Hello everyone, sorry I haven't blogged in a few days.
Well, I have 2 topics to talk about. #1) I CAN'T wait until my kids are DONE with Public School FOREVER!!! This last Thursday my oldest daughter came home with math home work like usual. Well she was all frustrated with it AGAIN!!!. Well turns out, she was doing what the school called "parenthesis puzzles" ?? Ok, what is a parenthesis puzzle I thought?? Well, after looking at it.. It turnes out to be algebra! Now...don't get me wrong I LOVE Algebra is GREAT & I think it is a good challenge & also very fun! However, my daughter is in 3rd grade! She has not been taught the basic, nessesarry math skills in the correct manner to master it & now they are giving them Algebra!?!?!?!?!? What the heck are they thinking? If you want my honest opinion I DO BELIEVE they are setting our children up to get sooo frustrated that they give up & are failures at math! My husband & me did not even learn any algebra until 7th grade & by that time we were masters at multiplication, division, addition, subtraction..ect..
Anyways.... With about a good hour of helping & explaining. She caught on. However she is NOT strong in the basic math skills thanks to the "partial products method" of math they are teaching our kids!!! Until this year she was actually pretty good at math! It is sad huh?
Well topic #2) Update on work/boss saga.. I found out on Wednesday.. My Anti Homeschooling boss use to be a TEACHER!!! Well Geee... That explains it all right there..why she is so against homeschooling!!! So everything I told her about why I am for homeschooling probably crushed her ego & in her mind it was probably was like me saying I can do a better job than a "college educated teacher" such as herself! I honest to God had no clue she use to be a teacher!! I found out from a co worker. Sooo.. All week at work my boss has not said a word to me! I did say hello to her & asked her how she was doing on Tuesday. All I got was a hello back & fine. She has even been really weird with the other lady I work with in our "department." I don't know why? She did nothing wrong. Anyways, I'll update as I go..
Please pray that the days left in this school year go fast! :) & also my weird days until I become free from work & return to a mom, wife, & homeschooling mom go fast too! :)
Thank You ALL for your support & for listening to my "RANTS"
GOD BLESS! 
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Feb. 10, 2007 - Untitled Comment
First she has homework(like they didn't already take up enough of her day)
and then it was frustrating!!!
Hopefully she is looking forward to the end of all this.
BTW thanks for commenting on Jacob's blog. It was a real encouragment to him and it made me rewatch our vacation videos. It made me want to be all sappy with all those memories!