Tag…somewhat voluntarily

Amy posted this on her blog and to help ensure that she gets some response, I figured I would fill it out.

Ten years ago I was…
1) a senior in high school;
2) very busy with multiple groups in choir;
3) working at Publix, where I met Big Monkey;
4) raising our dog Amos to be a service dog (he failed);
5) trying to figure out where to go to college.

Five things on my to-do list:
1) laundry;
2) dishes;
3) more laundry;
4) fold towels from a couple days ago;
5) write some blogs.

Five snacks I enjoy:
1) anything with chocolate and peanut butter;
2) ice cream (especially with chocolate and peanut butter!);
3) Little Debbie’s snacks;
4) icing;
5) candy (especially with chocolate and peanut butter).

Five things I would do if I were a millionaire: (this would depend on how many millions…)
1) pay off outstanding debt;
2) travel to Australia (at least);
3) give money to some charitable organizations;
4) have my crowns re-done, again;
5) go shopping!

Five places I have lived:
1) House in Sanford (twice-same one);
2) House in Lake Mary;
3) Multiple Dorms in Jacksonville;
4) Apartment in Sanford;
5) House in Minneola.

Five jobs I’ve had:
1) Cashier at Publix;
2) Receptionist at Seminole PowerSports;
3) Assistant Manager at Blockbuster;
4) Accounting Clerk at Seminole PowerSports;
5) Mom.

I tag Joe and Holly and anyone else who would like to do it too!

College Kids These Days

Every year, for the past 11 years, Beloit College has published a Mindset list. The idea is to educate professors that students entering college each year may not have the same experiences as students from previous years. For instance, the incoming freshman class this year “have always been “Rocking the Vote”.” For them, “Caller ID has always been available on phones.”

To see the full list for this year, go here.

You can also check out previous years, and you can start to feel really old. If you have graduated from college in the past 11 years, check out the list from your graduation year.

New Learning

We have decided to try and add a little more structure to Little Monkey’s day and work more on teaching him some new things. He has already learned quite a bit of words; he amazes me everyday with what else he comes up with. I looked around the internet for some ideas of how we should introduce things to Little Monkey. I was happy to find a homeschool mom’s website that is filled with FREE information and step by step ideas for what to do. We are currently using her curriculum as a starting point. We started this week with the Preparatory Curriculum for ages 2-4. So far Little Monkey isn’t very into it but he will listen to a story and we can talk about things for short periods of time. We are only in week one of this program. I told my friend Holly about it and she is doing it with Wild Child. Wild Child is a little older than Little Monkey and already knows a lot of the stuff we’d be teaching. Holly is adding more things to her lessons for Wild Child. We’ll see how well the kids do. I’m hoping that Little Monkey will start to pick up on some of the stuff we’re learning.

Since talking about doing this with Little Monkey, (We’ve been discussing it for a couple of weeks.) I have had people ask us if we are planning to home school him. You may or may not know that Big Monkey was homeschooled through high school. (When people hear that, they sometimes seem to assume that we will home school Little Monkey.) I went through the public school system and I turned out okay (at least I’d like to think so!). We are not certain that we will or will not homeschool Little Monkey at this point. The public school system in the county that we live is not that great. There are a couple of schools that are good but we are not zoned for them. There is also the option of Charter schools, so that may be a possibility. We also have a few good private schools in our area but that would depend on the whether we can afford to put Little Monkey in one of those schools. Thankfully we still have a couple of years before we need to make this decision.