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we've been seuss'd

So, we've been having a great time with our homeschooling adventures... we have a lot of fun pictures that I haven't posted yet, so I'm a little behind, but eh... part of my life! 

A few years ago, I realized that I really liked Dr. Seuss books. I like that they have a message, they are quirky, silly, weird and have us rhyming all day long after reading them. So, naturally when we were visiting the library a few weeks ago, I checked out all the Seuss's we could find. I knew his birthday was coming up on March 2nd and we definitely needed a party to celebrate. A party that included Green Eggs & Ham and a grinchy cake...

We found some awesome worksheets online that go with his books. They teach about the setting, problem, solution, characters and fun facts about Dr. Seuss and his experience as a writer. It was totally fun. 

What can I say? I'm loving days like this....

consequences before choices

Today, we enjoyed an object lesson on 'consequences'. Sam and Elle have been dealing with these their whole lives, including in the pre-mortal life, but now they know what the word means. 

The moral of the story: Sometimes we know what the consequence will be. Sometimes, we don't, but we trust Heavenly Father and try to choose the right. 

Part 1

Part 2

Bloopers...for, well...the kids of course...

A Colorful Igloo: For the JBAAKLSE's

Dear JBAAKLS,

We decided that instead of a paper "thank you" card, we wanted to do a video on our blog so that you wouldn't have to go through that awkward few weeks of trying to figure out what to do with our beautiful card and finally throw it away, while feeling a little guilty. We also decided not to clutter your house. Oh, and by the way, this card will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2...oh wait, we don't know how to do that on our blog yet. 

Thank you again, we love you and miss you!
Love, PSESG

PS. Check out the rest of our school blog! 

why? this is why...

Today our school day started about 8am. We don't have any required appointments where we have to leave the house today. YAY, it's freezing outside! So, we can take our time and add a little more fun into today's work. Sam had a bit of a rough time getting started with his day and wasn't very motivated to do any writing or coloring. (testing patience before 9am!)

This is why homeschooling is so great. We have tons of fun things to learn and we can make it exciting if we want. We can be loud and creative in our little school room. We can apply scriptures to everything we learn. We can watch the news in the middle of a lesson. We can speed up or slow down as needed. We can apply life to learning at the same time and build stronger relationships with each other. And that, my friends, is what this is all about. We're mending together.

These days, my kids are very interested in dribbling and playing basketball. So, after getting the bright idea to have Sam dribble the number of times as the answers on his math worksheet,  his demeanor and motivation completely changed. After his math was done, he went to the original  assignment (that I was about to lose my patience with) without me even asking and finished it with almost no prodding!

Some days we get great ideas that boost us up and some days we realize we need to just learn from our mistakes and make it better next time. 

definitely. i love that word...

Hello there!
This here, is our home. Well...not the background, but the pictures below.

We've just about completed the painting in our new school room! We decided we would like for our school room to have a touch of earth and remind us of being outside. Because, well...being outside is awesome. So, naturally we needed the sky, grass, a tree, a sun & clouds (which are not yet completed, but hey....we'll get there).Oh, and not to forget, a place to hang two hammocks. Not to mention it needed to have awesome lighting so that we don't feel like we're actually in the basement of our house. (Shhhh, no one needs to know) 

We're loving it so far. Well, all except for the technological issues we've encountered from the minute we said, "Time for school!" Oh, and that's why you don't get to see 'those' great pictures yet.

After many years of saying "We would never do that,  ie. homeschool," we decided, we should DEFINITELY homeschool! (yes, that is spelled correctly) See, I've come to the conclusion that sometimes it's easy to develop strong opinions about things in life that make us think we would never do or say or act like that 'so and so' because that's just a foolish thing to do. Surely they don't know what they're doing! But, hmm...many times it really comes down to, "who am I to talk and what on earth do I know?!"  Well, I don't profess to know much, (okay, I do know some things...) but I do know that having an open mind and actually evaluating things that I don't really understand is...ahem, a good thing.

So, here we are. Elle is almost 9 years old, Sam is almost 7 years old and little Glenn Isaac is almost 1 year old. And we parents...well, let's just say we feel like we're still 21, just a lot smarter.

So, if you were looking for our 'why?' we'll post that on another day. It's time to go make dinner.