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... your dh finds an empty, plastic-wrap covered pyrex dish on the counter and asks: Is this a science experiment or can I wash this dish?
.....or your dd sees you taking meat off the bones of a roast to make sandwiches and asks: Are you saving those bones for school?
....you walk through your learning room and have to stop to pick up a miniature, rubber human stomach that somehow got separated from the rest of its body
....your son asks where he can get a copy of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" pamphlet so he can read the whole thing.
Yep... that was the week here 
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...your husband says, "Please don't tell me where the dead animals are stored in our garage!"
...you answer every "Where's this kitchen item?" question posed to you on Christmas Day with, "I used in in a chem lab. I'll go get it from upstairs."
...you amass an enormous quantity of Mason jars and give them all to your bio lab students so they can take home strands of strawberry DNA;
...your children won't eat a particular brand of bread any more because they couldn't get mold to grow on a slice of that bread for a science experiment.
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-- your child calls, "Come hither!" when she wants you.
-- there are dissection specimens in your kitchen cabinet
-- in all your flurries of free Kindle book-buying, it rarely occurs to you to buy anything for yourself (or maybe that's just me?)
-- it's not just cooking. it's an explanation of various chemical changes, as they occur.
-- you've long since ceased to notice the dead crabs in alcohol on the kitchen shelf. At least the ticks in alcohol are upstairs in the collector's room. And he swears that the e. coli in the petri dish in the fridge is non-pathogenic.
-- your own various private experiments become public knowledge, because the town criers are home all day to watch you dye your white t-shirts with blueberries and coffee grounds. Also, for days afterward everyone, including you, is reluctant to taste from that stockpot bubbling on the stove. Because now everyone's got the bug, and who knows what's happening in there. . . except that suddenly everyone is wearing strange colors, found in nature.
-- and you never, ever, in a million years thought of yourself as a scientist. Or the come-hither type, either.
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--your kids can barely read, but their spoken vocabulary makes them sound like professors
--you have a collection of random junk that's set aside for "projects"
--you are way too excited to purchase and hang a cartoon version of the periodic table
--you set aside broken electronics to dissect in the future, and then have almost more fun than your kids doing it.
--when your kid tells you, "this button pushes down and makes the electric wires (signal) start working" you almost start crying a little because it's so exciting that he figured it out on his own.
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.....when you 5year old thinks that everyone, no matter what their age, is his friend. [[We just went to pizza party and baseball practice and my 5yo thought he would have a deep conversation with the Coach.  ]]
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You ladies are cracking me up .
Yes, I would also be too excited about the periodic table poster. My son would SO boycott bread that would not grow mold for him . He is also a talker like Betsy's son. And I am especially laughing because I just last week stashed a set of organs (heart, eyeball, kidney) in my kitchen cabinet for future dissection .
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....you keep jars for bug collecting.
....and empty plastic bottles are saved just in case for the next experiment.
....antiquing is considered a school field trip.
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...your daughter describes herself as the lunch lady.
...the kids tell their friends they have no homework .
...your in laws look up facts mentioned in conversation with the kids and it turns out the kids were right .
...your kids can't go on a five minute drive without a stack of books.
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Grace&Chaos wrote:
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THIS!!! ALL.THE.TIME.
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-- the library keeps calling your pre-teen to tell him his Inter-Library Loan request is in.
-- apparently he goes to the library, which you don't, because you are wanted on two continents for overdue fines.
-- apparently he is not afraid to ask the librarian how ILL works, which leaves you flabbergasted, because you would never ever ever even have dreamed of asking a librarian a question at his age.
-- oh, and he's figured out that he can buy books at the used bookstore, read them, and take them back for credit to buy more books, which he reads and takes back . . . so it's really like having a second library, but without the ILL feature.
-- and all the books are about germs.
(all this is rather old news; the pre-teen in question is now 16. but at 12 or so he was like the poster child for "you know you're a homeschooler when . . . " He was Petri-Dish Boy, too, but I think that was later)
-- also, you let your kids play Minecraft not because it's fun, but because it's math.
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We're very known at our library, and I've been so impressed at my 10 year old asking for help and holds at the library.
I do ILL, which is a new thing for me in my 40s, so I don't think he'll be far off in trying that himself. Problem is $3.00 per item adds up!
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Move to Maryland...ILL is free!
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You walk through your dining room and do a double take, their is a huge pile of cicada shells sitting there, then you think, "Oh I should grab the camera to show the ladies on 4Real".
Later in the day, after leaving your dd20 to babysit she reports she had to talk the 5year old out of storing them in his shoe for the summer, she suggested he sketch them instead. So speaks a homeschool graduate.
That was yesterday, last week my 5 week old received her library card. Never too young.
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...the children come downstairs on Saturday morning uncertain as to whether they have school or not.
...at the dentist (in the middle of the day, on a week day) the young patient, mouth full of instruments, asks almost as many questions as the hygenist.
...your cardboard boxes never make it to the recycling bin intact.
...you have to eat around the volcano in the middle of the table.
...you take off nice days and have school on snow days.
...your son cannot decide whether to use his recently lost tooth for experiments or put it under his pillow for the tooth fairy.
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Grace&Chaos wrote:
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Yes! Our Nooks have been such space savers on car trips!
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--when your six year old walks through the YMCA spouting off a very LOUD monologue on how Indians are actually Native Americans and they were here first and people came over and took their land and made them stop living in teepees.
--same six year old sings loudly in a high, girly pitched voice as we are walking through same YMCA...”GIVE me liberty, or give me DEATH!!” after watching many, many episodes of Liberty Kids.
--and the six year old...again....puts her college age brothers to shame with her Minecraft empire.
--Costco’s is a home economics field trip...seriously. Didn’t someone already say this? Aldi’s is quickly becoming the other home ec field trip of choice.
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4 lads mom wrote:
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My six year old was quoting the same thing as he was poring over his new stamp album.
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I agree -- the food shopping is a big one. Math, reading labels, deciding on sales. Coupons is a big one that I think the boys would love to have the challenge.
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---you collect the drumstick bones form the Super Bowl party for co-op science class.
---you hit your book limit at the library and have to take back some books to check anymore out.
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-----After the beloved family pet fish dies and a small funeral is held, it is put under the microscope for an autopsy.
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Wheatheartaca wrote:
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Oh my....truer homeschoolers have never existed!!
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