Ah, well. Such is life.
Our homeschooling week was a good one. Liza finished reading The Phantom Tollbooth and Alyosha finished The Witch of Blackbird Pond. Misha added several rows to his scarf--he's really taking off with knitting! He got his cast off, although my husband and I are currently having a disagreement about whether or not he should be allowed to play hockey.
Alyosha's hockey started. His gear makes him--a skinny nine year old--as big as I am. Granted, I'm short, but I'm also fat. I'm going to take him to the arena's free skate shortly so he can practice on his new hockey skates. At practice my mom had a bit of an anxiety attack, worried that hockey is too dangerous. I said, "Mom, I put his gear on him. It took me a half an hour. That child could jump off a roof and he would bounce." My anatomy and physiology professor is one of the hockey coaches so I sat with him and studied and he introduced me to a Russian family, which was very nice.
Adventure camp was fun. The kids had a scavenger hunt and made corn husk dolls.
Seryozha started preschool, which is an adjustment for him. He came home, nursed, and promptly fell asleep in my lap.
I've decided to supplement OM1 with Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World. OM1's suggestions (for the first quarter, at least) are to work on cycles (daily, monthly, yearly) and read fairy tales. This is certainly not bad but I feel like Misha needs more. I've gone through SOTW with the older kids so I'm quite familiar with it. I don't think we'll do the activity guide (I have it somewhere...I think at the old house still) but I do have History Odyssey that I might use to flesh it out. I'm not sure yet. I don't want to overload Misha's homeschool day but I want to make sure he's getting enough.
Tomorrow afternoon I get to go to a banquet for my mom's work. It's a big deal and I'm excited. The next Saturday my friend and I are going to Washington, D.C. to the Rally to Restore Sanity. I'm VERY excited about that.
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