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Hi, I’m Kay!
Weirdly domestic homeschooling, work from home mom of 3. When not wiping noses, playing taxi, or washing a never-ending pile of laundry, I spend stolen moments in the bathroom reading as much as I can and drinking heavily reheated butter coffee.

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🧚🏾‍♀️🦷~*Missing Teeth*~🦷🧚🏾

🧚🏾‍♀️🦷~*Missing Teeth*~🦷🧚🏾‍♀️

6.5yrs later, I think I might see the tiniest hint of myself in this one. Just along the edges, where the baby fat is making way for cheekbones and a defined chin. Where the roundness of my chunky toddler in the fluffy cloth diaper ends, has emerged this little girl with a new love for skinny jeans and flip flops -- how very California of her.

True to her mother's heart, she loves singing (all day long) and musicals and dancing and tea and yoga and books and she prefers eating over cooking.

She's grown so much over these last 6 months -- more than my mommy heart was ready for. But there was just something about her losing this first tooth that struck me in the gut. In a world where my children's age isn't marked by first days of school, yearbooks, and spring picture days, this tiny missing tooth feels huge.

The days are long, but those years? Oh, how short they are.....

👻🎃💀~BOO!~💀🎃👻 These are just som

👻🎃💀~BOO!~💀🎃👻

These are just some of my "plans" for the week, which cover: cooking, math, reading, chemistry, character development, social skills, teamwork, etc.

What are you up to this week?

***1 hour of silence*** I was in the middle of ha

**Live in the moment** Last night, about 5 minute

**Live in the moment**

Last night, about 5 minutes before the start of bedtime, someone asked me why snails needed a shell and slugs don't. I didn't pick up a book or consult the internet. I was reading, so I simply said, "I didn't know, but that's a good question". Instead of continuing to ask me, they proudly used the tools they had at their disposal, and spent 30 minutes asking S̶K̶Y̶N̶E̶T̶ our Google Home questions about snails and making it play snail videos.

Then (because they never forget a thing) they remembered a 100+ page animal book we have that has one tiny blurb on snails.

Then they drew snails.

I personally now know more than I've ever cared to learn about snails.

I could have shut them down and ushered them off to bed right on time. I could have stopped what I was doing to find the answers to their questions. But watching them learn to seek answers on their own? That's the stuff we strive for...

#homeschoolingdoesnthavetobehard
#letthemplay
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**Artists in Residence** Cutting is serious busin

**Artists in Residence**

Cutting is serious business here. They could cut and glue and stick and sticker and glitter and color and paint and sculpt and "create" ALL. DAY. LONG. And sometimes they do. Some days while I work at my desk I get an endless stream of "mom, look what I made". My closet door is an art gallery wall and I have to take pictures and purge "sculptures" every other week. Empty toilet paper and paper towel rolls are stored in a box under the easel. I've got bags of fabric scraps and very few empty boxes make it out to our trash without a missing flap or two. Most of the 6yos play shirts end up with some mysterious art stain on them. I should buy stock in Elmer's and Crayola, and my favorite table cloth has fallen victim to multiple hot glue incidents.

So what I'm saying is #letthemplay, this IS the important work.
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**Hey, Google** Ok, so my hopes may be a little t

**Hey, Google**

Ok, so my hopes may be a little too high.
A #homeschoolmom can dream, though.
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**Raise Readers** I have LOTS of new followers la

**Raise Readers**

I have LOTS of new followers lately! Welcome to the weird void that is homeschooling through a pandemic!

This is the post where I remind everyone that the idea of "twaddle" is elitist and that ALL books are good books if they get a child reading.

Happy Homeschooling & #longlivecaptainunderpants
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**homeschool truths*** In true #homeschoolmom fas

**homeschool truths***

In true #homeschoolmom fashion, I've completely lost my mind. I remembered that The Kidd owns a big box of long-abandoned LEGO. Not only did I pull them out, but I signed up the girls for a LEGO social class on Outschool. Y'all, they are talking to other people and NOT ME! I could cry 😂

If there's one thing that I have struggled with while homeschooling (and parenting in general), it's my children's need to talk about all the things, all the time, all day long. Not so much Panda, but definitely the others. If homeschoolers are supposed to be anti social -- insert eye roll here -- my children did NOT get this memo. And so while they get to chatter in my direction all day long, Mommy's #introvert ears can only take so much.

Lately I've found myself actually feeling the anxiety leave my body after the completion of our bedtime routine and the closing of their bedroom door. Hot tea, a book, and silence on the couch await me. I could sit and read until 2am. Sometimes I do...and, of course, regret it when my alarm goes off at 6am.

What is your personal homeschooling struggle? How do you cope with it?
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This technique got me through 13yrs of formal hist

This technique got me through 13yrs of formal history 😭😂
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recent posts

Affirming the Black Child
In: Healthy Living
Don’t Quit Homeschooling in February!
In: Healthy Living, Homeschool
How Television Teaches Us Science
In: Homeschool
The Monday Mix-Up
In: Crafting, Homeschool

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