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Usborne Benefit Eshow

Posted in Usborne Books on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

My dear friend Jennifer, from Magnum Opus, is hosting an Usborne Eshow to benefit a local shelter in her hometown. Any free books that she earns as a result of this eshow will be donated. If you use this unique link
and order any books for yourself from Usborne, you will be [...]

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Playing with Math

Posted in Living Math on October 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I often use the Miquon Math program to supplement what we are learning.   I came across this blog that gives some hints and tips for using it more easily.  This blog also has some other links and hints for playing with other math concepts.  I think I will be spending some time here today… HTH!

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I have an idea!

Posted in Food and Drink, Uncategorized, tagged , on October 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »

How about a food challenge?
I am trying to be ultra-thrifty with food, not sacrificing quality, taste or my pocketbook.
Does anyone feel up to sharing creativity?
The situation:

    you have 45 minutes until your soup is done bubbling on the stove.
you want to make something bread-like to go with dinner
you don’t have butter

you do have:

flour(wheat but tastes [...]

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I think ole’ red legs hates me… isn’t that a good thing?

Posted in Uncategorized on October 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »

So, here I am…TRYING to be holy.
I was trying extra hard to be supportive of my
hard-working husband..you know smile and all..make
nice lunches for him…get up with him when he asks in
the morning…cheerfully…ick. My dh whose salary
was cut and took a second job that enables me to visit
with him for about a hour a day [...]

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Fun in a Box

Posted in Fun Schooling, Games, Montessori, tagged , , on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I was playing letter games with my Sunshine Boy (4yo ds) this afternoon. I noticed that he was struggling to write his letters today in a booklet we created. He has the general idea, but his motor skills just aren’t there yet and I observed that he hesitates to recall how the letter [...]

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Welcome to my new home!

Posted in Real Living on October 15, 2007 | 3 Comments »

I am so not used to posting here. It is kinda different from typepad. If anyone could offer any hints or tips for making things work smoothly here, please let me know. I would love to have links to Amazon like I did before for recommendations and such…any idea if that can [...]

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Montessori Work Cycle

Posted in Family Centered Homeschooling, Montessori on October 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »

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Back in the Saddle Again!

Posted in Elegant Simplicity, Family Centered Homeschooling, Real Living on October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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