Homeschooling books etc

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I really need to stop reading them, I think.

They are either that much common sense (to me anyway) that I don’t know why I’m bothering or they turn out to be psycho religious zealots.

Well I’ve only really read two homeschooling books and they are both American (hm, that explains a lot ;). One wasn’t really that helpful though some of the stories contained within were interesting, the other started out pretty interesting as a good introduction to the “classical” method of education and kind of degenerated into anti-school borderline religious … I lost the word.

What we learned today

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That Livejournal has suddenly got a new hardcore editor.

Or maybe it’s been there for a while and it’s just coz I don’t use it that much.

Anyways.

We were hanging out the nappies as there was sun today, we have bizarro weather (it’s meant to be autumn/winter, feels like we’re moving into spring), and noted the bees buzzing around the fully flowering tree that’s hanging over our fence next door. Josh has taught Tiny to have a healthy fear of bees which I’m trying to turn into a healthy respect. I had one explained to him that the bees hang around the flowers to get nectar that they make into honey. He remembered that, telling me “Bees make honey.”

fyn's series of unfortunate events

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I was going to call it a vent but you know what, it wasn’t a bad day, it was a good day with a series of stupid things interspersed.

First up, I got a call from the mac shop saying my imac was in and I could pick it up whenever. I thought that was awesome. JJ didn’t want me to pick it up on my own but I had Pete with me (big bald guy, no one with a brain would mess with him, not that I’m worried about being messed with, I may be a little out of practice but I can still mess people up good). Pete wanted to poke into a shop anyway to buy some miscellaneous candy goods to take back to the UK for his friends, and see what else there was to see, so I thought we could go to Carousel (where the ac shop was) coz we only neededto take one bus there as opposed to Garden City where we were originally going and needed two buses.

Creepy crawly

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Smidge is making headways with crawling and EC. She was in the same nappy since not long after lunch when I changed her into the nappy in question at Southlands, and I’ve caught every single wee and poo since then. Before that she’d only gone through two nappy changes, with one of them being a poo.

Ten!

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My wakeful little boy is being all awake. I’ve just read The Rainbow Fish to him three times and thought he would go to sleep but no such luck.

JJ helped me out by doing the dishes (which I asked him to do) and putting away the laundry that I’d folded (which I hadn’t, so thank him very much :). Today was mostly productive, after having a bad day yesterday. Tiny being high energy and requiring constant stimulation, I’m making the commitment to take him out at least once a day. I had a mind to go to the city to get more contacts, perhaps hit up my favourite bookstore (Boffins) and perhaps check out the new Borders bookshop as well to see if either had any homeschooling books (though I may request some through the library if I can track down any titles). Also chasing some vego/vegan cookbooks. I want to amass cookbooks all of a sudden, slightly surprising coz I hate cooking.

More like this

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After skitzing out a little over the past week, I’m hoping for more days like this. It was good. Not too much computer, more time with kids. Housework gone done a bit too, except vacuuming. Tiny learned how to use a knife.

I didn’t get much work done but hopefully might get a little bit done tonight. Kids went to bed at a reasonable time, I spent a bit of time with Josh, Sprat and I had a pillow fight and generally good times.

Hurray for The Wiggles!

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Tiny has discovered The Wiggles website. It was my fault, I decided to see if they were going to have any events in Perth anytime soon and he spotted me.

So now he’s on “his” (ie JJ’s old) laptop playing the various games they have littered about their site. So far he’s played an instrument game which is a simple mouse over game, great for teaching tots hand eye coordination with a mouse. Next I put on the numbers game for him (he mouses over a number, it gets big, he clicks on it and one of the Wiggles reads out the number. Think he was trying to learn the numbers so he could play Wake Up Jeff which requires knowing what the numbers 1, 2 and 3 are.

Sentences

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It’s raining. In summer. Wonders will never cease. People who are still stubbornly insisting that they can live wasteful lifestyles because it would happen anyway, well no help for them coz they’re delusional and are psychologically incapable of seeing any reality other than the one they desperately cling to.

Triptych happy

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I upgraded the kid’s account for the scrapbook function. Hurray. Theoretically it should encourage me to post more photos but that requires me putting in the effort to process the photos :P

Anyway.

Yay the kids are down at a reasonable time!

Tiny’s been trying to drop his nap for the past few ages with varying degrees of success. Today he had a nice short nap and then after a few trials and tribulations (ie Smidge wanted a feed and she gets priority, then she went and stayed on for about an hour) I got him to sleep quite quickly.

The Rhythm of the Night...Day...whatever

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As I said in the other journal, Christmas Island was great. I will post up pictures once I can be bothered either convincing my combo drive that it’s fine and can read the CD or stuffing it into JJ’s computer and pulling from there.

Pleasantly tired at the moment, I feel like I’m contributing something to the household for a change. Been a while what with being dangerously pregnant and then recovering from being pregnant. JJ and I are slowly starting to fall into a rhythm of who does what chores and overlapping where necessary.