Tag! -I'm it!

My friend, Starlene, over at From California to Singapore tagged me for this meme. I did this one a year or so ago, It is 7 weird or random things about me...so I will try to give some that are different from last time, here goes;

7 Random or Weird things about Me

1. I played varsity soccer in high school.

2. My favorite restaurant (for now) is The Cheesecake factory

3. My husband and I are high school sweethearts.

4. When I was about 7, a neighbor would take us to church, and Jesus was there. I wasn't 100% sure it was him-looked just like him, until one day he prayed out loud-as Jesus- and then I knew. (looking back, it was probably a Charismatic church)

5. I went snorkeling in the bay of St. John while 8 months pregnant.

6. I hiked the Grand Canyon

7. I spent the Chinese New Year's in Taiwan.

If you would like to play along, consider yourself tagged.

I would also like to announce that I was given the "Charming blog" award by Starlene.
Thank you very much, kiss-kiss...I want to take a moment and thank the academy, my blog friends and all the little people who made this possible!

Carnival of Homeschooling is up

The carnival of homeschooling is up over at Principled discovery, her theme is
"The Carnival of homeschooling honors the homeschool bag-lady" -go on over to read great posts by other homeschool bloggers.
(I have an entry posted there)

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For those of you wondering what a "Carnival" is...a carnival is a weekly (usually) event hosted by a different blogger every week- (so it moves to a new blog every week).
The host will gather together several articles posted by other bloggers at their individual blogs and place them in her post with descriptions of each piece, often woven around a theme. Carnivals are theme specific, such as this one for home-schoolers, you can also find carnivals for subjects such as Unschooling, education, recipes, etc.

Project 2008 drop-out...

So, do you remember my "Project 2008" post? You can click over to refresh your memory...
I'll wait...

Well, my hallway looks exactly the same...3 months later.

But, wait, drum-roll please... I did come up with a project for April (I'm going to go back to small accomplishments-that I can maybe actually finish...)


I actually started this concept in March,

First- I had to work up a daily homeschool schedule (gasp- I am really an unstructured person).

Then, once I had my schedule...which I had to re-write 2 weeks later when we added our new bonus student...procrastination actually paid off that time, somewhat, I put together these folders for my younger students.

Here they are, -The schedule folders- for my 3 youngest students. This was actually Gracefulmom's idea...and we sat together last month and put together what you see in the first photo.

The idea is to have the table-time books and subjects for the week on these little pockets in the folder. I right clicked little thumb-nails of the books we use, printed them and glued them to the pockets. A file card goes in each pocket, and I can either list the pages the student needs to do for the day- and use it as a record of sorts, or put in a card that says how many pages to do that day. I had to complete a master schedule first, so I would know which order to put the books in...
Little kids do thrive on routine, I thought it would be soothing to know what books we were going to use each day, in what order.

I will share my re-worked daily schedules in a later post...I'm back on the schedule wagon again, now that I will have 5 students, I have to do it or we won't get through everything...

Did I mention I am schedule-phobic??

Welcome to the party!

{{This blog is under construction, a new update about us page is coming soon! }}

Welcome to our little spot on the internet!

This is the week for The Ultimate Blog Party '08
hosted over at 5 Minutes for Mom. Click to hop on over and visit other parties!

Make yourselves at home, grab a diet coke and feel free to look around the place.

We are a Southern California homeschooling family;
Jenny is the blogger and homeschool-mom,
Sky is resident principal, handyman/visionary, building inspector by trade (specializing in schools and hospitals) and farmer wanna-be. Our Children are; Meg 12-loves horses and plays the violin, Josie 11- plays the piano, paints and is very into The Warrior series, Demi-Sky 8- very into dragons, Wii and beginner skateboarder (also known as The boy wonder and Snackman) and Amie 6-inhouse personality, budding Irish dancer and always very "sewerious".


This blog is mostly about our family, the things we find humorous, our homeschool adventures, homeschooling methods and books, our faith, our love of reading, travels and projects around the house.

Things around here are kind of scattered, kind of eclectic- a reflection of our house and
homeschool style.

In some ways, we are a typical Orange County family....and in many ways we are probably not.

We currently have 4 hens as pets, this one is Dapples- click on over to see her musings on a perfect day...
We also have a cat named Oliver and a guinea pig named Guinea-Guinea.

We joke that we are farmer wanna-bes...and dream sometimes of having a farm somewhere. But then we come back to reality and realize we are city folks...we love our Barnes & Nobles date nights,
our Indian food, our libraries and our days at the Skate park and Disneyland.

So glad to meet you! Drop a comment so I know you were here...
and stay and visit a while!


Book Meme

Here is a fun meme I found over at By Sun and Candlelight...

Book Meme

Rules:

  1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
  2. Open the book to page 123.
  3. Find the fifth sentence.
  4. Post the next three sentences.
  5. Tag five people.
Well, the nearest book at this desk is a dictionary-but that wouldn't work... so this is from our read aloud:

"If we had tried to see what a dreadful muss we could make, things could have looked no worse. I think father told her to wait in the carriage, but we heard her cry: "Oh Mr. Stanton, let me see the dear children I'm to teach, and where I'm to work."
Hopped is the word. She hopped from the carriage and came hopping after father."
-Laddie by Gene Stratton-Porter (one of my all time favorite books)

So, I am going to tag OC Mom at An Orange County Sitcom, Dawn at Picking up Pebbles,
Daisy at Lesser Road Academy, Lisa at Koinonia Academy and then leave it open for anyone else who would like to play...