Aug 16, 2006

Who Home Educates?.........

http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_ekoko/20060816.html

The second in a series of articles about homeschooling in Canada..............

I find it interesting that homeschooling families have on average 3.6 children compared to the national average of 1.1

Alberta and Ontario have the most homeschoolers!

Todays outfit...............


This is the amazing ensemble that Abigail has put together today...the shirt she tie-dyed back in the Spring..........her sisters glittery purple skirt and the necklace she got in one of those machine things at the mall yesterday................she has SUCH a sense of style........she gets it from her Father lol!

If all else fails...blame the father ;)

The Libertine................

So my sister was telling me that (heavenly) Johnny Depp was in my old home town last year filming 'The Libertine'. In fact he was filming at Montacute House which is right by my Nephews school..............My Mum and Dad and my sister live by this old house......and quite a few movies have been made there in the past...............

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART31852.html

Johnny Depp....in my old home town...................and I wasn't there!!!!

My Blog book............

So I have a thing for spiral bound notebooks...especially little ones............and I have one that I call my 'blog book'...I try and carry this with me at all tiomes because you just don't know when you will think of something to put in your blog.......(ok lol I realise I am the only one still blogging regularly and still slightly (ok big time) obsessed with blogging but someone has to stick with it)..................

So anyway.......I have this notebook and in it I write all kinds of things that might be worth blogging about if and when I have the time.............

So today, while sat in bed,I jotted down:

Elvis died 29 years ago today.............

A lady gave birth in a canal after a labour contraction caused her to crash her car..........a policeman found her and rescued the baby who was on the passenger seat still with the umbilical cord attached......they have named the baby Miracle Biggs........the Motehrs parents didn't even know she was pregnant!

We had a coyote in the back yard again last night.........we quite often have them in the back yard.......and you can hear them a lot at night...I like the noise....I open the windows wider to listen.....I know they are quite often down near the pond........we also have several deer that sleep in the back field as you can see where they have been sleeping as the grass is flattened........coyotes sound like a bunch of girls when they howl together at night........

On the news this morning they announced that Sesame Street is to have a new character this year...a student fairy named Abby!!!!

Back to school is the second most expensive time of year for (most) families........Christmas is first.....stress and anxiety is very common in children during this time......the news report this morning was showing how to teach your children relaxation exercises to cope with the stress.........neither of these points relate to us........yesterday we strolled aorund the school supplies aisles in Zellers and it was a wonderfully smug feeling to see all the parents with their long lists of supplies to buy........we don't have to buy anything :) we don't have to rush and we don't have to stress :) ......but I was tempted by the pretty spiralbound notebooks lol!

Summer is drawing to an end..you can feel it in the air....the evenings are chilly and I have to wear a sweater outside......even at 28c during the day the evenings are colder..........theres a nip in the air in the mornings too........It was only 8c this morning................I like it :) Fall is almost here ...Hallmark has all its gorgeous Fall supplies in...I think I will have to head over to Homesense soon as they always do gorgeous Fall things!!!

So there you go...........those are this mornings jottings :) fascinating huh????? lol!

More pictures from last night.....





Our neighbour was cutting his hay yesterday.......the other pictures are of the girls on our walk with Amber and Rosie Posie..............

Thursday says hello....................





I was awake at 5:30 this morning...just in time to wave Lloyd off to work...and I couldn't get back to sleep so I took photos of this mornings sunrise from Laurences bedroom window.......

Yesterday I did 13,208 steps...................this morning so far I have done 828 since I put my step counter on.....I'm so glad I found it....................

This morning I have sorted three baskets of clean laundry, I have washed one load of dirty. I have washed yesterdays eggs....fed the dogs breakfast and changed their water........tidied and cleaned my bathroom......tidied my bedroom............put away all Sams clothes.......chatted with Lloyd on the phone twice................

And its 8:44am.............not bad for me :)

Another awesome quote................

Pam posted this to the homeschool group so I asked if she'd mind me posting it here too :) Thank you Pam :)


School trains children to be employees and consumers;
teach your own to be leaders and adventurers.
School trains children to obey reflexively;
teach your own to think critically and independently.
Well-schooled kids have a low threshold for boredom;
help your own to develop an inner life so that they'll never be
bored. Urge them to take on the serious material, the grown-up
material, in history, literature, philosophy, music, art, economics,
theology - all the stuff schoolteachers know well enough to avoid.
Challenge your kids with plenty of solitude so that they can learn to
enjoy their own company, to conduct inner dialogues.
Well-schooled people are conditioned to dread being alone, and they
seek constant companionship through the TV, the computer, the cell
phone, and through shallow friendships quickly acquired and quickly
abandoned. Your children should have a more meaningful life, and they
can.
First, though, we must wake up to what our schools really are:
laboratories of experimentation on young minds, drill centers for the
habits and attitudes that corporate society demands. Mandatory
education serves children only incidentally; its real purpose is to
turn them into servants. Don't let your own have their childhoods
extended, not even for a day. If David Farragut could take command of
a captured British warship as a pre-teen, if Thomas Edison could
publish a broadsheet at the age of twelve, if Ben Franklin could
apprentice himself to a printer at the same age (then put himself
through a course of study that would choke a Yale senior today),
there's no telling what your own kids could do. After a long life,
and thirty years in the public school trenches, I've concluded that
genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius... The solution,
I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.
- John Taylor Gatto

Happy Birthday Terry...............


Today is Lloyds Moms birthday.......

Happy Birthday Terry...

hope you are having a great day!

(It's also Madonnas birthday......she's 48!!!! How can that be????)

Robert Barrington-Leigh.......MISSING

Please check out this website: www.findrobert.ca

Robert went missing Sunday night after leaving home to cycle through Mill Creek Ravine in Edmonton to go and look at the Folk Festival................he hasn't been seen since.

Description of Robert:

6 ft tall. Slim (150 lbs?). Short brown hair. Hazel eyes.
Clothes we think he was wearing:
MEC fleece jacket
Short-sleeved shirt with buttons
Brown leather shoes, the stitching was coming undone on the front of one
Blue bike helmet
Backpack: MEC, blue with purple trim

Robert was riding a blue Raleigh "Cliffhanger" bike (mountain frame with road tires). The seat post was long, i.e. the seat was high. You can see pictures of Robert if you click on the link at the bottom of the website posted.

Maybe its because this family is British......or maybe its because I have boys of my own that go off on their bikes...........but this story really touched me and so please PLEASE keep an eye out for Robert...................

Lets hope he is home with his family soon.................his parents looked sooooooo scared and worried on the news this morning...understandably............

They are all in my thoughts.
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