October 6th, 2011 | by drue | published in Drue's Corner
This week in Nature Studies, Marisa asked us how the “sit spot” challenge went. I was able to find time for my “sit spot” for two mornings, which wasn’t that bad. My “sit spot” was located in my backyard, and I sat down on the bench and listened to nature while petting my oldest dog, [...]
September 26th, 2011 | by drue | published in Drue's Corner
This week, I walked into Academic Antics with a big smile on my face. In, Nature Studies, Marisa had asked us to bring in something to share with the class, and I told everyone about my snorkeling trip where I swam with sharks. Other topics that were shared were, “Why Turkey Vultures have no head [...]
August 17th, 2011 | by Jeri | published in Educating the Chaotic Mind
In the last five months, we have run the gamut as far as schooling goes. We started out the year in our local public school, left our public school in March and allowed Drue to “deschool” for six weeks where she lolled about in her pajamas, read a lot of books, spent a few hours [...]
August 1st, 2011 | by Jeri | published in Educating the Chaotic Mind
After giving Drue a good month off to decompress or, as many homeschoolers call it, to “deschool” I realized I had three challenges ahead of me. The first challenge was that I had no idea what Drue actually learned after 7 years of public education. Second, I had no idea how she learns. And finally, [...]
January 27th, 2011 | by Jeri | published in Featured Post
Drue’s face says it all. We love, love, LOVE our puppies (and Sunny, too)!!! Tuesday dawned clear with perfect weather and Sunny took full advantage on her morning stroll around the front yard. Yes, that’s right. Our sweet girl has stopped rushing out, pottying and heading straight back in. She’s actually taking her time, smelling [...]
March 3rd, 2010 | by Jeri | published in Life
I’m not entirely sure how to sum up the last seven days of my life. It feels a bit like teleporting. At least, it feels like I’d imagine teleporting would feel. You know, you start in one place and then you feel yourself get all split apart and then all of a sudden you’re in an entirely NEW and different place but are all together. The latest, newest and biggest news is that the Gloeges have gone all “I Can’t Believe We’re Not Vegan”. And by that I mean that we’re not vegan in that we are not going to swear off meat forever. I’m sorry but I need the real deal at Thanksgiving. Tofurkey is not going to cut it. And I’d rather give up anything else in the universe food-wise except sushi. So there may be an occasional noshing of the raw fish. But otherwise, we have given up meat, dairy, raw sugar and white, processed foods. How and why we decided to do this is a whole ‘nother post – and one that may be posted over where my new project (TBA soon!) lives, but suffice it to say that we, as a family, have never eaten or pooped so well. And that’s all I’m saying about that. You can thank me later.
February 26th, 2010 | by Jeri | published in Life
Mimir goes by many names – Meer, Meemsy, Pooh Bear, Tiger Cat. And then there is my personal favorite – Mimir Damnit – which is probably the name the cat is called more than any of the others. Granted, in the past, calling the cat “Damnit” has gotten me in trouble. Who can ever forget [...]
January 27th, 2010 | by Jeri | published in Uncategorized
The other day, Jason whined that my posts on Lifeinflux are not as random and fun as my posts used to be when I was on Livejournal. He said that random and fun were the reasons people read as opposed to, you know, my insightful observations and words of profound wisdom. Mom, stop chuckling. I HEAR YOU. I reminded Jason that sharing crap in my head frequently scares people off. Jason’s reply was “but I love peanut cookies” which means that in Jason’s opinion scaring people off is fun and random… and that I was holding our mega jar of Peter Pan peanut butter in my hands. A = B = C, right? And yes, I meant to type HANDS. We buy our peanut butter in volume at Costco. Deal. So, in honor of Jason’s request, and because today I do NOT have time to bake him peanut cookies, I will share the random crap that popped into my head between the hours of 2 AM and right now. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
January 9th, 2010 | by Jeri | published in Life
I don’t think any other image sums up Drue and Mimir’s relationship as well as this one. Do I need to say more?
December 31st, 2009 | by Jeri | published in Life
On December 31, 2008, I was sitting at Office of Personnel Management, sending out 45,312 emails to GoLearn users who were on the system but not paying for their usage. I was also dealing with two new hires that I regretted hiring about a week after they were brought on board. But they were my hires and I was stuck with them and all the good, bad and ugly of my soul-sucking job. I hadn’t yet lost all hope and accepted that the only good was the fat paycheck so with great naivete and hope, I updated my facebook status to read “2009 will be the best year yet”. The funny thing is that it was!
