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What's Up Wednesday: March 2026

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Can you believe it's the last Wednesday of the month and time to link up with Shay and Sheaffer for What's Up Wednesday?  I feel like this month flew by. We have had a great month with just a hint of spring here and there. What We're Eating: Sunday:   My 3 meat sauce with spaghetti, garlic bread, and salad.   Monday: Homemade shepherd's pie with salad Tuesday:  Baked ham, egg noodles, corn & salad Wednesday: Chicken Caesar salad wraps with fries and salad Thursday:  Turkey stuffed peppers w/salad Friday:  Steak & Shrimp stir-fry over rice What I'm Reminiscing About:  We went to Evan's accepted student day and it's just baffling to me that this little guy, my youngest, is heading off to college in the fall.    What I'm Loving:  Wicked was SOO good! Alec and I had a lovely night in Providence and enjoyed seeing the musical together.      What We've Been Up To:  Our month started out with lots of snow so we...
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Thowback Tuesday: Heading Back to a More Traditional Homeschooling Approach

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 *Originally posted March 25, 2013 when my boys were 5, 7, & 8     We are going back to a more traditional way of homeschooling rather than using the unschooling method, for now anyway.  I'm sure it could change at any point! My oldest has been complaining that it's boring "just playing" all day and has been wanting me to plan lessons again or as he put it "when are you going to start teaching us stuff again?"  So, I spent part of my day yesterday writing up a rough outline of what I'd like to accomplish this week. A huge part of why we jumped into unschooling was that the boys didn't appear to like anything I planned and I just couldn't take the complaining anymore.  However, after almost a month of unschooling they are complaining that they are bored all the time.       Today the older boys did a lesson in McRuffy for math.  Ian was a bit stumped at first, mostly because he didn't trust himself to remember how to do ...
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