I’ve not done a post like this, but have had some fun and/or informative reading choices lately, so thought I would share. The book series I’m reading aloud to the littles is this:
I’m one of those people who don’t like to reread things, and during the season of my two older children and […]
I came home yesterday and heard some instructional talk coming from behind the couch, which is William’s “quiet time area”. Hhmmm, what’s going on? I was excited to discover this:
I was excited for several reasons. First, there was a time when Eli eagerly sought out “pupils” for Lego instruction (and […]
I currently have two adult children, by society’s standards and their age identification process. My oldest recently turned 21, and my next will be 19 at the beginning of summer. Both have been unschooled all their lives. Both have found their passions. Both are working out their purpose.
Abbey, my only daughter, […]
It is common in autism to have low muscle tone. The reason it occurs is that often, our children don’t do the typical day-to-day physical activities that we all take for granted: running, climbing, exploring, skipping, gathering, jumping, poking . . . that overall general “business” that we all expect in toddlerhood and beyond. The […]
I’m going to do a little showing off in this post Abbey has been making awesome and creative homemade gifts for her family members the past several Christmases. This past Christmas, Abbey combined Alex’s love of our five cats, pretending they are interactive with each having their own “voices”, his love of Star Wars, […]
I was prompted to recall today some of the lessons I learned from my firstborn son the first year we began to homeschool. Don’t we all have these? My most important lesson I learned was the snake lesson.
I had tried to do school at home . . . hey, in a FUN way . . […]
Adam came up to me today and requested that we go to Walmart to buy “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” from Peanuts Home Video. My first reaction was, “Where did that come from?” and “Is that on video?” and “Do they have their own home video productions?” Adam is 13 and lives with autism. […]
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