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The Fourth Child
Maybe you can relate to this.. Our fourth child seems to be the comic relief in our family, likely due in part to his birth order. He tends to be a little more laid back, also. When you have 3 other...
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Another homeschooling day down
Full schedule again: Adverbs, diamanté, tesserae in art, French tutor, math drills, visual mapping, sun and seasons, book reports, fraction reduction, cursive, reading, spelling with SWR, and so...
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Birthday party at local ice cream shoppe
The boys were mad at me because I asked them to wear their “church clothes” to go out to dinner.
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Using American Girl dolls to teach money
My daughter has picked out several items that she wants to buy from the American Girl store in Manhattan, so we spent the morning discussing how they can make money, the value of saving money, when to...
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John Dalton at 1:00 a.m.
Still up planning this week including my chemistry lesson on the atomic model. The models should prove to be fun to make for our young students. I’m trying to decide just how in-depth to go into this...
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Lesson planning at 1 a.m.
I don’t know where the weekend goes. Presently, it’s in the wee hours of Monday morning. I’d hoped to be asleep by now, but I’m still getting ready for this week’s studies. Spending part of yesterday...
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My birthday weekend-Yes, I’m 29 (again!)
Another year has passed. Birthdays have a way of reminding you about life’s temporary nature and what might be holding your attention that may or may not be of eternal significance. Well, that’s...
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Finding motivation
Monday morning approaches. We’ve lost an hour of sleep from Daylight Savings Time (not a fan). Add that to my already sleep-deprived day, and I’m not ready to gear up for academics tomorrow. Yes, I...
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Easiest birthday party ever
I am all about making things easier for myself these days out of pure selfishness. There’s a great deal on my plate with homeschooling and everything that goes along with that. So, when it came time to...
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Birthday wishes
I blinked, and today is gone. Wow, time just seems to be flying the older that I get. I’m still needing those extra hours in my day. This weekend marks a birthday for my father, so the kids took some...
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Pinatas
We have a birthday in our house this week, and then the next month, and then the next month. My kids have a way of turning a birth-day into a birth-week. I can’t say that I blame them. I milk my...
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