Friday’s Hardwired Homeschool Hints: Life Skills

My boys are hitting their teen and preteen years, and as you might expect, they are exerting their independence.  This  is all well, fine, and good, except for the small, itty-bitty fact that the two of them together couldn’t wash their own socks.  If someone held a pistol to their temples and demanded fluff and [...]

WISH it worked for me Wednesday

I love the Works For Me posts over at RocksinmyDryer.typepad.com, but since not much ever works correctly around the Topsy-Techie household, I thought I would talk about what I WISHED worked…
Case in point: Using my son’s Wii Remote as an All-Purpose Remote Tool    
Thanks to a blogging buddy’s Teaching and Learning Spanish blog, I discovered [...]

Carnival Time…Homeschool Style

Yes, I finally remembered to enter a post into the latest Homeschool Blog Carnival.  I’m always meaning to, and then realizing that the deadline has passed about five hours ago.  But this time, I made it in time! 
My post is buried in there somewhere, so you’ll have to dig deep if you want to [...]

Oh, Fay…you fickle girl, you!

There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the center of her forehead
When she was good
She was very very good
But when she was bad she was horrid
I used to LOVE this poem which was in a Golden Book of kids poems that my grandmother read to me when I was a little slip [...]

Gettin’ Me A Free Airplane Manual…yes I am!

Well, it is only three more days until Uber and I are leavin’ on a jet plane….for the city of lights.  Even with two free plane tickets, though, the trip is gonna cost us.  Food, attractions, our reputation as law-abiding citizens.  So, I’ve been trying to come up with some creative ways to cut corners [...]

Friday’s Hardwired Homeschool Hints: Learning Styles

I was four years into homeschooling before I knew ANYTHING about learning styles.  Can you imagine how much curriculum we went through in those four years??  Like a total nube, I made the mistaken assumption that I could pick a curriculum that fit with our values system and budget and it would magically work [...]

A Thousand Words Thursday

…its fleece was white as snow…
Ok, I can’t rhyme, but isn’t this little guy/gal(?)  a doll??

I knew I would regret those Star Trek onesies…

 

These are my two sons.
This is our backyard.
In this picture, which I secretly snapped from our back deck, it might look like they are about to catch a squirrel.
They aren’t.
It might look like they are starting a primitive boy band.
They aren’t.
You might even think they are preparing for battle against the demon children down [...]

Hackin’ When Your Back is Lackin’

Yeah, I’m a songwriter at heart.  Have your people call my people, Gwen Stefani…I’ve got lots more where that came from… 
But I seriously am down with my back.  Not an unusual thing for me, because my back was absent the day muscle tone was handed out. Annoyingly, though, it has become entirely too common [...]

Friday’s Hardwired Homeschool Hints: Learning Disabilities

Yes, the above title is a lie… I had to work a lot on Friday (you know that thing we do to support our blogging addiction), and wasn’t able to spend quality time with my laptop.  So I missed my Friday “deadline.”  But you will forgive me this one time, right?  I promise that Saturday’s [...]