Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - Post from the Past: Thanking God for Our Thorns
One of my all time favorite stories I love to read each Thanksgiving... it's worth the read... and please feel free to share what thorns you'll be thankful for this Thanksgiving!
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - Post from the Past: Things to do for Thanksgiving
For those of you looking for some things to do for Thanksgiving (whether homeschooling or not)... check out some of the following ideas from a post from the past:
FREE Thanksgiving Unit Studies and More!
Please feel free to share any of the ideas or traditions you do in your home for Thanksgiving!
Nov. 24, 2009 - Simple Woman's Daybook
For Today, Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Outside My Window...
Cold and sunny with a snow-covered ground.
I'm thinking...
We really need to increase our monthly support.
From the learning rooms...
The older girls are getting so much better at doing their work on their own. I have to be more diligent to check their work and do thier follow-up questions or narration.
I am thankful for...
Our suburban is bought and our insurance is paid up for six months. Also that we have siblings that pitch in and gift us with money when things are tight...
From the kitchen...
I am wearing...
I am hoping...
I am creating...
I am hearing...
I am going...
nowhere for the holidays.
A few plans for the rest of the week...
Here is a picture thought I am sharing with you...
(coming soon)
caption.
I hope you enjoyed your peek into our mountain haven! Come again!
Feeding on His Faithfulness,
Carol
Nov. 24, 2009 - Terri Camp
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Nov. 24, 2009 - Terri Camp
Give your homeschooled kids the gift of an education that is FUN – Ignite the Fire is back! http://bit.ly/5fHTkD
Nov. 24, 2009 - Jellytelly
JellyTelly.com is a fun place I like Buck Denver is funny
Nov. 21, 2009 - DONE!!!!!
The room is done! There is even some furniture moved in already. It came out great, a little bit smaller than we had hoped for, but GREAT none the less... The whole experience was great! The contractor was super GREAT! The workers were great! The project came in $600 under the proposal so we had some additional work done. Our contractor went out of his way to get us deals. He went two counties away to get us bamboo floors that were sitting in a barn ~ the leftovers of a business that had gone under. We got them for $1 a linear foot ... they retailed for over $5 a linear foot. They are perfect!! He also looked our house over and found a few things that were in desperate need of repair and fixed them for almost no cost. Let's put it this way. Part of our home had to be jacked up because of a failing support beam. He did the job for $76 ~ the cost of the beam and a little extra to pay for his helper. The mess was not nearly as bad as I thought it would be .... So, you all want me to stop carrying on about how great it was and let you see the results for yourselves!?!?
Yay! Well, this is all you are getting right now. The big reveal will be just after Christmas. This year we are giving no toys (except stocking stuffers) so that we can decorate the children's bedrooms. I'll show you all the rooms once we have curtains up and such.
In the meantime we will be painting the rest of this room. We decided to paint the floor insted of refinishing the wood becuase it is so costly if you have a professional do it. My dh has refinished two floors in our home, but it was a really grueling project, and they have not held up as well as we would have expected. So for now we will paint this floor instead. We will need to do all of the trim work and no furniture can go on it for a week.
That is all for now!
Blessings,
Dawn
Nov. 20, 2009 - Weekly Wrapup
From the Heart:
I'm loving being with my kids. Every moment that I get with them fills my heart. It is so wonderful to hold my son in my arms and hear him say, "I wuv you, Mommy. You're adorable!" I also love watching and experiencing the moments that my five year old studies her first words and reads them. Each day she makes so much progress. My 10 and 12 year olds amaze me with how they are growing into young ladies more each day and becoming individuals. Life as a Mom is good.
The little ones like to snuggle in the rocking chair after their bath near the wood stove.
I just finished looking over my blog from a year ago. I am so glad that I am not in that place any longer! A year ago my Snow Crystal was having concentration problems, abdominal pain, seizures, weakness, and looked like a little holocaust survivor. She was depressed and talking about suicide. I praise God for all my friends who so faithfully prayed, and for the cure of becoming gluten-free again, and avoiding artificial additives. She is my healthy, happy, seizure-free young lady again. No more of any of those things, and her school work has improved dramatically this year. I am so grateful to the Lord!
In the School Room:
Mountain Princess, 12, and Snow Crystal, 10: Abraham Lincoln was shot again this week (we learned it a few weeks ago, but readressed the reasons this week). The aftermath of the civil war was anything but nice. Andrew Johnson may have had Abraham's roots, but he lacked some of Abe's other successful political prowess. Matter can be in the form of a solid, a liquid, a gas, and plasma. Old Yeller is my 10 year old's first school book to be taken on without my help, and she's doing a good job. She even stated that this is her favorite reader ever. Caddie Woodlawn continues to be a spunky little thing. Tall tales are fun because they exaggerate a story and hyperboles are perfect to put in them. Mountain Princess finished up decimals, fractions and percentages, and moved on to tesselations. (Did I learn about these in school? They are fun.) Snow Crystal is working on fractions now.
Bubbies, 5, learned about the clothing and culture of the French in the period just before Napoleon's time and about the French revolution. Birds have feathers, lay eggs, are warm-blooded, and most eat other animals. We examined an old robin's nest and found an unhatched egg. Robin nests are made of mud, twigs and grass. Numbers higher than ten are made with groups of ten and units. She finished the week by writing her numbers between twenty and thirty.
Little Critter, 3, is beginning to take himself to the potty and we are having much fewer peeing accidents. On the other hand, yesterday he pooped in the bathtub again. Good thing sister wasn't with him this time!
On the Mission Field:
One of my favorite speakers, Graeme from Australia, was here speaking on cultural differences. We had another India - style dinner too. The students have only two more weeks before they head out on outreach. They will spend their first month in New Mexico with the Navajo work there, then the final eight weeks in India. We saw the Lord bring in a bunch of money toward their outreach expenses. That is always fun to see.
In the Literary Scene:
I am reading Brock and Bodie Thoene's second book in the Galway Series Of Men and of Angels.
Feeding on His Faithfulness,
Carol
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Nov. 19, 2009 - Hurry Up and WAIT!!
I don't think waiting is all that hard for me. I usually find ways to fill my time, even if it is just a good book to read. But these past two weeks have redefined waiting. After my last post, I did have to go to the ER, and was diagnosed with a kidney stone which was lodged in the ureter. I followed up with my urologist, the only one in the area, and scheduled a lithotripsy (sound waves blast the stone into tiny gravel that are easier to pass). Since I had come down with a bad cold and had lost my voice, he also prescribed an antibiotic to make sure I didn't develop any other nasty bugs before the procedure. Unfortunately, I had a severe reaction to the medication and ended up hospitalized. Since then, my heart has been racing. And racing, and racing. While I was in the hospital, the doctor placed a stint to make sure my kidney could continue to function. Lithotripsy was rescheduled, and home I went. The tachycardia did not go away, though, and a subsequent EKG proved abnormal (inverted T waves), so lithotripsy was cancelled again.
So here I am. Two weeks and I still have a stone. Thankfully, oh so thankfully, I have no pain. My pulse seems to be returning to normal after 1 1/2 weeks of racing. Hopefully, I will find out soon what the new plan is. And hopefully, we can wait until after thanksgiving.
As to our Thanksgiving study--we finished Leif the Lucky and started Columbus today. We should finish Columbus tomorrow and next week we will read Pocahontus and If You Sailed on the Mayflower. We are also using a globe to trace the routes that Leif and Columbus took and a dictionary to look up unfamiliar words. And The Usborne Book of World History has been a great resource with this unit study.
When December comes, we will begin our Christmas study, which always includes reading The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
Nov. 18, 2009 - Far-Fetched Fantasy
Joe is making movie called A Far-Fetched Fantasy. You can watch the fantasy trailer if you click Here
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