Did I say we aren’t doing school today?

Well, I must have lied. This is for all the unschoolers out there.

The children asked this morning if we were starting school. I told them, “No, we’ll start next week.” They were all so excited to get another week off from school. So, here’s how the day went.

I gave the children each a list of things I wanted them to do today. Things like special chores…mowing the lawn, cleaning up the sewing room, taking in the recycling. We had breakfast and the kiddos started on their lists.

Now, here’s where I have to back up a bit. Mr. Easy Going bought a 1989 Corvette this summer that was supposed to be to tear apart and use parts for his 1963 Chevy pickup. Well, never let Dad go with a teenage boy to look at a corvette.


On to the story…this weekend Mr. Easy Going was running some errands and stopped for gas. After he bought gas he went to start the vette and it wouldn’t even click to start. Learning Master, aka Dad, took the car hauler and they picked up the vette and brought it home. They looked over it during the weekend but couldn’t figure out exactly what was wrong.

Here we are to present day. So, chores are done and the kiddos have the day to themselves. What do they ask to do? They ask if they can go to the library. Mr. Easy Going wants a Chilton Manual, Designer wants the new Eragon book and Princess Shy wants more horse books.

They return from the library and start reading…but remember, we aren’t doing school. Once they spend a bit of time in the books, Mr. Easy Going goes out to his car to see if he can tell what is wrong. He tore apart the steering column and the dash to get to the steering column. Mind you, he’s never done this before but he just read the book on how to do it.

He gets into it and the book says the ignition should be a pink and a black wire. He thinks to himself, “Pink isn’t a common color. It shouldn’t be too difficult” He takes everything apart and guess what. You guessed it. Every wire in there is pink and black wires.

Then he looks online to see if he can find the answer online. He posts a question to a corvette message board and now he and Learning Master are off to the shop to make a steering column puller…I don’t know what it’s called.



Meanwhile, Princess shy and I are in the kitchen cutting, blanching, shredding and chopping zucchini to freeze and can. That was a lot of zucchini!!!






During all of this, Designer put together a new Lego Bionicle. He is getting really pretty good at it. I keep telling him that he should start a blog so other kids can get directions on how to put these things together.















Little Miss, not to be outdone, created an art masterpiece and put it up on the refrigerator.

















Now, for our day of no school we had auto shop, reading, basic physics (putting the vette up on blocks is nearly impossible), driver's ed(someone had to steer the car, home ec, engineering and art. Not too bad for a day of no school, huh?