Archive for December, 2008

Acquisition

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

I originally had this post titled Possessions, but I changed it to Acquisition, because I think Possessions is another category I would like to post about a bit later.  Sara and JoVe set the scene with their thoughts from their blog posts:
Sara shares a quote near the beginning of her post on this subject:
From The [...]

Sleep Patterns

Monday, December 29th, 2008

A question came up on my Homeschooling Creatively list about sleep pattern differences.  One of the “temperament traits” of a right-brained learner is that they are almost always night owls.  From the responses given to the original question, my yahoo list is full of these right-brained night owls.  Further, in the autism spectrum world, extreme [...]

Birthdays

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

As noted in my previous post, my youngest had his birthday around Christmas Day.  He chose to have a jello cake, that turned out scrumptuous:

And now Alex is celebrating his “birthday week”.  His birthday is officially December 31 and he will be 14.  Alex continues his love of ceiling fans and is currently into “vintage [...]

Remote Control vs. Imaginative Gifts

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

I knew what I was doing when I did it.  At the top of the Santa wish lists of my two youngest boys were remote controlled flying machines.  I unequivocably told them that I told Santa no remote controlled presents.  Why?  Because they break within days of usage.  Even my careful then 16-year-old who received [...]

Book Writing Update

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

The day I wrote my post about seeking public accountability in writing my book, I did really well that week.  I did three days that week at 4 hours each.  The next week, which was the week of Thanksgiving, I stunk.  No days that week.  This week didn’t start much better, but I did get [...]