Annie and what has been happening(catch up post)

It's almost time for Annie. This week is tech week, so full show rehearsals every night! Opening night is Friday. I have seen a little of the show and it looks like it's going to be really, really good! I am so amazed at the quality of community theater!
Hunter starts work on Beauty and the Beast this Sunday, he is in the kids chorus, it should be another fun production! He knows some of the kids in it, and that is a plus!
Hunter had his second dance class today. She made them work hard today! I know he was sore at least for a little while afterwards. He is doing really well! and I am so happy for him. He has found something that he really enjoys and he is doing it! I can't say that I have had that experience too many times in my life and as a child I don't think I had it at all.
We are doing really pretty good. We had to have a family talk to go over respecting each other and just taking care of our own stuff in general. How if we all do it then it's easier to help each other out when there is extra stuff to do. I was just feeling really worn down by all the house up keep and then preparing all the food and cleaning up. So it just really boils down to taking care of our own stuff. Then I can handle the regular cleaning and food preparing and it really makes a huge difference!
The three of us are on a mission to all have a 70 toon by Sunday, Brewfest starts on Sunday. I already have 2 toons above 70. Curtis has one and is working on another, Hunter doesn't have one but he has a level 63, so we are going to work really hard on getting it up to 70 by Sunday! So we can work on Brewfest quests together!
I have started to become a little more vocal among my homeschool moms that I tend to talk to at park days and classes and such. Well and they have been asking me more questions about unschooling. I try to answer their questions as best I can and let them know it's a learning process. That I can tell them what I am supposed to be doing with Hunter, but it's not always what ends up happening. That I am still human and even though I know what I should say and do I don't always.
I still throw temper tantrums occasionally to blow off steam. I still have really, really bad days. I still blame Hunter for stuff that totally doesn't make any sense, and in fact I will catch myself as I am going on and on about it with him. I will suddenly realize that my argument makes no sense what so ever and that i just need to get over it. I haven't been able to point that out yet, but I am working on it.
I still worry sometimes about whether I am doing it right, and often times I know that I am not. I don't spend nearly enough time just being with Hunter. Some days he craves more time with me and some times I can give it and other times, even though I know it's best if I just let it go and be with him. Instead I obsess over what ever it is I am so caught up in and we have a horrible day.
How I handle my stress is usually what keeps us from being together and having good times together. I recognize that but changing it is a whole 'nother story:)
But when i talk about unschooling I still really do feel that it is the best thing for us. It gives us the freedom to learn anything we want to learn and to think about all kinds of things. Like today we pondered about whether or not the library would ever not let you borrow books, like what it would take to make them stop letting you take out books. We had some things that were due in yesterday and they didn't make it back until today, oopps! Or what a virus is and if there are viruses out there that you can get but that don't make you sick. All the pondering you can do and then all the research that could come of it. Hunter isn't so into the research he is more into the possibilities and I am okay with that. If someday he wants to learn more about viruses we will go there, but for now it's just about what could possibly happen.

Pics of Hunter's shows

Here are some pics of Hunter as Fenris Ulf in Narnia and Charley Bates in Oliver!

Hunter the Show Star

It's been a long time since I last posted and so much has happened. We went to an awesome unschooling gathering, UWWG, which we will definetely be attending next year!

Hunter was in Narnia the Musical, which opened up the whole world of performing on stage to him. He loved it and then auditioned for Oliver! and got a part playing Charley Bates. Oliver! just ended yesterday and now he starts work on Annie.

I hope to get some pics of Hunter in Oliver! on here soon, and maybe some from Narnia if I can manage it.

SNOW!!!

H was so excited, it snowed! We finally got some snow! He had this great idea... He took one of his old skateboards and took off the wheels to make a snowboard. He really wanted to go to Art Hill, but I just wasn't up for it, so we went to a park that is close to us that actually has a pretty nice hill to go down. We went the day after the snow came so everyone was back in school. I was a little worried about H using the skateboard, but I was honest with him about my fears and he used caution. First he went down on the skateboard sitting on it, just to see what the ride was like and if it was bumpy. Then he went down snowboard style and he did great! He wiped out alot but overall he did amazing! And he had a blast doing it. We went down the hill a few times together on our sled and we went fast! Then as we were walking to the car, I surprised Hunter with a spontaneous snowball fight, which he loved!

New Year's Eve

We opened presents with my parents and family on New Year's Eve. Here is my dad(Pops) opening his socks that we get him every year... and every year he loves them:) My mom found a way cool pattern to make Hunter a cloak and he helped her pick out the fabric and the clasp for it and she made it for him for Christmas. It looks so cool! The expression on my mom's face after opening her present from me, is priceless. Although I have to be truthful, I wasn't able to get her true first reaction, and made her open it again so I could capture it on film. She was willing. I have been really into felting, for her birthday I made her a felted purse and so for Christmas I made her a cute felted hat. Now I just need to make one for myself. Someday...