Eclectic Parent

In the evening, grandma and I took D to an Obama rally. Women for Obama sponsored a rally to turn Arizona blue. After some talking at the Arizona State University campus, we walked across the bridge over a major street carrying blue lights. It was an amazing blue river of over a thousand people. D […]

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Yesterday the house was full of princesses - and a few princes - for B’s 4th birthday party. It was a princess tea party complete with dressing up, changing outfits repeatedly, the princesses once being chased by a dragon and the whole finger sandwiches kind of tea time. She had a fantastic  time dressing up […]

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I recently got talked into joining Facebook. I had thought it was the realm of teenagers and drunken college students, but within minutes I had found people I knew, some of whom I hadn’t spoken to in years. FB allows people to not only chat with each other but to see what others say they […]

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Kids have been feeling very self directed lately. Yesterday they spent a great deal of time making comic books (which daddy is supposed to photograph).  C’s was about R2D2 while D made up his own superheroes.
Today the kids made political signs for the yard while I ate lunch. They did it all themselves and didn’t […]

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Very friend filled day. Started the morning with a play date. A couple of hours spent with an entire family of children. Went straight from there to a Halloween party. Who says homeschooled children don’t have enough socializing? Or is that socialization? Oh well, that’s a whole ‘nother idea.
We’ve been very busy reading around here […]

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At one of his homeschool programs, C learned the song:
5 little hot dogs sitting in a pan,
the grease got hot,
and one went bam!
4 little . . . .
Tonight at dinner the variations started. It started with the same theme and worked its way to things like
5 little light sabers sitting in a hand,
one got shot […]

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I haven’t been posting lately. Not on purpose, just not getting to it. I have thought during the day that I could write about but then in the evening just don’t get them typed. I recently discovered neither my thyroid nor my adrenal glands are working well. It’s the difference between tired and bone weary. […]

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From “What’s secondhand?” to “what’s a will?”, the movie Secondhand Lions took the boys and I about 2.5 hours to watch Wednesday. I’ve never watched a movie holding the remote to pause every few seconds and answer questions. B is at grandma’s for a big girl sleepover and daddy was out leaving the boys and […]

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GEOGRAPHY
So D decided to put together the USA floor map puzzle again. This time only putting in states he’d been to. While some have been in quite a bit, others have only been driven through. None the less, pretty well traveled by 8, 6 and 4 - especially if you include Ireland and Mexico.
1    Alabama
2   […]

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