For Today, Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Outside My Window... it is just becoming light, but we have gray skies and drizzle -- expecting a little rain throughout the morning. Was out earlier this morning with Elsa and it's a humid 47 degrees - very nice for this time of year. Today's normal hi/low is 35/21. There was a gray rabbit in our front yard just a little while ago.
I'm thinking...I have a "can-do" attitude. We have a busy week and I'm taking it head-on.
From the learning rooms...like I said, we have a busy week, so we will try to squeeze in some academics here & there, but mostly just the school of life. We are almost done in our studies of the American Revolution - was hoping to get it done by Thanksgiving, but will take just a little bit longer.
I am thankful for...my husband was playing on the floor with Elsa last night and Elsa came at him with her mouth wide open, like usual - just puppy play, and she got him with her teeth on his eyelid. Blood everywhere. I'm thankful it was just his eyelid and not his eye. He is okay & his eyelid looks much better this morning. A good reminder to us all that Elsa is going to be a good guardian dog.
From the kitchen...
M - Pancakes & Bacon
T - Pasta
W - Hot Dogs (I use Hebrew National)
TH - THANKSGIVING FEAST at In-Law's
F - Taco Salad
S - Grilled Teriyaki Chicken
S - Meatloaf
I am wearing... denim capris, navy fleecy top, sports socks, hair is in a pony.
I am reading... Thru the Bible Each Year: OT: Ezekiel; NT: I Peter, KJB;
Elsa doesn't give me much time to read lately, but I try to sneek in a little here & there - mostly web articles.
I am hoping... our Thanksgiving goes well - holidays with difficult people (mainly my mom) is always stressful.
I am creating... nothing right now, except getting a jump on Christmas this year. Have most of my shopping done and will start baking cookies this week.
I am hearing... the clock tick; my fingers bang on the keyboard; Amber is ironing.
Around the house & barn... my days are filled with (1) caring for puppy -- play & taking her outside so she doesn't get into trouble indoors; (2) cleaning up after puppy -- a non-stop job, esp. after we have been away for a few hours -- she trashes her pen from separation anxity I suppose; and (3) trying not to wake puppy lest I have to go back to #1 prematurely.
One of my favorite things... reading God's Word.
I am going... to do a little shopping today - DH's birthday is coming up.
A few plans for the rest of the week (besides school)...
M - shopping; cleaning; maybe horseback riding, but it's pretty wet right now
T - we have been asked by the nursing home to go on the bus with a few residents on an outting
W - clean house top to bottom; bake pumpkin pie
TH - Thanksgiving at In-Laws
F - Staying Home!!!
S - Quiet Family Time
S - Church & Family Time
A picture thought I am sharing with you...
Elsa is so helpful - she helps me off with my socks (umteen times a day).
(Yes, the paper shreds from her box get all over her fur & all over our socks and thus all over our house - but this too will pass).
She helps me sweep the floor (notice she has a few broom straws in her mouth - ready to drag it away)
She helps me scrub the floor (carrying away my ShamWOW).
With all this help, it's a wonder why I don't get anything done. :)
(Sorry, I won't be talking about puppy all the time - it's just what is consuming my life right now). Have a good day!!!
That's all for today!
Thanks for stopping! Have a Blessed Week!
Much thanks to our hostess Peggy for the Simple Woman's Daybook
I have just heard about this project on a home ed yahoo group which has been operational for at least a couple of years. It is called Potatoes for Schools. Although the material goes on about schools, several home educating families have been involved in the last few years. I have just registered with no problem. The registration deadline is Friday 5th Feb 2010.
The site says:
Potatoes for Schools offers a valuable learning experience where you can find out where potatoes come from, how they grow, what you can do with them and how they can make primary learning an exciting experience.
Get some real hands-on experience by taking part in the Grow Your Own Potatoes project. There are 12,000 free growing kits available for primary schools, containing Vales Emerald and Rocket seed potatoes.
The teacher’s centre includes lesson ideas to support the children’s activities; grow it, cook it, play it and colour it. There is also a whole range of worksheets available which cover science and other areas of the curriculum. The image library has sequences of images that can be used as part of a wide range of activities.
How about actually going to see where potatoes grow? The farm visit section contains advice and a farm database.
Hope this is of use to some of you!
Sarah
Here are the details of TOS's Schoolhouse Store's Black Friday Sale!
Black Friday Sale
You do NOT want to miss the Black Friday Sale in the Schoolhouse Store. There are four levels of gifts--wait until you see the wonderful goodies! Watch your email for details and visit the store November 25-29!
For Today, Monday, November 16th, 2009
Outside My Window... there is a beautiful bright blue sky and nothing but sunshine. We have a heavy white blanket of frost as it is only 23 degrees ~ expecting a high of 50. Today's normal hi/low is 40/24.
I'm thinking...gotta get going...I already feel a little behind this morning as puppy's 2 am and 4 am play sessions threw off my sleeping schedule.
From the learning rooms...still need to fill out our weekly school schedule, but this should be a normal full week of getting er done.
I am thankful for...good Christ-honoring Christian hymns and songs.
From the kitchen...
M - Lasagna
T - Soup & Corn Bread
W - Chicken
TH - Roast Beef
F - Pizza
S - Chow Mein Hotdish
S - Amber's Choice
I am wearing... black exercise capris, berry-colored fleecy top, sports socks, hair is in a pony.
I am reading... Thru the Bible Each Year: OT: Ezekiel; NT: Hebrews, KJB;
Haven't had much time to read lately, but catching various articles on prophesy; Sunday School handouts on cults (our current Sunday School lesson series); and holistic dog care.
I am hoping... to have a productive day/wk.
I am creating... need to get to a good fabric store so I can make the puppet theater. (I know, this has been up for how many weeks?). Haven't had much time to be creative.
I am hearing... the clock tick; my fingers bang on the keyboard; Amber is getting herself some breakfast and Anna is talking to Elsa (the puppy).
Around the house & barn... well, our house was nice and clean Friday morning - sorry you missed it. Now it will be a daily vacuuming & cleaning up around puppy area as we are tracking shredded paper all through the house. I'm trying my best to keep the house from smelling like a pet store.
One of my favorite things... visiting with my bloggy friends.
I am going... to stay home most of the week, woohoo.
A few plans for the rest of the week (besides school)...
M - Jeff took the day off to get the final fall chores buttoned up before it gets really cold. Today he is doing his annual moving of some of Pasture 1's fencing to make room for our sledding hill. He also has to get the heater in the horse stock tank; store the glass picnic table under the deck; and wash the windows on main floor and basement...but...he has been asked to help with a remodeling project at church so I'm guessing the windows won't get done. Meanwhile us girls will be doing school as usual; taking puppy out to play multiple times; laundry; mucking and perhaps riding horses -- a busy day!
T - repeat of Monday only Jeff will be at work
W - clean house; lead Awana Cubbies ~ a special Cubbie Bear Birthday Party
TH - Laundry; Amber has violin lesson
F - Nursing Home Ministry
S - Quiet Family Time
S - Church & Family Time
A picture thought I am sharing with you...
Today I'd like to draw your attention to my dear friend, Christina's, Etsy shop,
For His Glory Photography at
http://www.etsy.com/shop/forhisgloryphoto
I just love all of her Scripture prints and thought you might too.
That's all for today!
Thanks for stopping! Have a Blessed Week!
Much thanks to our hostess Peggy for the Simple Woman's Daybook
"Elsa"
and her pedigree name...
"Lady Elsa of Noble Heart"
She's home! Woohoo!
It was a long drive, a long day, but we are so happy to have our baby home with us now. Wow, does the breeder ever have a lot of dogs and puppies (too many), but our puppy was a good traveler and although a bit scared with her first time away from mama, siblings & lots of other dogs - and her first experience of being out of an old basement and now with LOTS of human interaction (something I don't think the breeder had time for), she is coming along very nicely - thanks to the girls being with her almost every moment.
Unfortunately, it's been a very gray, cool, and now wet day -- not good for picture taking, but here are a few pictures of puppy since we got home this evening...
Puppy snoozing in her pet "yard" set up in our dinette area - all wore out. She stayed awake through about 99% of the 3.5 hour trip home - her first time out of the basement.
Anna with Puppy. The girls are all smiles. For some reason I didn't get many photos of our last dog as a pup, so I'm going to try better this time around.
Amber with Puppy. Everyone gets their fair turns.
Our little Leonberger is 7 weeks old today and about 10 lbs.
Okay, Puppy has had enough of photo session one.
Puppy is doing just fine as long as the girls are with her all the time - it will be interesting to see how she does through the night. Maybe tomorrow I can get some better "action" shots as she is still VERY tired and timid.
Midnight & Inky are being quite the scardy cats and not liking this puppy business AT ALL! They take one look at Puppy and want to head right back outside.
And no, we haven't given her a name yet. We had a list of 23 possibilities and have narrowed it down to 3, I think, "Shalom, Elsa, & Lexus," but we are now at a stand-off, no matter what name we pick, someone isn't going to be happy, so we have decided to table the decision for another day since we are all pretty tired. anyways. Maybe tomorrow will be better - hoping.
For those of you who have followed this blog for a year or more you will be aware of 'Black Friday Sales' in the past. For those of you who are newer to the blog - I will explain briefly!
'Black Friday' is an American term for the day after Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is always the forth Thursday in November. On the next day most people have the day off work and the Christmas sales start in earnest that day! It is about the same as the Boxing day sales here in England.
Alot of our favourite Homeschooling companies also have great Black Friday sales on that day or the week around Thanksgiving. So we tend to post up the details of those sales as we find notification of them to give you all a heads up.
It is a day when alot of websites crash from the volume of traffic, so I would suggest if there is a sale you want to take advantage of to do so early in the morning here before the States begin to awake! Once you get to lunchtime here it can be very difficult to manage any downloads.
So, here are the details of the first sale we have been notified of - the Hands of a Child sale. Remember that alot of these companies have ebook products which we can enjoy without any shipping costs. Enjoy your shopping and watch this space over the next two weeks for notification of all the other great bargains available. - Deedee
The time is almost here for
our most talked about Black Friday Sale!
To help make your shopping experience a positive one we are changing it up a bit. Those of you who have shopped our sale in the past know that our site could get very bogged down with everyone shopping at once. This year we want to make sure that shopping with us will not be a frustrating experience for our customers.
SO, we have set the sale up to run over 8 days and you will be assigned a shopping day based on the email address with which you are subscribed to our newsletter. In other words, you will be given a specific shopping day according to the email address at which you receive our newsletter. So make sure you are checking that email address in the coming days!
This will help make sure that there is not an overuse of bandwidth that will shut down our site. It will also make sure that the site reacts quickly and that you have a smooth shopping experience.
PLUS it means everyone can still go out and hit the big box stores sales on Black Friday!
It’s a win-win situation!!
But wait are you a Super Member?!?! If not now is the time to become one…not only for the HUGE benefits of membership, but also because Super Members can shop the Black Friday sale anytime during the 8 days and, as always, get the largest discount on Project Packs…..a full 40% off PLUS 15% off all eBooks because you’re a Super Member!!
If you are not a Super Memberships now is the time to become one because Super Memberships are being discounted for the last time of 2009. So be sure to get yours today!!
Based on the email you use to subscribe to our newsletter you will find your Black Friday Sale date on the table below. 24-48 hours ahead of time you will receive an email with your coupon code valid only for that day!
NOTE: We are unable to change days or allow exceptions so please make plans to make any desired purchases on the correct date!
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All times are EST, however as you can see we’ve made it very easy for everyone to shop and get a great savings no matter what time you go to bed or get up!
From 12:01am-9am 40% off Project Packs
From 9:01am-1:00pm 35% off Project Packs
From 1:01pm-5:00pm 30% off Project Packs
From 5:01pm-midnight 25% off Project Packs
Be sure to share this information with your friends, neighbors, and blog readers because if they do not receive our newsletter they will not have a chance to SAVE BIG!! So tell them to subscribe TODAY!
Please note the sliding scale is on *Project Packs* ONLY! All other specialty products are discounted at a flat rate of 20% during the sale.
*Custom Project Packs, Super Memberships, and Timeline Figures are NOT included in the Black Friday Sale.
For Today, Monday, November 9th, 2009
Outside My Window... It's 6:30 a.m. and pitch black; it's currently 34 ~ expecting a sunny high of 55. Today's normal hi/low is 44/29.
I'm thinking...puppy, puppy, puppy. (We are sooo excited!)
From the learning rooms...today we will have school in the van while running errands. Then the rest of the week will be normal.
I am thankful for....daughters who diligently and joyfully hide God's Word in their heart. We had a wonderful time at Saturday's regional Bible Quizzing competition and our team did wonderfully with a couple of first places + winning a double-overtime for second place, and Amber quizzing out once and almost a second time except time was up in the middle of her anwser. Also thankful for very sweet blogger friends and local Christian friends that we visited yesterday after church.
From the kitchen...
M - Baked Potatoes
T - Anna's Choice/Chicken Fried Rice
W - Pasta w/Homemade Sauce
TH - Deluxe Baked Bean Hotdish
F - Salad & Leftovers
I am wearing... black exercise capris, berry-colored fleecy top, sports socks, hair is in a pony. Something comfy for now - will change later.
I am reading... Thru the Bible Each Year: OT: Jeremiah; NT: Hebrews, KJB;
Reading a lot on holistic care of dogs - more about that on a future post.
I am hoping... I'm feeling a tich under the weather, I hope I feel better shortly - I have much planned for the day and don't have time for this.
I am creating... need to get to a good fabric store so I can make the puppet theater.
I am hearing... the clock tick; my fingers bang on the keyboard.
Around the house & barn... a big thorough house cleaning this week getting ready for puppy's homecoming so we can just enjoy quality time with her.
One of my favorite things... doing reserch ~ learning new stuff.
I am going... to do some shopping to get ready for puppy's arrival; also get some groceries; and buy our annual stuff for Samaritan's Purse shoeboxes. (today)
A few plans for the rest of the week (besides school)...
T - clean house
W - clean house; lead Awana Cubbies
TH - Get everything set up for puppy's homecoming
F - Roadtrip ~ we go get our Puppy
S - Enjoy Puppy
S - Church; Enjoy Puppy
A picture thought I am sharing with you...
Online Images
Can you tell I'm in love?
That's all for today!
Thanks for stopping! Have a Blessed Week!
Much thanks to our hostess Peggy for the Simple Woman's Daybook
Have you seen the Christmas decorations up in town? Have you been stocking up on special holiday foods and gift wrap yet? Well, here is one more holiday sale - but this time for your homeschool!
Currclick do instantly downloadable ebooks of Home ed curriculum and resources. If you do pop over to take a look please consider clicking on the Currclick box in the sidebar as that is our affiliate link and we get a small commision on your order if you do. Thanks - Deedee
I know I'm loooooong overdue for an update. I'll try to get on soon, but there has been alot going on around here. Please pray for us as we deal with some situations in our life that are less than pleasant!
In the meantime here is a sale that is going on at Currclick starting today! If you pop over please us the affiliate link box in the right hand sidebar as we get a small commision your your purchase at no cost to you - Thank you! - Deedee