Sharon's Room

This is my little cozy corner. �Where I listen to my favorite music and do my favorite things: Cross stitch, Sewing, Reading Mysterys, and Brewing Beer. �(In fact, I'm probably holding a glass of my homebrewed Oktoberfest right now!)

Right now my main concern is the budget. �With my taking a leave from lawyering to be mom for a while and all of us living on one salary, it gets pretty tight. �Especially around here where everything seems to cost a mint and a half. �(And we still have those pesky student loans too.) � One way that we have been attempting to save money has been with once-a-month cooking (OAMC for short). �I have discovered some fantastic sites for OAMC which have really helped out with this daunting prospect. �OAMC Links

Parenting Issues

Oh, if I could tell you all the ways I am a different parent than I thought I'd be before I had kids.  Before I had children of my own, I had a vision of my work schedule remaining unchanged, picking up the kids from the babysitter, and advancing my career.  I never considered breastfeeding, had never heard of attachment parenting, and figured homeschooling should be illegal.  What an about face!  When did the change take place?  I think it occurred gradually at first.  I was dismissed from my position as a lawyer when preterm labor put me on bedrest for ten weeks while I was pregnant with Angela.  I began to realize that I would do anything to bring her into this world as a healthy full-term infant.

The moment I held her in my arms and responded to her little cries by nursing her, my heart was lost.  I knew that I could never abandon her at a babysitter's or a daycare.  All of a sudden my career became trivial by comparison.  I've watched her grow and thrive, becoming a generous, compassionate, intelligent person.  As her same-age peers went off to preschool, I began to see a change occur in them, not for the better.  Determined that she was not going to lose that sweet, loving nature, by sending her off to school, I began to research other alternatives.  My husband and I thought long and hard about it, and have decided to homeschool our children for as long as we can.  So here I am, staying at home, homeschooling my kids, breastfeeding them into their toddler years, snuggling with them in bed, and generally doing everything I never dreamed I'd be doing.

Weird, huh?

Here are some articles on attachment parenting:

Attachment Parenting: A Definition and Suggested Book List by members of ParentSoup Attachment Discussion Group

Co-Sleeping: Mothering Instincts are Gaining Recognition by Susan Martin

New!!  Lapbooks and Unit Studies are HERE!!!
Here are some original Unit Studies which I have put together and we have used:
Snakes!
Japan: Past and Present

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