Nature Study is Saving Mom's Sanity

August 11, 2017

Nature Study and a husband who thinks it is important for the kids do saved my sanity today. All five kids trooped out the door holding their nature notebooks, colored pencils and giant excited smiles. While I get to have a few minutes to just breath before they return. I love that I have such a supportive husband.

Oh the Whining!

August 10, 2017

Day 4 of school finished. Kids are in the tub. I have so little brain power left I couldn't even come up with anything to do on Minecraft. I sure hope my younger two kiddos can discover the joy of knowledge soon, because the constant "I'm all done with school" or the "I don't want to do school" whine has about done me in.

Caught in the Act

June 11, 2017

You know you are doing something right when summer break starts and your kids decide to re-read Shakespeare for fun without you. I just found out Treysen and Clarissa are reading 12th Night together just because they want to.

"I Need to Paint. That is My Job."

May 9, 2017

So Kyrilene came to me this afternoon when quiet time was over. I had just finished telling all the kids to pick their next thing from their lists for school, and she says: "Mom, I need to paint. That is my job." I loved this and she had a great time watercoloring scribbles all over her paper.

It reminded me of a quote that I love and wanted to share: "We might as well declare that a child should not speak unless he put his words into poetry, as to declare that he should not draw because his drawings are not artistic." Anna Botsford Comstock

What an wonderful reminder that a toddlers self expression with paints is just as important to her as my own artistic pursuits and attempts are to me.

The Chicks Get Names

April 5, 2017

So the kids have been naming our baby chicks. I told each of them they could pick one to name and I even suggested thing like fried and nugget and BBQ. Haha. The kids were less then impressed. So far they have given me the following:

• Clarissa named a Java (black and white speckled) Dalmay
• Seriah named her Ameraucana - America
• Treysen named his Delaware - Dela
• Kyrilene named hers Tweet Tweet

and then there is Jeremiah's. He came to me and said mom I picked a name for my chicken. He also picked a white Delaware one and he said "That is Green Goblin" then he starts giggling.  So my thought for the day:

"Your son might be a superhero fan if...."

You Know Your a Homeschooler When...

March 24, 2017

You know your a homeschooler when....one of your baby chicks die and after crying and being sad all the kids are excited to have a dissection class.

"I Am A Child of God" in French

February 9, 2017

So we started learning "I am a child of God" last week in French as part of our foreign language studies. It is so fun to listen to my kids playing and singing that song. I even have one daughter who thinks we should sing it in sacrament once we know the whole thing. Of course whether her not as outgoing siblings agree with that idea could be a whole different story.