My Private Farm off the Farm
• Monday, October 13, 2008 - still can't figure it out
| B's birthday went wonderful. She really thought I did a great job on her cake and everyone had a great time. I have to say I am pretty relieved to have our "birthday season" over ...three in a row was a lot of special cake making and present buying.
Only 4 peeps hatched. We had 41 eggs... not very good, lol. Well the kicker was dh bought expensive eggs (told him not to buy them if they got pricey... but he *had* to have them, lol..he is so sweet)... Anyways... we had 34 eggs ready to go.. but the special eggs were delayed so we had to put the 37 in the basement to "hold them over" a few days till the pricey eggs showed up. The bummer is after all that.. those 7eggs didn't hatch at all... so we risked all the other 34eggs for the 7 and we only got 4 to hatch.. . After some teeth pulling we got the seller of the pricey eggs to send us more for the price of shipping and handling. Frustrating that we lost so many eggs waititng on those 7 but live and learn. The other downer is that now I must hatch out another group of eggs... I had told everyone in the family that I wouldn't be hatching out another flock of peeps... after what happened last year.... Which was that we had a power failure due to an ice storm and because of that we had to bring those late hatched peeps into the living room with the wood stove... so they we sat all in front of the fireplace... lol with a flock of 7 peeps... Oh well.. lucky this year we have a generator so "hopefully" we won't have to sit with the peeps this year!
What to do about homeschool????????????????????????????????
THINGS I KNOW:
I can do it.
The kids want to do it.
DH is all for it.
Extended family is all for it.
Would save us 4 forty minute trips a day...that is 2hours and 40 minutes everyday.
I really freak about the trips to school.
THINGS I DON'T KNOW:
what is stopping me.
if the kids will loose interest
if I would loose interest.. which I think is doubtful because I enjoy learning and teaching.
It really makes sense why our family would homeschool... we are always together we are all about really encouraging our kids to bond together and build those relationships first and foremost. There are so many of us we have so many intersting personalities. We have two sets of the same age groups which is really great for teaching ...two birds with one stone, lol.
As far as this winter is concerned I am making great progress on stockpiling a nice pantry. We put in
some shelves in the basement...
and are stocking it up with canned goods (As sales allow),
*red, black and refried beans
*peaches
*tomatos
*sweet potatos
our new freezer should arrive in November...as should our organic beef,
like I said we have the generator
trying to accumulate some more blankets (didn't realize how little we had)
utility sink in the laundry room..so the kids can get the water for the animals in there instead of my kitchen sink.
Well off to piano.. I think I will bounce this whole homeschool concept off my grandfather.
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