7QT - Family Style

1.

Ain't nothin' gonna break-a my stride!  Ain't nothin' gonna hold me back...oo-oo...

I'll stop now.

2.  Sometimes, homeschooling looks like this.

Edmund socializes at a science museum.

3.  But usually it looks like this.

Edmund invents new ways to waste time during math.

4.  Sometimes history class looks like coloring in these Dover coloring books on Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, and Ancient Rome.

Edmund and I were discussing the coloring books last night.  Actually, I was complaining that I did not like to color the Ancient Egypt book because everything in it is tan.  Boooorrrrrriiiiiiiinnnnnnngggggg.

That's when he swapped with me and I realized that the Ancient Greece book is a lot about....

nudity.

Just to be clear, there are some full-moons, but that's it.

We laughed about that.  Apparently, in Edmund's mind, the Greeks are known for Alexander the Great, the Olympics, and nudity.  

He did a great job narrating (that's Charlotte Mason fancy homeschooling lingo for "telling me") the story of why the Greeks were naked in their Olympics, which probably had a lot to do with why women weren't allowed to compete or observe. There was a footrace during which one guy's "covering" (that's Edmund's term) fell off.  He did not stop to pick it up.  That guy won, and everyone thought it was because he was nude, so everyone ran in the nude from then on.

I will pause while you let your imagination run away with you...modern Olympics and nudity...get all your giggles out.

5.  Susan seems to have the most homework in Art?  She pours over her sketchbook for hours and hours.

She reminds me of this dude.

And the three hours he spent shading the upper lip on this drawing.

Actually, her drawings are very good.  

See?

So it was very funny the other night when she asked Patrick how her reproduction of a Monet looked.

He responded with love and sarcasm as he does, "It looks great!  If you squint."

In his defense, "What?  It's Impressionism!  You're supposed to squint!"

6.  Jill has added two new words to her 2-years-old-going-on-10 vocabulary.

Let me use them in context for you.

My hair was masty so Mom gave me a bath.

Or 

Edmund and Dad smell masty after skating.

And

I have a veggie!  You gave me a veggie!

By which she very obviously means "wedgie."

7.  Yes, I do have two other children.

Peter has been over-scheduled with school and work and baseball and play practice, so I have not been able to record anything witty or silly that he said to embarrass him with.

The same goes for Lucy who has play practice nearly every day.  Jill is mildly disgusted that Lucy is playing the lead part in the upcoming school musical of Peter Pan, because Peter Pan is a boy.

Linking up with the other Conversion Diary junkies and thinking about playing along in her 7 Posts in 7 Days challenge for next week.

Next week's forecast shows great temps for our backyard rink, so I will be holed up indoors inflicting my cabin fever on you.