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  • In which H.o.p. visits Club Penguin

    H.o.p. learned about the online community for children, Club Penguin. He thought it sounded fun. “Waddle around and make friends!” their promo says. And I’d read a piece about Club Penguin and how some members had raised money for an environmental concern, project, whatever, it sounded like coherent life afoot, plus it’s looked over by…

  • Views from the Road, 2008

    Views from the Road, 2008

    Texas Church, 2008 View On White Jesus Said, Texas, 2008 View On White Knife Town USA, Texas, 2008 View On White Texas Steeple, 2008 View On White Texas Rest Stop, 2008 View On White Two weeks ago we traversed Texas in one day. It wasn’t that bad, actually. Maybe because we were listening to “The…

  • Heavy Metal Fashion

    Heavy Metal Fashion

    Fashion! Fashion! Fashion! At MMoA, we spent a good portion of time in the Knights in Shining Armor galleries, H.o.p. ogling metal and me taking dozens of photos for him since he’s been knight crazy for a year and I knew he’d want to be able to later study the different styles of armor…which is…

  • I keep telling myself that at some point I will derive benefit from (fill in the blank)

    First Order of Business ISP. We are in the process of switching. Earthlink has either already shut down our DSL or it’s just down. I’m on dial-up and just letting you know, FRIENZ AND RELATIVEZ, that ANY OF OUR OLD MINDSPRING EMAIL ACCOUNTS ARE DEFUNCT. Between the devil and the deep blue sea, we have…

  • Glamour

    An example of what you can do when you’re homeschooling and talking about crystals. Having done the crystal experiment, we watched a short video on minerals. The subject of diamonds was brought up. Beautiful diamonds. Which have a troubled history. I thought it unbalanced just to see nice pictures of African diamond mines where no…

  • DIRE WARNINGS! HORRIBLE THINGS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU IF YOU ATTEMPT TO MAKE CRYSTALS OUT OF THIS LITTLE FLOWERS OF THE MINERAL WORLD CRYSTAL KIT!

    H.o.p.’s Crystal Growing Experiment, View 1 H.o.p. likes crystals. Inspired by a nice amethyst crystal his grandmother sent him, he got a little “amethyst purple” crystal growing kit from the shop at the natural history museum here. The outside of the box had a picture promising fantastic crystal formations, a fabulous huge amethyst blossom with…

  • We Can't Be Masters of Everything or Even Take Beginner's Classes Because It Costs Lotsa Money

    Today school starts again in our area. We don’t follow a strict school schedule and are very eclectic in our homeschooling but…it’s time to think of something new to do around here. Like Tai Chi and Qigong! Won’t this be like the blind leading the blind. Not having funds for classes, around twelve years ago…

  • THE VANITY H.O.P. ART TOTE BAGS CAME OUT GREAT

    THE VANITY H.O.P. ART TOTE BAGS CAME OUT GREAT

    The Child Experiments – H.o.p. as Salesman Not a promo shot. And no it’s not an apron, it’s a tote bag. The recent haul of vanity H.o.p. loot from Cafepress arrived a several days ago and it looks great. We got a couple of the tote bags, which seem more than a fair price in…

  • Arrrrgh, standardized testing

    I hate standardized testing. I loathe, loathe, loathe it. But GA requirements are that beginning with the 3rd year you must subject your child to a standardized test. Being eclectic homeschoolers (tossing in a good portion of unschooling philosophy) we do our homeschooling year round here, going at a rate that’s comfortable for H.o.p. Each…

  • In which I continue to make no friends with people who love people who love the earth, though I would be nowhere without it myself and am totally indebted

    I’ve posted a couple of times on some beefs I have with No Impact Man. It may seem like more than that but in reality I’ve only posted three times, which is changing today to four times. When No Impact Man advertised that he was looking for a volunteer assistant to do computer and phone…

  • As H.o.p. runs screaming from the room

    On one of the homeschool groups I’m on, an almost-war popped up over home science. One person had written in something about homeschool and science needs and how they were amazed at the materials some people had at home or had easy access to. The person ended the comment with a smiley, which indicates good…

  • The Amazing Aquasaur!

    Now this is how you do (or don’t) start blogging again. You write a post and go to save it only to find your website has gone down and said post falls plunk into the void. Said post wasn’t about the new bookshelves (yes from IKEA) that we got, which we’ve needed since October for…