Biracial hair, AGAIN! and summer school inspirations….

I have shared in the past what products are working for Hazel’s hair.  Her curls are so soft and beautiful, thin and fine compared to a lot of biracial hair~and even her brothers’!  and yet as the humidity of summer approaches I’m seeing it turn more to fuzz.  How funny, as in the winter it can be almost bone straight sometimes!  We usually use pure coconut oil to comb through it on a daily basis, but I’m thinking about trying a new approach.  You just HAFTA check out the site http://biracialhair.org !  I’ll need to get a few new products, but I look forward to sharing an update on trying this new techinique. 

In the past, summer school has always been our most productive homeschooling season.  Usually more planning goes into the arts and electives, and I am hoping for more of the same.  I am DEFINITELY a Charlotte Mason mama, but I am finding great inspiration in some Montessori and Waldorf bloggy ideas that are really blessing me! 

I NEEDED this, because I’m crazy and needy when I’m pregnant, and all my friends have moved away.  WAH!  This does nothing for my besetting sin of spending too much time on the internet, but these last two weeks has been time well-spent.  Let me share some of the posts that just got me THINKING~some of the ideas simple enough that I’m goin’, “WHY didn’t *I* think of that?”

Addition/Subtraction Work

Leaf printing in the nature journal

A Child Who Hits

There is also an online architecture study using my own, historic neighborhood!  WOOHOOO!

I wish I had bookmarked ALL the writings that inspired me, as each group has their terminology on what Charlotte Mason called habit training.  They were each an encouragement and further motivation that I need to change MYSELF and work on MY OWN habits first!  DAGGONE IT!  (So sorry for lettin’ it rip~I couldn’t help it!  I already knew this dreaded information.  ~sigh~)   I’ve shared before how difficult it is to motivate others when you aren’t very motivated yourself.  I’m up for the challenge though and hope to have GOOD things to report as I embark upon these changes~with the Biblical insights along the way!

  (((((HUGS)))))  sandi