Eclectic Parent

While the rest of the US gets ready for autumn, leaving behind outdoor activities, we are ending our self-imposed hibernation. It is just too hot to do much outside all summer here. But once the temperature drops, we head outside and activities begin again.
The end of summer seemed to launch the beginning of the active […]

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 I was chatting with an online friend and apologized for the delays between pm’s. I explained that I was helping to make a tambourine. Today felt like a total wash. I’ve got a headache and it just feels like we laid around all day, but as I wrote it out one thing after another came […]

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Scottsdale, AZ host an annual mud mania converting huge swathes of a park into swamps, mud matches, obstacle courses, soapy water slides and misty playgrounds. Met up with a friend, which is always a good time. Only had the small camera with me so not great shots and really not a whole lot to say […]

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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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Another great thing about homeschooling? Kids are free during the day when things aren’t busy.  D had a bowling birthday party for this 8th birthday. Lots of fun bowling, pizza, cake and fun in the game room. Overall a definite success.
At home he did a little with his electro-magnetic science kits. We hooked a battery […]

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We went for dim sum with some friends from our homeschool group for the Chinese mid-Autumn festival. Then we headed to the dentist for all three kids to have checkups. And then we went to a roller skating rink where the boys homeschool enrichment program was having a get together. All three of the had […]

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For those of you who are about to fight, we salute you…………………The boys gymnastics gym had a sleep over a few weeks ago. It was boys only, no girls - even mommy had to stay home. Our boys thought it was a fun filled night: friends, games […]

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D had gymnastics last Saturday. Their first year most the coaches are just trying to get them to remember the whole routines - boys have even more events that girls: floor, parallel bars, high bar, rings, vault and pommel horse. It’s a lot to remember with tons of chaos and people watching. D’s been having […]

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Interrupting my next planned blog about our second week in Mexico, just to keep up with real life. Most of our free time since returning has been spent trying to get some of our 2000 photos sorted and uploaded to flickr; the first three days of vacation are now in our gallery on the blog […]

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On Friday we headed down to Tucson for a gym meet after picking D up at Casa Vida. C just did not want to go - not to Tucson, not out of the house. Luckily grandma had been down shopping and took pity on the homebody, swooping him up and taking him home with her. […]

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