This is the follow-up to my “Journey to Heal My Thyroid” intro post, elaborating on my detox diet. In short, I don’t want to kill my thyroid until I’ve tried a holistic approach first. Dr. Wellness (my made-up name for the holistic practitioner I’m seeing) did a bunch of blood work, and more results are trickling…
Category: Daily Life
My Journey to Heal My Thyroid: The Beginning
Hello again. A number of people, including myself, have gently suggested I’m past due for a post. By a lot. Then, my nutritionist suggested I blog my experience with my new diet, and I thought that was a great idea. Maybe it can help someone else relate, who is also going though difficult dietary changes….
Team Clean
We called a family meeting about toys, during which we polled the boys for obstacles and ideas/solutions regarding putting toys away. Based on feedback, my husband invented and got buy-in for “The Remember Game,” which everyone participated in defining and refining. You play by remembering to put away what you play with, and by saying…
Math on Time
I found Ian’s watch a couple days ago, buried in a drawer I was organizing. He happily strapped it on his wrist and set about determining the time. We have worked on time-telling a little bit here and there, so we reviewed the “math” of each hand. Today, he demonstrated a math trick that, seriously,…
Radio Science
As is common with our time in the car together, we started an interesting educational discussion today on the way home from Isaac’s piano lesson. One of the boys was talking about God. Ian made the analogy that God is like the power plant and prayer is the power lines connecting us to Him. Next,…
Look, Chef-Walker
Unschooling
Life With Ian
I send Ian upstairs to get dressed. After hearing 10 minutes of thumping and singing, I ask if he’s dressed. “No, I can’t find my pants.” After 10 minutes more of thumping and singing, I hear him call down, “Hey, Isaac! I fixed your glow worm!” Another reminder and 10 minutes go by, and a…
2013 According to Facebook
Since I haven’t yet come to terms with making microblogs, and mostly post the interesting stuff in status form, here are some FB status selections from 2013. As it turns out, I did a lot of photo statuses early in the year, which I can’t easily copy. That’s okay. There is enough fun after November…
Goldie’s Last Day
Last Saturday night, Ian won a goldfish from a Fall Festival game. Had I known he was headed there, I would’ve redirected him, but he won the fish and was very excited, so we went with it. I immediately felt bad, sorry as it is to be sad about a “feeder fish.” I knew we…
Monsters, Mars and Math
Here are the latest home school highlights: We tore through the abridged “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells. The boys were insatiable, if not a little scared, but it helped when we reminded them that everything worked out because “he” was retelling adventures he survived, instead of enduring them in “real time.” Isaac insisted we…
S.A.H.M. Hill 