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We didn't get any! Everyone ELSE DID!! It's all over blogworld today! All that beautiful snow THEY got! I don't get it. We used to get snow. A couple a times a winter we'd get a little dusting. And every great once and a while, we'd get "the big one". But for years now, NOTHING. My KIDS have no idea what it is like to build a snowman! It's enough to make me believe the whole "Global warming" thing.

Or, maybe it's God with a really GOOD reason to keep the snow away. And I guess I need to just except that and praise him anyway. (But can I pout a little first?) Maybe there is a homeless family out here nearby, and every night while the mom tucks her little ones down in the box, she prays there will be no snow. ( you see, this is how twisted my mind is) And then of course her prayer is much more important than mine. I'll just keep believing that it is something like that. Because, as bad as that is, it's still better than believing we've destroyed the Earth to the point that our climates are changing and in a matter of years we'll all be underwater because the ice caps are melting.

This is really a post of me just ranting today. (If you didn't catch on)

Yesterday was a rough homeschool day. I have this math work for Si that is only supposed to take about 20 minutes. But it takes him all day! He doesn't pay attention when I'm giving him instructions, and since that is mainly what the work is trying to teach "Listening to Instructions" he's not doing well. OR him being himself, he will listen at times, but decide he has a BETTER idea, and do something else entirely, and then bring it to me SOOOO proud of his "great idea"! And this is were I am torn. I know I should be careful not to crush that creative, inventive spirit in him, but at the same time, I had to save for a LONG TIME and spend ALOT of money on that curriculum, and he is ruining it by not following the instructions. As proud as I am that he can write out the names of all the members of his favorite Rock Band, he was supposed to be counting the Farm animals and writing the numbers on those lines!! And yes the beautiful variety of colors he used to color the houses are pretty. But the instructions said to color the tallest house green, and the shortest house red. Period!!! Not use every color in the box to color ALL the houses just because he "thinks it's prettier this way". SO now he's ruined a chapter of work, I can't buy another, and he's NOT learning what those pages were trying teaching him! *banging head on wall*

Sigh..... I have a couple of ideas of OTHER ways to show him how important it is to follow instructions. We may play "Mother May I?" and "Simon Says". And do some activities. He does this with lots of stuff though. The other day he was playing a video game and I noticed he wasn't doing it right, and was getting a terribly low score on something that should be easy for him. I mentioned to him he was doing it wrong and he said "I know. I just like doing it THIS way, Mom." Funny enough, that sentence could sum up his whole personality. And I am so grateful that at least I CAN homeschool him because I'd hate for him to have to try and fit in the tiny (intellectual) box that most schools try to cram their students into. He's definitely an "outside of the box" thinker! Well I better go think up new ways of "ruining my children's fun"! Thanks for listening to me vent! Have a great day! God Bless!

Allison

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