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We Already Celebrated Halloween!

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 Our church congregation decided to have our annual Chili Cook-off and Trunk-or-Treat early in the month.  This changed my plans for preparing Halloween costumes!!  In short order, I pulled together 6 costumes, and my older teens managed their own. Nature Angel as Eurydice from Hades Town Ladybug as Hazel Levesque from Heroes of Olympus Mister Man as Leo Valdez from Heroes of Olympus Baymax as Samheed Burkesh from The Unwanteds Lola as Florence, the giant ebony statue hero, from The Unwanteds And Beowulf, Little Princess, and Brother as Minions! I have always limited Halloween to one celebration, but this year with the church party being so early, I am unable to prevent other celebrations closer to or on the actual date.   So. Much. Candy. I'm not a fan. But Brother, Mister Man, and Beowulf have been invited to a Halloween party and trick-or-treat with a group of boys from their church group. And the 3 teen girls have been invited to another Halloween party and trick-or-treat w
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From September to October

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 All I really want to write is that we're just doing the same things--school, church activities, dance, work (Nature Angel and Sir Walter Scott), chores, park days, psych appointments, grocery shopping, cooking, dentist appointments, CAP, and so on and so forth. The week that I thought was going to be so beautiful that I tentatively planned to take a week off school to enjoy it turned out to be rainy and uncomfortable, so we just did regular school things. It's why I didn't write last week.  I could have.  But I just let the time slide. But there have been moments I should have captured. Our old fridge began to die, and we got a new one at the scratch and dent store.  The new one is huge and easy to use and quiet.   The fan in the old one went from making grinding, moaning noises intermittently to often to almost constantly, and while it made me slightly insane, it made Beowulf lose it completely. As in violent rages. Once I connected the rages to the fridge noises, Sir Wa
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In Search of Peace Amidst the Chaos of Real Life

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 In my last post, I whined about how our schedule is never-endingly being interrupted. I said I wanted to get serious about defending our school time. But I'm looking at our calendar, and there's not much end in sight.  The interruptions are already in place, and some are still arriving without my permission (via other people in the family), so I'm trying to embrace this attitude: A local homeschooling friend recently told me that she has 12 medical appointments for her family this week! That was the trigger that got me re-thinking my attitude about what is and what isn't within my sphere of control. So, I cannot change psych and dentist appointments because they depend on too many variables beyond my control. I cannot change Nature Angel's work schedule when she accidentally picked up a shift that she thought was outside of school hours but turned out to be during school hours. I cannot change when The Munchkin's bus is late. I cannot change when my kids have b
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Where Does the Time Go?

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 I am an organized person. I run our household on good, solid routines that allow for flexibility and keep us in order. But I'm feeling slightly insane at the number of interruptions to our homeschool days lately!! It's not the kids' behaviors that are the problem right now; it's other people (like dentists and friends) who keep demanding our time. I'm going to have to get tough about defending our homeschool hours. Tougher than I usually am! Of course, we still did good stuff.  Our Morning Meetings were particularly good this week.  Kids had solid questions and participated in discovering and discussing answers. The teens and I read the Thoreau chapter in our American Lit. book.  There's so much to think about when reading Thoreau!!  We also continued The Last of the Mohicans . Nature Angel was able to have an introductory class in welding via her church activity group. She LOVED it!   I think more welding is in her future. :) Little Princess passed her CAP spe
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