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Courses and items for this academic year: Charlie has some high school Carnegie units under his belt, between last year and this summer: Physical Science Honors Geography Honors Algebra I Latin I 1/2 unit Intro to Engineering 1/2 unit Communication This year, he will take: Geometry Honors English I Honors Biology I (haven't decided if this will be an Honors course or not yet) Politics and Citizenship Guitar Home Economics Intro to Agriculture This is proof that you can successfully homeschool through Asperger's, multiple learning disabilities, and the across the spectrum.

Do you ever have something that really weighs upon you??  I am sick of hearing about sacrificing for the greater good. My husband and I like to watch the television show Person of Interest   together. I was watching one of the episodes today while working on some stuff for my universities. It was playing in the background. The main character discussed sacrificing one for the greater good of many. Now this bothers me... It mainly bothers me, because this was said to me by a pediatric nurse in relation to my younger child many years ago. I do not remember what the nurse looked like. I do not remember what else I did that day, but I do remember her words. I still hear them. They whisper at me sometimes when we are at the doctor. This happened when my child was 4. He was in 4K at the school at taught at. He had climbed a bobbed-wire fence at the back of the playground to retrieve a ball that had went beyond the boundary lines of the schoolyard. He got cut on the fence and de...

I used Grammarly to grammar check this post, because even homeschooling educator mommies can make mistakes!!" It has been a whirlwind of events since May 30. Though in actuality, it has just been life. My younger son was supposed to be going off to camp in the mountains. A colleague from LDA had secured him a place in an adventuring camp. He has been before and loved it. It was a great experience for him before, but it is a bit beyond our finances to be able to afford him the opportunity to go. He was supposed to spend the weekend whitewater rafting, rappelling, and doing a ropes course. I had planned to spend the weekend in the mountains recuperating from what seems like a series of weekdays with no weekends. I was supposed to go on a foraging hike that I had scheduled some time back and wanted to go to the wild foods market. After he broke his wrist, he could no longer go to the camp, so I thought the mountain weekend was out. Alas, despite the broken arm, we left for the mo...

My son broke his wrist/arm playing rugby with some other kids on our last instructional day at the resource center this year.   It was a yucky break, making it not possible to routinely set and crushing bone at one spot completely. He had surgery to set a pin.         This is a picture of my son's hand. It shows how swollen he had become in just a matter of hours. Although, that was not why I took this picture. I took it because the surgeon wrote yes on his hand to note which side to operate on...Remember, my son is dyslexic and this was being read by him upside down on his hand. It was funny, because my son had thought the surgeon had wrote the word SEX on his hand and did not read it as yes.    Awaiting surgery...    Post-op x-ray.   A week later, we went back to the surgeon to have the temporary cast removed and have a permanent harder cast applied. Then pin was checked and a new x-ray was taken. His wr...