Unschooling thing

Here's my thing for the day. With Cooper, a real thing. My kids love these paper toys. At least for today and yesterday. Also go to http://www.thing-a-day.com/, when I posted some 550 people had already posted things they had made. Very cool.

But what everyone really needs to do it go to http://www.relaxedhomeschool.com/. Kim is hosting Unschooling Voices this month and there are some amazing things to read on there. Besides, Kim's blog is just generally cool.

In an unschooling manner, we took our Roots&Shoots cross country skiing today. We had probaby 8 inches of snow out here in the western suburbs between yesterday and today. (More fell near the lake, we are told.) We fought an as-yet unplowed driveway and poorly plowed or salted streets to a friend's house to take our girl on a Girl Scouts camping trip and then took our boys skiing at the same place we went to as a family last week. I use "we" and "took" pretty loosely, as I spent most of the time behind the Little Man or swinging him into a standing position one armed. He really got the hang of it today, though, and I am optimistic about our future skiing life. We all got to experience snow for the beautiful miracle it is, isntead of as an impediment or cause of traffic accidents. In our urban life, we tend to forget snow's purpose and wonder. That was lesson and learning enough for the day.