There is no real photo to post here. You’ll have to come up with your own image on this one.

Today, my house is clean because I paid someone to come and help me clean it. Yesterday it was pretty much a mess. Tomorrow it will probably be  a mess again.

Today, we got it all done. Today was chaos. With someone here cleaning and pest control here to try to find where these darned carpenter ants are coming from and a 6 wk old puppy with ticks, it was nuts. I’m amazed that we got it all done. Yesterday, we skipped History. Yesterday we said a final goodbye to a sweet puppy. Tomorrow, we’ll see how it goes. Each day is its own monster.

We haven’t done Spanish in a week.

We started a new weekly current events assignment t that has proven to be pretty cool. Since her History is Eastern Hemisphere and we live in Asia, she gets very little information about her home country, USA. So, we thought it would be wise to incorporate something to do with the US in her school week.

The books on our school shelf are a little more organized but we’ll still have to dig to find something that we need. But we finally have a cool world map hanging on our wall. I still wish it was one of the “backwards” maps where Asia is on the left and North America is on the right but I couldn’t find one like we needed.

We had chips and salsa for lunch and she ate bacon bits out of a jar for a snack. Couldn’t do that at a ‘real’ school.

Science was fun today. Spelling is pretty cool. Math is never fun except for the part where she listens to Alisa Turner during EVERY SINGLE math lesson. Alisa gets her through. Thanks, Alisa!

The best part is she writes in her prayer journal almost every day and has already seen some of those prayers get answered.

Ok, I take that back, the very best part is that I get to be with her more and the girl is FUNNY! When we homeschooled her in the 4th grade, we had so many laughable moments and I logged some of them on our old blog. I had forgotten how funny she really was until now when I get to be with her more often. I wouldn’t trade this time with her for the world.

Here’s what she told me yesterday as she was getting a movie to put in – because we ditched History and Spanish.

“Hey Mom, if you ever need to amputate my arm, just go ahead with it. I can open a cd case with my legs and one arm.”

Phew… Such a relief! :)

I still say that homeschooling is not for everyone and it’s certainly not for whimps but if it’s what you are called to do, it can be great!

See what I’d be missing if she was in a ‘real’ school!