Maybe that title should read, “How the other 3 moms put it all together, while I flake out again.” I’ll confess that I didn’t plan at all for this post because even though I really didn’t expect to go into labor before this weekend my brain has been in labor mode for over a week now.
May I just suggest that we all pop over and visit the other 3 moms to see what you and I can learn from them? Because I obviously need some help putting things together right now.
- Raising Olives gives a play-by-play example of how she teaches a wide range of ages during the course of the day.
- Smockity Frocks pulls it together with several posts describing the nitty gritty of scheduling and teaching.
- The Common Room takes a more sweeping survey of how they have taught varying ages during different seasons of life; reminding us that as the age ranges change, what worked then doesn’t necessarily work now and vice versa.
- And apparently I give an example of how normally scheduled life comes to a screeching halt when Mom is 6 days overdue. On the bright side, I think I’ve started labor on a Thursday with over 80% of my pregnancies, so maybe we’ll have some exciting news here soon. If not this Thursday, then next Thursday for sure! Well, probably.
Past topics:
- March 18 -
Live-blog day, in which all 4 of us live-blog a real day in our home. Find out what we really do all day. It’s our own reality show, just for you. Who needs TV? - March 25 – Outings with only little ones. Mom’s rules of order, and how notto become the poster family for birth control.
- April 1 - A baker’s dozen for managing the food budget: budgeting in the kitchen to feed a crowd.
- April 8 – Menu planning, how we plan (or don’t plan) to feed our hungry crewmates.
- April 15 - Cooking from Scratch. What we make from scratch and what we would like to make from scratch.
- April 22 - Cooking for a Crowd. The big linky! We shared our own recipes, and you shared yours.
- April 29 - Extreme Homeschooling, where I try to stir up trouble but you all are much nicer and more agreeable than some of the readers I had a few years ago.
- May 6 - Picking a curriculum, method or tactics that work for a large family.
- May 13 - Homeschooling in Real Life – the method that works for us.
- May 20 - Teaching Little Ones
I love you.
Ok, so Putting it all together at Life in a Show means we can wrap up last nights conversation. I can’t believe I just now noticed the flowered background of your blog is gone. I also think you should redo the header just as you mentioned wanting to do. You should reinact the one you have now including the upside-down daughter. Only now, everyone would be a little older of course and Baby June would be added.
Now I am going to do what you suggest and read the wise words of the Headmistress.
Come on Kim, today is the day ! It’s our anniversary, our son’s b-day , my nephew’s b-day and one of my very good friends had her 9th baby early this morning. Besides it’s a Thursday!!
Get going!!
If you don’t start labor naturally, is there a date beyond which you will not go?
My Boaz’s Ruth,
I haven’t asked my midwife that question since I’ve never gone more than 8 days over, but I think most draw the line at either 2 or 3 weeks over. However, I’m not entirely sure about my dates, so I could just now be due this weekend instead of last.
If it does look like I’m going to push the limits, there are plenty of things we can do to encourage labor to start before we consider induction, though.