It’s been a long time since I’ve written a school day post. A combination of technical issues, being busy at work, a 4 year old not wanting to do school and the reappearance of the sun conspired against any blog posting. Looking back at last year’s post, this year is certainly very different. DJ was going gangbusters with school last year and I could hardly keep up. But this year, he is more resistant to anything that looks like school….
We have been more active with our homeschool group this year. Although most of the events are just social in nature, the group also likes to do community service activities. Last week DJ went to his first such event. A local non-profit farm grows food for local food banks like Northwest Harvest. They use volunteers from groups like Girl Scouts and our homeschool group to plant the seeds and to assist with harvest. I found it amusing that our lead,…
We’re still slowly getting back into our school rhythm so we didn’t do a lot and haven’t added anything new recently. This was Valentine’s Week, so DJ exchanged homemade cards with his three best friends. As I’m not feeling too creative, I used a Pinterest design of a dog made with heart shapes. DJ did make it his own though by adding googly eyes, his own scribbles on the ears and a lower-case “d” as his signature in the lower…
Early this week, I stopped at Michael’s craft store intending to buy $2 worth of wood for a DIY project. I finally made it out of the store $18 later by begging my son to not let me look at anything else. One of my impulse buys was sand for our sand tray. DJ had accidentally spilled all the sand a little while ago and although I had more white sand to fill it, I just wasn’t inspired to do…