Ode to SuperGeek
Posted by Carrie in WHAT?!
He’s a very geeky dude,
The kind you won’t take home to mutha.
He will never let the ‘net go down,
and you can’t get him off the screen. Read the rest of this entry »
read comments (4)Veggie sculpture (or, Bad Mommy, Bad Mommy!)
Posted by Carrie in WHAT?!
Let me preface this by saying I am a VERY conscientious mother. I am actually paranoid. Well, the lesson of this story is that it is not beyond even the most neurotic mother to sometimes make a fatal error of judgement. (That is what I tell myself anyway). Just such a lapse occurred when Mastermind, my 6yo asked me if he could play with the hot-peppers. Okay, this is a no-brainer, of COURSE you don’t let children play with hot peppers! Why would ANYONE in their right mind do this!! Here’s the story.
I thought I would use this venue as a way to publish some of my kids’ school work. I guess one of the downers of homeschooling is that you work very hard on something and it can be kind of anti-climactic at the end. No one posts it in the hallway for 600 people to see. There aren’t 31 other kids to look at your project or listen to your report. Well, how’s this for sharing?! Technically, in cyberspace you can share whatever it is with the entire world! So, to whomever it may concern; a report on clipper ships by Heyhey, age 11: clipper-ships1
Self-motivation (or nothing I would ever assign!)
Posted by Carrie in Homeschool
This hardly EVER happens, but once in a while, if the planets are aligned just right, and the moon is in the right phase, and the biological clock is set to daylight savings time, one of the kids gets interested in something and runs with it. This anomaly occurred a couple of days ago when Eyebrow got inspired by a Mathtacular video and decided to write down the Roman numerals….to 500! Okay, this may not be as eye-popping to you as it is to me, but this is the kid who’s every muscle will physically melt and he will slump into a lifeless jelly-like blob at the mere thought of writing more than three sentences! The thought occurred to me that if I had ever asked him to do this, well I shudder to think of it! He is not quite finished yet, he got all the way to 366. I know he will finish this. He is just that kind of kid.
The wonder of self-motivation
Black Death (or the importance of reading instructions)
Posted by Carrie in Homeschool
I decided this summer to start an earthworm habitat for our homeschool. I had hoped with a few big squirmy worm friends we could gain a greater appreciation for the more humble creatures in God’s ecosystem. To be honest, I also had in mind that we would perform some behavioral experiments on them using this great looking book I found used, Creepy Crawlies and the Scientific Method. What a happy coincidence that I ran into this earthworm booth at a local Earth Day festival! They were handing out FREE earthworm compost habitats for kids! Mastermind was the only kid with me at the time and he was less than enthusiastic about it, so I got in line myself. They were kind of smaller than I expected (kind of like ultra-fine angel hair spaghetti), but I figured with lots of TLC they would grow up the big squirmy pets I envisioned us naming and playing with and doing experiments on.
My boys and I are having a t.v.-fest today. We’ve watched Spectacular Spiderman (not nearly as good as the old-time animated show) two episodes of American Gladiators, including the two hour finale championship episode. It’s a beautiful, crisp fall day today and I am guiltlessly skipping church and spending it in front of the television watching lots of LCD shows. Why do I feel okay with this? SuperGeek and Heyhey are at the football game today, and I have a giant inflated ball of snot threatening to explode inside my sinuses. Aside from the obvious discomfort, it’s kind of nice to be absolutely out of commission and doing stuff like writing my blog here without feeling bad about it.
The big question remains, though, how long can I stand my scrungy self before I take a shower? Only time will tell.
Well aren’t YOU Miz Fancy Pants!
Posted by Carrie in Fanciness
This begins my blog. A little jab that my fam likes to throw around when someone gets too big for their britches. (To be honest they use more colorful language, but this is a family-friendly site.) Trust me, I am really out of my comfort zone here. I hope to chronicle some of the day to day stuff for posterity and maybe use this as a little venue for bragging on my kids!