tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102587752012-02-13T09:28:31.277-05:00Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04581536150640532394noreply@blogger.comBlogger8741100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10258775.post-79647541793161052982012-01-25T19:30:00.003-05:002012-01-25T19:51:03.941-05:00

I'm going to be glad of this rain come summer, but 4 days of cold, misty weather is really depressing. Obviously I wouldn't do so well in the Northwest states. I've taken advantage of a day-and-a-half of sun to get outside and do some garden chores. I have seedlings in the Spring bed already. I planted a few more rows of spinach. We love fresh spinach in this house. I've turned the dirt again in

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Look girls we've found our way out....I know what my chore is tomorrow.

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Came home from running errands to find Puddin' in the egg basket. Thankfully there were no eggs in it.Yes, we have had a lot of rain the past few days. The rain boots all lined up so we can trek through the mud to check on our hens.The hens have decided that they like this roosting spot behind the coop.Future Farmer???Peace

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We have been busy. It seems like ever since last Fall, right up to today we have been busy. No slow winter days around here. Beyond our normal schooling, running the kids around to activities and day-to-day house work, we have also been experimenting with our own home business (anyone want personalized notecards?), working very hard to be more self-reliant which has included a lot of sewing and

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I've been bad about posting pictures lately. Spending too much time working with my pictures and not enough time posting them.Here is the Eastern Box Turtle we saved from the middle of the road this morning. We took him over to the in-laws where he should have plenty of space and no roads.This is our baby black snake, named Snack. Also saved from the road. We kept it for about a week to

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Last seen entering the soffit of our house, being chased there by the birds.PeaceAmy

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Early Human Life One day a little girl name Mary loved history, but she had to do a paper about humans between 2000 BC and 1000 BC . I'm going to tell you what the paper said. Between 12000 and 10000 years ago the ice age ended and big animals become scarcer. Farming began between 11000 and 8000 years ago, when people started framing and raising animals for food. Farming led to new

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I can remember not too many years ago looking through a book about homeschooling middle school. I thought that seemed way off in the future. Way, way off. This year I look at the bookcase and realize that Middle School is here, now. I'm moving into our 8th year of "homeschooling", or at least eight years since we made the decision to give homeschooling a try. Some days I can't believe we have

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Our first soccer tournament for this year was canceled due to Hurricane Irene. This weekend we headed to Greensboro for what became our first tournament.It was a long weekend for everyone. Being so close we didn't get a hotel room and then found out that Mary's team drew 8:00am games on both Saturday and Sunday. To be there in time for warm-ups we had to leave by 5:00am.By the time they played

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We took our family adventure early this week so that Daddy could enjoy going with us. It was a beautiful morning to enjoy a 3-mile ride along the American Tobacco Trail. A wonderful biking, walking and horseback riding trail through western Wake County and into Chatham County.Robbie is still not comfortable enough on a two-wheeler for trail riding, so I am still carrying him behind me. His legs

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We've decided that this year we will try to have one adventure every week, mainly close to home. Something neat and interesting that we may not get a chance to do very often. Most know of my children's affinity for getting dirty... did not surprise me that their first choice this year was to go to a spur of the local lake. We have been under moderate drought conditions this summer and have been

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Peace

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The end of the week we kept hearing about the chance of severe weather for Saturday and had heard the reports of tornadoes further west. But, my concern was hoping that we could get our games in this weekend after having so many games cancelled and rescheduled this Spring. North Carolina generally doesn't have widespread, strong tornadoes. Historically, our tornadoes are weak and sporadic.

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We've decided to go to the beach next week for 'Spring Break'. We don't really follow the school calendar or even think about the school calendar, but when activities started being canceled next week I figured it would be a good time to get out of town. The downside of planning a week away is getting done all the stuff that needs to be done before we go. I still need to finish the dresses for

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We went back to the park today to do some more kite flying. We managed to avoid much of the rain and only had to deal with a few sprinkles. The wind was howling, so getting the kites into the air was not that much trouble today. Mainly we had to worry about the kites getting ripped out of their hands and flying off. After having a nice picnic lunch the children walked down to the lake to feed the

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Spending a day with my kids is very interesting. One is never quite sure what they will come up with from day to day.Katie created her own weight system. She wants to get stronger so she can "throw the ball across the field" at softball. Emily and Robbie thought it was fun to play with too.Here is Robbie in his "little boy" haircut. Daddy took him out for the haircut at a real place, not at home

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A few weeks ago I promised the children a trip to the museum in Durham so that they could visit the butterfly house. Between weather, appointments and general life the visit kept being pushed back. We finally made it today!! Was it ever crowded with school groups. We even had to park in the overflow lot, a first for us. Because the weather was so nice we decided to walk down to the animal

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Our Spring has been a real roller coaster weather-wise so far. We are learning to grab hold of these warmer, beautiful days to do something outside.A few weeks ago I had the children help make a bucket list of things they wanted to do this Spring. Near the top of the list was kite flying. Of course building our own box kite was with it on the list, but I'm not that on top of things.This morning

Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04581536150640532394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10258775.post-39611660662231095302011-04-03T17:56:00.002-04:002011-04-03T18:00:31.542-04:00

We had some fun playing with Mary's pictures from her soccer game yesterday.Peace

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The weather was beautiful today after such a wet, cool week that we decided to take a family walk.I had never been to this particular park yet even though it is only 7 miles away. It was built on land donated by the power company and the county did an excellent job.Examining the shore line for turtlesDried out cattailsAn interesting exoskeleton Mary foundBrown water-snake sightingThis root system

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After picking up Robbie from preschool we went over to the local lake for a picnic lunch and nature walk. Yesterday while driving I happened to see that the swan couple were back and wanted to see if we could find them.Yes we did!Along with these unidentified black birdsand a blue heron.Emily scoping out the lakeThe others chose a closer viewHere is one interested in our breadThey brought a few

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It has been a long, hard winter and I am so glad that Spring is here. Even if the weather today is more like February than nearly April. The truth is we've been busy, busy, busy and trying to share one laptop between four computer users has been a bit difficult. My time to get on and keep the blog updated was severally hampered. Recently we finally picked up another laptop, which is making

Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04581536150640532394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10258775.post-16795146905388595332010-10-15T09:16:00.002-04:002010-10-15T09:22:28.187-04:00

Finished Emily's first nightgown late last night. Just in time for our trip to the mountains this weekend where it is going to be very cold. The pattern ended up running large, which is okay. I hope that Emily will be able to get a couple of winters out of her nightgowns.I've got one more to make for Emily and then I have already received orders from the other three for pajama pants. Peace,Amy

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*****The Fall weather has been drawing us out in the evening for fun by the firepit. It has been nice to take a breath for a little while and catch up with everyone. The big girls have been sharing the campfire songs they learned at camp this year.We've been busy these last couple of weeks. Emily finished her weather study and selected Continent & Cultures study. Today we put together her world

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The month of September flew by. It wasn't helped by the fact that I have not really felt well for the past month and my mood has been in the dumps. Every day we have had something that needed to be done, generally outside of the house. So, I've just been concentrating on making it through each and every day. School, surprisingly has been my saving grace this month. We are having a very good fall

Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04581536150640532394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10258775.post-34181326716813435502010-09-12T21:12:00.004-04:002010-09-12T21:35:08.689-04:00

For the first time since Mary was 4, one of my kids is attending an outside school. We found a play preschool for Robbie that was just what we had been looking for. Three mornings a week of relaxed, educational fun. Plus, the class is full of boys for Robbie to run around with. I think he gets enough of us females at home. Wednesday was his first day...very excited and up extra early. He helped

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Wow! I shouldn't have blinked during August because it just disappeared. We came back from the trip to the beach, picked up Mary in the mountains from camp and promptly became sick for nearly a week. The joys of a stomach bug running through a home of six. I think it took me extra days to just mentally recover from that experience. Thankfully everyone was well enough by the weekend so that we

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I'm at the beach with Katie, Emily and Robbie. Mary is enjoying her second week of camp in the mountains for the summer. I took some pictures today of the kids swimming and playing at the sound to share with DH, who is back home working and holding down the fort. Peace,Amy

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I can't believe we are already on the fourth week of school for this year. It is going really well so far. We have managed to stay on task for the most part and gradually introducing more work as each week begins. The fact that we continued Time4Learning, informally, during May & June, allowed us to get our groove back faster than normal. This week I went ahead and formally moved Katie and Emily

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Look what mother nature brought us tonight while we are studying weather...Peace,Amy

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We have officially started school as of last week. The fact is we all needed a bit more routine into our days when we were not traveling and school is one of the easiest ways to achieve routine. Katie has been at her last camp for the summer this week and after this we have a couple of weeks at home before our last trip of the summer. Tomorrow we drive down to the GS camp to pick up Katie. Today,

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Our summer is moving right along. After our trip to the beach over the 4th, we packed up and headed to the mountains for five days. Katie had a half-week camp up there and we wanted out of the heat. We all had a great time hanging around the in-laws' cabin. They had trails all over the mountain to walk and explore. My MIL has a butterfly garden that enthralled Emily and Robbie. We just had to

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Just back from our family trip to the beach for the 4th of July. We are blessed that we have such a wonderful place to stay when we visit the beach. This trip is one of the best so far. The weather couldn't have been any more perfect for a holiday weekend. Low humidity and mid-80s during the day. We could see stars at night that we almost never see during the summer due to haze. The tides

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This week I am at home with just the two little ones. The two big girls are at either end of the state attending camps. Mary has been in the mountains since last Thursday. Exploring the mountains and getting to do things I can't, like crossing the swinging bridge at Grandfather Mountain. Yesterday, my in-laws took Mary to her EcoCamp at Laurel Ridge where she will be spending this week stargazing

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We had a weekend filled with adjectives. Hot and Humid, were probably repeated the most frequently, but trying not to go there. This weekend was the last of the Spring sports calendar, plus trying to fit in all these other things before summer camps begin. Emily had her last soccer game at 9am when the temperature was only 1 zillion degrees. An hour later we drove across town to the softball

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I've totally fallen off the keeping up with weeks train. Since we are pretty much on the summer schedule at this point I'm just going to drop trying to keep up with the weeks. I'll restart our counting in August when we 'officially' start our school year this year. I'm really proud of how the three girls are taking ownership of doing their required on-line work. No fussing, except over who gets

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We've fallen into our summer schedule starting this past week. The big girls got up in the mornings and knocked out their online lessons, language arts and math. They are still doing really well and seem to be enjoying the lessons. I've had Mary put aside her math program for the right now and just work on her multiplication facts. Too much frustration on her part because she understands the math

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Well, we are way past our required number of days for the year. Everything is going so well right now that we are just going to keep on going. This week was a good week back after the testing last week. All the kids are still liking Time4Learning so that is getting done with a minimum of fuss. Even adding in more of the worksheets from the program has not been a big deal. I'm somewhat surprised

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It is that time of year that everything begins to finish up. Slowly activities are falling off our calendar and I don't have quite as many days figuring out how to be in two places at once. It is bittersweet. The girls have had such a great time being involved in their activities this Spring I know that they will be missed, but it sure is nice not to have to rush around so many afternoons. Of

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This past weekend we spent in hot & muggy Myrtle Beach (yes, already) for a soccer tournament that Mary's team was participating in. We were not sure what to expect, with it being our first overnight, out-of-town soccer tournament. We had a blast!!The girls spent a lot of time together when they were not out on the fields. They played in the ocean, swam in the pools and had dinner together as a

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I putting up our week in review a little early. Tomorrow we are leaving for a weekend soccer tournament at the beach. Yes, we have a hard life. Trying to wrap up everything this week before being out of town for a WHOLE weekend made it a pretty busy week. We haven't seen much of dh this week since he has had to try and do his weekend jobs during the weeknights. I have had the full-time cab driver

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Week 15 was the week that a lot of issues with curricula and personality came to a head. After struggling with many different problems since the beginning of 2010, we had to make changes. I had kept trying to push through with several programs that all required a lot of one-on-one with my children. And, I was so stressed with trying to plan it all and not leave out the little ones...and nothing

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I have not updated in a couple of weeks. Our second week of Spring Break saw Mary visiting with friends three states away and the public school kids out on their own Spring Break. The weather was wonderful and the children spent most of their time outside enjoying it. I spent the week catching up on housework and paperwork that had fallen behind. I also had time to enjoy pleasure reading and

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We are in the midst of our first week of a two-week Spring Break. We needed the break as everyone was beginning to express signs of the end-of-winter blahs. The kids spent a lot of time this week re-discovering their inner creativity and just enjoying life. My mom came up to spend most of the week with us and take us on some field trips. Tuesday we went to Marbles Kids Museum, where the kids all

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Took the girls ice skating for the first time ever today. I don't know if it is because of the amount of time the girls spend on their in-line skates or just natural athleticism, but they took to ice skating like ducks to water...We'll definitely have to go again!! It was a lot of fun watching them go. Peace,Amy

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This was a tough week, bookwise. All of us are tired and worn out from our winter. After we wrap up a few things today, we will be going on Spring Break for the next two weeks. We have about 20 days left to meet attendance requirements for the state, and are on track to finish our history before Mary leaves for her first camp in June. We did get out this week, a Girl Scout outing to hear the

Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04581536150640532394noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10258775.post-38531514315006376832010-03-17T20:30:00.004-04:002010-03-17T20:41:46.686-04:00

Or, you could call it park day. Whatever. We were much more motivated to get outside today than to sit inside with our books. Peace,Amy

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We took a much needed day off from the paper and pencils today and headed over to one of our favorite museums. By coincidence, it happens to be Katie's half-birthday. We made it into a small celebration. The first stop was the Fossil Pit. Being over-cast and cool, we had the entire area to ourselves for quite awhile. The little ones just like digging holes.Mary has the technique down for finding

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I title this week the "expensive" week. We started out with a trip to the doctor on Monday for Mary. Somewhere she had managed to find an early batch of poison ivy and breakout on her face and neck. So, we spent $100 at the doctor for a $5 prescription of pregnizone. Within 24 hours she felt sooo much better. Then, there was the eye doctor trip on Wednesday for Mary, Katie and myself. Since they

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Buckle up people, Spring Sports began this weekend for us. Mary's U-10 team opened up their season on one of the nicest days we have had since last fall. The girls showed very little affect from having two months off, and then not even being able to practice most of February. We are not sure if the final score was 7-1 or 8-1, but during the second half they were not allowed to score until they

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Mary and Katie went to the annual Father-Daughter Dance for Girl Scouts this evening. Since there was one father and two daughters, we invited their beloved Uncle Mike to join them. Grandmother took them shopping on Wednesday and helped them pick out their dresses. She does so much better shopping with them than I do. Quite the family event! I had to take a number of shots before they stopped '

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Wednesday, the big girls took the afternoon off and went shopping with the grandmother for the big father-daughter dance this weekend. These girls are going to be beautiful!!! Thursday we were home and today we had errands to run. Somewhere along the way we got the 3Rs done in some form or fashion. And, we actually finished our history assignments for the week!! I am actually surprised we got as

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We actually had some science lab activities yesterday. How long has it been since I've run a science lab in the house? Love science, hate the mess and trying to get three interested girls to work together instead of at odds. I had purchased this Magic School Bus Secrets of Space Kit thinking that it would have some fun & easy projects to go along with our Space study. I was right. It is just at

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We finished off the rest of the week pretty well. It helped that we had no outside activities planned for Thursday and Friday. All of us needed a bit of a rest. In history we only completed our US History assignments this week as I didn't feel like rushing through World History. We read Shh! We're Writing the Constitution by Jean Fritz, touched on the Constitution and Bill of Rights and

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I figured I needed to do a mid-week update this week as it is so busy. I know that I would forget half of what we have done if I wait until Friday.We started off the week the same way we ended it...with more cookie booths. Sunday Katie's Brownie troop sold cookies. They lucked out with wonderful weather and a great location and sold a ton of boxes. After the booth I hit the library for the week.

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This one is for me....I found my old, ancient CD that I got in high school. I am enjoying listening to this today. Kids...not so much. I have decided that the next time The Phantom of the Opera comes close to us we are going!! Next up...Les Miserable.Peace,Amy

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Well a least a couple of my students think so!This has been one of the better weeks we have had in the last month. We are still busy, busy, busy...but I am slowly feeling more organized. I spent the past weekend organizing our homeschool supplies a little. I repurposed an under-used metal shelving unit to store the tubs with preschool materials. Now Robbie and Emily can pull out what they want to

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On Wednesdays Mary and Emily have been taking art classes at the local rec center. I wasn't expecting A LOT and really signed them up as something to do during the winter when soccer wasn't happening. Emily loves art; drawing and creating. Mary has always been more into crafts, and I had to encourage her to go to the class at the beginning. Mary has ended up LOVING her art class. She only has one

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of being tired. The winter has seemed like one long, energy-draining blur. I'm so wishing I was on a warm, quiet beach somewhere soaking up lots of Vitamin D. One of the lovely things about living in NC is our winter. We normally get a little cold, a few chances to see snow, but otherwise it is normally mild and sometimes even warm. This winter has been COLD. I don't remember the last time or

Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04581536150640532394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10258775.post-77860958117818344362010-02-13T08:14:00.005-05:002010-02-13T08:57:36.845-05:00

Another week and I feel like we are still trying to find our groove, or in better words a groove that *I* like. I was really focusing on different ways to try and occupy Robbie better. He is at the point that he actually does enjoy a workplace just for him and things to do that are his.The beginning of the week I scrounged to find the pieces of preschool materials I had dating back to Mary. I've

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And "A" and "H"....It might have been a bad hair day, but he had a lot of fun in preschool this morning!Peace,Amy

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We have the February Blahs. Compounded by the fact that our winter has been colder and wetter than normal, everyone is starting to get a little stir crazy. My tolerance for noise has fallen to near record levels...and I am just ready for a string of warm days with nothing falling from the sky. I've already gone through the hissy fit stage of cabin fever and moved on into the process of trying new

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I wish I could say that this was the week we got back to normal and the children suddenly morphed into all sweetness and light. Ah, no!Instead, I had a little thing called irony visit me. After fussing for two weeks about how the public schools having Mondays off interrupted our schedule and made the week more chaotic...the ps kids were off Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. I trudged ahead,

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We had our snowstorm. Of course it is a snowstorm only by our southern standards. But, fun for all the big and small kids all the same.Peace,Amy

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I have to say it was another odd week. We started off with another day off for the ps kids on Monday, so we didn't have anything organized for that day. Mary did work on her presentation for the weather badge, which is also the science we are currently studying. Tuesday and Wednesday passed in a blur as the girls never really wanted to settle down to any sit down work. Every assignment seemed to

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Another week that begins with our 'day off'. The public schools had a teacher workday since it is the end of the 1st semester. It began as a pretty odd day. Shortly after DH got to work they were evacuated for a gas leak and sent home (I was totally unaware of this). DH left his cell phone here by mistake and and I started getting calls on it. Finally I answered when I saw that it was his boss.

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I've been tossing around ideas and window shopping curriculum trying to decide what to study with Katie and Emily for the rest of this year and for next year. Mary is/will be doing Story of the World 3/4 and a corresponding US History. I don't like the idea of wrapping the younger ones in, especially as we move into modern history. And, I didn't like the idea of starting Emily and Katie in SOTW 1

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Our week won't really be finished until this afternoon, but while Mary and Katie are at their Weather class I figured I could have some time to update for the week. We've had another busy, productive week and lived up to the name of our blog. The weather has been wet, allowing for a lot of muddy shoes and pants. And, the girls have been particularly interested in art this week. Our week started

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Today ended up transforming itself into an impromptu art day. First thing this morning we headed out to run errands. I had promised Mary that I would take her to Michaels to spend her gift card on some jewelry making odds & ends. While there we also picked up some more chalk pastels and watercolor pencils since they were on sale. When we got home it was hard to get everyone settled and focused on

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Today we did something new. Something I know I should have been doing with Mary for a couple of years now, but I just couldn't bring myself to face the wrath of introducing dictation into our school. I'll tell you that my stomach was tied up in knots anticipating Mary's reaction when I told her what we were doing for WWE today. I calmly explained to her what dictation was and how it was going to

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For the last three nights I have been trying to make sense of our history program as we move forward this semester. My goal is/has been to thread US History and World History together as we move through the Early Modern period. The Fall Semester was really heavy on US History, early colonization up to the French-Indian War. At the beginning of the year my plan was to only focus on US History, but

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We've had another good week of school, including a fun field trip on Thursday. So far our subjects and materials seem to interest the children, except for Latin (more on that later). Everyone is trying really hard to do the best job they can do and is cooperating. I really can't ask for much more than that.EmilyEmily has been moving full-speed ahead since last fall. I've given up with trying to

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We took today off from 'school' so that we could go to the Museum of Life and Science. Being cooped up so many days in the house from the cold was starting to wear on our nerves. Mary suggested we go to the Butterfly house where we know that it would be warm and we could pretend for awhile that it wasn't winter. It was wonderful being somewhere warm and full of color.My boy really enjoyed getting

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Brrrr! It is still cold. I feel like I was lied to today, so excited that the temps were going to be in the upper '40s with sunshine. Instead we've had upper 30s and clouds. I'm so over this cold snap and instead of getting more used to it, we are becoming more sensitive. This morning it took three tries of playing in order to wake the girls up this morning. They did not want to leave their comfy

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Obviously my New Year's resolution did not involve blogging more. We had a wonderful Holiday season and DH was off for most of it, so we spent our time hanging with him. And, then when the Holidays were over I was all focused on getting a good jump back into 'real' life...so the computer took a backseat to everything else. Here we are at the beginning of the winter quarter, brrr. I guess I can

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Last weekend, for Mary's birthday, we drove up to the mountains to visit with my BIL and SIL at their church camp/conference center. We had a wonderful time even though the temps were very arctic on Saturday (before warming to just above freezing and a cold rain overnight - just like home).Saturday morning we drove down to the little village to find ourselves a Christmas tree. We've never had the

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Let's revisit where we were a month ago...This is what we were doing after lunch today...It has turned back over to sleet now...we'll have to see if anymore white stuff will fall this weekend.Peace,Amy

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Our project for Tuesday was making popcorn balls. A fun little, traditional 'candy' I have never made. The girls had a blast making these treats, especially after they finally waited for the candy to cool. I don't dare try one for fear of pulling out another crown...but the kids seemed to enjoy snacking on them while we finally got around to watching "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince".Peace

Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04581536150640532394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10258775.post-58400135177230045962009-12-08T09:40:00.005-05:002009-12-08T09:59:04.374-05:00

We are wrapping up this semesters work, so things are pretty much winding down in our 'school' for the next couple of weeks. The weather has turned cold, damp and generally wintery-feeling for mid-state NC. It is time to pull out the crafts I have been putting off.This weekend I worked on my first quilt, ever. I received quilting supplies for my birthday in June, but have not had the time to do

Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04581536150640532394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10258775.post-49038537210688270012009-12-04T08:29:00.003-05:002009-12-04T08:53:12.142-05:00

This week has been pretty much a nothing week. Well, nothing exciting anyway. School is moving along, although I'm thinking we are all just going through the motions until we break for Christmas. I've been in a cleaning, cooking, knitting mood - kids watch out. Of course, by the state of my house I was long overdue for a cleaning mood.On Tuesday the gift I ordered for myself for Christmas came in

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We've had a wonderful long weekend. Full of friends, family and food. Laughter, hugs and tickles.We've watched a horrible NC State team beat their ranked, ancient rivals UNC by one point at home.I've worked on projects involving going through all our pictures taken this year --- and am truly grateful for all the gifts we have been blessed with this year.This morning we will head to church for the

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Getting back from the beach I thought we might get in two 'school' days this week before the Thanksgiving Holiday. Silly me.I got a call Sunday evening from the father of Mary's bestfriend. The one that moved away this summer. They were in town staying with him for the week, but he had to work on Monday. Could I help him out. Mary was beyond thrilled as she got to spend a whole day with her best

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We came back from the beach on Friday so that we could be in town to go to the Planetarium at UNC with Mary's troop Saturday morning. It was a very early morning for everyone. And, I should point out that Mary wore her Duke coat to UNC. I tried to get her to wear her State sweathshirt, but she wanted something easy to take off when she got hot.We watched a 3D film (on the curved ceiling) on the

Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04581536150640532394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10258775.post-79089431956657686262009-11-20T17:34:00.005-05:002009-11-20T17:50:27.587-05:00

I should be organizing all the stuff I unloaded from the car, but this is so much more fun. We just got back from a whirlwind trip to the beach. I had a thing to go to for a friend on Wednesday night and we just decided that it would be nice to hang out for an extra day.For this trip I decided to introduce them to one of my favorite places: the beach in the fall at sunset. As a teen, many sunsets

Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04581536150640532394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10258775.post-59245248278649096152009-11-17T14:33:00.003-05:002009-11-17T15:13:16.388-05:00

So, Mary was practicing her poem "The Owl and the Pussycat" this morning when it went off in a direction that is very 'Mary.' I laughed so hard that I made her do it over for the camera.It isn't the whole thing and she took some liberties...but I thought it was pretty good. Peace,Amy

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Yesterday was a really, really long school day. The kids' creativity was in full-force, which meant everything seemed to lead to something else more interesting to do. And, since I've never been one to curb creativity it seemed I was just along for the ride.Katie kicked it off by gabbing the play laptop first thing. She has been playing Hotel with it for the last week or so. But, then she found

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Our rainy, miserable weather this past week ended with a beautiful weekend. We also had no soccer games to organize around for the first time since August.Katie had a field trip with her Brownie troop to a local corn mill. After she was picked up I realized that the sun was out and it was time to tackle the garage. The past few months with all our busyness and not generally feeling well, the

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Our Friday the 13th got off to an early start. All day on Thursday my computer gave me fits. Running slower and slower until finally this evening it all but stopped loading any programs. Sure enough, after waiting 20 minutes for my anti-virus program to actually open and start scanning the hard drive, I found several 'trojan' programs had infected the system. It took until nearly midnight before

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Today is our "off" day for this week. Being Veteran's Day the school kids our off, and since I'm attempting to recover from my masochism tendencies, I decided my children would also have the day off. Since we have a 4-day week, it works out fine. The only thing that would make it better would be if it wasn't pouring down rain and 50 degrees. I know my house will be trashed before the day is over,

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It seems as though November and March are the two months I do a lot of tweaking to our homeschool for the year. Why should this year be any different? This year is going great and I see no major overhaul. In fact, I'm not going to change a thing that we are doing. I'm just going to add a bit more to it. I've also sat down this weekend and planned out our next six weeks, taking us right into the

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Katie did gradually get better yesterday, although she did not want to do much beyond sitting on the sofa watching the movies we got for her. She has fallen in love with "Andre". She chuckled and laughed throughout the movie and then wanted to watch it again and again.Later in the day Mary, Katie and I curled up and read all together "The Pancake Man." Katie is studying the Gingerbread Man for

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Yesterday my heart sank as I sat in the doctor's office and heard him tell me that Katie had pneumonia. Flashes of recent news reports showing children laying in hospital beds in induced comas while breathing tubes stuck own their throats rushed through my mind. She was only a little sick over the weekend, how did she end up Tuesday morning barely able to stand with a 104 degree temperature.He

Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04581536150640532394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10258775.post-60679788673431266572009-11-03T08:45:00.002-05:002009-11-03T09:01:06.695-05:00

Planning school, teaching school and making sure the girls stay on task is not the most difficult part of my day. Lately, he has been very into taking things apart. It isn't unusual for me to find a screwdriver hidden away in his room, along with batteries removed from his toys or other things actually deconstructed.It has become my mission to find ways to entertain him in my line of vision,

Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04581536150640532394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10258775.post-13522956768662534902009-11-02T18:24:00.002-05:002009-11-02T18:27:13.749-05:00

This isn't the best picture of the kids and an example of why I don't often have them post for pictures. Shortly after it was taken the children all dispersed in several directions. Mary (as Ginny Weasly) was trick or treating with a friend and her parents, Katie (a devil) was with her friends and their parents, DH took Robbie (the firefighter) around the block, while poor Emily (the fairy) was

Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04581536150640532394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10258775.post-22811315476146837172009-10-31T13:01:00.011-04:002009-10-31T13:45:01.380-04:00

Friday morning we headed over to the Visitor Center for Colonial Williamsburg where we caught the bus into Williamsburg.Our first stop was the Governor's Palace, where Lord Dunmore served as the last Royal Governor. We had a really great docent giving the tour. He was funny and entertaining, and kept the three girls interested as we walked through the palace. I have to say the decorations left a

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The Jamestown Settlement Museum is just down the road from the National Park. It is run by the Virginia Commonwealth as a teaching, living history museum. The first part is a gallery exhibit, no photographing, that spans the period from pre-settlement to the end of the colonial era. You can compare the three different cultures (Native, English, and African) that would come together to form the

Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04581536150640532394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10258775.post-64538612583582481492009-10-31T08:46:00.009-04:002009-10-31T12:07:56.929-04:00

A few weeks ago DH came home with the news that he still had a few more vacation days he needed to use this fall. We mulled over several possibilities, but finally decided on a trip to Williamsburg/Jamestown. It is a fairly easy drive from where we live and we could do most of the activities in a two day/one night stay...which made it affordable. My mom offered to come up and stay with Robbie. As

Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04581536150640532394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10258775.post-39365900274108249472009-10-26T22:10:00.006-04:002009-10-26T22:19:36.880-04:00

I think it is time for a break. The kids are still doing well, you can just sense that they are ready for something exciting.It is a good thing DH and I have planned a sleep-away field trip for later this week.No worries though, we will be home in time for the Halloween festivities. In preparation, DH spent the evening carving pumpkins.Let's keep our fingers crossed that they actually last until

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