We spent about an hour on National Geographic Kids, looking at pictures of animals and watching the videos, but her favorite thing was reading the facts. At one point I was afraid I was boring her by reading the facts (they're pretty lengthy and thorough) and went right to the video, and she said, "I don't want to see the video, I want to read about it!" She seemed to like to read about the ferocious animals the most. We had a simple conversation involving addition while I was cooking, using bottle caps for illustration. We made pictures by drawing with glue on a piece of paper, then putting coffee beans in the glue. In the evening we doodled together, and I wrote the descriptions of what I was drawing under the picture. I was so amazed at my patience all day!+
Tuesday, we went to the park. We were there for over three hours! Rowan stole a bunch of little girls away at the top of the slide tower and they made up games. Dairbhre got really interested in the creek. He was about to just walk into it. So I gave him some rocks, and he stood there throwing one rock after the other into the creek, completely hypnotized, for an hour. Ro joined us and even after my warning about not getting too close to the creek, she fell in. Which was really really funny (since she wasn't hurt of course).
Yesterday, well... wasn't so great. I got a lot done. I scrubbed the kitchen floor on my hands and knees. That's how exactly insane I was. But I was sort of in a pissy mood and wasn't the best mom....
But today, we had a great great day. I just got back from our homeschool group. We were there about 4 hours. I love those people. Guys, if you're reading this, I LOVE ALL OF YOU!!!!! *Imma get mushy* Our group means so much to me, and to my kids, and I'm so grateful for it. When I got there I was all feeling a bit down on my abilities. Lately I've been trying to give Rowan reading lessons due to homeschool split personality disorder, and she's been so NOT INTO IT. She sighs and pulls her hair and just slumps over and makes wild guesses without thinking (in fact, absolutely refusing to think) just so it will be over. And I was all worried about that, and after talking to you all, I feel so much better. Thank You. I really think she isn't ready. There is a lot of research to support me when I say that a LOT of kids are not ready at age 3 like I was... that age 7 is much, much better... and that pushing it on her NOW, when she isn't ready, is not going to do anything but make her dislike reading. I feel like I'm being hounded by family members to sit down and give her lessons, but hey, I know her learning style best. And that's the beauty of homeschooling. For those of us who unschool or school-at-home or whatever, the beauty is that we know how our kids learn best! I'm not going to put my little one in a box any longer. The reason I've been so attracted to unschooling is because of how Rowan learns, which is amazingly similar to how I learn.
Re-reading over this post, I see it's full of run on sentences and possibly makes no sense in places... but I'm excited to be blogging! I think I'll be posting regularly again!
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