“Do you know why I’m riding around in my wheelchair? It’s ’cause I’m old.” I acknowledged his elderly state. “Yeah. I’m nine-TEEN.” Old. We had a few kids in to the pediatrician today for physicals. He commented on how my children act, but he said something that struck me. If you can control the mouth, […]
Ruby’s 8.
Saturday was Ruby’s 8th birthday. She breaks my “first five of the kids all look nicely spaced” run each year. We go from 13, 11, 9, 7, 5… 4, 2, and a baby to a free for all. Charlie turns six in a couple weeks and Pierce will be five the week after that. I can only […]
Back to school we go.
We started school on Monday. It was a successful day until I forgot to do English with Sterling and Ruby. We started out Tuesday morning correcting my failings and we’re back on track. Co-op started yesterday and was really a pretty decent first day back. I started out planning not to use the nursery unless […]
Clean-ish floors, back to life, and daycare.
We got home late Monday night. Blaine had Tuesday off, but I had to jump right back in – the girls had a back-to-co-op get together, and perishable groceries were scarce around here. Throw in physicals for a few kids Wednesday and finishing up at another grocery store, and that left me with trying to […]
It’s a zoo around here.
We went to the zoo yesterday here in South Dakota. It’s the zoo I grew up going to, and our zoo pass from Missouri gets us on free here… Except apparently that’s changed this year. We got in at half price. Ten people at half price is still not cheap! Disappointing. Still, we had fun. I […]
TOS Review: Enlivenze LLC Flipstir Puzzles
The Review Crew had the opportunity to review one of four FlipStir Puzzles from Enlivenze LLC recently. I got to choose from Rainbow Pencils, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Statue of Liberty, or Solar System. Since we’re currently doing Astronomy right now for science, I asked for, and received, Solar System. The FlipStir Puzzle is a concept different […]
TOS Review: Foreign Languages for Kids by Kids
When Foreign Languages for Kids by Kids came up as a possibility on the Old Schoolhouse Magazine’s Review Crew, I asked Liberty, age 13 and starting eighth grade, if she was interested in taking Starter Set 1, their beginning Spanish program. She answered with a resounding “Yes!” and we dove in. This was created for […]
South Dakota and Vacation
We’re in South Dakota at my parents’ house. After a very long trip to get here overnight last night, we got here just before 6am this morning. Blaine got to come with us this time, my grandparents are flying in next weekend, and the kids are so super excited to be here and all that […]
Cheerio Dilemma
Elliot is a Cheerio-aholic. Every so often, she gets out her little snack cup, brings it to me asking for Cheerios, and so begins a Cheerio marathon. How long it lasts is anybody’s guess. Days. Weeks. You never know. Probably as long as her growth spurt, I suppose. Wherever it begins, and this has happened […]
TOS Review: Talking Fingers Inc.
I’ve been teaching Pierce to read this summer, and when the Old Schoolhouse Magazine’s Review Crew had the opportunity to review an app created for children around age four or five years called Talking Shapes: A Supplemental Curriculum for Early Literacy from Talking Fingers Inc., I had Pierce work on that as well. Pierce is four, five […]
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