ciroccoj | May. 8th, 2010

I licked my wallet yesterday.
Boys' Endangered Species science presentations went very well, though their animals did not win the vote. Justin did bees, Daniel did coral reefs, and the class voted for wolves, though bees and coral reefs tied for second in the vote.
I love home schooling project days. The kids always come up with such a huge variety of presentations: some talk, some have handouts, some make the audience sing a song (yesterday was Baby Beluga), some hand out samples of different kinds of honey, some tell stories... it's not like the school project days we had when I was growing up, where all the children made dioramas of Laura Ingalls' house.

To me it makes up for one of the only downsides I see to home schooling: namely, the fact that home schooled kids don't have as many opportunities as regular school kids to show off what they've accomplished.
Boys went to the premiere of Iron Man 2 for a friend's birthday. Apparently it rocked.
Think I've killed or stunned my tastebuds with too much cough syrup and too many zinc lozenges. My tea tastes awful.
(Genesis verses 3:25–27)
25. And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying Where is the flaming sword which was given unto thee?
26. And the Angel said, I had it here only a moment ago, I must have put it down some where, forget my own head next.
27. And the Lord did not ask him again.
Is tomorrow Mother's Day?
Buckwheat honey is damned hard to get rid of when it spills aaaaall over your backpack, laptop, agenda, grocery bag, and wallet.
I don't see how Doris the Science Lady can possibly break even doing home schooling science classes. We pay her, but she not only teaches science, she also buys arts & crafts materials, prints out reams of handouts, and does stuff like what she did at the end of this last class, Comparative Anatomy and Adaptations: make the kids play Jeopardy to see how much money Doris would donate to an organization helping endangered species.
There are many reasons my kids and I love Doris. One of them is the disclaimer from the end of her blurb for her Comparative Anatomy and Adaptations class: "Oh, and finally, a caveat: evolution and natural selection will absolutely be discussed in this course (after all, it's all about adaptations) – if you have objections to the theory, this will definitely not be the course for you."
I foresee a lot of red lentil soup in my future. The kids hate it. More for me!
Re. parenting a teenager: if anyone is in charge of this, could we please order five more years of what we've experienced so far in the first four months of Daniel's adolescence? 'Cause that would be awesome.