the best supplies

Everybody always asks what we "use" to homeschool. They probably want to know what math books we use, or how we do spelling - but for us, that's not the really important stuff.

These are the very best supplies we have:

marshmallows and chocolate chips
much more fun to count than pinto beans

base ten blocks
in case you have to count higher than five hundred - nobody should eat that many marshmallows

four library cards
to four different libraries

imagination
this always comes in handy

at least one other grown up outside the family who likes your kid almost as much as you do, and is willing to teach them something without talking down to them
like Toni or Paul or Rachel or Christina or Mrs. Quick or Ms. Sharon or Clayton (who actually is family - but that we don't see nearly enough for Punk's taste)

art supplies
a whole cupboard full if you can swing it

a messy kitchen table
who are we kidding - the whole house is kinda like that

love
that's what we use the most