A friend just wrote, & said....

...that not everyone can download all the pics I send of our homeschooling daze, & that if I had a blog (hint, hint!) they'd read it! (We're majorly enamored with our new digital camera!) I read her HS blog, & really enjoy it, & we're having so much fun documenting all the things Hannah does in her learning adventures that I decided to "JUST DO IT!" & so here I am, squeezing Blogging into our already busy daze!!!

Just a little about us, before I go make dinner...
...I'm a single, separated (I always hated checking that off on forms, sounds like I'm coming apart at the seams! No comments from the peanut gallery, please!) mom of a just-turned-11 year old daughter, Hannah, who is currently cat-obsessed, & a joy to spend my days with...even the ones when she drives me bonkers!

We used to almost totally unschool (interest-led learning) with a little math thrown in to ease that voice in my head all homeschooling moms know well...& now, for grade 6, we've tried to get more curriculum-oriented, but are discovering we're both still major unschoolers at heart! Unfortunately, we've already received the full reimbursment for this year from the Government {why, oh why did we enroll instead of just register?!?!?), & so for now, at least, we're trying to jump through the hoops that have invaded our relaxed lives with the pressure to perform that we both suspect is better suited to show-dogs...oops, I mean CATS, of course! (Sorry, Hannah!)
...& on that note, we're off to do a gastronomical experiment...yup, I mean dinner...{don't ask!}