Not at Home School...

As always we go from lethargic to overdrive as soon as the temps drop...September has been busy... ponies, trains and dino bones, oh my!

National Gymnastics day...

Local Geography Nature Block

The first block for Biddy this year was on local Geography...We kicked it off to with a day trip to a nature reserve...we are so lucky to have a friend from our parish homeschooling this year... yay! Now we have a field trip buddy! We saw lots of animals and Valentine even walked for a while. Anyone know what bird the pretty striped feather is from? We were guessing some sort of raptor...

Signs of Autumn!

Asters and Mums! (Thanks L.!), long sleeves, woolly bears, acorns, and outdoor forest animal puppet shows!
Our favorite season is finally here!

SuperHero sightings...

Magical Mermaid Miss, Sir Spoon-A-Lot, The Candycane Queen and The Flaming Lance have been popping up and leaping out all week...mostly right before Captain Mom hollers "ack don't jump off of that!!"
Who needs P.E. and team sports when you have your own super team hmm?

Many Years Blue Eyes!

Our Blue Eyes is named for the Theotokos twice :) A special Many Years to our little one on her names-day and a blessed feast to all.

To those imperfect days...

Ahh Not-Back to School!

After weeks of restless inactivity, bursts of busy-ness and faltering rhythms the kids were ready. After tons of planning and tweaking, non-existent budget magic and arranging and rearranging the lessons were ready. After months of broken computers, lost cameras and missing memory cards everything was fixed and ready. After a whirlwind cleaning and sorting and moving furniture the house was as ready as it gets! After a summer of studiously not reading anything vaguely schooly I was rested and ready.

We were all ready for what turned out to be the one of the cr******t days of our homescooling and parenting lives.
There were brief moments of humor and smiles, fleeting magical moments (the candy dish cod-piece is burned into our collective memory!) but otherwise it was sobbing, screaming, stomping and tantrum filled day.

So to all of you who have these days and are to embarrassed or afraid to admit it -this post is for you. If it helps today was a little better, tomorrow hopefully better than today. So here is to all our most terrible rotten days, they pass and that kid that yesterday was screaming that you are a meany pants who hates them, just may come skipping in today asking to give you a foot rub. :)

Those kiddos- blessings, burdens, Beautiful.