Creating a plan to track our experiment- do watermelons grow bigger and sweeter with rocks placed on them?
Just a mom with PCOS and two ADHD boys
I am a mom with PCOS who likes to workout. I have two boys one with ADHD and AUDHD. An adult daughter that keeps me sane and another adult son who lives out of state.
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Homeschool- different resources
Well we are just over a year and a half into this home school journey. It is not easy, but so far has proven itself as the right decision for our youngest.
It takes a village- of people and resources! One full time woking parent, one fill time working hybrid parent makes for a lot of coordination.
Very thankful for our step daughter, who without her I would have lost my sanity 2 months in!
We have mostly been using miacademy.com as our main learning source, which we absolutely love. We are getting to a point where we need to supplement though, because our little man is getting to a level where the work required is above his social/age ability. So backing off a bit and looking for some supplemental resources I found https://www.thewaldockway.com.
We are trying out two of the units - survival and space. Looking forward to the rewarding rewarding we will do and see how we will manage this more Mom teaching time.
I really like the mix of games, books, pinterest and YouTube waldockway has put together. We shall see how this goes, but for no we we are organized and ready to start!
Sunday, January 12, 2025
May Mann Jennings - Florida Woman's Hall of Fame Inductee
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
I did it!!! I am Published
I did it!!! I finally pushed myself and got something published - already thinking what to do next. But first this one. I put together a running planner. Put in the intro pages to explain me and options to get started. Then January - Dec 1(race day) I have calendar pages to tell you want to do each day. It is a combination of all the pieces that got me not only to run, but to increase my speed.
If you have never run before or only casual run, but you want to run a half marathon - if you follow this it will get you there. There is a facebook group to help support each other - but you have to get the book to get the link to the facebook group. However the planner is free right now on Kindle unlimited or just $20 if you want the hard copy in your hands. There are pages at the end of the planner to also take notes and write what works and doesn't work for you so a hard copy might be nice if you are a note taker. Running Planner
Saturday, September 2, 2023
Never felt so seen or understood... from a book
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Decision made - jumping in with both feet
Post have been on the slower side because we made a big decision as a family and had to get things set up. I am thankful for my tribe that allows this to be possible. We have decided to homeschool our youngest. We will reevaluate after a year or two, but after much reflection and reaching out to different schools who specialize with neurodivergent kiddos and either not feeling they would be a good fit or no response back we have decided to homeschool.
We are 9 days in and have figured out our schedule. Things are calm and we are thriving. We are using on online guided course and then using the unschooling philosophy for additional learning. He is able to take breaks as he needs them and spend extra time on things that feed his interest. In just the last couple of days he has shown a renewed interest in music and instruments. I'm sorry to all our neighbors who are getting serenated by the harmonica in the morning! He is also being exposed to a Spanish lessons as well.
This has nothing to do with the schools themselves or teachers. We have wonderful teachers in our lives and we love them dearly. For us I just couldn't have him going on to hate school - which we were setting ourselves up for. Right now he needs small focused lessons followed by breaks where he can be active. I know there are IEPs and 504s, but I just didn't feel that this level could be accommodated in the school setting with as many kids as they have. As we figure out the balance between his ADHD and his Autism and he gets older this will be more manageable and we will see what fits at that time.
So what curriculum are we using. www.miacademy.co is what we chose. They have the core classes as well as extras i.e. foreign language, music, fitness, etc. Each course you can set the grade level. There are also assessments to gage if they are understanding the lessons. It keeps track of attendance and reports that will be needed to provide to the state at the end of the year.
We are still very new to this, so any advice, lessons learned you want to share we would love to hear it.
Things that we have found useful, so far, I have linked below. To help with his writing practice and support his "prop" needs we have weights we put on his pencils. We has have sensory gels that we put on the pencils that he says help him.
Then we have an Ipad that is just for school work and learning apps and of course has a kid proof case, because 6 year old boy. We supplemented with a key board and a mouse to help with those skills as they come up, rather than a whole other computer or laptop. Also I got the pencil, because I like gadgets, but it is also helping with pencil control and writing practice.
We will share more from our journey as we travel this road. I don't expect it to all be sunshine and rainbows, but just the weight lifted and the stress that seemed to have lifted from both of us in just these 9 days is worth it already. After the last year and how it ended we knew that a different path needed to be taken.
Next post I will share more of our dye free things that we have tried and liked or hated. If you have dye free things you are wondering about leave a comment and we let you know.
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Friday, July 28, 2023
Cabin Fever, what do you do?
It's raining, it's thundering, and it has been for a few hours. We were going a little stir crazy. So where do you take you prop sensory seeking child? Why do the trampoline park of course!! Along with what feels like just about every other child in our city.
Well today we had some amazing wins! We played nicely with multiple other children. We waited our turn without being told. As we jumped we were aware of our surroundings and held up when required.
When it was time to go, we struggled a bit, but then were able to rain it in and walk out nicely.
We will be back!
Garden science fun predictions
Creating a plan to track our experiment- do watermelons grow bigger and sweeter with rocks placed on them?

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