School had a list of things to get for home, and one was exercise bands.
I had no idea we were getting "America's ass" when I bought this set. 
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The boys' new systems come with evil overlord mommy able to close tabs on their system when they veer off-lesson. Oh, no!pic.twitter.com/ql4hUykEOt
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7 wanted a beanbag chair for school. We do not have a beanbag chair and I am not buying or otherwise acquiring a beanbag chair. 7, ever the industrious child created his own chair with a giant, puffy comforter.pic.twitter.com/RfhkaiQgMW
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7 and 9 lobbying that "indigenous people faced centuries of oppression so their weekend should get an extra day with no school" wasn't exactly the take-away I was hoping for from that conversation. Round 2 of age-appropriate discussion of genocide.
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Husband and I are engaged in a philosophical debate over the merits of bringing the french doors up from the basement to eliminate the dog having accidents in the upstairs hall. I am pro-french door camp.
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This morning's learning adventures can best be described as "technology fail hell" with a side of "headphones shenanigans". I suspect child-directed foul play may be afoot with both.
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I encourage everyone to find a space for dramatic play. It helps get out wiggles and with resilience through the pandemic. Our boys have a space where grass just never grows. It's been a dwarf mine, but right now it's a bridge over lava for epic battles. What's your space?pic.twitter.com/bJDKj6ADCD
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7 took a break for a snack and has been devouring honey nut rice cakes he absolutely had to have. He offered me one. I'm sad to report that rice cakes still taste like disappointment...and also what I remember hair spray tasting like. 0/10, would not recommend.
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We are back from break and 7 insists he "needs his reading glasses" to complete a story-mapping exercise. Ladies and gents, this is what he has declared his "reading glasses".pic.twitter.com/UQzAoJvQet
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An unanticipated home school woe is the volume of bulk children's snacks in my home. I had thought the goldfish days were in behind me and had blissfully forgotten that they turn into mushy tooth gunk. Unfortunately, a handful of these treasures jogged my memory.
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9, finding literally any excuse to not do his schoolwork: Mom, how do you start a revolution? Me: commissioning a coup d'état is after math
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Home school with curious children means that school project about cave art
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No you're trying to print out of a school program that won't let you enter your work. Actually, you're now copy/pasting in word to get them to print. No, really, you're putting this crud in indesign to get a functional worksheet.
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I'm also definitely not now re-typing a worksheet for my other child since the worksheet isn't workable.
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I came out from making dinner to discover 7 hauling his "homework" up to his room. 7: mom, why are you wasting time taking a picture? This would be a really good time to help me out right now. Me:
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7 has now recruited husband to nail holes in the bottom of empty olive cans. Not just one, plural. I don't know why. I think I'm ok not knowing why.
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'Twas an "intercom to ask for snacks". The twine was long enough to go from a room upstairs down the stairs, around the corner, through the living room, around another corner, through the dining room, around another corner into the kitchen. With slack.pic.twitter.com/MwAAAhZuGS
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Don't mind me...I'm just bribing children to finish their work by ordering them flavored syrups so they can make pretentious holiday hot chocolates.
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