Midnight Goddess

Awhile back Marty gave Memphis the opportunity to earn money for crushing the soda cans that we save. He jumped on it. He proudly did it almost every day when I would hand him a plastic bag of 12 or soda cans. Towards the end he started to slack off. He didn’t actually stop doing [...] Read more »

The other day Marty went to the balcony and started crushing cans for recycling. Memphis saw him do it and decided to go help his dad. Later I realized Memphis was doing it on his own with Marty looking on. Then he came in and told me that he gave Memphis a new job which [...] Read more »

We’ve gotten Memphis a few games in the past. But he’s always been extremely partial to electronic games, mostly video games. Hence, the reason why he’s so infatuated with his DS, Gameboy and Wii. He’s a typical boy in that sense.
As for board games, he’s got Disney Memory game, a few Scene-It games (he [...] Read more »

So me and Jaz were playing an impromptu game of “up and down” with her small John Deere tractor and the wall. Memphis was watching Spongebob in my room.
Jaz was running the tractor up the wall so I said, “Up!” And when she drove the tractor down, I’d respond with, “Down!” We did that for [...] Read more »

Me and Memphis haven’t done anything that looks remotely like homeschooling (or school at home as unschoolers call it) in probably over half a year. He doesn’t know it but Marty and I had agreed that unschooling him and Jaz was the best approach for us as a family. It’s been a pretty rocky road [...] Read more »