Robin

Hello friends,
I just wanted to drop a line to let you all know I love to read these little
stories. I am reassured that the way we live and learn is an excellent
choice! My ds is 5 and dd is 3, and the hardest part of unschooling, to me,
is the nagging feeling I'm not doing enough to keep him "up to par" for lack
of better words. I need this type of list to encourage me along!

We live in the desert, so there is no rainfall to speak of, but I allow my
kids to make mud and they do so nearly daily. I also went to the thrift
store and purchased them ladles, spoons, forks, spatulas, pie pans... all
theirs for mud pies and mud soup (my dd's favorite thing to create). I have
family that is horrified that our once manicured back yard is now half dug
(the half under the tree shade!) and that I encourage the water hose to make
mud, but my children's learning comes above a perfect yard, and mud washes
off!

And, yes, definitely, when we have our couple of rainfalls each year, we are
outside playing in it!

Robin
Much learning does not teach understanding.
- Heraclitus
540-480 BC

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> 1. Re: A nice day
> From: kbcdlovejo@...
> 2. Our Rainy Day
> From: "Kimber" <snibbor@...>
> 3. Re: A nice day
> From: Deborah Lewis <ddzimlew@...>
> 4. Re: Our Rainy Day
> From: Deborah Lewis <ddzimlew@...>
> 5. A nice day
> From: "Dawn Falbe" <astrologerdawn@...>
> 6. Re: A nice day
> From: Deborah Lewis <ddzimlew@...>
> 7. Re: Fw: Leonid Meteor Storm Forecast
> From: "Michael Millard" <nomads3@...>
> 8. Re: A nice day
> From: Deborah Lewis <ddzimlew@...>
> 9. Re: Our Rainy Day
> From: Deborah Lewis <ddzimlew@...>
> 10. Re: Our Rainy Day
> From: "Tami Labig Duquette" <tamilabigduquette@...>
> 11. Re: Our Rainy Day
> From: Kate Green <karegree@...>
> 12. Re: Our Rainy Day/nasty neighbors
> From: Dnowens@...
> 13. Re: Our Rainy Day/nasty neighbors
> From: "Aileen Bath" <aileenb@...>
> 14. Re: Our Rainy Day
> From: "joanna514" <Wilkinson6@...>
> 15. Re: Re: Our Rainy Day
> From: Deborah Lewis <ddzimlew@...>
> 16. Re: Fw: Leonid Meteor Storm Forecast
> From: Deborah Lewis <ddzimlew@...>
> 17. Re: Our Rainy Day
> From: "avgjean" <avgjean@...>
> 18. Funny family
> From: "avgjean" <avgjean@...>
> 19. Re: Re: Our Rainy Day
> From: Deborah Lewis <ddzimlew@...>
> 20. Re: Our Rainy Day
> From: "avgjean" <avgjean@...>
> 21. new
> From: Tami Lewis <oldfashionmama@...>
> 22. Re: new
> From: "Tami Labig Duquette" <tamilabigduquette@...>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:04:28 EDT
> From: kbcdlovejo@...
> Subject: Re: A nice day
>
> In a message dated 10/10/2002 3:35:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [email protected] writes:
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>
> > Message: 4
> > Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:54:36 -0600
> > From: Deborah Lewis <ddzimlew@...>
> > Subject: A nice day
> >
> > Dylan and I drove to Anaconda, about twenty eight miles away, for lunch
> > today.
>
> I'm waiting for the book.
>
> Seriously!
>
> People are constantly asking what an unschooling day looks like. Deb, if
you
> would compile all these wonderful daily stories, it would be THE book
> unschoolers would recommend to wannabees!
>
> Think about it! Hard!
>
> Kelly
> (Excitedly awaiting the arrival of almost two hundred cool unschoolers!!!)
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:01:43 -0500
> From: "Kimber" <snibbor@...>
> Subject: Our Rainy Day
>
> Okay, Deb. You've inspired me to share our day yesterday. :)
>
> We awoke to the sound of rainfall outside. A slow, steady, relaxing rain
that makes you want to lounge in bed all day. My daughter was snuggled up
beside me and smiling sweetly from her dreams.
>
> Mady (6) somehow talked her brother Alex (9) into painting her toenails
(because he does such a gooooood job) for her. It was the cutest thing I
had seen in a while........he was kneeling in the floor painting toes, while
she sat in the chair looking like a pampered princess. I did find out later
that it was actually a business proposition that got Alex interested. He
was charging her 25 cents per toe/finger and he easily told me that she
would be giving him $5 of her allowance on payday. :)
>
> A while later, I found the kids sitting under the patio cover listening to
the rain fall onto it. I could see the excitement in their eyes as they
asked me, "Hey Mom, can we go play in the mud?" Now, I am sort of a
perfectionist and I don't like things dirty. I usually don't intentionally
let them get covered head to toe in mud, but I decided it is surely to be a
learning experience, right? (we've been completely unschooling for 4-5
months now and I am still doing my best to deschool myself!) Needless to
say, they had a blast. After the gigantic mud pie construction, they
discovered how fun it was to rub the mud all over each other which of
course, had to be removed by spraying each other with the water hose.
After their subsequent showers, wrapped in their fuzziest robes, they had
steaming hot chocolate for afternoon snack.
>
> It wasn't long before something else fun was started. Alex got his Hot
Wheels out and they had crash up derby in the kitchen floor. They used all
the blocks, Legos, and Lincoln Logs to build towers to crash into. While
Alex was building, Mady got tired of waiting and got out a math workbook and
did a couple of pages. She had to have me check for accuracy as soon as she
was finished (which of course my baby did wonderfully!) and then hang it on
the fridge for all to see.
>
> Then the fort building started. I truly guess I have lost the battle for
the living room. We don't have a playroom so the kids have taken over my
tastefully decorated living area. They had forts built from one end of the
room to the other. Alex got out his video camera and started filming a
sequel to "War of Wars" which he filmed last week for his Mimi. For his
birthday last year, she got him almost every GI Joe doll and accessory
available. She is in the Army Reserve and very military oriented. He
filmed his dolls (excuse me, It was requested I use the term,
soldiers........) ahem, ....soldiers in the midst of a ferocious battle. It
was kinda Toy Storyish. Anyway, they were now doing a sequel with Barbie
and her friends with the Soldiers. Barbie's house was eventually bombed
(you could 'hear' the fighter pilots coming) but everyone made it out okay.
Whew!
>
> What a wonderful day for us all! I even had time to do some reading
myself. We now have to plan Daddy's birthday party ....it's tonight....and
people are coming over.......eeek! I guess the forts will have to be put
away for another rainy day.
>
>
> Kimber
> Momma to Alex (ds9) and Madalyn (dd6)
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:06:55 -0600
> From: Deborah Lewis <ddzimlew@...>
> Subject: Re: A nice day
>
>
> On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 02:40:19 EDT Dnowens@... writes:
>
> > Do you
> > live
> > somewhere up in the Northern Midwest? Montana, N. Dakota?
>
>
> We live in Montana, in a little town in the south west part of the state.
> It's beautiful here and interesting, geographically, but I've never fit
> in, personally. I'm a granola in a meat and potatoes town. I used to
> kind of hide out, but now I flaunt it. I figure every little cowboy town
> needs a character! Dylan loves it here.
> He thinks small town life is perfect. He wouldn't mind though, if we'd
> get a good toy store.
>
> Deb L
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:33:53 -0600
> From: Deborah Lewis <ddzimlew@...>
> Subject: Re: Our Rainy Day
>
>
> Kimber, don't tell that entrepreneurial son of yours people pay good
> money to have mud smeared on them at expensive spa's! LOL. What a fun
> family.
>
> Our neighbor doesn't let her kids play in the rain. Dylan loves the
> rain, in the summer when it's warm, and is always out in it. She came
> over a few weeks ago with her littlest boy and told me... came over TO
> tell me, that HER kids don't play in the rain because they could get sick
> and she didn't think it was fair that Dylan was out there, right across
> the street, where her kids could see, playing in the rain. I said, no
> that's not fair that they can't play in the rain too, and I was amazed
> about the illness because he's ten now and has never gotten sick from it.
> She looked at her little boy and said, sternly, "GO HOME" and then told
> me she didn't appreciate me saying stuff like that in front of her
> kids... She didn't seem to think it was a problem that she was in my
> yard, in front of my kid telling me WE shouldn't be outside because HER
> kids weren't allowed in the rain.... well, whatever.
>
> Your mud story made me happy. = ) You want to come and be my neighbor?
>
> Deb L
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:43:07 -0700
> From: "Dawn Falbe" <astrologerdawn@...>
> Subject: A nice day
>
> Deb:
>
> I loved reading about your day with Dylan. Sometimes I forget it's the
> small things that make the difference. The discovering of something
> simple. Yesterday I picked up my best friend's son from school (wow
> those places are noises).. He had a half day and she's out of town in
> Kansas for a week. My boys couldn't get over the amount of school buses
> in one place!! Zak and Eliott played together for about 6 hours and had
> a great time. They dug up the back garden and built a moat and a
> castle. It was fascinating to watch them on and off. Soccer practice
> came later, followed by a stop at grandma and grandpas and then DH
> decided to take both sons to Peter Piper Pizza. Needless to say my baby
> (Max aged 3) didn't go to bed till I think 11:30pm. He was in bed with
> me and I think I fell asleep about 11:30pm.
>
> What a great day was had by all...
>
> Dawn
>
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:16:04 -0600
> From: Deborah Lewis <ddzimlew@...>
> Subject: Re: A nice day
>
> Dawn, when Dylan five we had a friend here who's children were in
> Kindergarten and second grade. We'd pick them up after school three days
> a week and they'd play at our house for a couple of hours while their mom
> was at work. Dylan thought the school was really interesting and we'd go
> a little early so he could climb on the playground equipment while we
> waited.
> The thing was, after picking up the kids they would always have something
> to say about their day. The little girl, Morgan, always had a headache,
> always had been hit or pushed or otherwise assaulted or offended and the
> older boy Jared was being bullied by some mean kid. I never worried that
> Dylan would want to go to school because he felt so sorry for his friends
> who had to go.
>
> He hears all the time at Karate and Tae Kwon Do that he's lucky he
> doesn't have to go to school, but we still sneak in and climb that jungle
> gym thing once in awhile. I expect we'll get busted someday...but I
> figure, hey, I paid for it, right?
>
> Deb L
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:25:56 -0400
> From: "Michael Millard" <nomads3@...>
> Subject: Re: Fw: Leonid Meteor Storm Forecast
>
> My hubby used to work at the McDonald Observatory in Far West Texas so
last year we were able to see the leonid show and it was truly spectacular.
We got our sleeping bags and laid out most of the night. We laid on top of
the car because they were shooting from all directions and we couldn't see
from the ground. I do miss the fantastic sky shows we witnessed in Texas.
Sigh... Mary in Va.
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> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:18:10 -0600
> From: Deborah Lewis <ddzimlew@...>
> Subject: Re: A nice day
>
>
> On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:04:28 EDT kbcdlovejo@... writes:
>
> > if you
> > would compile all these wonderful daily stories, it would be THE
> > book
> > unschoolers would recommend to wannabees!
>
> I think such a book would have to be written after the kid who
> participated in the stories and adventures was grown up and doing
> something people consider "real".
> *I* don't believe that's the only thing that would give these stories
> value, but I think nervous parents want a blueprint AND a guarantee.
> Without it people would still have panic attacks, but with it they could
> say to worried husbands and relatives, other kids lived this way and
> they turned out ok...
> There will be lots and lots of those stories before too long. = )
>
> > Kelly
> > (Excitedly awaiting the arrival of almost two hundred cool
> > unschoolers!!!)
>
> Wonderful Kelly! Wish I was going to be there! Have a fabulous weekend!
>
> Deb L
>
>
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> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:43:05 -0600
> From: Deborah Lewis <ddzimlew@...>
> Subject: Re: Our Rainy Day
>
> ***Anyway, they were now doing a sequel with Barbie and her friends with
> the Soldiers. Barbie's house was eventually bombed (you could 'hear' the
> fighter pilots coming) but everyone made it out okay. Whew!***
>
> Someone posted to the list (this list?) about a GI Joe set you can get
> now with a soldier in a bombed out Barbie style house. He'd taken it
> over as a command post or something. Sound's like the inventor had your
> son in mind!
>
> My brothers used to fly over my doll houses and drop bombs. I sometimes
> had to sacrifice my dolls to their POW camps. Sometimes I would find my
> dolls entombed in great pyramids in the sand box, or hanging from the
> light fixture in the closet. I'm sure a psychologist today would have
> something to say about that. LOL.
>
> Deb L, who still has some of those old dolls, even if they are battle
> worn.
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
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> Message: 10
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:13:36 -0500
> From: "Tami Labig Duquette" <tamilabigduquette@...>
> Subject: Re: Our Rainy Day
>
> LOL, My son (when younger) pulled off Barbies head and threw it because he
> thought she was using Ken (which was his doll) Later that day we played
> badmitton (sp) with her poor ole head. My oldest, who is a feminist says
> Barbie is a tramp :)
>
> Had to share, even if it is an over-share :)
>
> Peace,
> Tami
> 'Namaste' is an East Indian greeting which means 'the light within me bows
> to the light within you.' In other words, beyond our achy bones, our tired
> feet and our multi-colored real life soap operas, lurks a dimension that
is
> more than the body, the persona, the ego and all the 'trappings and the
> suits of woe' as Hamlet would say---a dimension where there isn't a 'you'
> and 'me' but rather a synergy that is more than all that, a space for the
> eternal to rest within the temporal.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Deborah Lewis" <ddzimlew@...>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 10:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] Our Rainy Day
>
>
> > ***Anyway, they were now doing a sequel with Barbie and her friends with
> > the Soldiers. Barbie's house was eventually bombed (you could 'hear'
the
> > fighter pilots coming) but everyone made it out okay. Whew!***
> >
> > Someone posted to the list (this list?) about a GI Joe set you can get
> > now with a soldier in a bombed out Barbie style house. He'd taken it
> > over as a command post or something. Sound's like the inventor had
your
> > son in mind!
> >
> > My brothers used to fly over my doll houses and drop bombs. I sometimes
> > had to sacrifice my dolls to their POW camps. Sometimes I would find
my
> > dolls entombed in great pyramids in the sand box, or hanging from the
> > light fixture in the closet. I'm sure a psychologist today would have
> > something to say about that. LOL.
> >
> > Deb L, who still has some of those old dolls, even if they are battle
> > worn.
> >
> >
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> Message: 11
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:19:35 +0400
> From: Kate Green <karegree@...>
> Subject: Re: Our Rainy Day
>
> >I could see the excitement in their eyes as they asked me, "Hey Mom, can
> we go play in the mud?" Now, I am sort of a perfectionist and I don't
> like things dirty. I usually don't intentionally let them get covered
head
> to toe in mud, but I decided it is surely to be a learning experience,
> right?
>
>
> This reminds me of when we first moved to Hawaii years ago. The two older
> ones were about 5 and 3 and they decided to make one part of the backyard
> into a mud garden. On one of their first days doing this they decided to
> paint themselves from head to toe with the mud (2 very pale British
kids --
> completely naked). they were caked in bright red mud which we discovered
an
> hour or two later also left them stained bright red! They were kind of
> muddy/streaky colored for about 3 days after that. After a few more weeks
> they were so brown the future mud wars didn't show up as badly as at
first,
>
> Kate
>
>
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> Message: 12
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:50:40 EDT
> From: Dnowens@...
> Subject: Re: Our Rainy Day/nasty neighbors
>
> In a message dated 10/10/02 10:37:05 AM Central Daylight Time,
> ddzimlew@... writes:
>
>
> > and then told
> > me she didn't appreciate me saying stuff like that in front of her
> > kids... She didn't seem to think it was a problem that she was in my
> > yard, in front of my kid telling me WE shouldn't be outside because HER
> > kids weren't allowed in the rain.... well, whatever.
> >
> > Your mud story made me happy. = ) You want to come and be my neighbor?
> >
> > Deb L
>
> I want to be your neighbor! (the kids and I are spending the day
reorganizing
> book shelves :o( boring!)
>
> Our neighbor once had the nerve to come over and tell me that it wasn't
fair
> that my kids got to play outside during the day. I asked why it mattered
to
> her, her kids are in school all day. She told me that every time they are
at
> home on a parent teacher conference day or other holiday from school, they
> see my kids running around playing. Since she was at work, her kids had to
> stay inside until she got home at 5, and they spent the day calling her at
> work asking to play outside. This of course is very disruptive to her work
> day and she doesn't want to have to deal with it. I had suggested that she
> let the kids come out to play, I was out with the kids, they would have
fun.
> She, very meanly, told me, she didn't want her children getting the idea
that
> hsing is fun. :o( She then told me she had gone to great lengths to tell
her
> kids that Moly and Jack had to do all the same things they did at school,
all
> the bookwork and tests and that them seeing ours out disputed that idea in
> her kids heads. So I told her hsing didn't have to be that way, my kids
don't
> have bookwork or tests, my kids are free to play and be kids. She sent her
> kids home too, after hearing me say that.
>
> Since then, her children have come over often, asking questions about
hsing.
> They are very curious about our lives, and how Moly and Jack learn to read
> and do things like math and science. (Moly said she wished they would get
the
> idea and just play, since she isn't too fond of feeling like a monkey in
the
> zoo.) It is a constant source of wonder when I explain that we don't
divide
> our learning into groups like math, reading, and science. When they see
Moly
> reading about the human body and playing with her models, I hear things
like
> "We don't get to learn about that until high school." When they see Jack
> reading a book with chapters, the youngest Jack's age, made a comment that
> she didn't "get" to read *chapter books* until next year. (Jack wanted to
> know what a chapter book was.) Many times I have had to sit and explain
that
> I have never grouped books into categories like chapter books. They are
> amazed that my kids can read and write. By the things they say, I am sure
> their mother has gone to great lengths to get them to believe they would
> never learn by just being kids. :o(
>
> ~Nancy Who would rather hear all about everyone's great and not-so-great
> unschooling days than any 'ole neighbor. <g>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
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> Message: 13
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:25:14 -0400
> From: "Aileen Bath" <aileenb@...>
> Subject: Re: Our Rainy Day/nasty neighbors
>
> I loved reading this!! We live in the city -- and sometimes I get a little
weirded out about certain puddles (such as the ones with car fluids floating
on top)....but mostly I let dd jump away! About a week ago, I drained all
the water from her swimming pool. Dd proceeded to get her water boots on and
splashed around wildly in the street as the water flowed down to the storm
drain. My neighbor came out, made a face, and stated (angrily) "Ach! That
water is dirty! Why are you letting her jump in dirty water?" I informed her
that my daughter was having fun and does take baths.
>
> I grew up in a small town with a big back yard. My fondest memory of being
a little kid is playing in the dirt, stomping in streams, puddle
jumping....basically we loved anything that involved getting totally filthy.
I will never deny my daughter similar opportunities!
>
> Aileen
>
>
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> Message: 14
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:29:33 -0000
> From: "joanna514" <Wilkinson6@...>
> Subject: Re: Our Rainy Day
>
> We had a great rain day a couple of weeks ago. It was warm, so I
> told the kids to go out in bathing suits(didn't want a bunch of wet
> clothes to wash). It was one of those really HARD down pours and
> they stood on our front deck screaming with joy from the feeling.
> It lightened up a bit and they took the umbrella from our deck table
> and put it on the play set out back and made a fort.
> They were out there for over an hour and my 5 yo came in with blue
> lips(at which point I offered him a raincoat, but he opted for hot
> chocolate instead). Amazingly, noone got sick!?
> Playing in the rain is a thrill no child should be denied.
> Joanna
>
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
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>
> Message: 15
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:48:27 -0600
> From: Deborah Lewis <ddzimlew@...>
> Subject: Re: Re: Our Rainy Day
>
>
> ***Amazingly, noone got sick!?***
>
> Well! What how about that?! <g>
>
> ***Playing in the rain is a thrill no child should be denied.***
>
> I agree!
>
> Deb L, who can't leave this room because Spider man webs have been strung
> across the doorway and Dylan and his friend are sending Spidey sailing.
> Wonder if someone will get me a diet coke...I guess I could slither out
> on my belly...
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
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>
> Message: 16
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:53:02 -0600
> From: Deborah Lewis <ddzimlew@...>
> Subject: Re: Fw: Leonid Meteor Storm Forecast
>
> We couldn't see them well last year because of weather. We were so
> disappointed. We had a good show with the Perseids this summer though,
> and we've had lovely auroras this year.
> We drag my son's old tumbling mat out on the front lawn and lay there
> watching the sky.
> Hope you have a good show in VA this year, they're predicting lots of
> meteors, but also say there will be a bright moon at the peak of the
> showers.
>
> Deb L
>
> >On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:25:56 -0400 "Michael Millard"
> <nomads3@...> writes:
> > My hubby used to work at the McDonald Observatory in Far West Texas
> > so last year we were able to see the leonid show and it was truly
> > spectacular. We got our sleeping bags and laid out most of the
> > night. We laid on top of the car because they were shooting from all
> > directions and we couldn't see from the ground. I do miss the
> > fantastic sky shows we witnessed in Texas. Sigh... Mary in Va.
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
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> Message: 17
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 23:00:44 -0000
> From: "avgjean" <avgjean@...>
> Subject: Re: Our Rainy Day
>
> I love all your rain stories. I am glad I'm not the only one :))
> A couple of weeks ago, we were to have our first meeting of a Nature
> Club that I just organized. I have just invited about 6-8 other
> homeschooling families to go on nature walks with us once a month (I
> go with my girls every week). Anyway, on the first day, I woke up
> and it was raining! Of course, this being San Diego, it wasn't cold
> or anything. So I called everyone and told them that we were still
> going, but I would leave it up to them to go or not. Every single
> person showed up! Even people with babies and toddlers. We went
> for a creek walk, climbed rocks, splashed in the creek and got
> rained on for three hours. What a blast. I am so grateful to have a
> nice group of unschoolers around.
>
> Jean
>
>
>
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> Message: 18
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 23:07:50 -0000
> From: "avgjean" <avgjean@...>
> Subject: Funny family
>
>
> My family is nutty! Yesterday I talked to my newly-married sister.
> She and her husband are doing serious family planning, making a will
> and all that, so she wanted to ask me if I would agree to care for
> her future children in the event that anything happened to her and
> her husband, but she added, in the same breath,
> "But they have to go to regular school." !!!
>
> Ha ! I don't know if I should be flattered or offended. Actually,
> I am neither. I just think it's hilarious. I keep laughing every
> time I think about it. Let's see, We trust you with the life of our
> kids, but not with their education. Hee hee hee. I am still
> cracking up.
>
> Jean
>
>
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> Message: 19
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:07:34 -0600
> From: Deborah Lewis <ddzimlew@...>
> Subject: Re: Re: Our Rainy Day
>
>
> That's a great story! Wish I knew that many people close by = ) willing
> to play in the rain.
> I'd love to hear how you organized the nature walks, did you just call
> folks and say "hey, how 'bout this" ?
> How do you decide where to go and do all of you just get yourselves
> there, or do you have a van or what?
>
> Homeschoolers always cancel summer park days here when it rains! What's
> up with that?
>
> Deb L
>
>
> On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 23:00:44 -0000 "avgjean" <avgjean@...> writes:
> > I love all your rain stories. I am glad I'm not the only one :))
> > A couple of weeks ago, we were to have our first meeting of a Nature
> >
> > Club that I just organized. I have just invited about 6-8 other
> > homeschooling families to go on nature walks with us once a month (I
> >
> > go with my girls every week). Anyway, on the first day, I woke up
> > and it was raining! Of course, this being San Diego, it wasn't cold
> >
> > or anything. So I called everyone and told them that we were still
> >
> > going, but I would leave it up to them to go or not. Every single
> > person showed up! Even people with babies and toddlers. We went
> > for a creek walk, climbed rocks, splashed in the creek and got
> > rained on for three hours. What a blast. I am so grateful to have a
> >
> > nice group of unschoolers around.
> >
> > Jean
>
>
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> Message: 20
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 23:40:24 -0000
> From: "avgjean" <avgjean@...>
> Subject: Re: Our Rainy Day
>
> --- In AlwaysLearning@y..., Deborah Lewis <ddzimlew@j...> wrote:
> >
> > That's a great story! Wish I knew that many people close by = )
> willing
> > to play in the rain.
> > I'd love to hear how you organized the nature walks, did you just
> call
> > folks and say "hey, how 'bout this" ?
> > How do you decide where to go and do all of you just get yourselves
> > there, or do you have a van or what?
> >
>
>
> Hi Deb
> Well, I have to admit, that even though I love all the homeschoolers
> around, the crowding of this area is hard to take some days. Also,
> it can be hard to find "nature." For our Nature Club we mostly will
> go to state and county parks in the area.
>
> The way I got it going was this: I have been toying with the idea
> of starting some type of co-op activities that would be friendly for
> bringing preschoolers and toddlers along, since most of my friends
> have these! I thought of doing an art day, a games day, things liek
> that. I wanted it to be free and not require too much commitment
> from people, since I always hate the feeling of waking up and
> realizing I commited to some activity that doesn't sound good that
> day! I asked around and everyone I talked to said it sounded great,
> so I armed myself with two books:
> Walking San Diego--it maps out easy to difficult walks all over the
> county with info about native habitats, etc.
> Sharing Nature with Children--an old book by Joseph Cornell that has
> simple awareness and appreciation activities for kids. I will pick
> out one or two activities each time, but I just leave it open to the
> mood whether we actually do them or not.
> Then, each week, my girls and I go check out one or two of the
> walks. When we find one that will work for a group, we invite
> everyone by e-mail.
> Well, I was hoping to get two or three other families to share our
> walks, but already I have eight, and more interested. Yikes!
>
> Jean
>
>
>
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> Message: 21
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 19:29:40 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Tami Lewis <oldfashionmama@...>
> Subject: new
>
> hello everyone. i'm tami ,married to michael, mom to sarah-16,ben-9,
parker-2 and hannah -1. i homeschool/unschool as well as work for my dh
setting appts for his insurance business. i live in florida but dream of
moving to the country. i love to read and am into alternative medicine as
well. tami
>
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> Message: 22
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:31:46 -0500
> From: "Tami Labig Duquette" <tamilabigduquette@...>
> Subject: Re: new
>
> Hi Tami,
>
> I am Tami and my mate is Michael too :)
> Welcome!
>
> Peace,
> Tami
>
> 'Namaste' is an East Indian greeting which means 'the light within me bows
> to the light within you.' In other words, beyond our achy bones, our tired
> feet and our multi-colored real life soap operas, lurks a dimension that
is
> more than the body, the persona, the ego and all the 'trappings and the
> suits of woe' as Hamlet would say---a dimension where there isn't a 'you'
> and 'me' but rather a synergy that is more than all that, a space for the
> eternal to rest within the temporal.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tami Lewis" <oldfashionmama@...>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 9:29 PM
> Subject: [AlwaysLearning] new
>
>
> > hello everyone. i'm tami ,married to michael, mom to sarah-16,ben-9,
> parker-2 and hannah -1. i homeschool/unschool as well as work for my dh
> setting appts for his insurance business. i live in florida but dream of
> moving to the country. i love to read and am into alternative medicine as
> well. tami
> >
> >
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