Nov. 21, 2008 - Tagged

I was tagged by Trisch over at Never a Dull Moment.  I am to list 6 unspectacular things about me. 

Okay, hold on to your seats......

1. I have two stitches sticking out of my forehead.  Just a little cyst removed, but hey it looks (and sounds) a little tragical.

2. I have been getting up at 5 AM everyday this week.  Meeting with the Lord early and then being a little goofy the rest of the day for lack of sleep.

3. Warm rice bags in winter make me happy.

4. I have been to two tea parties in the past month and both parties had homemade napkins.  They were delightful and so pretty.  They were made of all different patterns and it just added to their charm. 

5. I am planning on making napkins for my family and then I will have to have a tea party, right?

6. The above cyst on my head could have been because being a homeschool mom my brain was just full and starting to spill out......no one else believed it either.

So there you have it. 

What about you? Do you have any unspectacular things you would like to share?  Consider yourself tagged.  Oh yeah, that is one more unspectacular thing about me, I usually end my tags this way. 

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Nov. 10, 2008 - Girlhood's Most Cherished Lessons Seminar

Breezy and Emily Rose are both going to have some of their work in the newest edition of The Girlhood Home Companion.   It is such an encouraging magazine for young ladies.  You can buy single issues or a subscription.  As a special treat to go along with this edition, Jill Novak is hosting a seminar called Girlhood's Most Cherished Lessons.  What is really special is that this seminar is FREE!  Free seminars, what a blessing!  

The girls and I will be giving a session called "Have Yourself a Merry Homemade Christmas".  We will be talking about some of our ideas and plans for a Homemade Christmas.  I will also talk about fostering creativity with our children.  I hope you will be able to join in with us. 

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Oct. 16, 2008 - Random and Fall Tags

I have been tagged with the 6 random things about me and fall favorites.

Randomness first:

1.  My favorite verses are Proverbs 3:5-6
2.  The Lord has blessed me with curly hair.  (something I haven't always thought of as a blessing)
3.  I am a lefty.
4.  I am trying to learn how to use Photoshop. 
5.  I like to camp when the weather is chilly.
6.  The library is one of my favorite places to go.


My fall favorites:

1.  Favorite Fall Smell:  candles- pumpkin, apple & cranberries

2.  Favorite Fall Food:  pumpkin pie

3.  Favorite Fall Color:  orange-red

4.  Favorite Fall Drink:  apple cider

5.  Favorite Fall Treat:  caramel corn

6.  Favorite Place to Go:  camping

7.  Favorite Fall Candy:  candy corn

8.  Favorite Fall Movie to Watch:  I don't really have a favorite, but I do like to watch the Sarah Plain & Tall movies at least once a year, so I'll watch them this fall. 

9.  Favorite Fall Clothing: hoodies & sweaters

10. Favorite Outdoor Activity:  camping

11.  Favorite Fall Holiday:  Thanksgiving
 
12.  Favorite Food at Thanksgiving:  My sister's baked beans and my mom's noodles, side by side. Yum

13.  Favorite Pie:  pumpkin

14.  Favorite Fall Hobby:  Embroidering

15.  Favorite Fall Memory:  camping with my family and friends.  The relaxed atmosphere, the campfire, the cool air, the cozy warm camper.

16.  Favorite Fall Sight:  the bright orange and red trees, pumpkins and mums

17.  Overall Favorite Thing(s) About Fall:  My husband's birthday, Emily's birthday, crisp air, crunching of leaves and my havfever is over for the year. 

18.  Overall Favorite Season:  Winter


The girls took these pictures while walking around my mother's farm.  Her house is just beyond my oldest sister's home, which is pictured. 

I am not tagging anyone this time, so if you would like to do the tag, consider yourself tagged and let me know if you do it. 

Hope you are having a lovely fall. 

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Oct. 8, 2008 - Behemoth.com

We have been seeing ads about this new site, but wasn't sure what it was all about.  Today it has been unveiled and you can visit it at Behemoth.com.  Here is how they describe it:

Behemoth.com's vision is as big as its name: to provide a large-scale, cost-effective download venue for customers of all ages, featuring trustworthy, downloadable audio and video content for the Christian family.

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Oct. 8, 2008 - A beautiful fall day

This past Sunday was a beautiful fall day.  Warm and sunny, light breeze-just perfect.  We decided to take the blankets out and just hang out in the back yard. Of course, the paints and the camera came, too.


Emily spotted this praying mantis underneath the picnic table.


Breezy brought her pocket palette and basket of supplies.  Bently enjoyed the sun by snoozing and rolling around on the blanket.  He also drank some of Breezy's paint water when she wasn't looking. 


I watched this praying mantis fly in from the field and land in the oak tree.  When we got up to get a closer look, it turned it's head and looked right at us.  Just creepy.  I thought it was strange that we would see two of these on the same day.



Breezy painted several little scenes, this one is looking to the southwest. 

We never really made a habit of nature studies.  It was always hit and miss, but over the years the girls have realized what a treasure it is to capture what we are seeing and experiencing. 

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Sep. 17, 2008 - A Few of My Online Favorites-Homeschool Memoirs # 5

Jocelyn over at The Homeschool Post has asked us to share some of our favorite online sites for Homeschool Memoirs #5.  There are several sites that I enjoy looking at and I have listed them in my sidebars.  So feel free to browse my links, blogs, and friends lists.  I also have buttons on my sidebars that will take you to my family's blogs and also other sites that I enjoy. 

Emily Rose and I also started the Right Here in Indiana blog to have a place to put  more links that have to do specifically with homeschooling.

As for other sites I have been visiting, such as some crafty inspirational sites and such, I will add those in another post later this week. 

To read what others are saying about their favorite online sites click here.

 

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Jul. 15, 2008 - Random happenings around our home

We have been enjoying a beautiful summer.  The weather has not been hot and muggy, which is so unusual for this time of year.  We've been having the windows open and letting the breeze come through the house.  It makes it feel so peaceful. And occasionally we have had a summer storm come through with all the amazing clouds and wind.  The latest storm was to the south of us and we were not affected by it, other than the awe of watching it blow in.  Emily and Breezy both took several pictures of it and Emily was able to catch this one with the lightening striking.  You have to look to the middle of the picture to see it.



When she took that picture there was no wind blowing around us at all.  It was one of those calms before the storm, but it stayed to the south of us.

Jocelyn interviewed Breezy for The Homeschool Blog Awards site, you can read that interview here. She won the 2007 Best Artistic Content Blog Award and they have interviews of the different winners in the Wednesday Winners column. 

Emily has been doing a weekly craft post for The Backyard and this past week her post was on making a flower dryer.  It was made using the leftover twigs from our trellis in my last post.  It is hanging in my kitchen and it is just adorable.  The Backyard is a blog on HomeSchoolBlogger for the young people on HSB. 



Last week we went to a library book sale, went to a family reunion out of town, and then on Sunday we hosted our church family for a picnic in our backyard. 

This week this handsome man and I are going to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary.  It amazes me how fast the time has gone.


More to post on that event later!

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Jul. 10, 2008 - A Place for My Morning Glories

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May. 1, 2008 - Kitchen Essentials

Maybe I'm feeling a little old fashioned today, but after reading my sister's blog about brooms and my friend's blog about old blue canning jars I just started thinking about what you really need in a kitchen. 
Brooms, aprons and canning jars.  Those are the essentials.  They make your kitchen homey and clean. 

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Apr. 3, 2008 - New site

I don't know how many times I have found a great homeschool site only to not remember where I found it or what it was called.  Or perhaps, I did bookmark it and my list is so long that I don't know which was which.  I began thinking that maybe I should do something about it, that maybe I should just have a site with all the information at my fingertips.

So, after a few weeks of work and several years of collecting favorite homeschool websites, my daughter, Emily Rose and I have made a new site.  It is called Right Here in Indiana and will contain website links and occasional posts about homeschooling.  While it has Indiana in the name and is somewhat focused on Indiana homeschool laws, it should be useful to homeschoolers anywhere. 

We decided to keep it with very low graphics so those with dial-up can access it easily.  Even thought it is still in its early stages, I hope you will find it helpful, I know I already have. 

A BIG THANK YOU goes to Emily Rose for making everything come together into a wonderful site.   Hugs to you, girlie!!

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Mar. 20, 2008 - First Day of Spring

The first day of spring has finally arrived!!  The sun is shining and the temperatures are....not really all that warm.  It is still pretty chilly, but we are seeing signs of spring and seeing a lot of birds coming back.
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Happycamper has a really fun map on her blog showing the migration of hummingbirds and where they are being sighted right now.  I really like getting a heads up on that.  I have never put out a hummingbird feeder, but this year I am planning on it.

After seeing the map for the hummingbird migration, I decided to look around for an oriole migration map.  I came across this neat website called Journey North.  There are maps, great pictures and information on several different animals that migrate and even a section on when the tulips are going to bloom. 

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Mar. 11, 2008 - Tightwad Tuesday-Coffee

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My husband loves to drink coffee throughout the day and but he doesn't like to spend very much money on it.  He is constantly on the go with his job so he can't just have a coffee pot at work and sometimes it is hard or inconvenient to carry a thermos so he came up with this little idea of packaging his coffee.


He gave them the name of coffee bombs.  We make them up for him so he can take a few with him to work every morning.  All he has to do is heat up a cup of water and pour the contents into the cup. 
We cut the corners off of our bread bags and put in coffee, creamer and sugar then close them up with a twisty tie.  And yes, he brings them back home so that we can refill them.  We do put new twist ties on so that they won't be so prone to break.

Click here for more Tightwad Tuesday tips.

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Mar. 8, 2008 - New look and new ad

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Thank you Emily Rose for my new template. 

It is simply marvelous.

 

Take a look around, I have added a few new items and one of special  significance  is on the top right column.  ParentalRights.org is an organization that has been set up to help protect parental rights.  With the federal judges and international law becoming more and more of a threat against the families and their fundamental rights we need to be proactive and bring about laws that will protect families from dangerous court decisions and unfriendly international laws.

There is only one solution to this approaching storm: a constitutional amendment that places current Supreme Court doctrine protecting parental rights into the explicit language of the U.S. Constitution.
You can click on the ad to visit their website for more information.

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Mar. 4, 2008 - Just a note

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On my sidebar there is now an email link to contact me. 
~Robin

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Mar. 4, 2008 - What's been going on around here

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I haven't been blogging much lately and decided today would be the day.  Aren't you glad. 

We have a few new additions to our home.  We recently picked up a used treadmill and exercise bike from my aunt.  I have become very sedentary this winter and really needed to get more active and be able to do that from home.  I like to walk so this was the perfect solution.  I had been looking around at new ones and couldn't believe how much they cost.  Yikes!  So my ever wise husband suggested we ask around and see if anyone had a treadmill  that they would like to get rid of.   After asking my mom if she knew of anybody who had one, she told me that my aunt did.  After contacting her we were able to pick up her treadmill as well as an exercise bike that she wanted to sale. 

I was wanting to put the treadmill upstairs but it is so heavy we will have to wait till we can get some help getting it up.  In the meantime it is in the front room, sort of in the way, but also very inviting to use.  I have been able to use it almost daily.  I  am also using that time to listen to some cds that we have on various subjects.  So I can exercise my body and feed my mind at the same time.  Now the trick will be to keep doing it!!!

I am so glad that spring is almost here.  This winter I have been dreading taking the girls to piano lessons.  Their piano teacher has this driveway that seems to go on forever.  It is a downward slope all the way to the house, so no problem getting there, it is the getting back that is so treacherous.  We have had trouble 3 times now getting stuck.  Breezy and Emily both wrote about the latest escapade on their blogs.  All I can say is I am glad it is almost spring or there will be no more piano lessons.

Another of our new additions is kefir.  I have been curious about this strange little stuff ever since I first read about it.  It is a good bacteria that you put in milk and it grows and ferments your milk so it is healthier for you, you can compare it to yogurt.  You put these little grains in your milk and let it sit out on the counter, everything in me wanted to say "no, put it in the fridge" but we stuck it out and let it ferment and then we drank it in smoothies.  Nobody got sick.  I kept asking everyone if they felt okay.  So we did it again the next day and the next and so far everyone has been well.  Do we feel any better? We don't know but it should be making our insides healthier.   Emily gives a a really good description of it on her blog.

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Feb. 22, 2008 - Winter Shot of our Oak Tree

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We have a big wonderful oak tree in our back yard and I wanted to do a series of pictures of it.  It is definitely a sturdy oak.   We have had some pretty verocious winds here and it just barely moves while the other trees are flopping all over the place and dropping limbs.  In the summer it is a perfect shade tree.  I am going to have Emily take some pictures of it and see what it looks like through the year.

 

 

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Feb. 15, 2008 - "Charlie Bit Me"

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Feb. 1, 2008 - How to back up your blog

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A couple of years ago my mother bought herself and her daughters each an external hard drive so that we could store our pictures on them to protect our pictures from being lost if our computers crashed.  This past week my mother's external hard drive went bad and she lost most of her pictures.  She may still be able to get them retrieved but not without shelling out some big bucks.  This was probably just a bad one out of the bunch, but how do we know which ones those are?

 

After talking with a friend who is very computer savvy, he suggested having your photos saved to at least two different places.  So with that said, please take the time to get your photos backed up, whether it is having two external hard drives or storing them on your computer and your x-hard drive.

 

As another precaution you should also back up your blog.  I found this great site for instructions on how to do just that.

 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/RugbyHS/183107/

Hope this information helps.

 

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Jan. 18, 2008 - It's Friday night....

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.... it must be time for Pizza.

For several years now we have had homemade pizza on Friday night, and it is always pepperoni with half topped with onions. We make a little bowl of garlic butter to dip the crust in and have a glass of ice cold Coca-Cola to round out the fun.  We don't seem to ever tire of this meal, it has become a tradition.

 

 

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Dec. 13, 2007 - I've been double-dog tagged

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Okay, first Breezy tagged me and I have tried to pretend she didn't and then Shutterbug got me so here goes.  I will put them in this post together.

1.How many brothers do you have?  One brother, who passed away 5 years ago.

 

2.How many sisters do you have?  2, both "older" .  That makes me the Youngest!

 

3.Can you whistle?  no 

 

4.Do you like "Silly Songs with Larry"?  There was a time when I might have said yes but now, no.

 

5.How often do you wear black?  I am wearing black right now. 

   

6.Do you like to wear black?  Apparently so, see the above answer.

 

7.How about pink/purple?  I am wearing a pinkish T under my blackish hoodie.

 

8.What is you favorite veggie?  Tomatoes.  Don't tell me its a fruit.  I like to lovingly think of it as a veggie!

 

9.How often do you lose your hairbrush? I don't.

 

10.How long is your hair?  Past my shoulders. 

 

 

Okay now for the next tag which is a wee bit harder....

 

 

 

I will let the rest of my family that has been tagged carry on the tags as they wish.

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