No more Lesson plans to write. No more tests to grade. No longer are my boys my homeschool students. I am changing out of my homeschool hat into my personal hobbies hat. Gardening, fitness, photography, part time employment.
Truth Is.... I just deleted quite a few blogs off of my Following List. Why? because some of them are only giveaways and reviews anymore. I have no desire to read those- so I don't need the zillions of entries clogging up my reader list. OR because as many times as I read them and comment on the actual content of their blog, they have never reciprocated. I am busy- life is short. . SO, now that my blog reader list if cleared, I can actually keep up with the blogs I do enjoy. :) YAY! I have missed you all my bloggy friends!
(truth is... that last truth may have upset some people)
[ and I am glad I have reader and they actually like my blog- and it's fine if they never comment. It's the ones that ask me to follow and never say anything or that I comment on all the time and they never comment back or the ones that now only do giveaways. the ones I follow, but don;t read anymore due to the afore mentioned reasons]
Truth Is... It always takes me 3 tries to spell "occasionally" correctly. What would I do without Spell Check??!
Truth Is... I sometimes doubt what we are doing on this whole un/homeschool journey. Am I teaching them enough? Will they get into a college and do well? Should I have made them do workbooks and curriculum and textbooks with pages of questions?
Truth Is... I think we'd not be god moms if we never questioned if we are doing it right. It shows we care and want what is best- to question if we are doing it right.
Truth Is... the self-doubt about unschooling only last a short while. Maybe an hour or 2. Then I get over it.And incorporate something new into our schedule if there is a specific that had me concerned.
Truth Is.... the gardener is outside knocking on the front door to get the key to the gate, to get into the backyard... and I am ignoring the knocks. I do not feel like going down there in my PJs & rather he stay out of my backyard anyway......
Truth Is.. I should have left the Cow Heart out back and then gave him the key...... I often tell him to not bother with the backyard as we are doing school projects. Which is the truth- as unschoolers every odd project the boys do in the backyard is 'part of school'- somehow
Truth Is... I wrote this Wednesday Afternoon, not Thursday.
The Idea for the Truth Is post comes from Julianna..... who got it from....well, someone else- I forget and couldn't find her post that said from whom she took it.....
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I need to do #1 again. There's a blog I started following because she was writing about homeschooling and then it became all blog hops all the time. Not so good.
And your post reminded me I never finished reading your cow heart post.
Thanks for stopping by my blog. I like Truth Is.... Truth Is I follow usually those who follow me so I can remember to go check out their blog when I have more time although I wont do it on all at a certain point. But I DO make an effort to catch up on posts and get to know many of the people. If I follow you bet that I will be back to spend time on your page. I follow some review ones right now and figure I will edit it down when I have time to go see whose opinion I trust. I like your honesty and randomness of the honesty :) I look forward to getting to know you!
i am always fascinated by homeschooling. though i don't plan on this with my children, i enjoy reading tips from moms who do homeschool. i feel like i can take ideas and use them in our free time to make it more educational!
BTW, i'm a new follower! be sure to link up on our Alexa hop this week:
Thanks for stopping by my blog... I am a new follower. I completely understand about the comments things because a lot of them just want you to follow them without any interest in yours and usually never visit again...So I think I need to do #1 because I don't care much for giveaways either.
I feel you with the giveaways and reviews blogs. I just don't know how that can be fulfilling for some people--but I guess everyone's different. I appreciated your comment and was glad you came by, and I'll always try to comment back if you happen to do it again! Have a great day!
Hey, newest follower from the blog hops today. I've voted for your blog as I've liked what I've seen so far. Hope you'll come by and visit me sometime soon.
I do periodic clean outs of my stuff, too. Mostly FB- I hate being friends w/ ppl that never have anything to say to me... You're not that interesting, ya' know? Well, I hope you didn't delete us! I'm stopping by to thank you for bringing your tool bar over!!! :) Tiffany
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I need to do #1 again. There's a blog I started following because she was writing about homeschooling and then it became all blog hops all the time. Not so good.
And your post reminded me I never finished reading your cow heart post.
I think I need to do #1 too. Happy Thursday!
Thanks for stopping by my blog. I like Truth Is.... Truth Is I follow usually those who follow me so I can remember to go check out their blog when I have more time although I wont do it on all at a certain point. But I DO make an effort to catch up on posts and get to know many of the people. If I follow you bet that I will be back to spend time on your page. I follow some review ones right now and figure I will edit it down when I have time to go see whose opinion I trust.
I like your honesty and randomness of the honesty :) I look forward to getting to know you!
Truth is. . .I'm that someone else! I love perusing your blog occasionally. I loved your CSI pickle activity with the boys.
i am always fascinated by homeschooling. though i don't plan on this with my children, i enjoy reading tips from moms who do homeschool. i feel like i can take ideas and use them in our free time to make it more educational!
BTW, i'm a new follower! be sure to link up on our Alexa hop this week:
http://www.spearmintbaby.com/2011/04/alexa-blog-hop-421-427.html
Thanks for stopping by my blog... I am a new follower.
I completely understand about the comments things because a lot of them just want you to follow them without any interest in yours and usually never visit again...So I think I need to do #1 because I don't care much for giveaways either.
I feel you with the giveaways and reviews blogs. I just don't know how that can be fulfilling for some people--but I guess everyone's different. I appreciated your comment and was glad you came by, and I'll always try to comment back if you happen to do it again!
Have a great day!
I'm following you back! Thanks for hopping by!
Great blog! Happy to be a new follower :)
Stopping by from bassgiraffe's Thursday Hop!
Hey, newest follower from the blog hops today. I've voted for your blog as I've liked what I've seen so far.
Hope you'll come by and visit me sometime soon.
Thanks,
Tami
http://www.thethingswefindinside.com/
I do periodic clean outs of my stuff, too. Mostly FB- I hate being friends w/ ppl that never have anything to say to me... You're not that interesting, ya' know?
Well, I hope you didn't delete us! I'm stopping by to thank you for bringing your tool bar over!!! :)
Tiffany
Truth is... if you left the cow heart out, he'd never ask to go in the backyard again.
Truth is... I am the worst speller on the planet.
Truth is... I am sitting here waiting for the septic guy to come and pump out my tank... so your day COULD be worse. :)
Kimberly,
I like your "truths" so much. I especially like about how you have spelled "occasionally" wrong; I usually do that, too.
I'm also thinking of chucking some of the blogs I follow. It's sad because I believe in reciprocation, but I don't get it in return.
Thanks for having visited my blog.
Rebecca
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