Homeschool Spanish Lessons - Online Learning

Rob and I belong to the new breed of later life parents who seem to have 1 thing in common: we have been very slow to have any kind of childcare for our children; even babysitters.

In fact until a few weeks ago when my mom hired a woman to watch the baby and her cousin during my dad’s 80th birthday party, neither of my kids had ever had a babysitter. Now we’ve been fortunate enough to have Rob’s mom, known as Nana, here a couple of times a year, for stretches up to even 6 weeks last summer. That has been great. But no outside childcare, no leaving our kid with friends, no teenagers, nada!  Part of that has been because we just didn’t have somebody right off hand that we knew would be reliable, and I guess the other part was not wanting anybody to look after them other than us. 

But with the big new overhaul I’m doing to the e-learning system in order to accommodate homeschoolers, as well as just to make the entire system more user friendly, I’m having to work more hours than I have since having the kids. And even getting up at 6 am, I found that the couple of hours I got to myself didn’t make enough of a difference to truly boost my productivity.  So I finally admitted that unless I found somebody to help me, this project was never going to even get off the ground.

I’ve been wondering a little lately whether our country will undergo some major cultural shifts if a real, prolonged recession hits. I guess if you’re sitting in Michigan right now you might be thinking “hey we already ARE in a recession!” – but it seems to me as I can’t find a parking space at Costco, the local movie theatre, or Best Buy, that at least up here in Alaska, a real and serious recession has yet to hit.

But what if it does?

Testing out the video converter and uploader in Windows Live Writer!

I’m one of those people that thinks that a huge number of people are walking around semi dehydrated. I never knew that there were people who believe the opposite until I heard my mother in law and her sister discuss how ridiculous they think it is that people drag water bottles everywhere they go. Apparently they think Americans are OVER hydrating. Caramba – that is just a bizarre way to think if you ask me – as you would have to drink HUGE amounts of water in order to suffer from over hydration – and there are just way more dehydrated folks than over hydrated ones.