My husband was easily assimilated

While I was delirious with fever Jason had recovered enough to take care of everything else.

He even stayed home from work because I couldn't get out of bed.

He worked on the dishes and laundry and feeding the kids and taking care of me, he brought me soup and tea in bed.

You ladies will appreciate this, do you like ladies, what do I call you or me? I don't like ma'am,I'm not a Miss, I think I'll just stick with girlfriend, LOL.

Years ago I had a dear friend(male of course) that called me *female* he and only he was and is the only person allowed to call me such a thing. Sometimes Jason will call me *woman* usually when I have said or done something so completely characteristic that he doesn't know what else to say :)

Ok, back track, focus...

My dear husband played Mr. Mom for 3 days and he did things like walk in circles in the hallway muttering things like coffee, celery, dishes, oh yeah I was going to make coffee but then the piggies squealed and I remembered I was supposed to feed them... He also forgot he was cooking and burned his lunch, once he did this he told me that he can see how I do it now. Do it as in get totally sidetracked and have something triggered, oh yeah I was doing THAT!

I told him he better go back to work because he has been assimilated, then he told me to speak English :)

He is a good guy, I'm blessed to have him, he ROCKS!

Unconscious Mutterings

1. Passport :: Italy


2. Small world :: meeting someone in a new town that is from where you used to live


3. Radio :: internet


4. Marine :: tough


5. Wall :: brick


6. Wanna be :: poser


7. Pigtails :: cute little girls


8. Hyphen :: dash


9. 9.99 :: 10 bucks


10. Unrated :: life

Luna Nina

Still 16 at heart

I love music, and tonight I wanted to hear Great White, one of my all time favorite bands. I love all of their songs, some more than others but I went to play my greatest hits cd and it was skipping and locked up and I was so bummed. I've been going through you tube and watching their videos and rockin out, I love Great White :)

Last week my husband said we are 16 in 30 something bodies, and he is right, young at heart, yes we are :)

So enjoy life, do what you love, have fun and ROCK ON!!!

Great Unschooling Article

http://www.cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=1037

Valentine's meme

I was tagged for this meme from Lisa


Brag About Your Husband:

What is his name: Jason

How long have you been married: 15 years in April

How long did you date: 4 years (engaged for 3 years)

How old is he: 38

How old are you: 36

Who eats more sweets: he does

Whose parents do you see most? Neither since we moved

Who said I love you first: I did

Who is taller: he is

Who can sing better: we both have average voices

Who is smarter: we are both smart, we know different things

Who does the laundry: I do (he helps if I can't like when I had the FLU)

Who does the dishes: I do but he helps when I can't

Who pays the bills: both of us

His guilty pleasure: video games (I hate that term guilty because it implies that it's wrong to do :)

Who sleeps on the right side of the bed: he does

Who mows the lawn: the neighbor

Who has more friends: not sure

Besides you, who is his best friend: Jim and Dave

Who cooks dinner: both of us, he is an awesome cook

Who is more stubborn: DUH!

Who kissed who first: I kissed him, when you know what you want you go for it.

Who asked who out first: Not sure we were best friends and out a lot.

What was your first date: No clue, probably a party.

Who proposed: He did

Who has more siblings: same except I have stepsiblings too

What is your favorite thing about him: he makes me laugh

I won't tag anyone but please participate if you want to.

Unconscious Mutterings

1. Score :: Touchdown


2. Luxurious :: hot bath, wine, dark chocolate


3. Party :: fun


4. Limited edition :: Disney movies


5. Security :: I'll cover your ass if you cover mine (Anyone know where that is from)


6. Betty :: White (Golden Girls)


7. Under construction :: My house
   
8. Pest :: mouse


9. director :: movies


10. Express :: train, freight train, flu

Luna Nina If you want to play.

Gee I did better when I was unconscious :)

Emerging from Delerium

This post may not make any sense but what's new.

Thank you my friends for the well wishes and prayers.

A few minutes after I posted that I was sick I went to bed for about 45 hours.

The FLU hit me like a freight train and I was delirious with fever, talk about unconscious mutterings, wow. The pain was excruciating and I would not wish the flu on anyone.

Jason brought it home from work, gotta love that.

I think this is the longest internet hiatus since we moved.

I am still really weak and dizzy and sore but at least I am out of that damn bed...

Kieran had it and now Brennan has it and Jared, Cassie has just had a low grade fever and a cough but no freight train.

The last time I had this was almost 4 years ago and before that Kieran was a toddler so thank God this doesn't happen often.

Jason and I were both in bed(sick) on Saturday, we have never both been sick at the same time.

The kids managed pretty well except Jared because only mom can do anything for him. Mom could not get out of bed and he had a hard time dealing with that. I felt bad for him but I could hardly get up to pee and Jason had to help me walk to the bathroom.

So I'll spare you the John Madden version.

We still have a lot of healing to do but thank God we are healing.

I miss you guys :)

Pity Party

I'm sick.

BWHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

What can I say?

Well I can say a lot and I can say it in such a swirl that you will go what the hell did she just say?
I have so many thoughts, I am not an ADD I am just a person with a whole lot going on and it's hard to narrow things down to one thought or one post. I'm not sure where this is going but if you follow then you are at least a hyper-threader like me. They used to call it multi-tasking before the computer age took over :)

First of all my husband came home from work with the flu, I am not thrilled, I am coughing but you all know me I refuse to get sick. I just wish my will was as strong as I think it is :)

I am very concerned about my family at this moment...

I am very concerned about this country at the moment. I was going to post about Liberalism, it's true form is what I am a classic liberal not a social liberal, I will elaborate later.

I want freedom, I do not want the government in my kool-aid and telling me the flavor. I do not want big brother dictating my kid's education, I do not want any intervention in my private life.

I do not understand people who want the government to tell them what to do and how to live. I do not want my taxes raised it's bad enough that we have no say where our money goes. They just take it!!!

This country was founded on FREEDOM and DAMNIT I do NOT want my freedom taken away. If you want a socialist government then would you just please MOVE, there are plenty of socialist countries to choose from. We have too many people in congress who are socialists I can not handle a socialist president.

I am so sick of intervention, I am so sick of people waiting for handouts!!! UGH!!!

I need freedom, my kids deserve freedom, as unschoolers we live and learn and breathe freedom.

We learn so much everyday, you can not stop the learning, you need to embrace it. Let your kids live, let them be who they are, you need to live and learn and be true to who you are also. We need to be the example, we need to learn, we need to follow our interests.

So many have been dumbed down, I see it, I hear about it, my husband lives it with his co-workers. They are TOO stupid to think for themselves, they prove it daily with their actions and comments. What a sad state our public school system has left people in, how sad that they know they are dumb and don't want to change it.

I am sorry for those who are not in the U.S. but I can't hide my political feelings.

School is school and dumbed down is dumbed down and the government has no right to regulate our private lives period.

What a difference a day makes

We had warm weather for a couple days, this is a creek that runs between our house and the neighbors. The kids love to play in it, when it rains it gets really high otherwise it's low and in the summer it's dry. They love to explore and in the summer they try to catch frogs and crayfish.

Jared was wood cutting with a croquet mallet.

This is today, the cold front came in and it is windy and cold. They are out fighting injustice.

Tornadoes

It's a scary sky out there tonight. Lots of wind damage and *unconfirmed* tornadoes. If it looks like a tornado and smells like a tornado and hits like a tornado it's....probably a TORNADO!!! I just love the media :)

Sarcasm aside we made it through the first round without getting hit but there is another strong front coming in the next few hours that is heading right toward us.

Yikes! I pray for safety and possibly some sleep, I have a migraine as it is.

The hours we keep

I am a night owl that is no secret but so are my kids. Some days I barely get a moment of silence where I do not have to do anything for anybody. Lately it comes after 4am, Jared just fell asleep, Cassie is still up, the boys are sleeping.

I have no idea how to turn us around a little. I do not do mornings and really have no desire to but I admit it was nice when the kids were asleep by 1am. I won't impose any bedtime on them because... well I won't. They still fall asleep when they are ready to fall asleep. Sometimes I go to bed before them but I don't sleep anyway so what's the point?

What is my point? At this point I have no point, LOL! I just need a few moments of quiet and well if I want it I wait for it :)

We have no reason to keep different hours, I never do anything before noon, I suppose it is what it is. If we have a good reason to change then we will. I'm just glad that stores are open at night and that life doesn't stop because it's dark :) I love the night, I come alive after midnight, it's just natural for me.

Sarcasm...or not...

I had a thought, yeah it's scary, I know, it's partially sarcastic but it is also in line with what could happen if...

There are candidates running for office that literally scare the *pick a colorful word* right out of me.

I believe that they are socialists:

**so·cial·ism /ˈsoʊʃəˌlɪzəm/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[soh-shuh-liz-uhm] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1.
a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
2.
procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.
3.
(in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.

I also believe that if we elect a socialist that we are one step closer to a Marxist society.

**Marx·ism /ˈmɑrksɪzəm/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[mahrk-siz-uhm] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
the system of economic and political thought developed by Karl Marx, along with Friedrich Engels, esp. the doctrine that the state throughout history has been a device for the exploitation of the masses by a dominant class, that class struggle has been the main agency of historical change, and that the capitalist system, containing from the first the seeds of its own decay, will inevitably, after the period of the dictatorship of the proletariat, be superseded by a socialist order and a classless society.

I do not believe in this crap I believe in FREEDOM, I believe in limited government intervention in our private lives. I believe in a Capitalist society.

**cap·i·tal·ism /ˈkæpɪtlˌɪzəm/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kap-i-tl-iz-uhm] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, esp. as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth.


So we could just do what the socialists want, how about the working class stop working, let's all quit our jobs and have the government take care of us. I figure there is enough money between Hollywood and the Clinton's that we would be well taken care of for a very long time.

Oh, but this wouldn't work now would it? Who would pay taxes? Who would foot the bill? We can't have the wealthy people take care of the whole damn country now can we? Hell no! We need those people to work, we need to keep them down barely surviving, living paycheck to paycheck, take their money and give it away without their consent.

Yes this is reality, they take our money, if we decline, we go to jail, we have no say where our tax dollars go, we have no control.

We are too stupid to live without BIG BROTHER to tell us what to do, what to think, what to eat, what lightbulbs to use. We can't possibly survive without their knowledge, we need them to educate us, take our children away from birth, we are not worthy.

Now what was my point?

THINK BEFORE YOU VOTE

Who needs school anyway?

This post is mostly inspired by my 5 year old at the moment, it is completely inspired by all of my children. I have been living with, learning with and from, facilitating and observing my kids since I became a mom 12 1/2 years ago. The learning process is an awesome thing to observe and be a part of. Kids do learn naturally when they are not forced and when their own process isn't stifled or interfered with.

I firmly believe that forced schooling inhibits the natural process and causes problems. Those problems could be labeled as learning disabilities. When a child is forced to try to read before their brains are able to connect the dots it can cause learning difficulties. I believe this can happen with anything forced.

My kids have always been unschooled so I have watched this process, it's not some mysterious thing that only certain people can unlock. Kids do not need to be schooled, they just need to be in an environment conducive to learning.

I could only imagine my little boy in school, first off he wouldn't sit still or be quiet. He is in constant motion, it's how he learns, it's who he is. He would be bored to tears in K while they are teaching the alphabet because he can read and write, in cursive too. Could you imagine this...I'm sorry Jared we aren't learning cursive until 3rd grade, WTF? Well he already learned it. WHY? Because he wanted to that's why. He knows SO much I could never write it down, I witness the learning, I answer a TON of questions each day, his brain does the rest.

All of my kids are at different stages of development and learning and I would never want to interfere with their internal clock. They know when they are ready to grasp a concept, they know HOW to learn. They do not need some teacher giving them tidbits of information to memorize and regurgitate. They do not need to be tested or graded, they know what they know and will learn what they need when they need it.

I am so blessed to live and learn along side these beautiful children.

I stand by my belief that school is no place for children, it is government babysitting at best.

**Disclaimer** My oldest was briefly forced curriculum for an hour a day for 6 weeks when he was 6 years old. I just would like to say always unschooled except for 6 weeks out of his 12 1/2 year life :)

Unconscious Mutterings

1. What women want :: Chocolate


2. Epidemic :: The Ron Paul Revolution


3. Taxes :: way too high


4. Hello :: good bye


5. Confidential :: The Pelican Brief


6. Lights :: Christmas


7. Summation :: total


8. Hard feelings :: sadness


9. Electric :: lightning


10. Fresh start :: new day

Want to play? Luna Nina

Happy Dance

Jason is the bomb!!!

He fixed my bathroom this week and now my washer. I am so excited, I don't know if any of you have ever had to wring out your laundry.

Our washer broke 6 months ago and we fixed one part but it still didn't spin, so it washed but did not spin.

I have been wringing out laundry for a family of six, I have the muscles to prove it!

I am going on a washing escapade, see ya later :)

Tale of two brains

This is really good :)

Why sleep?

I'm starting to wonder, I mean really wonder...Why?

If it is supposed to make you rested and refreshed then it's pointless for me. I do not ever feel rested or refreshed after sleeping. As a matter of fact on the nights I really sleep, I dream and I remember many dreams and I wake up totally wiped out like I got hit by a truck or something.

When I am tired I try to go to bed, like last night, I couldn't fall asleep for a few hours. I think it is just best for me to stay up until 4am before I try to sleep because I'm awake until then anyway.

Today I am really wiped out, it's obvious that I lost my spunk for a few days, you know it happens every month :)

I layed down just to take a break and you know I'm in pain... I literally relaxed and almost fell asleep before the kids came in. I felt 10x worse and more like a zombie after lying down.

I will probably keep trying to figure this stuff out ya know. I am my best late at night, it's like I come alive after midnight, it's just so bizarre.

I think it's just part of me and I need to stop trying to figure myself out. If I can't I don't expect anyone else to.

Unschooling Voices Issue 12 is up

Please check it out:

http://relaxedhomeskool.com/2008/02/01/unschooling-voices-12-is-here-right-here/

Holy Sheet

Jared who is 5, reads, writes and spells pretty well. He came to me with his doodleboard and said, "look mom, I wrote holy sheet."

I had a hard time not bursting out laughing because he wrote *Holy Shit* and I thought it was pretty funny.