I’m going to be working all weekend in my dark, dank little basement cubbyhole. On the bright side when I do come up out of my hole it’ll be to splendid weather! I’ve also got to nail down the itinerary to this travel piece and that’s going to be a very complicated jigsaw puzzle to [...]

Once in the comments to the post below and now I’m going to answer this part:
You talk about wanting Noah to be “successful” as the motivation. But, what’s your definition of success? This is an issue I’ve been pondering a lot lately.
I feel most successful when I’m effectively using my skills or effectively learning new [...]

The best way to explain my very strong anti-school feelings is, I think, to compare it to religion. Think about it — cultural doctrine, differing philosophies, etc. It’s like — I’m Jewish, right? And as much as I respect other religions (my husband’s among them) I can’t be anything other than what I am and [...]

I’m still having trouble getting my head around virtual school. Brett is helping me wrench the curriculum around so that it’s not totally running up against my heart and soul, god love him.
This particular virtual school has you work to mastery of each unit so theoretically you can skip every damn lesson as long as [...]

Well, the first day of virtual school is a little rough. I don’t think the web site is as intuitive as it ought to be. Last night I went through and pulled all the printable stuff and put it in a Monday through Friday stack of plastic trays but Noah is having a tough time [...]