Eat the Frog

We homeschool. We unschool as a philosophical approach. For those who are unfamiliar with that term, it is like Montessori without the large...

A recent meme floating around got me thinking. To be more specific, some of my friends entries got me thinking. It was about sports and runn...

I've been asked to write a bit about how we do things around here and what our long term "plan" is. I don't mind a bit. It...

We have planned for many things. What we have not planned for is a long term educational plan if something were to happen to one or both of ...

It rained. Usually this is no big deal. Actually, it set up to make our first Friday field trip to the local marsh even marshier. Lil'Bu...

A student of mine decided to publish his essay about video gaming in an unschooling home online. Another online "mommy blogger" p...

After such a long and harsh winter we have relished these Spring days. Some mornings it is all Lil'Bug can do to snarf down her cheerio...

Broccoli! These are doing awesome. The strange absence of bugs this year also includes cabbage moths and such so maybe we won't have a ...

Lil'Bug read her first words last week. We were out in the garden working on the raised bed when she pointed and read this: Cool. She r...

Lil'Bug's cricket friend.....

Princess Lil'Bug in the Garden...... Pulling weeds...... Raking the compost smooth...... Finished bed, planted with spinach, spicy gree...

Lil'Bug decided to document the bugs in our backyard . I took the pictures, but she found the bugs. She wants to keep doing this so we h...

Thank you so much to Needleroozer for help in identifying our weird coccoon! After some early morning research, I have confirmed as best as...

I woke up to a regular Monday. Fed Lil'Bug breakfast, saw Dearest off to work, blogged a bit.....then, well, then I passed a blood clot....

This is an issue we are dealing with here at Chez Podkayne lately. For Lil'Bug it really started about two weeks ago at Park Day. Some k...

Bradley class was canceled Monday night. Nothing to write about there, except that one of the 6 couples in our class had their baby Monday m...

Have you ever googled when emus attack ? No? What, you may ask, would prompt such a search? Welcome to my day. We were not, per se , attacke...

Today is tax day for us, we gather up all of our many, documents and head off to an accountant. Life should be much simpler than it is, but ...

In a quiet contemplation I realized a couple things: I am over complicating. What that means to me is complicated, go figure. In my search t...