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Entries from June 2009

Happy Father’s Day

June 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

We spent yesterday finally, extremely belated trying to get some 6 and 4 yo photos of C and B. Cause, you know, they have birthdays coming up again soon. Their birthdays were right when daddy started going to work six days a week and it just through us off. Just never got around to […]

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Tags: Homeschooling

Little Projects

June 19th, 2009 · No Comments

The kids had a busy day. Just little projects they go themselves into all day. C started asking me to spell words while he wrote. When I got the gist of where it was going I couldn’t decide whether or not to object: “D has stinky feet”. I decided as long as they were both […]

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Tags: Homeschooling

Bowling Queen

June 17th, 2009 · No Comments

Ms. B is our Wii bowling queen. Her high score today was 197. The best part was that her brother quit half way through so she bowled for him - with one remote in her left hand and one in her right she set two records. One for herself (the 197) and one for D […]

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Tags: Getting Physical · Homeschooling

Road Trip . . . again (old post)

June 15th, 2009 · No Comments

So this is a way old post - told I have all these pre-wrtten but not yet published old thing lying around. Here’s one from early November. Big trip around the four corners area. Have tons of pictures to post as soon as we find. It was half a year ago, after all. Today was […]

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Tags: Homeschooling · Travels

Rearranging

June 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Last night was spent running back and forth from the bathroom with a little puker. Luckily nothing gets them down too long.
Today was spent rearranging rooms, furniture and concepts. We have few rooms, one of which is large. So it has to serve several purposes. In the 4.5 years we’ve lived in this house we’ve […]

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Tags: Homeschooling

We Disappeared

June 13th, 2009 · No Comments

I know, I know. We disappeared. Gone. Vanished. At least all traces of us being out and about stopped appearing in cyberspace. We didn’t do it on purpose. Promise.
Can I blame the economy? Of course I can. Everything today can be blamed on the economy. Actually though, in this case, it kind of true. Our […]

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Tags: Homeschooling