Eclectic Parent

Thursday is usually our busiest day. The boys have three hours of art classes (dance, drama and art) in a row in the morning and then D has two and a half hours of gymnastics in the evening. This week some of the homeschooled kids were going from art block to the children’s museum nearby. […]

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We went to the the symphony today. I just heard about the symphony for the schools that the Phoenix Symphony puts on throughout the year. Very inexpensive tickets and a short, one-hour concert made it perfect for little kids. Today they did several short pieces to teach about the different types of instruments - […]

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We go through waves of learning. I wish the kids would ask to do stuff when they are interested in going something other than playing; instead they get whiny and bicker a lot. While many argue that bored is good and causes children to become creative and figure out what to do, ours just tend […]

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Friday was a busy, busy day. D had Casa Vida, his homeschool enrichment program. C and B had their second dance class. So it was drop kid 1 off, drop kids 2 and 3 off, pick kids 2 and 3 up, run around like maniacs getting last minute little gifts, pick up kid 1 and […]

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One of our homeschool groups had a family party on Saturday. Kids had a blast running around with all the other children, in and out of the pool and trying to learn to skateboard. There was a pool, a swing set, two dogs and a field with cows, what more do you need for entertainment?
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Our city is trying to get people into its small downtown. They’ve started having the second Friday of the month be for wondering the downtown; shops are staying open, the arts center has the museum open and performances going on, there are people making balloon animals and street musicians up and down Main St. We’ve […]

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(mommy spent the day going to the dr, getting her prescription filled and laying around moaning so today is brought to you by daddy)

Mesa Southwest Museum had homeschoolers in for a few special presentations. Most of the things they had this year dealt with the body. So we went and played with the […]

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We received a CD from a friend’s birthday party recently. It had some goodies and somethings I would have been happier never having played in this house (I now have a 2 yo walking around singing, “I’m a barbie girl, in a barbie world.”) One of the definite goodies was Girls Just Wanna Have Fun […]

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Today was dedicated to gymnastics, completely and utterly. While we were on vacation we got an email recommending other gyms with no explanation why. We finally discovered that D’s coach had had to quit and that had steamrolled into them realizing it would be difficult to replace him and then deciding they didn’t have enough […]

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create your own visited countries map
(mommy’s map)
So for once I’m not referring to my personal lack of posting, but literally where on earth have you been? It’s a very cool interactive map generator that allows you to show where you have traveled. And as appalling poorly traveled as I’ve always felt myself to be, doing […]

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