http://readingmama.homeschooljournal.net Where living and learning are one Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:33:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.  Phyllis Diller http://readingmama.homeschooljournal.net/2006/12/22/a-thought-about-housekeeping/ I started this entry earlier this week and am just now getting to finish it. With 4kids it is taking some creative organizing for me to actually get some blog time in.  This morning I awoke to the soft noises of my 1month old and the cries of my 2yo. Scooping the ... http://readingmama.homeschooljournal.net/2006/12/22/our-day-a-few-days-ago/ Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard   http://readingmama.homeschooljournal.net/2006/12/13/so-true/ I find I struggle with this at times. Not with outward appearances, rather with the choices that I have made in my life that place me outside of the box. It's not that I am not confident with my choices, more like I am not confident in my ability to ... http://readingmama.homeschooljournal.net/2006/12/13/being-comfortable-in-the-skin-your-in/ I have a hundred and one excuses as to why I haven't had a recent entry. I will spare you the list though and just get caught up on where we are, what we are doing and if you care you can read along. Both dh and I had a brief ... http://readingmama.homeschooljournal.net/2006/08/13/long-time-no-entry/ The journey that is unschooling, the journey that is the current path for our family. It isn't always easy. I have been tossing thoughts around in my head for a few weeks now wondering if we are going the right way.  This is cyclical for me. It comes when we seem ... http://readingmama.homeschooljournal.net/2006/05/05/trusting-the-journey/ I have had a few emotional months and just realized the other day that I probably feel so blah because I have overloaded myself with life.  It is easy for me to just plug through things that need to be done and then get blind sided by my emotions. I am ... http://readingmama.homeschooljournal.net/2006/04/25/emotional-ramblings/  Hello and welcome to my blog. Please pardon my mess or lack there of as I move from HSB to my new blog here! I am relatively new to blogging and this is the first time I have needed to move my blog so bare with me. I hope to ... http://readingmama.homeschooljournal.net/2006/03/26/hello-world/   When this conversation occurs in your home....    "Mom there is a really weird bug in the bathroom."   "O.k. let me look....eww that is weird. Where is your daddy when we need him??"   "I'll get a shoe so I can kill it."   "Wait mom!!! I want to get the bug book and identify it first."   "O.k. ... http://readingmama.homeschooljournal.net/2006/03/20/you-know-you-learn-at-home-when/   "It is absurd and anti life to be compelled to sit in confinement with people of exactly the same age and social class. This effectively cuts children off from the immense diversity of life and the synergy of variety. It cuts children off from their own past and furture, sealing ... http://readingmama.homeschooljournal.net/2006/03/04/absurd-and-anti-life/