Merry Christmas from Missy Homemaker and M-Powered Lifestyles!
Give yourself the gift of health! Make 2014 the Year of the Best You!
Merry Christmas from Missy Homemaker and M-Powered Lifestyles!
Give yourself the gift of health! Make 2014 the Year of the Best You!
Since the new ‘semester’ began after our Christmas break, I thought this would be a good time to give a homeschool update.
Don’t we have a cool name for our school? The boys came up with that one.
Peanut Update:
Sweet Pea:
Punkin and Jeremy:
Overall, I am already counting our first year of homeschool a success. Sometimes the boys get on each other’s nerves (a lot of times they get on my nerves), but I have noticed that Jeremy and Punkin have learned to talk to each other about their common classes and help each other when needed.
If we do homeschool next year, I’ll make sure to find a coop or homeschool group to join. The one in this area had some issues at the beginning of the year, and I didn’t check it again until just recently. It was already too late to sign up for coop classes. We don’t necessarily need ‘socialization’ because they get that every time they leave the house, but it would be nice for the boys to know some kids their own age who homeschool.
We’ve been able to take a couple of mid-week field trips as well as long weekend trips north to visit family. The kids have really enjoyed the freedom and so have I. I like not having to get my 6 year old up super early to make the bus. I also enjoy knowing that if we don’t do something one day, we can get to it the next.
Of course there are days when I wonder what the hell I was thinking, and it feels like I’m swimming upstream. There are days when I feel I am fighting simply to get the kids to start on their school. Feet are drug. Attitudes are shitty. Yelling commences. No one is happy.
For the most part though, homeschool has been the perfect fit for our family. I don’t regret it one bit.
This week we started our new Family Economy. In a nutshell it’s a way for the kids to earn a wage, not an allowance. You lucky individuals will get to read more about that next week.
Homeschool was just a typical week. My older boys are still doing very well, although I’ve learned I really need to encourage better writing. Sweet Pea is getting caught up on his lessons. He’s behind since we switched curricula 10 days in. Peanut has had a reading breakthrough this week. For whatever reason it’s finally clicking, and I see some excitement in him when he reads sentences. I’ve also seen him ‘reading’ books where he looks at the illustrations and paraphrases with what he sees. That’s awesome! I think that’s a great way for him to become interested in books.
I was contacted by Carina from www.midfulground.com about her 30 Day Living Mindfully Blog Challenge. Since living more deliberately is one of my desires (you can read about that here), I’ve decided to sign up. It’s free and best of all, you have the chance to win 4 1:1 coaching sessions with Carina by entering your blog posts. Bonus and bonus.
Don’t Be a Blog Bully was the post that received the most views for the week. I was nervous hitting publish only because I was worried you all would think I was a whiner. I also didn’t want anyone to think I was trying to get an “Oh, poor Missy,” response. It seemed to resonate with quite a few people, and that makes me feel, well, giddy! I love love love that I could write something other people can relate to. That’s why we blog, isn’t it?
So I lied. I really don’t have a Soapbox for today. What I do have are all the nominees for the Awards I wrote about here.
Here are the 22 nominees.
Here are your 11 questions to answer:
Here are 15 more awesome bloggers!
This is a really long list of blogs! Each one of these blogs are written by people who have commented on my blog posts in the last week. Have I mentioned how grateful I am for the time and attention that each of you pay my blog? Because I am grateful, so very grateful. Some of you may have received these awards before and even received it from me. You are just that awesome.
IF I missed you, it wasn’t intentional, and I’m so sorry. I have another blog award to post about so I’ll try to get you on that one.