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Tot School- Princess style

Our Tot school this week had a bit of a royal flare!

This theme started with two books that "Princess", my 10 year old daughter read to "Precious".

King Midas (Dr.Suess version) was the first read. I remember reading this book as a child.

The next book was called "Princess Stories".....

Then with the blocks, they worked on making a "castle"

Next came the creating of crowns....

This part was LOTS of FuN!

Here is my Prince and Princess:

Later that day... "Precious" walks up to me in a dress with a tiny purse asking for her crown. They were ready for a tea party (compliments of the older girls). So we had a cute little tea party before supper!

You can check out the other Tot School Participants at the 1+1+1=1 blog!

Sukkot ~ The Feast of the Tabernacles

I love this time of year, the leaves letting go, the tempertures dropping and the Fall Festivals. Not Halloween or Harvest Festivals, but the High Holy Days, Rosh HaShana. Yom Kippur and now Sukkot! We have gone from Repentance and the sounding blasts of the Shofar, to the Fasting hunger of redemption and now the favor of the Lord brings about the Season of rejoicing!

Here in Northern California as we begin to put up our sukkah we are blessed to have Myrtle brandches ( Bay tree) and palm leaves to lay across the roof which will be fragrant and freshly cut. Seven Days and nights of peeking through the branches and getting a glimpse of what God has created and wondering aloud at what is yet to come. It is here out in the open exposed to the elements that we recall how dependant we are on the Lord our Provider. His people and brought them across on dry land. Theis is a shaky shelter, a temporary shelter for just as they were heading to a better place a land flowing with milk and honey, so is this just a temporary dwelling place a shelter that will not stand forever.

Verses for Sukkot:

Lev. 23:33-36,39-43

Deut 28:1-2,15, Lev 26:14-39

Numbers 29:12-38

Deut.16:13-15

Psalm 42, 81

Ezra 3:1-4, Neh. 8:14-15

Joel 2:28, Isaiah 12: 3, Isaiah 44:3, Eze. 36:24-27

John 7:37-39

John 14:17, 1 Cor. 12:13

Psalms 120-134

Some of my favorite sites

http://www.torahtots.com/holidays/sukkot/sukkot.htm

http://www.chadiscrafts.com/fun/ediblesukkah.html

http://www.biblicalholidays.com/tabernacles.htm

http://www.aish.com/holidays/sukkot/default.asp

http://joi.org/celebrate/sukkot/thanks.shtml

http://www.shemayisrael.co.il/yomtov/sukkot/skpages.htm

Chag sameach!!!

Jordan's 14th Birthday

Jordan only asked to have a few friends over for cake during Family Camp for his birthday this year.  So we drove into town and bought a cake.  It rained and rained that day.  I had a video of us singing Happy Birthday to Ian along with The Phillips Family and two other friends at Family Camp (actually two of Kaitlyn's friends, Amanda and Arrij.) Anyway, in the video you can barely hear us singing b/c of the sound of the rain pounding on the canvas of the screen room above our picnic table.  However, the cake was delicious and Jordan was thrilled!

We even bought yellow candles... Jordan's favorite color!

I can't even believe he is FOURTEEN!

 

Another Update

Four Day Weekend!

My hubby and I are both taking a four day weekend this week.  We are not going anywhere, just spending time together and getting projects done.

One of those projects is getting my NEW LAPTOP up and running!  YAY!!! Last weekend we bought me a brand spanking new Gateway laptop with a 17 inch screen!  (The screen size is a big deal to me since my current one is 11 inches!  LOL) 

See how much bigger the new one is? The old one really is a "notebook computer, it is exactly the size of a spiral notebook. LOL)
(Oh, and the old one is NOT an apple.  I just put that sticker on that came with my Ipod.  It is funny because people are always telling me "I never knew  Apple made a laptpop that small.")

Anyway, the laptop is sorely needed!  My current one is beyond being on it's last leg.  Some days I have to pray to get it to boot up!  LOL (If only I were kidding!)  So hopefully when I return on Tuesday I will be well rested and super fast on my new computer!

I will see you Tuesday!

Happy Homeschooling,

Jamin

A Fairly Typical Day at Our House... In Pictures!

End it by 2025.

So there are these really cool shirts that I've been seeing around! They are like really awesome. I didn't even know they had a specific purpose, until I bought one. On the front of the shirt, there is a peace sign. Then on the bottom (left if you are wearing it) right corner, it says '2025.' If you look closely at the peace sign, it's actually the continent of Africa. I hadn't known how popular these shirts were! Apparently, 25% of the proffits from selling these shirts goes to a company to end poverty in Africa by 2025. Isn't that cool? 

Ashley Tisdale in a 2025 shirt.

You can go to mytrendytees.com to find these shirts. Search for Omni-Peace 2025.. or something like that. Or, go to Google.com to search this organization and find more ways to help. I bought mine at Fred Meyer... You don't have to buy one, but please remember to pray for them.

Prayin or donating can help:

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Him

Them

I am not advertising for this. It may seem like it, but I'm not. I think it would be very cool to end poverty by 2025. It's a while from now, but still.

If you can not donate, then please remember these people in your prayers every day. Money helps, but prayer is the ultimate. God will heal, God will redeem. He will help.

Almost All Grown Up

• The chicks are wobbly for a few hours, but can run by Day 2.
• God feathered the chicks' wings first on about Day 7.
  
• Their backs and tails feathered next.
• After that, they feathered pretty evenly all over their bodies.
• The last place they feather is their heads.
• Feathers poke out in little covered "spikes" and are fluffed by the chicks.
• A chick can fly up (probably for protection against predators) at about a week and a half.
• The chicks can fly several feet at this point in their development.
• You can't imagine how fast they can RUN by now!
• We aren't sure of gender yet; we can't see male "bibs" on either of them.

Making Butter

It had never occurred to me to make butter with my kids!  Tuesday night at our first American Girl Club the mom that hosted us in her home made homemade butter to go on the blueberry muffins and pumpkin bread she made for the girls.  My daughter went nuts over it!  So when we got ready to leave this sweet homeschool mom gave my daughter a jar half full of cream with a pinch of salt.  She told her to shake it all the way home in the car.  (About 15 - 20 minutes.) and then when we got home to put the whole thing in the refrigerator.  Well guess what?  This morning we had delicious homemade butter for our toast! (All we had to do is drain the buttermilk off!)

YUM!!

My daughter is sure that we no longer need to buy pre-made butter!  LOL  I am still amazed that I never knew how easy it is to make butter! (All I knew was that my Mom has an old butter churning crock from her parents farm. I always knew it was missing the wooden paddle used to churn the butter.  So I just thought it was some super complicated process!  LOL)  I am sure glad another homeschool mom took the time to teach me something new!

Here some online directions I found if you want more details on how to do this. (Although we did not add vanilla like these directions mention.)

Happy Homeschooling,

Jamin