Recently DD’s favorite thing to say to me is, “I’m as bored as a bumble bee mom!” I usually inform her about how bumble bees are generally to busy to be bored to which she informs me that is is bored as a bumble bee at night time. To quote The Princess Bride, “Yeah, your very smart kid, shut up.” Lol! Well, maybe not that harsh but usually at that point I’m pretty annoyed. So I started thinking I should look into some “school” work of sorts for her. Just so she’s not so bored. Your bored, you can learn your letters/numbers/fill-in-the-blank. I went through a few moments of contemplating sending her to school, not locally, but seeing where the closest Montessori or Waldorf school was. But they are all over an hour away so forget that. So then I started checking out homeschooling curriculum. I know in my heart and gut, that I don’t really need curriculum and that the two of us, or our family together could come up with things for her to do. But with the pregnancy I am wiped and my brain seems to fail at the times when I need it most. So I thought some curriculum would help both her and I to be a little more organized and hopefully keep her out of her bored slumps. Maybe it will help to boost my creativity a little too. Kick me in the butt and remind me of what it’s like to be a kid. Really I am very excited and I think this is going to be good.
We’re getting the Oak Meadow curriculum for Kindergarten. It’s Waldorf based and DH used it when he was homeschooling as a kid. I liked what I had seen of the sample courses, and I just love that in the higher grades they use Saxon for the math books. I used Saxon as a kid, and it just gives such a great variety of math skills all the time. So your learning algebra, geometry and trig for a long time before you actually have to learn it. So once you get there, you have a basic understanding of how those math skills work. Very smart if you ask me. So yeah, I’m impressed. We’re planning on getting this in the next couple of months, but who knows.
Life in general has been ok. Nausea, sleep and food rule my life right now. I am trying to keep myself a little busy, cleaning up the floors and washing dishes and laundry when I can. but I have been pretty slow the last couple of days. Today specifically has been a slow and crappy one. Even though I feel good for what I did accomplish, I also sat in front of the computer playing games and checking out romances and obsessively checking facebook and my email. I think I didn’t eat enough today so that kept me in a funk, but it was frustrating. Fortunately the kids stayed out of my way for the most part. I’ll admit I turned on Barney for them and they played outside by themselves for a long time. But really they seemed fine today. Just my funk.
Now I am off to inform DH that he can make me some caramel popcorn (mwah hahahaha) and then we’ll probably watch Star Trek and enjoy the evening.
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