Is that how you spell that? Anomoly.  Anomaly.  Gee, where is a dictionary when you need one!?  Anyway, I haven't blogged since the big blizzard.  We are still buried under several feet of snow and down to our last can of chicken and noodle soup and our last log. 

 NOT!  I was going to post a video of the kids on their homemade hill in the front yard, but couldn't get one on here.....maybe next blizzard.

We had sunny skies the day after the big storm and all we heard all day was drip, drip, drip, drip, drip.......and it was wet and slushy and muddy and every time the dog went out, we had to meet her at the door with a towel to wipe off her muddy paws before she could come back in.  Of course, there was at least one time when we missed it and viola' she jumped right into the recliner and well, made a muddy Midi mess!

So, lets see......I started out this blog with a statement about site meters.  If you don't have one you are missing out on a whole lot of fun.  First off, you can see who visits your blog and how they got there.  I get some of the weirdest (oddest) things on there sometimes, but other times I am blessed by the search queries.  I have had several from China----all searching for the "definition for success."  Isn't that interesting?  And the googlebot gets to my blog because of a past entry I wrote on my definition of homeschooling success.  I think it's on my sidebar but I am TOO lazy right now to give you a live link.  It's been a long day! 

And speaking of technology.......I have set up google alert for "unschooling" since I blog about that on Wednesday's on the Front Porch.  I used to get one or two hits on that a month.  Now I am getting up to 4 or 5 in a DAY.  Yup, lots of unschoolers out there are coming out of the woodwork and blogging about their unschooling lives.  There is always some very good (or bad) debate about unschooling because it is such a broad description for something that not a lot of folks really understand (or need to, in my opinion) and there are so many who are adamantly opposed to it because it sounds so.....non-educational.  But I read a really neat blog the other day about a lady who said she had SO much planning to do because she unschooled her children and it took a lot of work to make it work for them.  Bravo is what I say to that!  It does take work, and it doesn't.  It just depends on who you are and what your needs are......and what your children's needs are....and it really isn't any body else's business if you ask me.

And then there is this other burning question that has come up a time or two....."Can a Christian be an unschooler?"   

I would love to hear your comments on all this :)

Blessings!

Homeschooling IS Life,

Nancy

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