Rethinking Education Conference

A snap shot of the 3 generations at 6 am before we hit the road to the RE in Dallas!

We saw a rainbow on the way :)

A cool cardboard yurt!

A girl playing in the lego pile.

Mom took a shot of me at dinner. Cheese!

Sadie with her new friends.

Sadie chilling in the back jamming to music.

Wow, I'm beening meaning to write about this and other topics for some time now. I think I am going to post what I intend to write about and come back to it when I have some time. It will always be a work in progress that way but perhaps I will get to it more. Also it will keep things in a real time frame. Trying to complete a whole post complete with everything I want to say is not working. If anyone is reading this, realize I am just talking to myself here. My intention for my blog is for my personal benefit, a journal that can't get lost in my house. If someone gets something from it - cool! Just want people to know that - yes!- I AM talking to myself. I do it all the time :) And I do anwser myself too sometimes! (smile)

Sebastian tries school on for size

Sebastian wanted to give school and try and see what it is all about. It didn't take too long for him to mention homeschooling. We talked though and I encouraged him to continue a little longer to be sure, he was willing. On the 9th day of school Sadie and I left for the Rethinking Education conference. Almost all of us were having sinus issues so he just stayed home with Dad and Sister for the school days we were gone. The night before going back to school he said he just wanted to homeschool (third time since the start). He was very matter of fact, didn't mention any trauma attached to it, so I figured he had really had his fill. So we turned the papers in the next day. He hasn't brought up going back or even missing it. I am totally biased to unschooling but I tried very hard to be as neutral as possible. We talked a lot about the differences between homeshooling and attending a school. His first complaint was not being able to draw what we wanted to draw. The second situation involved trying out riding the bus home and the driver yelled at him for "opening the window". We think he might have tripped an emergency lever! The third time he was distaught about a girl following him around and was ready to stay at home. It was a neat experience.

Sadie got an Angel Doo!
Shelbie decided she needed to rest and say "Hi" to passerbys.
Sebastian showed off his pop gun to passerbys.
Dad helps Shelbie race Sebastian in a game!
Jannie and Sadie about is scramble.

The Kids Having Fun!

Some Funny Pics From Celebration City

Here is our western pic and me and Sadie, then mom and Sadie in the big chair. That was so fun :)

Our Dinner at Nine O'Clock PM

Our Most Recent Adventure - Branson, Mo

We went to Celebration City and totally over did it! Our planned one day trip turned into two and almost tow weeks later, we are still trying to get back into the swing of things. I'm going to upload some pics and attempt embedding videos.