We have been so busy with getting school out of the way to enjoy Christmas this year. Since my daughter and I are traveling to Ohio this year I wanted to have all her work done for the year the week before Christmas. I think we have 1 section in math to do and the test and we will be done!
We will be enjoying The Nutcracker ballet tomorrow. We enjoy doing this every year. We first started going when she was in 2nd grade. She had won tickets to the Birmingham Ballet's performance from a coloring contest. The next year we were able to see the Alabama Ballet's performance of it and really enjoyed it better. So since then we have made it a tradition to go see the Alabama Ballet's performance. It is 1 of 6 ballet companies in the world that perform George Balenshen's version (sp) This is awesome to have it here in our backyard!
We will also be having dinner with some friends of ours at Red Robin on Friday night. My daughter is so excited about this. Her "best friend" is going. We also have a funeral to attend this week. My daughters friend lost his grandmother this past weekend. It is so hard here at Christmas to lose a loved one. On Saturday I get my grandson. He is spending the night with us and going to church with us on Sunday and then to my husbands family Christmas party with us. Most of them don't even know that we have a grandson. It will be very interesting since he is 15 months old.
Well Merry Christmas everyone if I dont get back on here before then. And no I do not say Happy Holidays. Christ is the center of the season and it always will be in my heart.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Craving Knowledge
It is December already! Boy the older I get the faster time flies. This time of year is always very busy around here with school activities and such. This year my daughter and I are driving home to Ohio for Christmas with my mom and sister. I can not wait. I have not seen them in about 3 yrs. I know that is a long time but don't get me started on that whole story.
The other day I was talking with an old friend of my daughters and he was telling me how boring school was. He said it is the same thing over and over. Its do this, do that, you can't do that, you must do that. He said if school was just a little bit interesting more kids might want to come to school. Now this young man is not a slacker. He goes to school everyday and participates in after school activities and gets good grades. He just doesn't see the meaning to all of it. I think I have ruined him. He asks all the time what we are doing. I tell him this or that. I tell him we got to the library a lot for research for a subject my daughter is learning. I remember one time he wanted to read the paper my daughter wrote about some historical battle. She had spent several days at the library researching. He told me that he had never known half of what was in her paper. He is a year older than her. So know when we are done with a workbook he borrows it to get the information that his PS is not giving.
I think for Christmas I might get him some books that have been very helpful to us over the yrs. I think he might like the chance to get more out of his learning than what he is spoon fed. I sure am glad I have the God given ability and God's blessing to home school!!!
The other day I was talking with an old friend of my daughters and he was telling me how boring school was. He said it is the same thing over and over. Its do this, do that, you can't do that, you must do that. He said if school was just a little bit interesting more kids might want to come to school. Now this young man is not a slacker. He goes to school everyday and participates in after school activities and gets good grades. He just doesn't see the meaning to all of it. I think I have ruined him. He asks all the time what we are doing. I tell him this or that. I tell him we got to the library a lot for research for a subject my daughter is learning. I remember one time he wanted to read the paper my daughter wrote about some historical battle. She had spent several days at the library researching. He told me that he had never known half of what was in her paper. He is a year older than her. So know when we are done with a workbook he borrows it to get the information that his PS is not giving.
I think for Christmas I might get him some books that have been very helpful to us over the yrs. I think he might like the chance to get more out of his learning than what he is spoon fed. I sure am glad I have the God given ability and God's blessing to home school!!!
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