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Untangling Elementary School
For Elisha we call it Untangling Preschool.
I’d been trying to decide on a name for our homeschool that both wasn’t cliché and that Jay could agree with.
I wanted to have something I could put on a little ID card for each of the girls, and to back up my request for a teacher’s [...]

Elisha was stung today: five times.
A group of children were playing outside the church after services today and they ran into a wasp nest. Elisha was stung between fingers on both hands (one each) the thumb and bicep of his right arm.
Natasha was stung too, on her leg under her skirt.  Melody came down with [...]

So I’m working out this scheduling effort, and I’m feeling very inspired by it
(Don’t knock it– any diet can be inspiring before you start.  Almost any.)
One of the unique elements of MOTH is the scheduling not only of your own time, but also of each of the children’s.  You don’t just say go-here, do-this, but [...]

A long time ago I wrote about how I was careful to change the way I told Cinderella to clarify that work is not abuse. (I was not going to train any attitudes to a false martyrdom. Yuck.)
Anyway, when we watched the R&H Cinderella last week I was delighted when one of the girls leaned [...]

We’ve just about finished ordering everything for school this fall.
The girls are very excited.  They’ve asked if we can start early.
Elisha has no clue, and I’m cool with that.  I’ve found a pre-school workbook (50-cents) that we’ll save for him for next year when, as a 4-year-old, he’ll actually be able to do something with [...]

I am the regular lawn-mower at our house.
I used to think of it was a man-job, and didn’t really consider doing until my mom asked, somewhat scandalized, why I let Jay keep mowing the lawn when it attacks his allergies so badly.
He had this whole system of putting on long pants, tucking his cuffs into [...]