Chickens and Unschooling

We went to the first house filk the kids and I have managed to make (besides our own) in a looong time. The kids kept coming up sick so M went by himself. This time they are at the tail end of a cold, but were well enough to drag along to someones house.

All three participated off and on. They each performed the zombie songs they wrote a couple of months ago.

At one point ash_of_roses taught the kids how to play Picaria.

I played a few songs I plan to perform at my concert at the upcoming Convention (5pm on a Friday, I expect to have an audience of two and a half, but I'm playing anyway), and realized I need to play them each another dozen times or so, to get smoother with the chords. So I figure either my fingers will be really tough by the end of the week or bleeding. I think I've practiced guitar more in the past week, than I had all the previous year.

Thanks to harmonyheifer and chatworthy for a great shindig.

Thanks to catnip13 for this - "The gift of giving your child the time to explore their passions is a huge one."

Someone on the unschooling lists would have monthly panic attacks about unschooling (and yes, she did eventually come to realize these may have been hormonally induced). She would worry things weren't working and it took some reflection to realize it wasn't the unschooling causing the problem. She made herself a note that read, "It's not the unschooling, it's ______" and filled in the blank about whatever was really bothering her the most at the time. Eventually she just permanently filled in the blank and left this note on her refrigerator,

"It's not the unschooling, it's life."

Life happens even if kids are in school (or sitting down daily for formal school at home), and so do monthly hormonal changes (especially if you're of the female persuasion ;-). I tend to flow through the month feeling more positive and energetic during certain parts, and more tired and negative during others.

Go figure ;-).

My kids will get the gift of time (given the amount of time I spent in school trying to learn things I've manged to forget again over the years, I don't think they are missing out on much not being there), thanks again to catnip13 for reminding me of that at least.

I just read a post on gratitude by harmonyheifer. She plans on livejournaling what she is grateful for each day, for the next Month.

She has inspired me to do the same.

1)My husband.

2)My kids.

3)Working game systems.

4)Pokemon DVDs.

5)Our mini trampoline (To help get some of the bouncies out of #2.).