A Side Note

I forgot to mention another "Unschooling" issue that has come up in our house. Besides homeschooling I am officially "unschooling our home" in some aspects, including food. I let the girls choose what food they want in the house and when they want it. Usually Evie makes good choices, except when we actually have junk food in the house and she knows it (chocolate..etc..) but usually they eat a good diet. It came up this weekend from a family member and again last night with Chris, that the girls should "not eat treats unless they've eaten dinner, or if theydon't eat NOW, then they don't eat LATER even if they are hungry"
Ugh. NO. no. and no thanks.

Let me ask YOU this. Do you eat only when people tell you to eat and exactly what to eat? I didn't think so. If my child is hungry later, say at 8 PM instead of at 5PM, I will let them eat. I am not going to send her to bed without food simply because she didn't eat when I asked her to.
Also, if she grazes throughout the day and wants a popsicle in the afternoon, before YOUR idea of when "dinner time" is. THEN GIVE HER THE POPSICLE!
I don't keep a ton of junk in the house, so the choices they make are usually healthy, but if she wants a popsicle in the afternoon that is fine. Sometimes I actually have chocolate or candy in the morning> Can you believe it? What about coffee? Do you drink coffee in the morning? What if I told you you could only have that AFTER you ate your spinach with breakfast! ?

Ok that is all. Moving on.

More changes

Our day to day life is changing yet again... I am no longer providing home care for the little girl in our home. It was a choice mostly made by the mother. This is a blessing but also a cause for more stress in the family, namely financial stress. However, Evie is already acting better, less swearing, hitting. The main reason she was targeting the little girl was due to attention issues. It is a loss, but I feel like I can breathe easier in my own home now.

Rory is talking up a storm still, singing, dancing. Loving her Kitty Cats and babies. She had her first ER visit last week after a bad virus. Urgent Care told us to go to the ER, which told us we had no reason to be there. She had a fever for about 4 days and after screaming like she was in pain, we decided it was time to go. Just a virus, and Evie caught the fever while we were there, poor thing.

Evie likes to show us her "cool tricks" she can hang upside down on the couch, skip, skip sideways, and she loves to paint. She is still infatuated with Prince Eric, and constantly wants me to play Ursula or something or other having to do with Eric. She likes to look at a picture of Eric and these two eels, so we have been looking at books with sea animals. We went to Petco and saw two eels. We talk about how snakes and eels are different and the same.

I'm looking forward to having some family downtime...some day. We want to take Chris to our favorite beach in NewMarket and might be planning a camping trip either to Storyland or Hermit Island sometime soon.