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Posted on 11/03/2004 6:16:42 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
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Bugs? Not for supper, I hope!
Hi there Hair...looks like an Isengard problem to me....you sure Saruman hasnt been digging around making orc tunnels underneath your house???
I am so thoroughly bummed right now. I feel like I am the only one in my narrow little universe who thinks homeschooling is the right idea.
Alkhin - I've known lots and lots. Almost always they adjust within months and do just as well as us K-12 homeschooled types.
Do things to ease the transition. Find out who her best friends are, and arrange plenty of play dates, even if that means you have to do extra running around. Let her concentrate mostly on subjects she loves for the first while, and keep the school days as short as possible. If her friends get snow days, you can give her one, too.
Homeschooling is about flexibility. It can also be about togetherness - doing things like starting the day reading aloud a chapter from a book you love.
If there's anything I can do to help you, let me know. Any questions, however... weird, ask them, please!
Then theres the hubby who is ambivalent about it too. My parents think its a good idea. Im just tired of shelling out money to a private school where I have about as much influence as I do a public school : nominal. All they want is my money. Oh and then, when something goes wrong *I* get called on the carpet and get asked why isnt my child performing the way she should. Good way to get my rebellious side up...
Why not suggest to him that you try it over the summer? If it doesn't work at all, you haven't lost anything. Don't be too intense, maybe work two or three days a week, but prove to him that it's a great idea.
Im such a lazy bum. I *should* have done it over this past summer...was thinking more of starting after the first of the year....
gotta go for now. promised to play chess with her.....
Chess is good... have fun...
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Thanks for the knives. They arrived late last week, but with Fallujah going off, I forgot to drop you a line. What beautiful tools they are.
Sean will be home in the next 2 weeks, so I will hold his until then, and I thank you very very much for you, and your fellow members of the hobbit hole's kindnesses.
I don't remember how old your daughter is...but I didn't start into homeschooling until I was in fourth grade. It was a bit different for me since I was really a loner even back then and much preferred the company of my siblings, so I was overjoyed to be outta there...but I also had other friends who started homeschooling late. Most made the adjustment pretty quickly, especially once they realized that you could still do plenty of stuff with friends - especially homeschooled friends as you have a lot of flexibility where schedule is concerned.
Ugh...gonna be a late night tonight - I'm heading out to the session (music at the pub...), and won't be back until probably after ten, but I still have 900 words left to do.
At least they should be fairly straightforward and fun! She's mad, as I said.
I got mine done, so now I can go to anime club guilt-free. I'm hoping to get a little ahead... but the ones I wrote today were like pulling teeth.
Speaking of mad...
I just drove over to the pub, but no one (musical) was there except one highly ticked off individual who, like me, had been told that the session would be at seven this week, just as it was last time. She'd been waiting for almost an hour hoping someone would show, but no luck. No one else. And the manager was confused, too, as he'd also been told we'd be coming in at around seven.
Now I get home and I called the house and they're all gone except the younger kids - apparently went to it and the time was changed and Bilbo being Bilbo didn't give anyone even the courtesy of a phone call because "they'll figure it out" (I'm guessing, based on prior experience).
I'm soooo tempted to just ditch the whole darn deal as I'm very angry with him right now, this coming on top of someone else calling me to ask if I can see if I can talk him into mailing them back some things he had borrowed, as they've had no luck with him.
He wants to be in charge of stuff like this, but puts zero effort and gets upset if we critique. I'm ticked.
So...
Evening Hair - guessing an old critter hole, depending on what you have up there. Tunnels can be extensive and if the ditch either intercepted it or you just uncovered an old entrance or ventilation hole, you could lose a lot of water in it before it fills up.
Rosie - FWIW - the piper is unprofessional as well as discourteous not to mention disrespectful to the others in the group, the manager of the pub and those in attendance IMHO.
Critter hole indeed seems to be the only reasonable explanation, unless perhaps it was seeping into a hobbit's old attic. ;~D
If I'd have known I had a drain leading out right there I wouldn't have needed a ditch!
Hey howdy there everybody! [sip]
Hey howdy..... we didn't any wind storm at all, and the weather people just go on and pretend they never predicted one. I hate that.
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