I've quickly discovered that this blog is going to obsess some of my daily minutes, if not hours, of thought.  I find my self looking off into oblivion and thinking "I'll have to blog about that and see what the others think".  So now I just have to get all these topics floating around in my brain down onto paper.... errr hard drive so I will remember what to write about. 

There is so much value in other homeschoolers' opinions.  It seems that no matter how satisfied I am with our homeschooling experience, someone comes along and introduces me to a new technique, project or concept.  And of course the first thing that pops into my head is 'we HAVE to try that!"

Well I've finally come to the realization that we are never going to work in everything I've said THAT phrase about.  But I do want to work in a few every now and then. 

Here's my dilemma:  We already have a full day of work in our schedule.  I mean full.  It goes something like this everyday:

7:30 - 9 am breakfast and chores

9 am - lunch :  Bible, History, Math

lunch - 2 or 3 pm:  Lang. Arts, Science, Read Alouds

2 or 3 pm - 4:  outside time, sometimes we end up doing our read alouds outside

4 - 5 pm: cooking and chores (kids get 20 minutes of tv, video game, and computer time)

We eat dinner, do a Worship time and then have about an hour or 2 before bed time.

I'm just not seeing where to work in all these wonderful ideas that are gathering virtual dust.  There are so many I literally peruse them every few months and catch myself saying, "oh I forgot all about that! we have to do that one soon!"

So any ideas on how to incorporate some fun projects into an already packed school day? 

I'm all ears.....