It's School Time Again... What??

Hey everyone! I know its been a while.

Summer vacation is over... Can you believe it? And so is our first week of school (well almost). It's going well for the most part. I was joking on the phone with my best friend last week about how the first week of school you have all of these ambitions and you're doing everything thing right, and grading papers right away. You are starting every day with a smile on your face and a peppy attitude, then by week two reality has set in, and you grade your papers at the end of the week, and your attitude is more like "oh just get your work done and stop complaining!"  Yeah, it makes me laugh just thinking about it.

I also feel that the kids' ambitions about the new school year are pretty similar. They seem enthusiastic about studying and learning. They are confident that they can turn all of their work in on time, and without a hitch. We all know that doesn't last either. I guess the moral of all of this is, no we are not perfect. What a relief right?

So yes the first week of school. Well I must say that teaching Olivia was a bit easier than I thought it would be. She gave me a much harder time during summer vacation. I guess it helps having her brothers in the room and learning as well. Zachary and Nathaniel are still struggling to get their work done on time on our math and language days, but as of right now it isn't as bad as last year. Darien is still getting done early, even though I gave him a lot more work this year. Yes some things never change. The good news is they did study this week. They put time into their work, and I feel like they are doing well. I feel like I have finally instilled in them the importance of learning and I'm proud of them, no matter how crazy they make me. Do you get like that too? You know the whole "why don't you remember this?" or "Why can't you read this word?" or "What do you mean you don't know what an antonym is?" This is when the hulk inside of me comes out, and all of my kids start to tip-toe around and whisper to each other "she's the mom hulk right now, you may want to leave her alone."

I'm sure all of us moms homeschooling or not, are very crucial of our children, and when they don't know or remember something it's like a failure for us more then them, and it's hard. So all of you moms out there make sure you pat yourself on the back this week, and take deep breaths. You're doing the best you can, and it's going to be alright.








P.s. since the first week of school is almost over, we now have one game review up on our game review blog and will have more in a few days if you would like to check them out :)

Starting school again!

Hey everyone, I'm excited to announce that this is our first day of school! This will be my fourth year of homeschooling my wonderful children. Now I am a person who loves time off, and I really enjoy the days of summer, but I am so ready to start school again.

Last week was a week of fail, and not because anything bad happened to me, it was just because I have nothing to do, or well I should say that nothing was holding my interest. I was so happy at the beginning of last week, to have at least one week of freedom left. I told myself that I was going to enjoy it. I was going to do things that I found fun and relaxing like, read a few books, play the sims, and some warcraft, catch up on some laundry (I really don't enjoy that, but I did have time on my hands so whatever), watch some of my fav TV shows like Star Trek, Big Bang Theory, and Bones. You know... fun and relaxing. All of these sounded great until I started to do them. I just didn't want to. I would start to read, and get 15 mins into it, and get bored and give up. I would start to play the sims and on the sims start to build this exquisite house for mermaids, and then the game would freeze... ... yeah... (I didn't really have the patience to re-boot, and start all over again) So then off to laundry, but you can only do so much laundry before everything is clean including all of the sheets. Not to mention that during all of these activities I was getting interrupted by a three year old every 15 mins or so. I'm also sad to say that I just didn't enjoy watching Star Trek and Bones as much as I normally do. I know what you must be thinking "Oh poor Randi, she's bored and complaining about it. GET A LIFE." and you would so be right.

So yeah, that's why I'm happy that school is starting. Yes I know I'm crazy. It's just time for summer to be over (lets just face it) (and according to the northwest weather it was over two weeks ago), and it's time to start school. It's time to get the books out, and see our friends from co-op again (I'm really looking forward to that starting up again, yes says the person who was complaining about being bored).

I'm writing and posting this early, because it's going to be a big day. I always feel really tired after the first day of school (it usually takes me a week to get into the swing of things). This year I have a new rewards system in place for getting good grades, and the kids are super excited about it. I'll have to tell you guys about it in a later post. We have also moved the chickens outside in their coop, and I'll have more on that later as well. I need to get off of here and start my day.

Thanks for reading :)

Bigger school room, and about to go to Disney

 Hey everyone, I'm finally blogging again! YAY! I've been busy, and not with anything really interesting. We are about to go to Disney, and I'm currently getting ready, and we had extra school work to do, so we could go.

Jeremy (my husband), had the idea to switch the play room and the school room, and make the school room more of a computer and school room. So that's what we did yesterday. It was very tiring. I made the mistake of staying up until 1am the night before, to finish season 2 of The Game Of Thrones with Jeremy, and I was really tired. (I'm one of those people who like to go to bed at 10pm and no later, so I'm not use to staying up) We got it done though, and this was the end result...

The boys' desks

Numbers on the wall, with the solar system

Found great educational posters at Barns and Noble   

It's much bigger, and I love it.

We are about to go to Disney. We have less than and week, and everyone is super excited. This week I'm going to focus on cleaning the house, and double checking our suitcases. 

Remember this? This was our Disney chain when we first started it, in January 

(I think we started with 36)

This is it now! It's so exciting to see it shrink day by day!

Kids' questionnaire

I asked my kids some questions about Disney, just to get in the Disney spirit. :)

Darien

-What park do you want to go to the most? Magic Kingdom

-What ride do you want to ride the most? Space Mountain

-What foods do you hope you get to try at Disney? All of the different kids of Coke

-Who is your favorite Disney character? Mickey

-Use one word to describe how excited you are. Crazy

Zachary

-What park do you want to go to the most? Magic Kingdom

-What ride do you want to ride the most? Mission Space

-What foods do you hope you get to try at Disney? Hamburgers

-Who is your favorite Disney character? Tigger

-Use one word to describe how excited you are. Crazy

Nathaniel

-What park do you want to go to the most? Magic Kingdom

-What ride do you want to ride the most? The Buzz Lightyear One

-What foods do you hope you get to try at Disney? Mickey Pancakes

-Who is your favorite Disney character? Buzz Lightyear

-Use one word to describe how excited you are. Wild

Olivia

-What park do you want to go to the most? Magic Kingdom

-What ride do you want to ride the most? a Princess one

-What foods do you hope you get to try at Disney? Hot dogs

-Who is your favorite Disney character? Rapunzel

-Use one word to describe how excited you are. Magical

We can't wait to go, and we'll tell you all about it, when we get back :)