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Sep. 17, 2006
Happy Birthday Hubby!
Today is my DH's birthday! I made him a turkey, which gives us BONES for burying and digging up to finish our dino unit and move on! Yea! Not only that, but we learned together about real-life turkey roasting, and a little about anatomy of a turkey (ours didn't have any legs - it was an all white meat turkey!)
We're still reading Charlotte's Web, and Narnia. Biscuit books and My Little Pony (MLP) books are being attempted on her own, and so are some of her older baby books like Are You My Mother? and Little Boy Blue and the like.
My friend had the baby this past Wednesday, baby boy "Nicholas," and he's soo cute in the pictures, I can't wait for the next get-together! Her older son "Jake" has a birthday in October, so I'll get to see Nicholas then! The party's at a fast food location with an indoor playscape, which will be totally awesome for Daughter, as she's starting to really get over her fear of those more 'open' tubes.
One of my wonderful (and plentiful, LOL) sisters reminded me of the standards for education (as that's her field) and it's organized by grade level. That's a HUGE help, and will make it so I can taylor a better program, whilst hitting all these benchmarks.
www.michigan.gov/mde
I'm pretty sure each state has one with a similar address if you want to check the benchmarks in your state as well. These are the MEAP guidelines of course, but it's always nice to know what the "minimum" standards are.
I am hoping to get out to the teacher's stores around here and spend some money. I realized I need a few more things in order to feel and BE more organized.
I sent out a question to tech support for this website because I want to change the title of my blog. It's beginning to get on my nerves, and I'd like it to read: Buddhist/Christian Homeschool or something like that. I really feel the need to make sure no one gets the wrong notion in their head that we're stressing one faith over the other or anything. Why do I care about what other people think? I don't have an answer for that, but I don't want to alarm family members into thinking we're ONLY one faith or another. We practice both, even attending a local Episcopalian church - where pastor "Bach" welcomes us with open arms and knowledge of Buddhism, guiding us in Christianity and answering our Christian-based faith questions. Pastor Bach is the most kind and loving pastor I've ever had the good fortune to meet. We hope to continue our relationship with them for many years (but please don't ask us to come to a service before 10am!)
I have to go make cookies for DH now!
Peace!
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