I found this and thought wow its so right lol Are you a Homeschool Mom? You Know You're A Homeschool Mom When... You get to change more than diapers, you get to change their minds. When a child busts a lip, and after seeing she's okay, you round up some scotch tape to capture some blood and look at it under the microscope! Your children never ever leave the "why?" stage. When your teenager decides to take one community college course, and comes home and asks you why the teacher wrote "At" on his paper. (A+) You ask for, and get, a copier instead of a diamond tennis bracelet for your wedding anniversary. Your kids think reading history is best accomplished while lying on the floor with their head resting on the side of their patient dog. Your husband can walk in at the end of a long day and tell how the science experiment went just by looking at the house. Your neighbors think you are insane. Your formal dining room now has a computer, copy machine, and many book shelves and there are educational posters and maps all over the walls. You have meal worms growing in a container....on purpose. Talking out loud to yourself is a parent/teacher conference. You take off for a teacher in-service day because the principal needs clean underwear. You can't make it through a movie without pointing out the historical inaccuracies. You step on math manipulatives on your pre-dawn stumble to the bathroom. Some day your children will consider you to be a miracle-working expert and will turn to you for advice. You can't make it through the grocery produce department without asking your preschooler the name and color of every vegetable. You can't put your produce in your cart without asking your older student to estimate its weight and verify accuracy. You live in a one-house schoolroom.
I'm down with the copier for Christmas. I plan to ask for ink cartridges. ( jewelery is for girls, anyway!)
rofl Becky You take off for a teacher in-service day because the principal needs clean underwear. lol I can use that excuse lol when i dont wanna homeschool lol and i have laundry to do
LOL......here is another one---just the other day dd and I were in the store and she said (while looking at the "back to school" display and school supplies), "Look, Mom, homeschooling supplies!!!"...precious child, she said this with a straight face!! Blessings, Shawna
I plan to ask my parents for a printer/copier for Christmas. Seeing all these great free things to print and not having a printer is just cruel! If anyone else asks from my family... I want Ink Cartridges and paper!
Tonight I found a very small plastic bag of really gross garbage that had gotten shoved into a far corner and forgotten for quite awhile. When I opened it up to see what was in the bag, there were these small, reddish, oval, capsule-shaped things all over (not moving but obviously something "buggy"). No joke, my first reaction was "Oh, wow, let's put this under the microscope!". And then my husband yelled at me and I ended up throwing it away. . . As for the printer/copier, well, I've been lucky enough to already get one. But our tenth anniversary is next year and I never had an engagement ring. . . . I've already told my husband to save his money and let me get a cheek-swab DNA analysis instead!
My parents gave us a printer/copier a couple of years ago for Christmas. It's a lifesaver! I go through LOTS of ink, though. I print on draft and use refills to cut the expense. It does help.
ohh Did someone say microscope? That would be cool to have too. I've been longingly looking at the telescope display by the front door of walmart lately....
I have had the best luck finding great HS materials at garage sales and Goodwill (thrift store)--including my microscope!!
lol this one is so cute. I need to print it and put on my fridge too. Yea, Becky, I agree lets ask for ink and paper and forget the girly girl stuff.
I've gotten lots of things at Goodwill. I can often find ps textbooks for 99 cents. I don't use them alone, but they can be good for extra resources. I let my kids buy books there, too. Much cheaper than buying them new or even at a used book store!
Good one , bugsmommy I am late to read this post by bugsmommy but it is really cute ! Funny too is" You Know You're a Homeschooler When Talking out loud to yourself is a parent/teacher conference." And I thought I was talking out loud to myself because I had lost it.
