"Parenting and homeschooling are similar in that they are both living, breathing experiments with only your best theories to guide you."... more on this thought in my sidenote blog.
Yesterday I went overboard with YouTube physical therapy videos. I have been suffering froma very stiff and sore shoulder/neck for weeks. I assumed it must be a lack of stretching. So in true Bev fashion, I couldn't just do some gentle stretching. No, of course not, the more stretching the better, right? Why do one stretching video when you can try three stretching videos?
Luckily we had a bunch of fun stuff prepped in the freezer from yesterday.
Wrong, I could barely lift my head this morning. It felt like I had to crack my shoulder back into place. I could feel my muscles protesting every move. This must be what whiplash feels like.
Moving at a glacially slow pace, I could barely think about homeschooling, let alone making breakfast.
Today's plan involved Zach and a frozen blue block of ice that he called an iceberg. While Lauren enviously slept in, Zach hacked away at his big blue ice chuck with a hammer and nail. I just sat and watched, enjoying his amusement.
Lauren and I set up our glaciers (frozen blue water, sand and rocks) on a bed of snow (flour). The plan was to observe how they slowly carve the landscape. This seemed to be the perfect slow and easy experiment for me today given my state of being.
However, I think we did something very wrong with our glaciers... the sand and dirt didn't freeze in the water and create layers of ice, dirt and sand like the website promised. No, our glaciers looked a bit like a blue popsicles with a bad brown dirt toupees.
Hopefully our next "experiment" Eskimo Ice Cream would be more successful.
We talked about native americans called the Inuits. We watched videos on making igloos and read a book about early Alaskan life.
We learned that the Inuits would soley survive on whale and seal blubber in the winter. And of course they would make ice cream out of whale blubber, throwing in a bit of snow and dried berries. Well, that sounds completely disgusting - let's definitely try making that!
Instead we whipped together snow, butter, whipped cream, sugar, raisins and a bit of rum for flavor (and to help teacher to with her neck pain.) The final result was actually quite tasty. The texture was amazingly creamy and reminiscent of Rum Raisin Haagen Daz.
With our experiments out of the way, I was eager to lay down for awhile and let the kids do their independent reading with grandma and math online with Prodigy. Of course, that never happened!
After lunch, Zach got a wild hair up his butt to finish his 50 book reading goal...TODAY.
Why? So he could earn a trip to Gateway (a local arcade and fun center). He had 11 books left to read and he decided he was going to plow through. Of course he couldn't just do this quietly, he had to beg, plead and practically force Lauren to do the same. (Our agreement was when both kids got to 50 books that we would go.)
Well, to my surprise, they both made it to 50 books. It took them all afternoon but it was worth it. We had the whole arcade to ourselves and both kids hit the jackpot on several games. Watch out, major candy hangovers coming tomorrow.
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