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Flotsam / Jetsam, National Blog Posting Month, Social Media

NaBloPoMo 2016 comes to a close

And just like that, another National Blog Posting Month is in the books. We celebrated birthdays, and we tried unusual condiments. We talked about how to homeschool, and we talked about what our homeschooling days look like. (We talked about that more than once.) I told you about some of my new cookbooks, and I tried to give you the gift of Mabel’s Labels and some shiny holiday greetings.

Last year I kept on blogging for a good bit of December. Will the NaBloPoMomentum carry me through again this year? Stay tuned…

Homeschool, National Blog Posting Month

This week in homeschooling: More gingerbread.

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This has felt like an unnaturally long week. I overslept today, and since the kids had so much other stuff going on I decided that we’d take today off. Here’s a bit of what the kids did this week:

Reading

Some day, in the far and distant future, we may finish listening to “Little Women.” This week we found that coloring whilst listening helps the time go a bit faster. I colored a peacock:

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We also started reading a biography of Thomas Edison, to go along with our history studies.

Math

After a minor blow-up over math last week, Poppy and I decided she should take a break from her regular curriculum. She is working on a Khan Academy program for now.

History

This week the kids learned about a couple of moves toward modernization in American history. Namely, they talked about the transcontinental railroad and Thomas Edison’s progress on electricity. Their textbook didn’t mention Nikola Tesla, but we talked a bit about him anyway.

Extracurricular

Today marks the end of our gingerbread saga, which took up a good bit of our energy again today. The original plan quite literally fell apart, so the kids ended up doing a traditional gingerbread village instead.

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How was your week?

Wanna read more about homeschooling? Check out the Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers weekly linky thing!

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Flotsam / Jetsam, National Blog Posting Month

Let’s call this one an ‘I Will Continue Doing NaBloPoMo’ brain dump.

Today I woke up at 6am and then spent six hours in a school cafeteria while Pete competed in his first chess tournament. One of his games was a tie, one was a buy and two were losses. He had a blast, and I read Truman Capote’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” I’ve never seen the movie, but they must have changed the story and the Holly Golightly character significantly. I didn’t find her winsome and wonderful at all. Or maybe I have the completely wrong idea of what the movie is about.

I dropped a bowl of ice cream on one of my toes yesterday — losing all of the ice cream in the process — and at the time I thought it was broken. It bled a lot and throbbed all night. It’s hurting less this evening, but I wasn’t able to stay off of it as much as I probably should’ve today. I’m pretty sure my toenail is going to fall off. That’ll be a new experience for me.

I’m tired and my laptop battery is about to die, so I’m going to post this old-school brain dump of a post and cozy up with an episode of “The Crown.”