A Comedy of Search Engines
I’m sometimes amused by some of the ways in which people stumble across my blog. I use Google Analytics to track my site statistics, so I get a nice breakdown of search terms used to find my site....
View ArticleSecular Thursday: Things Homeschoolers Miss
I don’t mean the things that we long for, but the things that we homeschoolers tend to overlook. When I had to get up at 6:15 to get Captain Science off to school in a timely fashion and received a...
View ArticleAn Inconvenient Schedule
Why, why, why do the mommy groups all plan their activities for traditional school hours? Ok, I understand why it works for them. They can ditch their older children on the public school system and now...
View ArticleRespect my Oxford comma, or “This is why I homeschool.”
Lo, so many times doth I find myself declaring thusly, “This is why I homeschool!” Today, at Olan Mills photography, the photographer argued with me over comma placement in the title on a photograph...
View ArticleMy homeschool wo-mance
Once upon a time, there was a mom named Smrt Mama, with three lovely children, one of whom was unhappily public-schooled. She was miserable, her child was miserable, but she lacked the self-confidence...
View ArticleNational Teacher Appreciation Day
Today is National Teacher Day, which comes, somewhat predictably, in the middle of National Teacher Appreciation Week. As homeschoolers, we are each our child(ren)’s teacher…excepting those unschoolers...
View ArticleOne of those parents
You’ve probably met those parents. Those parents: the ones whose children can do no wrong. It’s never their children’s fault; their babies are being wronged by the system or picked on by a bad guy. I...
View ArticleWeekly Reviewins: Week, um…12? Almost 60 days!
Wellllll…so we kind of had a slacker week, relatively speaking, at McLernins Institute of Advanced Lernins. Since coming home from Disney, we’d been making major progress, but between my weekend...
View ArticleConfessions of an Anxious Mom
I’m happy. No, really. I’ve found myself feeling almost unreasonably happy lately. Happy and content and like everything is going to be ok. This is a big deal for me! Here’s a little something about me...
View ArticleBoring Mama is boring
Do you ever feel completely, insufferably boring? After the high from my smashing new haircut wore off, I found myself wandering around the house aimlessly, feeling sort of dejected and down and bored....
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