homeschooling
Family opinions cause more stress, homeschooling uncertain
It’s been three weeks since four of my children have been in Michigan with both sets of their grandparents. Everything sounds well over the phone. My oldest son, age 9, has taken on the challenge of reading the entire Harry Potter series in record breaking time. In two days, he completed Book One and was [...]
Proud mama needs to write a book
Even though I am keeping myself busy (how can I not?), it is wierd having only one child and one who is pretty much independent and self-sufficient. I miss the rest of the crew, but I am enjoying this time with just me and Boo (I think I have to stop calling her that when [...]
Now let’s get the rhythm of the head
Ding Dong! You got the rhythm of the head, ding dong. Now let’s the rhythm of the hips…Do yall remember that street song with the hand claps and stuff? Man, life in those days was simple. Well, outside from the ocassional fights with the girl who didn’t like the fact that I had longer hair [...]
Is that Gloria Naylor (oops, Gaynor) I hear?
I took everything to our homeschool group that I was supposed to take except my sanity and my sense of humor. Niara’s hair was on top of her head in this funky beehive, upswing do and only one person was on time and that was the former President. I was 6 minutes late, fuming because [...]
Biting Nails and Banging Heads
As you all know, I accepted the role of President of my homeschool co-op/support group, Umoja Christian Homeschool Network (UCHN). The organization is young and the people are awesome, but do they really want my off-the-wall/meet the needs of the people/high standard having self as their humble leader? Well, they all say Yes, but today [...]
