Jan 31, 2011

This blog is going to be a way to document how our homeschooling days are spent.  We have read so many books already I am afraid we will forget.  It will be a nice way to look back and see what we have been doing and how we have been doing.



I guess I should introduce our little family.  My hubby and I met in Kansas City, KS. in 1997.  He brought me back to his town for a family reunion in Mitchell, IN.  I loved this little town, his wonderful family, and the little farm that he had been living at before moving to K.C.  We quickly decided to return back to the farm and marry each other there...and we did!  3 1/2 years later; our dd arrived to bless our lives.

When dd was a baby,  I read up on Attachment Parenting and began teaching her sign language every day.  I stayed home with her and enjoyed walking on our trails through the woods around our farm.  The farm has about half of the 160 acres in woods.  I knew immediately I wasn't missing a moment of her childhood; and daycare wasn't an option for us.  I didn't know about homeschooling but somehow-somewhere I heard about it and decided that was perfect for us.

This picture is of dd and her Lego creation: The Dawn Treader!









5-27-2012
Fitting in a little hiding spot for my feelings.  Today was hard.  One part was that I asked my mom to ask my older sister how much it would cost to spend a week at her house in Maine.  She bought one house that is on the property we grew up on; but had to sell b/c my father died.  We did have something like 12 cottages on this wonderful pond--Kennebunk Pond in Lyman, Maine.  We (the trust) sold it all.  Sister bought back on of the cottages/houses.  Are you ready for how much she charges for one week?  $1,900.00 for one week.  Oh my, I can't see spending that much money for one week.  That kind of breaks my heart.  I totally refuse to take it for free; b/c of the endless indebtedness she would hold over my head for the rest of my life.  She already has a million imaginary reasons I am suppose to be beholden to her and they are sadly all in her imagination and far from reality.  Imagine if I actually did owe her in the real world and not just in her own world!  Ouch.  That would be too much for me.  Her imaginary "gifts" are already profound.

Then today we watched "We bought a Zoo".  The main character; Matt Damon has lost his wife to some illness.  It has been 6 months since she died and he is in a cloud.  He sees her everywhere and is visibly wounded by this loss.

This ever-present wound reminds me so much of me.  My dad died when I was 11 and that scarred me so much I will always be so wounded.  I will never recover.  There is no recovering from something so vital to a childhood.  It is like building a house without support.  The movie did a great job of showing the deep sorrow in the teenage boy also.  It was a great portrayal of a deeply, gravely wounded family in crisis.  Luckily for them they found a zoo and it saved them.