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Monday, August 21, 2006
Please take a look
Hey friends! I've been playing with a couple of other blog land places and have found a site I really like- I love the ways I can customize the most recent one. Give it a look-see and tell me what cha think. (and add it as a link to your side bar so I can still be just one click away from you!
http://e2o2.typepad.com/my_weblog/
thanks!!!!!
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Thursday, August 17, 2006
I think I have done it
I found a way to back up all my blog entries in a very speedy way- and I did have the blog open that had the instructions, but my puter froze up and now I don't remember whose it was- rugbyhs maybe? (a homeschoolblogger). So I got every thing all back up on my puter and I have also c&p them to one post on blogger .com.
I'm off to that blog now to post my first real post- instead of archival ones. I am still in two minds about doing a new blog- but I need to give it a try. I hope the friends I have here still come peek on us- I'll link it from here, but you can also just add my link easily in your profile section (click on edit my profile on the left and scroll to the bottom,add the name of my blog (as you'd like to call it) and put the http. ( http://e2o2.blogspot.com/ )
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Thursday, August 10, 2006
Hey maybe I am not unschooling!
Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Two days down
3 to go and we can go back to our laid back moring routine! yeesh flying out the door at 8 am is hardly my idea of fun. I could no imagine doing this all week lone 181 days out of the year. nope no way. The kids are enjoying VBS, but I do not love driving them. Plus I have to haul the baby and Evan out of the car so I can sign them in- only to go right back to the car- Olivia justloves that! Yah right. Emma was sad today because they had a "movie" day after VBS in the hall and she was so excited to watch a move- figures the movie picked is the one movie that she has developed a fear of and will not watch- even though she has seen it at leat 5 or 6 time- probably more. Finding Nemo. she just decided on day that she was scared of it and will not watch it. So she ended up going to the office and coloringpoor thing. she was so sad about it. Owen has madea firend in the class and tells me they whisper to each other and be silly. He got a bit bummed out when I talked to him about rudeness and thinking with his heart- he I think realized that he was making a bad choice- but I really don't think he;ll remember tomorrow once he has his buddie to be silly with again.
My neighbor is a K teacher and is going through her stuff thinning out- she gave me a whole crate full of books- at least 10 or so books with tapes and a bunch of puzzles!! my kids were sooooo excited! (me too) they love the books with tapes, we have a boom box (who calls them that anymore) set up for them in the downstairs room and that was the first thing Owen did- he picked out a Franklin book and went to listen. Emma grabbed a puzzle and went to work. (she is the puzzle queen!). I had just bought 2 bins on clearance at Target that I figure I'd put toys in or somethign but instead put a bunch of books in one next to Emma's bed and I put the tape books and puzzels in the other downstairs. She had the puzzels in ziplock bags with the box picture cut out and in the bag- brillant- I am going to do the same with all our falling apart smashed up puzzle boxes!!
Oh and just a heads up but Barnes & Nobel University has a How to homeschool course (or something along those lines) set up to start in September. I'm thinking of taking a writing course- we'll see if I actually get a chance to.
Tomorrow we are going to our local fair when Ben get's off work. The kids are super excited, me too, I love the fair. Ben's brother is working the stage area so he has his own golf cart thingy to drive around. He's going to get us tickets and give us a ride as needed! LOL! Thursday my sister is coming to town, she'll be here over the weekend. Friday is the last day of VBS (or as Owen keeps calling it "homeschool bible school") and Ben & I are going to a wine party across the street at our neighbors house ( the one who gave us all the stuff). Saturday and Sunday be has off so we are excited- he was on call this last weekend and had to go to work both days all day- and he got a few 3 am calls as well (didn't have to go in thankfully but still). Oh and on Saturday we are going to a cool local bar with my parents and some of thier friends- it is right on the beach and there is a group of tables out on the sand that you can have your beers at- so it is ok to take the kids- they play parents drink- hmmm that sounds bad, but it is really cool. I spent many a day there in my youth!! The ocean is far enough away (loooooong walk in the soft sand) that the kids can't really go there so they just play in the sand and climb on an old fallen tree. After we are coming back here to BBQ.
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Sunday, August 6, 2006
This and that
I should be picking up things around the house, or mayber shuffling laundry around. However, I miss blogging and I have so many things I have wanted to share that I am going to enjoy Olivias nap and the big kids snacking on veggies by sitting here for a bit.
Owen has started to spell. He is essentially doing it on his own, asking me questions and finding words to copy on his own. I think I mentioned this in a previous post- the whole fat but thing. He is really an amazing combo of both Ben and I. He has my emotional side and Ben's type A compulsions. He is meticulous and neat in most every thing he does (though he doesn't mind a messy room). And like me he wears his softest emotions on his lleeve. WE watched The WIzzard of Oz for the first time last week and when it was over he has tears in his eyes and said, that was good but it was kinda sad too. I think he really felt for Dorthy when it seemed as though no one believed that her tale was true nad not a dream. He is so sweet. Amazing that he can be such a turd sometimes too. Evan has mastered the fine art of making him nuts and does so daily. I feel for him though, my sister did that as well, drove me nuts! LOL!
I am in the process of linking this blog to another site. This is something I have been debating for a long time now, but I think I think it is something I need to do. WHile I appreciate the TOS for this site, I am not being completley myself at times due to either my own censorship of sellf or it being done for me. I am certainly not a trash talking sailor, but sans children I do sport the occasional 4 letter word. I do respect and appreciate why those words are not allowed here, and one thing that has kept me here was the privacy that sort of comes with it. I don't suspect there are many freaks out there reading homeschool blogs hitting the random blog button and finding us, but mayber there is I don't know. Seeing as I have three other sites out there (a photo site, a baby site and an old family site) our family can be quite easily found on the web including links to this site. So my frustration with censorship has finally won the battle in my head and I am in the procees of making a new blog, once that will link to this one, but once I get all the links up on the new on, my new posts will appear there. I don't see the total move taking place for a while though, I started this blog back in November and have only linked my November archives. Anyhoo I thought I'd mention this now for some reason.
So a couple of weeks ago I was driving down our street, it was a Friday and a family was having a yard sale. I am a garage/yard sale junkie though I really don't go often, but I just have a hard time not driving by! So we turned in the direction of the sale and I stopped and looked. THere in the middle of the driveway was a large telescope. Ben has always wnated one so I inquired. They were pricing everything to sell and they wanted $50 for it. it is pristine and as it turns out the guy thought it was a hobby he's really like, but couldn't really figure it out. It is the 2004 model of this telescope. We have tried it out once, but we really need to set it up- it is all electroni, you put in your longituted an latitude and it auto aligns to know stars- theres a bout 60 to pick from I think. The kids are sooo excited about it. We looked at the moon with it on wednesday- sooooo cool amazing how clse it is through the lens.
Our garden is also coming along quite well. we picked a bunch of green beans yesterday and each had a couple wtih our pizzza dinner! Here's some more pictures of our garden. I still have things I want to plant, maybe that is what I should be doing now? I figure this is my year to learn and next summer when Olivia is older I will be able to get more done it the garden. As it is we are having fun with it. I cna't wait until our pupkis start to show! They have sprouted, but no veggies showing yet. We can see ears of corn though and both the tomato plant are getting big. I also got some mint from my MIL and she bout me a sweet basil plant that needs to be planted. We used our lettuce on hamburgers not to long ago too. Fun!
OMGosh and I can't believe I have not shared this bit of news..... Ben bought us a new (to us) 2004 suburban!!! I have never been so in love with a car! Our whole family fits, and we have room for more (don't be getting any baby ideas- no way!). The two dogs fit in the back, I can shop for food and we only have to take one vehicle. awsome awsome awsome! I feel so cool in it too. Shamful I know but I do. It is light silver with grey cloth interior. (leather gives Ben a headache when it is in such an enclosed space- when he gets his dream car - a BMW- he'll have to special order the no leather! LOL!) I haven't taken any pictures of it yet- but I'll do that today and post them later. I don't love the gas on it, but if I fill it when it is at 1/4 full, I put the same amount in as when my van was empty, so I'm gonna try and fool myself that way and fill it at 1/4 full.
Emma decided to make our guest room walls beautiful. I'm surprised we've gone over 6 years and 4 kids with this never happening. Even the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser can't get it off. Good thing we still have some paint left over.
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