Singing the Jeopardy Theme Song
Humorous parenting helps me keep my sanity. With the passing of Merv Griffin, I was reminded of a cute story from a few months ago. The boys were dawdling over every task....schoolwork....meals.....chores, and I was having difficulty maintaining my cool while...
How To: Start Homeschooling (Part 4)
In the first three entries in this series, we talked about Exploring your options, Investigating the possibilities, and Planning your experience. Today we talk about Purchasing supplies. If you've chosen to go with a pre-planned program, then all you have to do is...
Weekend Reading
And now for some sites written by moms. 🙂 (I listed some dad sites recently.) Little Mummy is written by Erica, and it's about life as a new parent. Erica also shares great activity and resource ideas, and her post about making children's dreams come true is a...
Timer Training
How to teach your children to take turns. I don't know if it was desperation or inspiration, but I timer trained my boys when they were very young. Okay I've thought about it. It was desperation. By the time the older boys were 18 months old, I was able to defuse the...
Chatterbox
I told this story to some friends, and one of them said it HAS to be here on the blog. So here it is, from 2 nights ago: Sheesh. I was in the middle of trying to figure out a rather complex problem on the computer, and Hubby was sleeping on the couch. The Mercenary...
Fine Toothed Comb
Yesterday The Mercenary was hoping to earn some extra money, so I mentioned that I'd pay fifty cents if he'd clean out the van. It wasn't much later that he informed me that the job was complete. I asked the standard question: "Will I think it's clean when I look...
6 Tips to Help Finish a Todo List
I've been working like a crazy woman on my todo list this summer. It's pretty big, including building a block retaining wall around a flowerbed that's about 65 feet long, hauling in about 30 yards of mulch, replacing the stairs going down to the basement, and more. ...
Justice, 3yo style
2006 Last week one evening we had a lot of people over so Hubby extended our dining room table out with all the leaves. It's not how we usually have it but I just haven't bothered to take it all back down. A little while ago either the Manager or Captain Earthquake...
The Price of Pleasing a Boy
Isn't very high really. There are so many things I can do: listen to him describe the next gadget he's going to invent watch him leap off the ladder into the pool for the umpteenth time have a good stock of freezer pops at the ready wrestle him to the ground and give...
My Exciting Career as Game Show Host
I still haven't written my mega post on the Love and Logic approach. I will, I promise. I have tons to say about it. I think it will be easier to discuss if I have some examples already posted, so this is my next one. A big issue for me is getting impatient when...