New Year still

It's still the first full week of the New Year, and we are settling into our new schedule. I've begun a low-carbohydrate diet, and as a result, I've been more impatient than usual. I have had a headache every day (it's caffeine withdrawal) and I've had to take a nap every afternoon just to get through the day. Connor has been a good sport. He meets with a tutor everyday now from 9-10a, and that's working out well. Tonight, during dinner, Connor said that his "good thing" was that his biology tutor came today. I think he has a little crush on her. After church and the hour with the tutor, Connor wrote another fable. He read Aesop's Fables last week (a whole book of them) and decided to write his own fables. The first one was pretty good, and for once I praised his work more than criticized. Yeah, I've really got to work on that. The second fable was mediocre at best, and I wasn't overly enthusiastic. As a result, Connor decided to read the works of Edgar Allen Poe next, to help his writing branch out a bit. What a contrast to Aesop's Fables!! I just think it's wonderful that Connor imitates various writers after reading their works, and then moves on to another genre entirely. We talk quite a bit about genres and branching out in our reading and writing. On another note, I received a fantastic email from a listserve about an unschooler's day. One learning activity just naturally leads into another, almost effortlessly. As I've said a million times, I have a definite idea of our goals and our curriculum, and I'm quite structured and time-oriented, so I would never consider myself an unschooler. But it is great to see how it works for some families.