So homeschooling.
Me.
Right.
Here’s the thing: I was completely, adamantly, 100% NOT going to homeschool. It was not even CLOSE to being something I wanted consider. It’s just not something I ever thought I would enjoy; patience is not a virtue I possess in great abundance, and of course, I wouldn’t want to make my kids [...]
Filed in: family • home education | September 30, 2009
We had the missionaries over for dinner tonight, along with this sweet couple who have been taking lessons and learning about the restored gospel. We had dinner together, and then Sarah and Jade went to bed and the missionaries sang a hymn and led a beautiful discussion for the rest of us. It was so [...]
Filed in: spiritual | September 25, 2009
Can you tell why I made such a good decision eight years ago?
Happy Anniversary, Love.
Filed in: family | September 23, 2009
I am delighted that our family is getting old enough to have absolutely hilarious conversations. Oh, it is wonderful, and I can only imagine it will become more and more so as our children pass through different developmental stages.
I wish I could remember all these gems so I could record them, and I especially wish [...]
Alright all you beautiful ladies who know so much more about being fashionable than I do. (That would be ALL of you.)
Do you see how I’m growing fur around my hair line?
What do I do about that? It is my hair growing back in, after it fell out in gobs postpartum. I’ve been [...]
I heard screeching from inside the car while I was pumping gas. I opened the door to the car to these impassioned pronouncements:
Jade (3): She pushed on my leg!
Sarah (6): She grabbed my hair!
I stared at them quizzically for a sec before Jade broke in with her final announcement, directed at me:
“You, poop!”
I couldn’t [...]
First, a sidenote about my last post. All the hitting that is going on, don’t worry, I’m not allowing our home to become a scary/harmful place to be. For one thing, she’s not actually doing it with an intention of causing pain so much as with a need for help/attention, and so even in the [...]
Filed in: child development • cuteness • parenting | September 9, 2009
I said to my mother-in-law the other day, “I think Jade has had a complete personality shift since Carrie was born.” Her response, while witnessing my once mild, accomodating, agreeable child running wildly around the room, emotions high-strung, and thrashing/swinging/hitting anyone in range if she got the least bit frustrated?
“Yes.”
Her conclusion is that Jade [...]
Filed in: child development • family • parenting | September 8, 2009
Hearing Jade say, in the powerful theatrics that comes so naturally to three-year-olds, “And she will prick her finger on the spinning wheel and DIE!” incited a little revelation for me today about my concerns with television and movies–especially those made for kids.
Of course I have the obvious concerns about TV and overstimulation (and [...]