Posts by Shantimama

Quote: Originally Posted by MelW  My seven year old is enchanted with literalism. A favourite is to ask to play "exact day" in which all language is taken literally (à la Amelia Bedelia). I try to avoid this game as much...

Hi Dingoes  Reading along but I think I will save my updates for elsewhere. We aren't using the wood stove now but my asthma is still enough of a problem to mean no running. One of these days I will join you all again  

Where are the weeks going? I wish I had time to keep up with reading here but this has been a crazy busy stretch. I think I am juggling too many balls in the air but I can't see how I can drop any of them. Yikes.

I did but no luck. I have looked at a bunch of videos and online tutorials and it looks like my best bet is to shut off the power to the furnace and go looking. Fun times. 

nic - I am sorry and frustrated right with you about your ds' school experience. I would be livid. I homeschooled ds through grade 4 and looking back, i am sure we would have had the same experience. Compliance and obedience are...

Sorry to be so behind with personals. I have started working in the yarn shop - we don't open for another week but there is so much to do to set up! This week I am spending my days literally up to my elbows in gorgeous yarns as we get...

I do believe I have done my weight training for this week. The weigh scale at the landfill registered 1500 pounds of garbage from our basement, almost all of which I bagged and carried up the stairs and outside. That doesn't include...

Three feet of snow fell last week. It all melted in the last 36 hours while rain and freezing rain fell. My basement is flooded - I spent most of the afternoon filling garbage bags and lugging them outside. It isn't really a basement,...

I just helped ds review for his World Religions exam on Monday. He understands the material beautifully. The funny thing? His dad is a minister, he has gone to Catholic schools for the past six years, and Christianity is the only...