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America: The Story Of Us ~ The History Channel

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

We are watching this History Channel series on the history of America now as a part of our homeschooling and I can’t even tell you how good it is.  We have just started but we are watching one episode a day to enhance our learning of American History and it is really entertaining.  It is [...]

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It’s Friday!

Friday, May 21, 2010

Well, we had a good day here today.  Rye is still hyper as can be but he was perky for the most part today.
Thank God.
Given our mediocre success with book work the past few days, I figured it best for everyone’s sanity to keep busy in lieu of book work so we headed an hour [...]

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Homeschooling Manic Bipolar

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

The first half of our day went like this:

After which, I felt like this:
And wanted to do this:

But somehow we made it.
And we are both still here and alive.
Well, he’s now asleep.
I’m awake and still alive.
And now I’m going to work in the garden.  Hello peace and solitude.
Amen.

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Baby Steps

Friday, May 14, 2010

Just a quick post to say we are seeing a little progress.  Rye is off the Abilify today as he took it for 2 days and it did calm the extreme mania but made him feel bad so now he is just on the Depakote and the Depakote is starting to kick in.  Rye is [...]

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Garden Love

Thursday, May 6, 2010

For the past couple of days Rye and I have spent time getting the garden ready and planted.
We planted:  tomatoes, okra, jalapenos, bell peppers, eggplant, cucumbers, zucchini, green beans and this weekend will start the herbs and various weird things we don’t expect to grow.
Because Rye has spent a great deal of time with his [...]

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Homeschool: The How And What

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

This is not our first time around on homeschooling.  We did it for over a year in the 4th-5th grade.  At the point I pulled Rye out of 4th grade, he was falling behind academically and was extremely frustrated by the school environment. Which, for us, meant nearly daily meltdowns at home.  I pulled him [...]

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Sunday Review On A Monday

Monday, May 3, 2010

The events of last week:
We headed back to the Neurologist and Rye had a sleep deprived EEG.  We didn’t get optimal results because despite the fact that he was really tired, Rye was so nervous about it that he never did fall asleep during the test.  So…it wasn’t what it could have been.
We also saw [...]

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The Boys Of Baraka

Thursday, April 29, 2010

One of the things I love about homeschooling is the time and freedom it gives us to do and learn things that we may not do otherwise.   This is particularly true in our case with Rye because he only has a smallish window of time in the day when he is open to learning [...]

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Homeschooling Bipolar

Monday, April 26, 2010

Homeschooling is going well for us.  Life is so much calmer now.  I am loving it.
It’s funny, though.  Sometimes Rye’s friends ask me why we are homeschooling now (in case you don’t follow the blog, we just recently went back to homeschooling after about a year in public school).  I explain to them that because [...]

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Sunday Review

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Well, I would say we had a productive week over here.
I officially withdrew Rye from school and started homeschooling.  Rye is so much more relaxed now that we are homeschooling it is ridiculous.  Not that he is a different kid but it certainly helps to have the anxiety, overstimulation, and frustration of regular school out [...]

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Back At The Homestead

Thursday, April 15, 2010

I am happy to report that Don and Rye had a good weekend together while I was in New York.  Don said by Monday Rye was really starting to wind up but I came home that night so Rye decompressed with me for a while and then went to bed.  And, surprisingly enough, I have [...]

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