Dust Bunnies And Books

7 October 2009

Got young girls? A Christmas or birthday idea.........

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If you've got young girls, you've got to see these!!!!

Breezy and her sister Emily have teamed up to launch a new home business, Noble Rose Press! They have created some beautiful historic PAPER DOLLS......with the artistic talent of those two, how could they not help but be beautiful!!!

The dolls are part of a series they've entitled Daughters of His Story....Historical Women in Christ's Kingdom.

Don't they look like fun?! Won't you consider purchasing some and support these two lovely homeschooled ladies? The paper dolls would make great Christmas or birthday gifts!

Shhh...don't tell the girls, but I ordered them for Christmas. Just think of the hours of creative play ~~that I~~ they could have!

Visit Noble Rose Press today......they just launched the site today and they are having a Grand Opening sale on their products! But HURRY......the sale ends Saturday!!!

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19 September 2009

Unexpected blessing

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We wanted to do something special last night with the girls, and since Plan A didn't work out, we decided to make a Plan B and go to the movies instead. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was playing.

I don't watch much in the way of TV and have never seen previews for the show. Didn't even know the book was going to be a movie until someone mentioned it on the Homeschool Share Message Boards, so I didn't know what to expect. Couldn't imagine taking the book and filling 1.5 hours! But, overall, we were pleasantly surprised and rather enjoyed the movie. Not something I'm likely to purchase, but it was good.

Our unexpected blessing of the evening was, when we walked in and were trying to determine when the show was playing and how much it was, a lady came up to us and asked if we were going to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs--in 3D--and we said we were thinking about it. (Still didn't know the cost yet.) She said that they bought a bunch of tickets and one child didn't show......we could have the extra ticket.

Wasn't that sweet!! It was a real blessing....it cost $30 for the other 3 of us.

Wow....when did movies go up so much!?!?! (Can you tell we don't go often? That we're used to going to the dollar theatre!?!)

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18 September 2009

Do you really believe that what you believe is really real?????

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Oh, I'm excited about our church's new Sunday evening classes! This time around, I'll be participating in Focus on the Family's The Truth Project!!

Most of the believers of today live pretty much like non-believers: not having a biblical worldview. This small group study is designed to help Christians start to look at daily life through Biblical lenses. I can't wait to start reinforcing this in my own life!

I've come a long way in my thinking....

but I'm sure I've got a lot yet to learn...

do I really believe that what I believe is really real????

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9 September 2009

How do you know you're serious about making your own laundry soap?

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When you go out and buy an industrial-sized soap stirrer (aka, paint mixer) to attach to your drill.

I've been making my own laundry soap for about 15 months now, but this was only my second batch of the liquid kind. It's cheaper than making powdered, but it needs stirring every now and again, so my dh went out and bought a stir stick that really does the job!!

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6 September 2009

Am I addicted to books or just paper?????

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I've long admitted to being addicted to books.

Even back in school, I was the local book nut, the one kids went to to determine which book on the approved book list was good and, "oh yeah....can I borrow it from you?" I had a lot of books then, and I still do.....and homeschooling doesn't help that addiction.

I have thousands of books. Every room in the house has bookshelves and yet I still have piles of books awaiting a spot on some shelf somewhere!

Tonight I decided to put away the school supplies I had recently purchased from Wally World (that at the time I just threw in the school room).

Gee willikers, why must I buy school supplies each year when they come on sale? I know I have a bunch in the supply closet, yet I buy more....just in case.

I have almost 30 packs of paper (the 150 count kind) and about that many 1 subject notebooks as well. And there's a half dozen or so 3 subject notebooks. And a couple packs of construction paper. And a large pack of cardstock. And index cards. And none of that includes the paper we keep near the printer(s).....pastel, neon, Christmas, more cardstock....

And people wonder why I don't scrapbook!!

Where would I put all that paper???

And my desk....well, the above picture says it all.

......maybe I don't have a book fetish after all.....maybe it's just an addiction to paper in general?????

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29 July 2009

How the girls did at the Fair

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My oldest received State Fair for her first sewing project: a vest, a skirt, and a tote bag. Her aunt helped her (since I can't sew a lick!).

My oldest took 5th place in the Trail in Hand class, her first year in the junior classes (the last two years she was in the novice classes, but did not ride, only did ground classes).

This was her first year riding Sunshine at the Fair. As she was cantering, the billet strap broke and her girth came undone! The judge allowed for a 7 minute tack change, during which my niece untacked her horse and we put that saddle on Sunshine and my daughter was able to continue the class.

This was my youngest daughter's first year, showing her horse, Julie. (Julie is the mother of Sunshine above.) She ended up taking two 2nd places and two 3rd places.

My niece placed first in one of her classes, with her horse, Diana, before her arm was broke. (Diana is a niece to Sunshine above and this was Diana's first year at the Fair.) My niece was unable to participate in her favorite events, the contesting classes (barrels, poles, etc.) due to the broken arm.

So the girls and the horses gained another year of experience and they had fun.

PS......The horses are pintos. Julie stands the tallest at 15.2hh, while Sunshine and Diana both stand at 14.2hh.

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28 July 2009

Another Fair has come and gone

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And once again we we're blessed with no serious injuries.

This year, my niece's horse got antsy while she was untacking her and the horse flipped around and pinned her arm against the stall wall, breaking it just above the wrist. It's a bad break and is in a cast.

We had quite a bit of rain, which made the arena pretty soupy and unsafe. We had three riders and one horse go down. The one girl went down twice, she's very bruised and very sore but OK.

Another girl went down and was OK.

A boy's horse lost its footing and fell down on the boy's leg, but the boy was OK. The horse was sore and limped a bit for a few hours but is OK.

Then as everyone was loading up to go home, one of our club's members got knocked down by her pony and the way she landed tore the ligaments.

Also this week, another club member got his arm ripped open on a nail and required 8 stitches. An advisor from one of the horse clubs was bridling a horse and it swung its head and hit her on the bone around the eye and her glasses broke and cut her skin below the eye and there was some damage to that bone.

Add to that horses that went berserk. One got a cut under the chin. My youngest daughter's horse kicked the stall gate and the board came flying loose and hit a child. He's scared and a bit bruised. My niece's horse kept acting up, as did one of ours. Another horse went totally nuts the last day and reared up and got it's leg caught in the hay net and then got its head caught between the dividing wall of the stalls and the wire screen that acts as the "window" for the horse. It practically took out the wall trying to get loose.

So it's been crazy to say the least. I'm so thankful it's over and no one was seriously hurt.

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16 December 2008

He's finally a doctor!!!!!!!!

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My dh's dream has been to earn a Ph.D. Now, finally, after 20 years as a college student, he is a doctor!! He recently graduated with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.

We are all so proud of him! He's the first of his family to go to college and what a high bar he has set for the rest!!

Accepting doctorte

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1 December 2008

Views from our windows....

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Well, winter has come a bit early here. Here are some things I've seen when looking out our window lately.

Snow! We've had a couple of snows so far....only a couple inches each time though.
honeylocust

But enough for the wee folk (or is she a gnome?!) to play in.

And to build a snowman! Meet George, our snowboarding snowman. (Do you think our minister minds that a snowman shares his name???

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Good thing we started feeding the birds before the snow came!

Bluebonnet was quite happy we had food available!
Bluebonnet with a seed

So what do you see out your window?

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19 November 2008

A chapter of our life almost finished......

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Has it really been two months since I blogged???? Wow!

So what have we been doing all that time??? Well, I'm not sure about the WHOLE time, but the last month or so has been consumed mostly with a DISSERTATION! DH has been working so hard to get done (his last extension was labeled as a "final extension") so that he could graduate next month!

It's done!!! It's about 250 pages and was turned in two days ago. I'm not sure how many reams of paper we went through writing and re-writing it!! At least 10 in the past month. (That number does include the 7 copies we had to make for the dissertation committee.) I know we went through over half of the toner cartridge for each of 4 colors.

He defended it last week, made the recommended changes, and turned it for signatures this past Monday. As of yesterday, only the final dean was needed to sign it, so I think we're in the clear! \o/

Just a few more weeks until a long-awaited graduation........

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Dust if you must, but there's not much time, with rivers to swim and mountains to climb, music to hear and books to read, friends to cherish and life to lead. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~ Welcome! ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I've finally bitten the bullet and set up a blog! I'd like keep better track of what we do. I never seem to get a diary going, so we'll try this! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'm Mom to two beautiful girls, one is 12, the other is 9. We live in the foothills of the Appalachians. We call our homeschool, Anchored in Christ Academy. We love to use literature-based unit studies, mostly from HomeSchoolShare.com. In the past, we have also loved Five in a Row. We have just begun our 7th year of homeschooling. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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