So THIS is Homeschooling

When asked about homeschooling, I usually make a joke about us "car schooling" instead. Anyone concerned that homeschooled kids are socially isolated needs to take one look at our weekly schedule. Science/Audubon Club on Monday, Tuesday park day with lots of cool homeschooling families, private tennis lesson on Wednesday, homeschool book club on Thursday, and homeschool group tennis on Friday. This doesn't even include the various trips to museums, the zoo, concerts and plays, and random field trip opportunities that are planned by homeschool groups. We are fortunate to live in an area which has an abundance of opportunities available to homeschool kids. In fact, we don't have enough time or energy to attend all of the classes, field trips, park days, lessons, etc. which are out there!

Knowing this, you can understand why Tuesday was no ordinary day for us. A and I woke up feeling "yucky," so we knew that we would not be able to attend the Mardi Gras Party that our homeschooling group was throwing. We were pretty sad to miss it, because we had been planning and preparing for a week. Instead of heading out like we usually do, we stayed home...all day.

So THIS is homeschooling! Here is a partial list of the things we did:
updated our blogs, used beads we were going to take to the party to make many necklaces, did math and spelling lessons, played in the sand, read aloud from Robin Hood, made a small house out of cardboard boxes, little o cut and pasted to make a collage, astro a worked on a sewing project, both shopped on Lego.com for little o's birthday present, and made mashed potatoes as a family.