Today was the final day of our homeschool co-op gatherings for this year. It was a bittersweet day. One part of me is glad to be done, especially since we're in the midst of all the renovation prep and the nitty gritty will be starting very soon. And another part of me is sad because, in spite of the fact that it can be hard to want to go every week, it's also fun... and sometimes difficult to keep in touch with people through the summer months. I always find it so hard to break into groups and without the consistency of meeting with people on a regular basis it just doesn't work well for me. I very often feel like an outsider. Anyway, bittersweet....
The class of 9-11's I taught this term did a semi-impromptu presentation at assembly and I was really proud of the kids for stepping up to the plate. The class was fingerspelling and we added in a bit of conversational signing as well. They did well considering we had no chance to review what we were doing when we got there this week. I had several of them thank me for teaching them and we talked in class today about what they enjoyed the most and the least from our times together. After that we visited a bit to finish off our class time since some of them wouldn't get to see each other again until fall.
There was one student in particular that I really enjoyed having in my class and although he missed a few, he certainly brightened up the rest. Chance was attentive and always polite. That's really kind of a rare combination these days but he's a really great kid and I know I will miss him. I loved how his eyes sparkled when he answered a question and the grin he'd give me. What a boy! :)
It's strange to feel both the relief and the sadness at the end of something like this. It will be odd not to be going next week.
My oldest has a paying job. Did I tell that before now? I don't remember. Anyway, she received her first pay cheque on Friday and promptly offered to take the family out for supper tonight for Father's Day. She's got a generous heart.
It's been interesting to watch her adjust from child to "almost adult" the past week or two. I say "almost adult" because she still has almost a year of schooling to complete before she fully enters the adult world. She is feeling very different though. She hooked up one of our old cell phones on a pay-as-you-go plan and gets a real thrill out of seeing her own name on the call display when she gets home. It will certainly be different working her remaining high school home education around a job but I think it will be a good experience for her, too. So far she's handling it well and I hope it will continue that way.
I always feel so feeble-minded when I log in to blog lately. I try to remember what I've done since my last post and what might be important to anyone that might be reading. Most often I find that things are a blurr. I'm a very single-minded person and so what I'm not currently dealing with is lost in the recesses of my mind till the whole thing comes up again. If it doesn't come up again then it seems to get lost in there or something! LOL
Anyway, things are going ok but it's been so crazy since Christmas. I'm not sure if it's the schedule changes I made for our school days or just other things that are going on. I sometimes find it really hard to evaluate it all and figure out what to do to improve things. We've managed to keep up with completing scheduled things but I'm finding that spare time is not all that available to us like I'd hoped for it to be. Part of the issue could be the desire to get most things done before spring decends on us so that we're free to do things outside. That part isn't going to change. We don't want to be cooped up indoors when the winter leaves because we weren't diligent enough through the cold weather.
I need to do some more scheduling and planning because we only have a week left. It's long enough to get us to the "new" stat holiday before I'm scrambling but I hope that I'll be able to get some of that done this week. I don't do a very detailed schedule because I detest having to change the plan but I do need an idea of where we're headed each day and what we hope to do. So, I schedule class times more than actually material to cover. Not that I am rigid either. I'm NOT by any stretch. I use a program called Homeschool Tracker and enter in the subjects for each day/week/month but not necessarily any specifics about what we're covering and I don't plan set times for those classes, either. It works for us. It's enough to remind us of our goals but not so much to cause us too much frustration when things change. We often end up having to rearrange things but we try not to cancel them, if you know what I mean. We'll occasionally cut back on how much we wanted to accomplish but that isn't often because if I give myself that freedom then I am liable to do it too much and we'll be disappointed in what was accomplished at the end of the term or school year. This method has kept us on track pretty well the past couple years.
The biggest intricacy of the whole planning thing is in deciding what my two teens will do individually and what we will do together. I think we've worked most of the bugs out of that but there's always the thought of having them become more and more independent as time goes on without snatching away those precious moments that bind us together. The "crunch" is begun as well because one of our children will be "graduated" very soon. Things will be changing for our family and I'm not sure we're ready for that change. I don't just mean me and my feelings about "letting go" as they get older and launch out into the world but also the readiness of my children for that eventuality. Our oldest has always had friends that were younger than herself and had a time (as most do) where behavioural issues were the norm. Thankfully, responsibility in the past few months has drastically improved so I have hope that things will go ok come fall.
Well, I best stop rambling and get back to things that need to be done. Have a great day!
It's amazing how fast the weeks are going since the holidays. But it's true! Another week has come and gone.
I had a fairly good week though I had one day that was off... and where I just felt very blah and down for some reason. I think it was just that not enough seemed to be getting done. However, we finished most everything in our week and I'm looking forward to the weekend. I'm sure the kids are, too.
I have a few things I'd like to get done, one of which is an exam for the html classes I'm taking through WebTech U. The classes are free and a lot of fun. I'm being challenged by both Frames and Forms classes. I'll do my Frames exam tomorrow and hopefully hear about my Forms exam. The next class starts on Feb 1st and they each run half a month - first to 15th and 15th to last day of the month. If you have the time and would like to learn how to design your own webpages, I highly recommend it. :)
A bunch of my online friends are into scrapbooking and I'd so love to do some as well. The thing is, I don't think I could afford the paper and all those cute little doodads. I'd be very tempted to spend too much money so what I've decided I will do instead is to do some digital scrapbooking instead. I don't have the time to join in with their "crop" because there's a real learning curve to me figuring out how to better use my graphics program. I do intend to work on some of this one day, though. It looks like so much FUN!!! I do have some other projects that must be done first. One is the dresser scarf my mom wanted me to make. It's a match to the one I made for her for Christmas 2005.
Today was our first session of our homeschool co-op classes again. We run from now till the end of March and I'm teaching a beginning crocheting class to some 9-11 year old girls. We had a great class and they are really a lovely bunch of girls. We're going to have a lot of fun over the 9 weeks we'll be meeting. Today was a little hairy because they are starting from NO knowledge but most of them were catching on quite well. I was to teach another class but I handed it off and I'm really happy about that. I really am better with just one class... and a laid back one, at that.
The weather went a little crazy on us this afternoon and we had some blizzard-like conditions again so I didn't get to stop at the grocery store. I just wanted to get home! Oh, well.. there's always next week since I don't think I really want to go out tomorrow either. We'll see how much we need though. Tuesday would be ideal if we could manage to wait that long.
Well, I should think about heading to bed. It's been a long and tiring school week but it's always nice when it ends on a positive note. ;)
The past couple weeks has been a challenge around here. I don't know about you but getting back to routine after the fun and relaxation of the holidays is a little tough to do.
Part of the problem is that there are three (four if you count Dad) very separate personalities here to refocus. How do people with more family members manage it??? Things change and what worked others years won't necessarily work this year. As situations shift and people age, there are other things to consider. There are new things to work into the routine and some of what we used to do easily will no longer work. Someone needs a little more pampering or maybe someone else needs a little more independence. Some years take longer to hit that new groove and this was one of them.
I think things are turning around for the better now - finally! There's no other phrase to define our homeschooling like "rolling with the punches"....
Studying
is going so slowly and I'm starting to get more than a little freaked
out about the final exam. It's really reminiscent of days long
ago when I was in high school and university. (I took a couple
courses later at business college but those really didn't
compare.)
In high school I was involved in a car accident that left me in
hospital for several weeks and then home from school for another 2
months after that. I missed classes for almost half of my grade
10 year! Of course, I had friends bringing homework to me a
couple times a week so I wouldn't fall too far behind. My marks
fell drastically after that accident and I found it much more difficult
to think and make connections between things. I found much the
same thing in some of my classes in university (some I seemed to
recover some of those connections or something) and I dropped out after
a year and a half, disappointed.
Even now, I can't imagine taking more than one or two classes at a
time. As things get more and more indepth and intense, I'm
finding a bit of a struggle to learn the material within the time frame
I have. It seems that the concepts finally sink in AFTER the exam
and that just drives me bonkers. Not that I've done poorly
because I've done okay. I used to do better though. I used
to be able to put a lot less work into my studies. Now I just
don't seem to make all the connections till later and that can be a
little frustrating for me. It sure allows me some sympathy for my
own children's studies.... ;)
Yes, I'll be glad when my formal studying is complete. I already
have some more books lined up to read through and learning will
certainly continue long after classes are done. It's too bad,
though, when marks don't reflect the actual learning from the material,
isn't it? Tonight we will get our marks from papers written this
term and we'll know what we have for marks already heading into the
final on November 28th. Feel free to pray for me if thoughts of
this exam come to your mind. I could use them! :)
Whew!
It's a real load off my shoulders when I get my paperwork done for the
school board. This time it's really for my own benefit that I get
it done because it's my reimbursement claim. It's been hanging
over my head for a few weeks and I had given myself a deadline of
Sunday night so I could get it submitted early Monday and hopefully
catch the trip to the accounting department at month's end. That
way my cheque should be back to me by mid-November. Otherwise I
would have to wait till mid-December to see that money back.
Anyway, I did it. :) Yay!
Today was a busy day with homeschool co-op classes and we barely got
the day's lessons done before we had to leave. However, it was a
good day.
My class didn't go all that well in the end because the project my teen
student chose is one I haven't done in about a decade so I am having a
hard time remembering the intricacies of it. Hopefully we can
figure it out next week.
The play that my daughter is doing with the 6-9yo group is going pretty
well, I guess. I have certainly heard a lot of compliments from
the moms of the kids she's working with about how they love her and how
she's being a mentor to them. I'm so proud of her! I can
hardly wait to see the end results at the talent show the end of next
month.
So, it's been a day chock FULL of education, productivity, and even a
little fun as we watched the Rider game together earlier tonight.
I'm sure I'll sleep well... ;)
Today
is another one of "those" days. You know the ones - when things
might be going okay but VERY slowly. Nothing has really gone all
that badly for us today but time is certainly getting away on us as
some of our school lessons have taken more time on individual work they
are trying to grasp and just not quite getting. I get tempted to
drop things. I get tempted to rush them. I feel like I need
a valium to get through the day though I know that it wouldn't help at
all. Yeah, it's one of those.
Days like today I try to find some other task to focus my mind
on. I forget to turn to God for His peace.
Somehow it's easier to handle it myself because,
after all, it's not SO bad. There's been a little attitude and a
lot of slowness but overall not a terribly BAD day. I think these
are the days I'm most likely to neglect to "lift up mine eyes to the
hills, from whence comes my help." (Psalm 121:1)
A big deep breath, a prayer of confession to Him, a gift of new found
peace in my soul, and I'm ready to continue on. It's so simple...
yet so easily forgotten.
Today
was quite the day. Fridays always seem to be difficult to get
through because everyone is already looking forward to the weekend and
a couple days off from school books. (Yes, myself included!
LOL) I really like the idea of natural learning but have found
through the course of a few years that we just accomplish more if we
are more structured. By the end of the week we're usually ready
for a break.
We used to have ARCHE (hs co-op group) on
Friday afternoons a few years back and it changed to Thursdays for a
couple years because of the facilities it was held in. Holding
these group activities/classes on Thursdays was a real issue for us
because it made it really hard to hit the books again on Friday.
I'm so glad that things have changed again for the better. Now
the only written off day is Friday... Oh, it's not always written
off but sometimes it's just been a really LONG week and we're all
better off to stick to a minimum and cancel a few things. As much as I love homeschooling some days and weeks are complicated and difficult. Flexibility can lead to sanity some weeks.
Something we've been using that we do Fridays to make the week end on a
positive note is some material we stumbled upon quite by accident that
is used as college prep for some who are preparing to attend university
or college. It's called Becoming a Master Student by Dave
Ellis. So far it's been a lot of fun for the kids as it's got
journalling as a regular part of it. Now, my kids didn't enjoy
writing but they really perked up when I said they could have blogs if
they were responsible with them and if they would post some journalling
there. They have really changed their tunes and I'm really
grateful that there's a blogging community where I feel safe having my
children blog. (Thanks, Homeschool Blogger!)
I think something the children really like about it is that they can
share their work and their progress with their friends easily.
So, today I'm chatting with a few of the other moms at ARCHE and they
are lamenting about how writing is like pulling teeth in their home so
I told them about how I approached it. Some didn't know what
blogging was but for most, I don't think it's so much that it was a new
idea to them but maybe just that they didn't connect writing with
blogging. I didn't at first either but it's been a bit of a
lifesaver for me. Writing time is now FUN and they are
accomplishing what they need to!
I
know that most would not say that our materials arrived early with the
last of them just arriving yesterday. The thing is that the last
of them were not scheduled to arrive until the middle of NEXT month so
they really did arrive early.
We're quite excited by these materials and I think some of the things
we'll be doing will be great fun. Some I'm sure my son will not
appreciate much at first but I think he'll find that they are more fun
than he expects them to be, poetry studies for one! LOL
I still have some things to work on finishing up before we move on to
the new materials and I need some time to actually sift through and
plan some things before we start so it will be a few weeks yet, I'm
sure. We may not even get started on these things until after the
Christmas holidays because Christmas will give me time to go over
things and make some plans.
We always try to take the whole month of December off though last year
didn't work that way and I'm not sure that this year will either.
We will definitely take the month as a time of reduced lesson
time. I'm hoping we'll have some time for some fun things
together during that month. I'd love to visit a local nursing
home or two... and make some connections there. We'll
see. :)
A
little over a month ago I ordered some books for school this
year. I was quite late placing my order and the last shipment was
saying an arrival date of mid-November. I was so frustrated with
myself for not getting things together sooner. However, yesterday
the last order arrived... over a month earlier than
expected!!!
Last night I was really wound up and couldn't settle down so I really
got very little sleep. I think it was something like 4:30am when
I dozed off. I sure got a good prayer time in though! LOL
Anyway, I'm tired tonight but I want to look at these books a little
before I turn in. I don't think there's any doubt that I'll sleep
tonight. One book in particular that I'm looking forward to
viewing is Skills For Literary Analysis. It looks quite good at a
glance. There's a few others, too, but my task for tonight is to
look through this one thoroughly and then I'll hopefully get through a
couple tomorrow, and the rest through the weekend. Tomorrow we
start using the history ones I got so we'll see how that goes.
They are mainly supplements for Greenleaf Guides and the kids are quite
looking forward to them.
Aren't new materials fun? It matters not what time of the year
they arrive. It's just great fun to get parcels of books to the
door!
I'm
so happy that even when a week starts out on a rough note, it doesn't
have to stay there. Today was a good day even though yesterday
was a bit of a dud. I'm still working out the details of our days
and some days are a little rocky yet. Tuesdays, however, are
good. My involvement in the kids' schooling is at a minimum on
this day of the week so that I don't wear myself out before my own
classes in the evening. Mondays are a heavy day and perhaps I
need to make a few changes. I'll give it one more (the end of the
month) and see how it goes though, because so far we've had one good
and one bad Monday.
Now, don't get me wrong because we
accomplished all of what we wanted to yesterday but it didn't go
smoothly. That's the joy of homeschooling though. If
something isn't really working then we can change and adapt it to what
we need.
The rest of this week will be crazily
busy. Tomorrow there's a field trip for my daughter and her
friend. They are cooking a meal later this week for our two
families and will do the shopping and get some guidance from B with
regard to how to buy a good roast for a reasonable price. (B was
a meatcutter in his working days.) In the evening is a weekly
meeting at church. Thursday is the meal with our budding
cooks. S will be going to her friend's house in the afternoon to
do the cooking and we're to go over just before evening mealtime.
Friday afternoon is ARCHE Afternoon Activities. Thankfully, S and
I have most of what we need for our respective classes. I'm
hoping to find some time to study but that might not happen until
Saturday. I also need to find time to prime and paint our doors
and the framing of them before it gets too cold to do it.
Hopefully it will be a very productive week when all is said and
done.
Today
was a good day for me. I was tired, but otherwise things were
good. The school day was only the morning really. I marked
a couple Science tests, the first of this new year, and both got 95% so
I was very happy about that. It means what we're doing is
working! :) I'd have liked to get more done but things have
been going pretty well and the attitudes have been pretty good,
too. We can't do this all the time.... LOL
Tonight was registration for our homeschool co-op (ARCHE) and we were
there fairly early. S already had 7 signed up for her early
elementary drama class. I had two signed up for my thread crochet
class and one is one of the moms! It will be fun, I think.
I need to choose my patterns yet and I'll be notified early next week
how many the final head count is.
The weather here is
cold and rainy. The rain is welcome except that it makes life
really hard for B with his chronic pain issues. The house was
really warm though with the new windows and doors. Quite
impressive so I'm sure we'll appreciate them even more when winter
arrives.
The
week went by so quickly! I can't believe it's over already.
Does that mean we're supposed to be "in the groove"?? Well, if
so, I'm here to inform you that I'm not yet. LOL The new school
routine will take a little while to wear in, so to speak. We
really had a decent week although we're starting earlier this
year. The biggest problem is that we seem to lose our focus on
our day when we break for lunch. I hope that will get
better....
The kids seem to like their classes which
is good. My son is just fascinated with his science
materials. I love to see that excitement! I'm still
planning a few things for the year and need to order some books but
thankfully I have had enough to get started and keep going for a couple
weeks till the order arrives.
I'm so horrible at
making decisions. I've been struggling over my order for weeks
already. I am hoping to get it narrowed down tomorrow so I can
place the order on Monday. If I don't get to it soon, we WILL run
out of things to do.
I'm glad that I completed the
papers I need for this fall. Of course, they will need a final
edit but that shouldn't take too much time and it should really reduce
my stress to have them so close to done already.
We
ended our week with a BBQ kickoff for ARCHE but D had a better
offer. A friend took him along out of town and they were going
hiking and maybe canoeing. S decided it was a good time to have a
friend over, so she and her friend are sleeping in the tent tonight and
hopefully we'll get it taken down tomorrow before any rain falls so it
will be dry for storing. We went to the BBQ and had a really good
time. It was a really good turnout with lots of kids. It's
like a whole new generation is coming up behind us and it's wild to see
the excitement in them.
It's hard to believe the week
has flown by like it has. I'm not sure I'm ready for being so
busy again, but what choice do I have? Time passes... like it or
not. ;)
Today
was a good day though it was tiring to do a full routine after not
doing as much with schooling over the summer. Both children
seemed to enjoy our day and were happy to stay relatively on
track. I was really pleasantly surprised with how excited D is
about some things, like science and even math. S is looking
forward to some things as well so all in all a success for our first
day back. This momma is very pleased and tired enough to head to
the tent a little earlier than usual. ;)
I've
had a fairly productive day so far. I managed to sleep in about a
half hour later than usual so I was about an hour late getting
going. Doesn't sound productive? A good sleep is something
I feel is very productive as long as it doesn't interfere with what
needs to be accomplished.
When I finally got going, I stained the fence panel that had the shed
in the way of it when we did the rest of the staining. Yes, the
WHOLE thing is now beautiful "natural cedar" stained. I can
hardly wait to get the yard levelled and some new grass seeded!
One of the best parts of having moved the shed is that the sun isn't
glaring off it into the bedrooms anymore. It's a more natural
lighting than we had before.
Today was school planning
day and I figured out a rough schedule for our days. It's looking
a little intimidating to me right now but hopefully it will wear in
well. Of course, the schedule won't rule us, we'll rule it.
The goal is to be flexible when we need to but to have something
concrete to give structure to our days so that we get as much
accomplished as we can comfortably manage. No one wants to be
cranky and stressed out because our days are TOO full but it's also
good to stay busy and productive. At least that's the plan.
Hurray for schedule and routine! LOL
Once I have a daily/weekly schedule, I put an entry into Homeschool
Tracker for the subjects each day and as we go, I fill in what isn't
already there. I don't ever plan "one lesson a day" or anything
like that. It's pretty much what we stick to for Math, but other
subjects are more a page by page or activity by activity basis and I
enter that in as we go. I got it entered from now to November
30th. We try to take December off from school but that will
depend on what is accomplished between now and then. We may need
to do an extra week or two.
The next task for today is
to prepare our workspace (ack!) and plan what other books I'll need for
the rest of the year. I have a few loose plans but I need to
finalize those. Then a general tidying of the house is always a
good idea so we don't get sidetracked by that.
By then
my day will be over but there's always tomorrow. And that is one
of the things we love most about homeschooling. We might not be
where we hoped we'd be but we're also never really behind because WE
are the measuring stick for what should be accomplished and when.
An extra day, week, month or even year is really a drop in the bucket
of life and eventually it will all be mixed into one homogenous mass to
be defined as a lifetime. Since we're all individuals we can live
life at our own pace and love doing it.
Have
you ever noticed just how a day can be eaten up by one thing after
another? I had one of those days today. My intention was to
read/study for class but then I remembered that it was the day to pay
bills, and I remembered that I had left a task unfinished a few days
ago. The kids were working on Math lessons in preparation for the
swiftly approaching school year. Some of last year's lessons were
not completed over the summer due to other things coming up so D has
set himself a goal to complete his by the end of the week and S will
complete hers within a couple of weeks. Usually we finish with
Math before lunch but today they worked on some concepts they didn't
totally understand so it ended up taking a good part of the day.
That kept me from getting to much study because I had a lot of
interruptions. I'm really glad that my children are motivated to
do these things. They are excited about the coming school
year. I will get there, I'm sure, but I have to admit that I'm
not yet getting excited. I think once I finish writing the paper
I'm working on, I will be able to feel that thrill of new studies and a
new school year. I may work yet tonight but if not, I should be
able to get a lot done tomorrow while D has company for a tent
sleepover before school begins again.
Aren't
new beginnings exciting? I'm grateful that God made us full of
expectation for things to come. With the end of summer comes
thoughts of new supplies, books, and curriculum. Along comes the
planning and setting of goals for the year regarding study,
extra-curricular and church activities. The
past few days I've been sorting through my bookshelves and desperately
searching for a few things I am comfortable to pass on to others so I
can make room for new materials. This
is a painful process for a book lover but it's balanced out by the
thrill of new materials. It's such a stimulating time of
year!
We take part in a homeschool support group called ARCHE which is set up for afternoon activities for our children once a week for 9 weeks in fall and another 9 in spring.
It consists of classes hosted by parents and our older children and is
generally a lot of fun. It's a great way for our children to have
interaction with other homeschooled children and learn new skills that
perhaps they wouldn't have an opportunity to otherwise. The group
has had to change locations this year because our previous facility had
some other plans for their space this year. We're going to be
meeting in a church and we're looking forward to the move to the
newness. More stimulation! LOL
My children will take classes at ARCHE this fall and both 'S' and I
will be teaching. I'm teaching thread crochet and she's planned a
Christmas play for 6-9 year olds. We usually have a talent night
at the end of the fall session so the plan is for a performance at the
end. She has asked a friend, 'E' to help her and they are both
thrilled to be doing this. I was a little surprised 'S' was so
willing after a random experience a few years ago. She was doing
a class for preschoolers and one of the parents didn't think that she
was doing enough with them and so she was bad-mouthing 'S' all over the
place, except to her face. Sometimes it's hard to believe that
some people are Christian but we understand that even though we are
followers of Christ, we still have a sin nature and are prone to make
these kinds of mistakes. I'm glad that 'S' has not held a grudge
toward this mom in spite of how hurt she was and I'm happy she is
willing to teach another class. It's such a great learning
experience for them as they get older. 'D' will soon enter this
stage but for right now he's still content to attend gym class with his
peers.
Well, back to the drawing board. There's still a couple rows of
the shelves to clean and sort and the final decisions to make on our
curriculum choices. Today will be a good day if I can get those
things done and manage to find some time for reading a book I have to
write a paper on for my own class.
What's
in a name? Any name will do? Not in my mind. The name
we chose for our "school" over 11 years ago, Happy Hearts, is precious
to me. My oldest named us when she told me that it made her heart
happy to do school at home with her mommy. She's now 16 and
growing to be quite the young lady! My son, 'D' has come along
for the ride initially, but it won't be long before he's the
only. Only two more years most likely.
I've been
blessed with two gorgeous redheads to nurture and love into
adulthood. I love watching them grow and learn even though I
wasn't one of those who intended to homeschool. I didn't know
anything much about it when we started. All I knew was that I had
to do something when the government where we lived back then pulled the
provincial funding for kindergarten and required parents to pay while
also working fundraisers in order to enroll our kids. 'S' was so
sad! She stood in the window crying because we couldn't afford
for her to go to school with the rest of the kids.
At
the time my husband, 'B', worked in a grocery store and met a lady who
he'd seen before with a trail of little girls. They were
obviously all related and the older two were school age. He asked
the old familiar question innocently enough: "No school today,
girls?" And the answer to that question began a trail of learning
that is still in progress and will be for a few more years, Lord
willing.
My children and I are very grateful to Tammy
for introducing us to this lifestyle and also to a closer relationship
with God. She was a big influence in my life for that
season. Unfortunately, we later had to move away and we lost
touch with each other. If I don't see her again in this lifetime,
I will be thrilled to rejoice with her in eternity.
Well, I'm not sure what I'm getting myself into quite yet by starting
this blog but I guess I'm going to give it a whirl and see what
happens.
I'm Dee.. and I plan to share some experiences of our family and general ramblings... about school, faith and life issues, not necessarily in that order or preference.
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