Sick girl

Posted on January 26, 2012 by justakrazymom

My little princess is rather sick. She started Sunday night with a sore throat and ears. I’m not one to take my kids to the dr. I prefer to let nature fight of illnesses. Well by Tuesday she was just laying around not able to do much. Now if they had been one of the boys I’d have been fine with it..it’s how they are when they are sick. Jadziah, though, is not one to allow herself to BE sick. SO once she was acting that way I knew she was very sick.

Well a trip to the Dr confirmed this..double ear infection,strep and scarlett fever.. sigh..

this is now day 3 of the meds and she’s more or less back to her old self.. the scarlett fever rash is less red, but still very bumpy and icky.. but she feels more like herself!

ack

Posted on January 23, 2012 by justakrazymom

Ok so keeping up with the blog is hard..harder than I thought it would be.. I hope to get a post up in the next few days…ehh…I kinda promise…

We don’t look like homeschoolers..

Posted on January 5, 2012 by justakrazymom

That’s what I was told yesterday.

I must say I chuckled. This is far from the first time we’ve heard this, or something similar. I’m always left wondering exactly what they think a homeschooling family looks like. Long denim skirts? Kids in matching clothes? Us merrily making our own food and clothes and singing together every night? Oh I know there are homeschooling families that DO look like that, and I applaud them… I’m all about whatever works for your family!

We, we are just your normal ( ish..I prefer not to be thought of as normal) american family. My husband is a blue collar worker ( think very dirty when he comes home from work).. I am a typical jeans and Aero shirt kinda mom..although I usually skip the trendy boots.. just not in my budget. My kids all look like kids.. ya know..any kid you’d meet anywhere. Well my oldest stands out a bit..the gauge in his ear, double pierced eyebrow and occasional Mohawk will do that afterall, but he actually spend more of his educational years in PS afterall.lol

We looked like this long before we decided to homeschool.( decision was made almost exactly 6 years ago now) We will still look like this in 10 years when we are done homeschooling. It’s just who we are. I won’t lie though.. I love it when people don’t know my kids are homeschooled. I feel we are breaking stereotypes. Way more of the kids we know that are homeschooled are “normal looking every day kids” than not. You would never look at them and say “homeschooled”. This is a good thing. The largest growing group of people who choose to homeschool ( at least around here) are your average ,everyday families. We all have different reasons.. and so far it’s still working for us!

I was once described as soggy granola..ya know..too crunchy ( ie breastfed, cloth diapered, delayed vax’s, homeschool etc) for mainstream and too mainstream for the uber crunchy. So yep.. I’m a soggy granola “normal” homeschooler! Works for me!

First day of School 2012…

Posted on January 3, 2012 by justakrazymom

Well today was our first day back for 2012. We had a rough start.. no one was up at their normal time, I hadn’t slept much the night before and the kids were just fighting sitting for lessons at every turn!

So after laying down the law, ie Ziah got sent to her room and fell asleep and Declan went and cleaned his, Taejan and I got his seat work all done!

Finally the other 2 were ready to go..

They got thru all their seat work then it was snack time!! We recently got a BJ’s wholesale club and they have these bags of mini peppers we just love!

After snack we started our own little Olympics. There are 4 categories and more than competing against each other, we will be competing against ourselves. I need to get moving more, and let’s face it… it’s hard with 4 kids, working 2 jobs, homeschooling and taking the kids to all their activities..I just can’t find the time to exercise ( or the desire).

Up first we Jumping Jacks..poor Taejan just can’t get the coordination down for these:

then Foot Fiery.. we “stole” this from the kids basketball training:

Push ups:

and a modified version of jump rope:

Last year a teacher friend of mine gave me the entire PS 5th grade math and ELA curriculum..so I am using the reader for our reading time.. the stories are great, and shorter so I don’t lose the kids interest!

We started our Unit on Winter. We are studying how the Sun heats up the earth. The hemispheres and such…and google earth came in handy for showing the kids a good visual on how the sun hits the earth. Of course ,being us, we had no flash lights so my cell phone’s camera light came in handy too: