Wordless Wednesday

We call this one, " I didn't do it I swear!" By the way this is the dumbest cat ever, so if anyone asks you have now seen her. She is part feral, and will actually try and fetch a ball when you throw it. She is quite strange. ENJOY!

Our Catch up Week

Well this week was suppose to be our projects finish up week for co-op and our TOG catch up week. Well the kids only had a project to work on from home because they were all caught up :) So we basically had the week to work on projects for co-op-only two of the kids had those so here they are and one of our 1920's project.


This is my 10yo book report on Babe Ruth



This is my 12yo bug collection for his general science class, he did not want any help from me that is why his looked so unique compared to everyone elses.



This is my 10yo project for his CSI class. He did it on lip prints :)

Our anniversary

Well me and dh have celebrated 17years together this month. I wanted to share our wedding song that we used, I absolutely love this song. The version we used was the one with Céline Dion and Andrea Bocelli but this one has Josh Groban.



Here are the words and what they mean:

I pray you'll be our eyes, and watch us where we go.
And help us to be wise in times when we don't know
Let this be our prayer, when we lose our way
Lead us to the place, guide us with your grace
To a place where we'll be safe

La luce che tu hai
I pray we'll find your light
nel cuore resterà
and hold it in our hearts.
a ricordarci che
When stars go out each night,
eterna stella sei


The light you have
I pray we'll find your light
will be in the heart
and hold it in our hearts.
to remember us that
When stars go out each night,
you are eternal star
Nella mia preghiera
Let this be our prayer
quanta fede c'è
when shadows fill our day


How much faith there's
Let this be our prayer
in my prayer
when shadows fill our day
Lead us to a place, guide us with your grace
Give us faith so we'll be safe

Sognamo un mondo senza più violenza
un mondo di giustizia e di speranza
Ognuno dia la mano al suo vicino
Simbolo di pace, di fraternità


We dream a world without violence
a world of justice and faith.
Everyone gives the hand to his neighbours
Symbol of peace, of fraternity
La forza che ci dà
We ask that life be kind
è il desiderio che
and watch us from above
ognuno trovi amor
We hope each soul will find
intorno e dentro sé
another soul to love


The force his gives us
We ask that life be kind
is wish that
and watch us from above
everyone finds love
We hope each soul will find
around and inside
another soul to love
Let this be our prayer
Let this be our prayer, just like every child

Need to find a place, guide us with your grace
Give us faith so we'll be safe
Need to find a place, guide us with your grace
Give us faith so we'll be safe

È la fede che
hai acceso in noi,
sento che ci salverà


It's the faith
you light in us
I feel it will save us

"I am signed up for the Homeschool Moms Secret Sister Session #3!"

Wordless Wednesday

We are going to call these sleeping like a baby (DOG)

What Christmas ornament are you?

You Are a Snowflake

You live for the winter - blizzards, cold nights, snowball fights! The holidays are just a bonus!

What Christmas Ornament Are You?

The Bitter Homeschooler's Wish List

By Deborah Markus, from Secular Homeschooling Magazine, Issue #1, Fall 2007

1 Please stop asking us if it's legal. If it is — and it is — it's insulting to imply that we're criminals. And if we were criminals, would we admit it?

2 Learn what the words "socialize" and "socialization" mean, and use the one you really mean instead of mixing them up the way you do now. Socializing means hanging out with other people for fun. Socialization means having acquired the skills necessary to do so successfully and pleasantly. If you're talking to me and my kids, that means that we do in fact go outside now and then to visit the other human beings on the planet, and you can safely assume that we've got a decent grasp of both concepts.

3 Quit interrupting my kid at her dance lesson, scout meeting, choir practice, baseball game, art class, field trip, park day, music class, 4H club, or soccer lesson to ask her if as a homeschooler she ever gets to socialize.

4 Don't assume that every homeschooler you meet is homeschooling for the same reasons and in the same way as that one homeschooler you know.

5 If that homeschooler you know is actually someone you saw on TV, either on the news or on a "reality" show, the above goes double.

6 Please stop telling us horror stories about the homeschoolers you know, know of, or think you might know who ruined their lives by homeschooling. You're probably the same little bluebird of happiness whose hobby is running up to pregnant women and inducing premature labor by telling them every ghastly birth story you've ever heard. We all hate you, so please go away.

7 We don't look horrified and start quizzing your kids when we hear they're in public school. Please stop drilling our children like potential oil fields to see if we're doing what you consider an adequate job of homeschooling.

8 Stop assuming all homeschoolers are religious.

9 Stop assuming that if we're religious, we must be homeschooling for religious reasons.

10 We didn't go through all the reading, learning, thinking, weighing of options, experimenting, and worrying that goes into homeschooling just to annoy you. Really. This was a deeply personal decision, tailored to the specifics of our family. Stop taking the bare fact of our being homeschoolers as either an affront or a judgment about your own educational decisions.

11 Please stop questioning my competency and demanding to see my credentials. I didn't have to complete a course in catering to successfully cook dinner for my family; I don't need a degree in teaching to educate my children. If spending at least twelve years in the kind of chew-it-up-and-spit-it-out educational facility we call public school left me with so little information in my memory banks that I can't teach the basics of an elementary education to my nearest and dearest, maybe there's a reason I'm so reluctant to send my child to school.

12 If my kid's only six and you ask me with a straight face how I can possibly teach him what he'd learn in school, please understand that you're calling me an idiot. Don't act shocked if I decide to respond in kind.

13 Stop assuming that because the word "home" is right there in "homeschool," we never leave the house. We're the ones who go to the amusement parks, museums, and zoos in the middle of the week and in the off-season and laugh at you because you have to go on weekends and holidays when it's crowded and icky.

14 Stop assuming that because the word "school" is right there in homeschool, we must sit around at a desk for six or eight hours every day, just like your kid does. Even if we're into the "school" side of education — and many of us prefer a more organic approach — we can burn through a lot of material a lot more efficiently, because we don't have to gear our lessons to the lowest common denominator.

15 Stop asking, "But what about the Prom?" Even if the idea that my kid might not be able to indulge in a night of over-hyped, over-priced revelry was enough to break my heart, plenty of kids who do go to school don't get to go to the Prom. For all you know, I'm one of them. I might still be bitter about it. So go be shallow somewhere else.

16 Don't ask my kid if she wouldn't rather go to school unless you don't mind if I ask your kid if he wouldn't rather stay home and get some sleep now and then.

17 Stop saying, "Oh, I could never homeschool!" Even if you think it's some kind of compliment, it sounds more like you're horrified. One of these days, I won't bother disagreeing with you any more.

18 If you can remember anything from chemistry or calculus class, you're allowed to ask how we'll teach these subjects to our kids. If you can't, thank you for the reassurance that we couldn't possibly do a worse job than your teachers did, and might even do a better one.

19 Stop asking about how hard it must be to be my child's teacher as well as her parent. I don't see much difference between bossing my kid around academically and bossing him around the way I do about everything else.

20 Stop saying that my kid is shy, outgoing, aggressive, anxious, quiet, boisterous, argumentative, pouty, fidgety, chatty, whiny, or loud because he's homeschooled. It's not fair that all the kids who go to school can be as annoying as they want to without being branded as representative of anything but childhood.

21 Quit assuming that my kid must be some kind of prodigy because she's homeschooled.

22 Quit assuming that I must be some kind of prodigy because I homeschool my kids.

23 Quit assuming that I must be some kind of saint because I homeschool my kids.

24 Stop talking about all the great childhood memories my kids won't get because they don't go to school, unless you want me to start asking about all the not-so-great childhood memories you have because you went to school.

25 Here's a thought: If you can't say something nice about homeschooling, shut up!

Week 17 and 18th Week in Review

Well we finished up our last week of school work until after Thanksgiving I did this because co-op ends next Friday and we always have a lot of projects to do. The kids do have to finish up a CQLA unit this week but that should not take them much time to do and a 1920's project (the older are doing a biography and the youngest is doing a book report on a Babe Ruth biography). We have treats to cook for our co-op celebration and for their last class. We are so blessed to have our co-op it is a huge group of girls and we love it, our co-op has over 100 families that go.

With history the last two week we have studied the roaring 20's and the fall into the depression. Here are some of the books we read, the only other book not included in the picture that I remember is Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry.


Here are some of the history notebook pages we did, each kid did probably 3-4 pages total for the two weeks. I just don't show everything that we do. We just show samples

My 13yo is pluggin away in the Zeta book and is doing really well know that we have moved out of fractions. It is still not her favorite or most gifted subject but she is learning :)

Here is her health that she is using, we are using Total Health by Boe. I like it but I wish it was a little more in depth "health" wise, it does go very in depth with mental and spirtual issues. I just would like something more "health" she might end up doing Abeka health for her high school credit but this has been a good beginner type course
My oldest son is flying through the Delta book and will probably be in the dreaded fraction book by March. UGH didn't we just finish that book with another kid?
here are his current test:

and
(don't you love the extra drawing always included in his work?)

This is a sampling of our other work. I just grabbed the best sampling of the work they have done in the last 2 weeks. My report next week will be shorter, it will also include pictures of some of their projects for co-op. I am so glad I thought to have this has a week off so we can get our act together for the end of semester program. So this will be a two week break, even though they are finishing up some odds and ends for our homeschooling

Wordless Wednesday

This is named, Are you sure you need these kids?

Blogger Friend School #8

Part A
Well our dirty laundry is kept in everyones closet (unless it is on the floor :( and I have not caught it there yet)My kids are old enough to do all the sorting, right know we do not dry it on a clothes line although I would love to return to this. Our HOA does not allow this (they don't allow basketball hoops either aren't HOA great) but when our lease is up we will move and we can hopefully go back to this. We do an average of at least a load a day, although this is an average. We are lucky enough to have our own washer and dryer, no more laundrymat we use to have to do this when our kids where babies.

Part B
I think I am working on contentment. It is something I struggle with and sometime need some reminding that we are where God wants us. It is has been a huge struggle for both dh and I as he has gone back to work for an old employer. He really thought it was going to be just like it use to be but God put us there and it has changed so much, for the better! It is about being content with where God has us.