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Weeks in Review

Follow along as I chronicle our homeschooling year, one week at a time!

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Sunday
Feb202011

About My Blog and Me


Random Bits of Useless Information

  • My nails are always short.
  • My hair is always clean.
  • I have a husband.
  • I call him The Man.  As in, The Man.  Yeah.
  • We are plagued by blessed with two demons children.
  • We call them The Goobers.
  • We I homeschool them.
  • I freaking hate the word “homeschool.” 
  • It sounds like a word my cousin JimBob in West Virginia would make up.
  • RickyJoe!  You know I love JimBob and West Virginia, so chill the hell out.
  • I curse a lot.
  • I’m trying to stop.  I once went a whole week without dropping an F-bomb.
  • My feet are large.
  • I’ve never much liked dogs.
  • I’m really more of a cat person.
  • We had a dog, but he retired to West Virginia.
  • I knit.
  • Once the kids are grown, I will go to the movies at least three times a week.
  • The Man is active duty Air Force. 
  • I’m a veteran.
  • I blog erratically.
  • That’s how I do everything else, too.
  • We’re Lutheran.
  • We’re Bad Lutherans.
  • But we feel terrible about it, so it’s okay.
  • We’re obsessed with the X-Files I Love Lucy The Big Bang Theory.
  • We watch an episode nearly every night.
  • Sometimes we watch two episodes.
  • Or three.
  • Everyone in my family was born in a different state.
  • But we’ll all end up in West Virginia eventually.

What You Might Expect to See Here at Fairly Square

Fluff.  Amusing anecdotes.  Pictures of knitting.  Latin progress reports.  Recipes.  Giveaways.  WTF moments. 

What You Will Absolutely Never See Here at Fairly Square

The rehashing of childhood traumas.  Political ranting.  Husband bashing.  Plagiarism.  Blow-by-blow accounts of my gynecological visits. 

Sunday
Feb202011

About Our Homeschool

We’re a military family, which means our pater familias works irregular shifts and is periodically required to spend many weeks away from home.  Homeschooling allows us to spend time together as a family no matter what shift The Man is working.  Working nights?  No problem.  We can see him during the day.  Working weekends?  No problem.  We can see him during the week.  Long deployment?  Well, that is a problem, but being able to take a month off school at either end makes it more bearable.  Plus, homeschooling means at least one thing will remain consistent for the little goobers throughout The Man’s military career.  Sure, they have to find new friends every time we move, but they don’t have to adjust to a new math program or classroom pecking order.

I won’t lie.  My kids would probably still be in school if the schools weren’t such a big, fat pain in the ass.  I might even put up with the hassle if I had even the slightest hope that it would eventually result in reasonably well-educated children.  Sadly, I’ve seen our school’s textbooks, and it just wasn’t going to happen.  So here we are.  Sure, I ended up trading one ass pain for another, but my kids have access to (and sometimes even read) real books, and I don’t get any notes home from the teacher about what sort of expensive new shoes I have to buy for gym class or how concerned the administration is because JellyMan doesn’t care to participate in the touchy-feely project of the week. 

The Goobers’ Curriculum

My Curriculum

  • Saxon Math
  • Henle Latin
  • Athenaze Greek

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Sunday
Feb202011

About My Knitting

About eight years ago, I decided I needed something to do while The Man was watching ESPN. Reading just wasn’t cutting it because I had to look up from my book and gaze adoringly at him every time he said something profound about the game.  It ticked me off because I was trying to read, dammit, and it ticked him off because he was trying to have a conversation, dammit, so I armed myself with every knitting book I could find at the library and taught myself to knit.  I went from garter stitch rectangles to socks to lace before you can say “check your gauge,” and knitting has saved my sanity (and my marriage) during more play-off series than you can shake a hockey stick at.  If you’d like to see more of my knitting projects, look at my knitting posts or check my notebook on Ravelry.  If you don’t have a Ravelry account (and oh my goodness, why would that be?) just hop on over to my knitting set on Flickr.

 

 

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