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You May Now Call Me a Mother Hen

Apparently our little chickies are operating on a different calendar than me. Based on when we put the eggs into the incubator, they should have hatched last Thursday. Allowing for 2 days beyond that, Saturday was the last day that we could consider them viable and...

I Think I Killed the Chickens

Sigh. This year in science we studied the human body, plants, and animals. SOMEone thought it would be a fantastic idea to hatch chickens as a school project. I haven’t mentioned it yet because, well, I wasn’t sure how it was going to turn out. At this...

The Fish Ladder Trip

The boys and I went on our monthly field trip recently. We met my folks at a museum to look around a bit, then took a walk to the city fish ladder. I remember seeing it as a child and have wanted to take the boys there for years but I didn’t know exactly where...

WeSeed – A New Way to Learn About Investing

Sadly, the WeSeed project has ended. I’m probably going to be mentioning things I learned at SOBCon09 for a while yet. 😀 But this is a good thing! It was an awesome conference and I came home with so much you won’t even believe it. Today we’re going...

When You Lose Your Temper

Just yelled my head off and sent all the boys to their rooms. It started this morning when I was fetching dirty laundry and asked The Mercenary to bring any stray clothes down to my room so I could sort and wash them. (Note that I do all the washing, drying, and...

State of the Home School, October 2008

So, here we are at the several-weeks-into-the-school-year point, and things are going well. I KNOW! Wonderful, in’nt it? The older boys have finally stepped over to the dark side. They actually believe that they can do the work set before them. On top of that,...