I had planned on “starting” school today but that’s postponed until next week now. I’ve been busy unpacking and putting things away, which is good because we still have a bunch of stuff to bring over from the other house.

I found this great article on homeschooling by Reader’s Digest.

I’m sitting at my desk looking out my window to the backyard at the flowers and I am in bliss.

Alec has been busy playing with J. a neighbor homeschooled boy and they have been having a blast these last few days. I’m so glad Alec has a homeschooled friend.

Bram now wants to walk downstairs front facing, while clutching onto my hands.

Kevin was excited to see what new students he would have today. I will start teaching my class Friday afternoon. so much to do, so little time, better get off the computer;-)

I found this political compass quiz from Happy Homeschooler. I wasn’t surprised with the results;
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.38
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.15
basically it means I am a Libertarian Left

It actually plopped me right in the same spot with Ghandi, Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama. So, it goes to show that thoughts and deeds are very different. I may think a similar way but in no way I am even close to living my life like any of them.

Last night Bram went to sleep at 8:30 and didn’t wake up until 5:00 am. Fat chance that’ll happen again soon:-) When I woke up at 2:45 am, I put my hand on his body, as I freaked for a minute. His longest stretch has been 5 hours. His sleep patterns are very much like Alec’s were and so I expect he will start having longer sleep stretches.

Ok, who switched my kid or drugged my kid. Bram slept all night last night until 6 am. I was so engorged this morning. It is so bizarre. It’s like a switch went off in him and he said, ok, I’m going to sleep all night now. Yesterday though, I couldn’t get him to take his afternoon nap until 4:30 pm. So, it will be interesting to see if that happens today, so maybe sleeping all night means he will go a lot longer without a nap. I find it more tiring when he doesn’t have a nap midafternoon than half-sleeping nursing him at night. Alec dropped his morning nap at 11 months and his afternoon nap around 2, 2 1/2. It seems Bram is following in the same path. I’d far rather have kids that napped until 4 years than kids that slept through the night.

now to our regularly scheduled sleep patterns.:-)