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I have been terrible about blogging, but image that, I get busy and don't think to blogg
Edited - I enrolled the oldest 3 with Kolbe today. We will add what we have at home to supplement as needed and will be using McGuffey's Eclectic Readers, instead of Catholic National Readers as we have them already.
Morgann is going to do the Pre-school Sing, Spell, Read and Write .

We got It's a Mystery! The Secret Garden for the girls this summer and then in the fall they are going to start Little Flowers Girls' Club.
 
Other then that, there isn't much going on here. We are gearing up for Aunt Melinda's visit in just 3 weeks, and then Nanny and Poppy's visit in July.  Also gearing up for the monsoon season. We are ordering our books now, so we can have them and start when the monsoons hit and break for 2 weeks when we have our July holiday.

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I am getting at lest a tote bag if not a shirt or two. I just wish they had kids shirts that would be so perfect, I know the girls would wear it too.
http://www.cafepress.com/socialize

I am getting this tote, what better to use for homeschool get together and play dates?

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Well it seems it is that time of  year already. Starting to plan for next year material. We have decided to go with a program we can enroll for many reasons.  We have also decided to go with someone that will let us start our school year when we want too, instead of the typically Aug/Sept start and that we will be starting right away. Then we can take off or cut back at lest while Aunt Melinda is here for 3 weeks, take a total break while Nanny and Poppy are here, and school through the monsoon season. We are hoping to be able to get all the material in so we can start right after Easter at the latest.
I ordered Morgann's material already and it should be here any day now. She will be using Sing, Spell, Read and Write Preschool.
The other three will be using Our Lady of Victory.  But we are not enrolling with them till 7th grade, till then we will just use their material and do the record keeping and grading our selfs like I have been.

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Stone= Amethyst       Flower= Iris

Bake for Family Fun Month

National Weddings Month

Relationship Wellness Month

 

Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend: 1-7

Intimate Apparel Market Week: 5-9

Just Say No to Powerpoints Week: 5-9

Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week: 7-14

Jell-O Week: 11-17

Random Acts of Kindness Week: 12-18

National Pancake Week: 18-24

1- Bubble Gum Day, Women's Heart Health Day, Hula in The Coola Day

2 - Candelmas, Groundhog Day, Hedgehog Day, Self Renewal Day

3 - Four Chaplains Memorial Day

4 - Dump Your Significant Jerk Day, Super Bowl XLI, USO Day

5- Move Hollywood & Broadway to Lebanon, PA Day, Weatherman's [Weatherperson's] Day

6- Pay A Compliment Day, African American Coaches Day

7 - National Girls & Women in Sports Day, Wave All Your Fingers At Your Neighbor's Day

8 - Boy Scout Anniversary Day, Laugh and Get Rich Day, Leadership Success Day

10 - Plimsoll Day, Pro Sports Wives Day

11 - National Shut-in Visitation Day, Satisfied Staying Single Day, White Shirt Day

12 - Darwin Day, Lost Penny Day, Oglethorpe Day, Safety Pup Day

11- Man Day, World Marriage Day

13 - Black Love Day, Employee Legal Awareness Day, Get a Different Name Day

14 - Ferris Wheel Day, League of Women Voters Day, Race Relations Day, Quirky Alone Day

15 - Susan B. Anthony Day, National Gum Drop Day, Remember the Maine Day,

17 - My Way Day, World Human Spirit Day, Who Shall I Be Day?

18 – Lunar New Year's Day

19 - Chocolate Mint Day, Presidents Day, Spunky Old Broads Day,

20 - Fastnachts Day (Pennsylvania Dutch - Shrove Tuesday), International Pancake Day, Mardi Gras, Northern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo, Paczki Day

21 - Ash Wednesday, International Mother Language Day

22 - George Washington's Birthday,  For The Love of Mike Day, Introduce A Girl to Engineering Day, National Chili Day

23 - Curling is Cool Day, Iwo Jima Day

24 - Open That Bottle Night

26 - For Pete's Sake Day

27 - Spay Day USA

28 - Floral Design Day, Inconvenience Yourself Day, National Tooth Fairy Day

 

The whole list check out this site:

http://www.brownielocks.com/month2.html

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Well since I started this post and posted it without writing the post itself, I figured I better edit it.
Yes we did settle on a name. They had lots of problems since they were sure Timothy wouldn't want a school with a flower in the name and they couldn't agree on a Saint at all. So they didn't want to be stuck with something long term and I said no changing it next year we went with Elementary School, instead of Academy, School or Learning Center(was one of their picks) so this way they can change it in a few years. I am doing shirts and bags for them(they asked) and we have letter we can use instead of the whole name this way also.
The winner is something that is easy and true to our school. The girls are learning Latin and their school is at home so they went with the Latin word for home:
Domus Elementary School or DES for short.
We, by that I mean me, are coming up with colors, and a image for it also. Once that is done I will post it for everyone also.

I missed adding Decembers holidays, I am sorry. Here are January's though. Enjoy the month and get a break from the after holidays slump, pick a few and celebrate them with your family and friends. Heck pick one and make a party for it, brighten up the dreary dull drums of January for all.

January is . . . .

National Careers in Cosmetology Month

National Eye Health Care Month

National Fiber Focus Month

National Hobby Month

National Soup Month

Hot Tea Month

Oatmeal Month

Prune Breakfast Month

 

January 1 is . . . . .First Foot Day and Z Day - Z Day is a holiday that can be celebrated by letting all those poor unfortunate people with names that start with Z be first in line.

January 2 is . . . . .Run Up the Flagpole and See if Anybody Salutes It Day

January 3 is . . . . .Festival of Sleep Day

January 4 is . . . . .Trivia Day and Humiliation Day

January 5 is . . . . .Bird Day

January 6 is . . . . .Bean Day

January 7 is . . . . .Old Rock Day

January 8 is . . . . .National JoyGerm Day and Man Watcher's Day

January 9 is . . . . . Play God Day

January 10 is . . . . Peculiar People Day

January 11 is . . . . National Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friend Day

January 12 is . . . . Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day

January 13 is . . . . Make Your Dream Come True Day and Blame Someone Else Day

January 14 is . . . . National Dress Up Your Pet Day

January 15 is . . . . Hat Day

January 16 is . . . . Hot and Spicy Food International Day and National Nothing Day

January 17 is . . . . Blessing of the Animals at the Cathedral Day

January 18 is . . . . Winnie the Pooh Day

January 19 is . . . . National Popcorn Day

January 20 is . . . . National Buttercrunch Day

January 21 is . . . . National Hugging Day

January 22 is . . . . National Answer Your Cat's Question Day and National Blonde Brownie day

January 23 is . . . . National Handwriting Day, National Pie Day, and Measure Your Feet Day

January 24 is . . . . Eskimo Pie Patent Day

January 25 is . . . . Opposite Day

January 26 is . . . . Australia Day

January 27 is . . . . Punch the Clock Day and Thomas Crapper Day  - This holiday commemorates Mr. Thomas Crapper, the man who (as the name may suggest) invented the flush toilet.

January 28 is . . . . National Kazoo Day, Clash Day, Rattle Snake Round-Up Day

January 29 is . . . . National Cornchip Day

January 30 is . . . . Escape Day

January 31 is . . . . National Popcorn Day and Child Labor Day

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Some how the last month or so have flown right past me.
Little Timothy is not so little, he is not yet 4 months and weighs almost 18 lbs.  Terresa is still my little girl though, at 2 years(she just had her birthday the 28th) she is only 25lbs.
The holidays were good and the kids when they weren't sick, had a blast. The youngest 4 girls have all been sharing a virus since the week before Christmas. Some how Katelyn didn't get it and they were nice enough not to share with Timothy too.

We are starting back to real lessons tomorrow, we have been doing hands on and real life lessons for almost a month. We have only had out the SSW&R in the last month. Math has been online and everythign else has been real life. Some things we will keep using real life for or at lest a major item in supplementing. Math is much more fun in the kitchen.
Katelyn got a Snap Pro circuit set for Christmas and has been working with that daily. She loves leaning about how things work and this is perfect. She has a wish list for her birthday in March already, 6 things that all are snap circuits items.
We are making a Lap Books for math this week and Danelle wants to start to learn to rad, so she is getting a ABC one. She is only 4, 5 in March, but so wants too, course she goes in for her speech evulation soon and I am not looking forward to that at all. Morgann who just turned 3 is talking much better and some words/sounds Terresa at 2 has down better already.

Again time is getting away from me. November is half over and Thanksgiving is right around the corner.Timothy is getting so big, he is 15lbs already he is only 2 months old.
We got the Sing, Spell, Read and Write. Not only is Katelyn taking off with it, Breanna likes it and Danelle and Morgann are already trying to do it. Danelle has the first two songs memorized already. There is a level before what I got, but I don't think we will need that next year for Danelle and there is a level above, really 2 or 3 I might look for them for Katelyn next year, we will see how her reading is at the end of this year. Breanna's math came in and she is really liking this one. She isn't taking off any faster then she was before, but she isn't struggling everyday with the lesson and she is asking to do math instead of coming up with 50 other things to do when I tell her it is time for math, which is all a mom can ask for. She is getting it, and doing it with out fighting me over it.

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Memorial

15 May

Daughter of a Pagan Irish chieftain named Damon, and a beautiful devoted Christian woman whose name has not come down to us. Her mother died when Dymphna was a teenager. Her father searched the Western world for a woman to replace his wife, but none could. Returning home, he saw that his daughter was as beautiful as her mother, and maddened by grief, he made advances on her. She fought him off, then fled to Belgium with Saint Gerebernus, an elderly Priest and family friend.
Dymphna's father searched for them, and his search led to Belgium. There an innkeeper refused to accept his money, knowing it was difficult to exchange. This told Damon that his daughter was close - it would be unusual for a village innkeeper to know a lot about foreign currency, and his knowledge indicated that had recently seen it. The king concentrated his search in the area. When he found them in Gheel, he beheaded Gerebernus, and demanded that Dymphna surrender to him. She refused, and he killed her in a rage.
The site where she died is known for its miraculous healings of the  insane and possessed. There is now a well-known institution on the site, and her relics are reported to cure insanity and epilepsy.

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The next few Saint posting will be the girls pick for Halloween.

St. Joan of Arc is the patroness of soldiers and of France. On January 6, 1412, Joan of Arc was born to pious parents of the French peasant class, at the obscure village of Domremy, near the province of Lorraine. At a very early age, she heard voices: those of St. Michael, St. Catherine and St. Margaret.

At first the messages were personal and general. Then at last came the crowning order. In May, 1428, her voices "of St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret" told Joan to go to the King of France and help him reconquer his kingdom. For at that time the English king was after the throne of France, and the Duke of Burgundy, the chief rival of the French king, was siding with him and gobbling up evermore French territory.

After overcoming opposition from churchmen and courtiers, the seventeen year old girl was given a small army with which she raised the seige of Orleans on May 8, 1429. She then enjoyed a series of spectacular military successes, during which the King was able to enter Rheims and be crowned with her at his side.

In May 1430, as she was attempting to relieve Compiegne, she was captured by the Burgundians and sold to the English when Charles and the French did nothing to save her. After months of imprisonment, she was tried at Rouen by a tribunal presided over by the infamous Peter Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais, who hoped that the English would help him to become archbishop.

Through her unfamiliarity with the technicalities of theology, Joan was trapped into making a few damaging statements. When she refused to retract the assertion that it was the saints of God who had commanded her to do what she had done, she was condemned to death as a heretic, sorceress, and adulteress, and burned at the stake on May 30, 1431. She was nineteen years old. Some thirty years later, she was exonerated of all guilt and she was ultimately canonized in 1920, making official what the people had known for centuries. Her feast day is May 30.

Joan was canonized in 1920 by Pope Benedict XV.