Fun Monday Submission

I decided to take part Fun Monday this week. The question for this week is: I would like to know, or see, what’s on, in or under your bedside table! So open those draws and bare your soul to us! Is there anything special there that has a story or a memory that you can tell us about? Books that you keep there to delve into from time to time? Trinkets that you don’t know where else to put? Let’s see! On both...

New Award and Some Sidebar Additions

Silvia over at Po Moyemu gave us this very cool award! It’s new home will be in the right sidebar along with some other awards we’ve recieved from fellow bloggers. Thanks so much Silvia. I’m supposed to pass it on to other bloggers. I decided to look for some of my favorite blogs that didn’t have one yet, instead of giving it to someone who already had one. In no particular order… 1)...

Oh My God: Girl Scouts And Religion

If you read this blog with any frequency, you know that both of my daughters really enjoy Girl Scouts. As a matter of fact, Jacqueline (my youngest, pictured below) is a five year girl scout, starting when she was a daisy, she’s now a junior. One thing I appreciate about the Girl Scouts is they don’t affiliate themselves with any one religion. Although the word god is in their promise, their policy is...

Homeschooling And Socialization

I have to laugh when someone, after finding out our kids don’t go to school, asks about socialization. I’ll never understand what one has to do with the other. Are they saying that when their children are not in school (like weekends or summer breaks) they’re isolated from other children? That when they’re children are not in school, they have no social opportunities. How sad that they have to depend...

Some Of The Posts I Enjoyed This Week

Some great posts have been turning up in my feed reader and I wanted to share a few of the ones that I really enjoyed.Colleen’s retrospective post about the first 100 days of her unschooling was fabulous! She shares the ups and down and doesn’t sugar coat it. Here’s to the next 100! Laura posted about a topic that is always being discussed at the unschooling lists; unschooling and screen time. She talks...

Unschooling Voices: blogcarnival.com, future hosts...

For some strange reason, I haven’t been able to log into blogcarnival.com for a long time. After a few back and forth e-mails with someone, I was finally able to get into my account and start updating the Unschooling Voices page over there.If you’d like to be included in the current edition, please send it to unschoolingvoices AT yahoo.com, before the end of this month. The more the merrier! Click on the...

"Homeschool Is Cool" Video Contest

A couple of days ago I shared an e-mail that was sent to me by Laurel Springs, who asked if I would post about their contest. There have been so many great entries and over the next week, I’ll share some here. Here’s two that I...

Contest For Homeschoolers

**passing along an e-mail someone sent to the blog**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:Laurel Springs School Extends Deadline for Video Contest “Why Homeschool is Cool” OJAI, CA (PRWeb) December 3, 2007 — Laurel Springs School, the leader in personalized distance learning education for K-12 students, has extended the deadline to enter its YouTube video contest for homeschoolers “Why Homeschool is Cool” until...

Wordless Wednesday

Here’s my entry for Wordless Wednesday.This tiny, two inch vase is holding flowers my nine year old daughter/soul mate/mini-me picked and gifted me with. The vase itself was a gift from a thrift shop owner, whose store I was shopping in. For a while now, I had been looking for a very small vase to hold flowers that my daughters pick for me and I was happy to find one in a thrift shop last month. It wasn’t priced...

Unschooling Voices #11

Happy New Year and welcome to Unschooling Voices #11! This edition has 11 participants and 13 submissions. Take your time and stop by all these great blogs. Leave a comment while you’re there and tell them we sent you! Pam Genant over at Meanderings of a Gentle Gull shares her unschooling journey with us by telling us what brought her and her family to unschooling. She also posted about something that comes up a lot on...