Are you annoyed?

Is it just me or does it seem like more and more people are using their Facebook status' as an outlet to post stuff about what they are selling or the new weight-loss thing the rest of us just have to try/buy?

Am I the only one who gets annoyed by this? Or are you a little annoyed as well?

I mean, it is totally their right to do that. Facebook status' can be whatever the owner/author wants them to be. And don't get me wrong, I do enjoy hearing on occasion what new business they have started up, what product is working well for them, and what they want to share (or sell) with others in the hopes of it working for them too. 

The key word is 'on occasion' though. 

I'm talking about the people who pretty much ONLY post that kind of stuff. What happened to posting about what is going on in your life aside from the products you sell? Your joys? Pains? Funny stories to share? 

I miss those posts. 

I appreciate people who set up pages or blogs dedicated to what they sell, what they are in to, etc. This way, if you want to subscribe, you can. And if not, you don't. I have many Facebook pages and blogs I subscribe to because I enjoy getting updates about gardening, homeschool, all natural/DIY recipes, essential oil uses, and more. 

As a homeschool mom, I think, what if all I did was post homeschool info and stuff related to that on my personal Facebook page and pretty much nothing else? I would likely annoy the fire out of my non-homeschooling friends and fill up their walls with things they probably don't want to read/hear about. Don't get me wrong, when I think something is really good, even if it not everyone I know would be interested, I will post it...just....not all the time. I don't want to bore my friends all the time with the things that I am in to, but the things they may not be in to. 

I guess the point I am trying to get at is there needs to be a healthy balance.

My walls are just being bombarded with weight loss programs people want others to try, things people want the rest of us to buy, and i guess, what I need to do is simply 'unsubcribe' from their personal pages. When I see those kind of posts day after day, I just get annoyed. It is their right to do what they want with their pages though, but it is my right to control what I do or don't have to see ;)

CtG Weeks 23, 24, & 25

Here are a few highlights from our weeks...

These weeks have whizzed by and I just have not done a good job on keeping up with blogging them. 

Oh well...

Most subjects are going well. We've had to slow down a bit in math for a week or 2 there. The upper times tables are giving my daughter a hard time. I really need to do better at having her listen to the multiplication songs so she can memorize and spout them out more quickly. That will be our goal for the remainder of this year. My son is into fractions and all the ways you can boggle your mind with them. He catches on pretty quickly though. 

Science has still been kind of boring lately. I think its mainly b/c we have done so many of these activities and experiments before. Either that, or they just aren't very appealing to us. We gave up on the read-aloud, Children's Homer. I may have mentioned that in the last post...can't remember. My son said he plans to read the book, but he has lots of other books he wants to get to first.

If you have the Drive Thru History series, sometime during Week 25 would be a great time to watch Holy Lands, Volume 4, Episode #1. 

Art has been great, which is surprising, considering my blue-eyed boy usually despises art. I did actually snap a few pictures in this area.

In these pictures, the kids are mixing colors to make new ones. We all got in on this and had some fun seeing how close we could match the colors we saw on the art postcard.

The background was supposed to be much lighter in color, but this was totally my fault. We mixed up a big ol batch (of the wrong color paint) and I hate to waste stuff. The kids said they liked this color better, so we went with it.

Anywho, it's getting into crunch time and I can feel it. I am eager to finish out this year and excited about planning for the next year. I just got some of next year's curriculum ordered and I can't wait to get my hands on all of it :)