10 Days of Blog Hopping

I ran across this blog post about 10 days to a peaceful home. Not surprisingly, I can't find the original source again. That's what happens when you follow hyperlinks on the internet. In characteristic "web" fashion, that post has several links of other "10 Days of" bloggers. So here is the list that I want to follow for the next 10 days. Some of them are homeschoolers, which is why I am posting here, on LILLILY.

Heart of the Matter - the organizer. 

• 10 days of Character Studies | Confessions of a Homeschooler
• 10 days of Christmas Countdown Ideas | Milk & Cookies
• 10 days of Creative Writing | Chocolate on My Cranium
• 10 days of Crockpot Meals | The Happy Housewife
• 10 Days to a Godly Marriage | Women Living Well
• 10 Days of High School Homeschooling | Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers
• 10 Days of Growing Leaders | Mom's Mustard Seeds
• 10 days of I Wish I Had Known | Fruit in Season
• 10 days of Keeping Your Marbles | The Tie That Binds Us
• 10 days of Kid-friendly Food | Planner Perfect
• 10 Days of Language Arts Lesson Planning | Jimmie's Collage
• 10 Days of Learning Apps | Daze of Adventure
• 10 Days of a Mason Jar Christmas | Cajun Joie de Vivre
• 10 Days of More JESUS in Christmas | Preschoolers and Peace
• 10 Days to a Peaceful Home | Raising Arrows
• 10 Days of Raising a Life-Long-Learner | Bright Ideas Press
• 10 days of Science with Math | Blog, She Wrote
• 10 days of Teaching Values | Our Journey Westward
• 10 days of Winning your Child's Heart | I Take Joy

Boys being boys

My new favorite blog is Skipping School. A recent guest post titled "Boys Will Be Boys—Even When They’re Unschoolers" caught my attention enough to share it with anyone who actually still reads my blog after almost a year of inactivity. (Hi Cindy!)

I don't like fighting. Or arguing. So when my boys disagree in voices that sound like arguing to me, I get upset. It also bothers me that their favorite Wii game is Super Smash Bros. Brawl. It's a fighting game with Nintendo characters, but you can fight against another player, not just CPU players. Some of the characters use special Nintendo powers, and some use bombs and guns. My boys also like any game that blows up things or creatures. I'd prefer they stick with virtually blowing up things, not creatures, especially not creatures that makes noises and squirt red when they die. But I'm not a boy! 

However, I was a tomboy. (Is that term even used anymore? It's certainly not PC.) I pretended a bent stick was a gun. We played cops & robbers, kidnap, and many other imagination filled games as a kid. I was sometimes the bandit/kidnapper/thief and sometimes the cop/sheriff/rescuer and sometimes the victim. We used to tie each other up to the fence, a tree, or the pole in my friend's basement. It was great fun. Even considering my "macho" games as a young girl, my boys are different than me.

Of course they are different than me! They are wonderful unique individuals. In each of them I see aspects of myself. He is his mother's son. He is like his dad. He is who he is!

A Sample of Building School

DS1 is going to get a sample of "Building School" next week! He is participating in Camp Invention at his cousins' elementary school. (They will both be there also.) It is 5 days of 9:00-3:30 structured science fun. I am very sure that he will enjoy the content, but I'm not sure how he will react to a full day of "school" with so many kids for 5 days in a row.

This spring we were at "Monday School" (WWHM) from 10:00-2:00, an hour of which was lunch and play time. He has been to scout camp that was all day (and overnight), but it only lasted 3 days. I'm actually very excited for him.

DS2 and I will have Monday through Wednesday together, then on Thursday and Friday he will be at Cub Scout day camp with Dad. I'll be all alone Thursday and Friday!