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Come on in & make yourself at home as you catch up with the happenings of our little family. I'm Karla, the "scribe" for our family, and am better known as "Momma" to our two blessings, "Honey" to my hubby, and "the maid who provides for our every need" to our 2 kittens. I hope you will call me "friend."
We are a homeschooling family that has our mix of funnies and failures, along with triumphs & successes. I am a recovering perfectionist, who is ever so grateful that I serve a perfect Savior. He teaches me that I have a lot to learn, but also that He has brought me a long way.
I have been the bride to the most gracious, sweetest man in the world for the last 11 years. What I love most about him is that he is always striving to be a better husband, father, and child of God.
I am also the blessed mama to
OUR TWO GIFTS:
a creative 9-yo Darling Daughter who loves pink, being a little lady, having tea, reading, being creative, and riding horses
and a 5-yo tremendously adventurous Little Man-in-training who loves helicopters, bugs, dirt, running, and the sport of eating.
(If you are wondering about the curlers, go down to the Sweet Monday section of the sidebar. It's a women's ministry that was started in Richmond, Va, and when we moved from there, I decided to start one down here. While Im not doing it this year, please feel free to glean away from my entries of all the past programs & devotions.
Please let me know any of them have blessed you, and if you would like permission to use anything I've written. Thank you!)
S&T Fri -- Little Man's Birthday Extravaganza
Week in Review -- August 10-16
We Found Our Fill, On Blueberry Hill.... (with recipes!)
"This is the Best Bread" -- "Just Like a Restaurant's!"
S&T Fri -- First Week of School
Personal Quiet Time Goal Outline for 2008-09 School Year -- Paul's Epistles
Padems Visit, Part 2
Padems Visit-- One of Our Favorite Moments of the Summer
S&T Fri -- "Farm Families Have Always Gone Green"
2008-2009 School Plans
Creation Camp
School Year Preparations
S&T Fri -- Darling Daughter's Riding Lessons
Home-Schoolers Threaten Our Cultural Comfort
New Twist Chocolate Chip Cookies
Show&Tell Fridays
Family Funnies
From My Recipe Box
Homeschooling Helps & Ideas
Homeschooling
Wondering about the curlers?
CLICK HERE to get the scoop!
It's just one of the silly things I did at my monthly "Sweet Monday" meetings!
Past Meetings & Devotionals
Information On Sweet Monday
Sweet Monday's Main Website
"The bringing up, as of a child, instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties." ~Noah Webster~
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"Gradually we have become aware that family life is God's classroom for shaping us into the kind of people He wants us to be."
Catherine Marshall, A Closer Walk
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2008 Habits:
1. Gentle voice, gentle heart
2. "Peruse&Purge" magazines
3. Have hot tea every day
4. Wake up between 5-6 am
2008 Goals/To Do's:
1. Complete top of DS's quilt.
2. Tackle reading list.
3. Organize fabric.
4. Make blocks for charity quilts
May. 28, 2006
Vocano Unit Study, Notebooking, Lapbooks & PodCasts
Since co-ops are over and summer is upon us, we are focusing on one of my favorite things -- unit studies! We are using lapbooks and notebooking to help us organize our information and record what we are learning.
Two great egroups I joined that are fantastic in regards to ideas and links, are:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lapbooking
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Notebooking
And I love KONOS of course. DH's aunt let me borrow her 3 volumes, which are a wealth of information and ideas.
Also, Cindy Rushton has a great podcast at http://www.momtomomradioshow.com/ that has very valuable information about notebooking.
Since we read in the paper 2 weekends ago about a possible volcanic eruption of Mt. Merapi in Indonesia, we are doing our first unit study of the summer on VOLCANOES!!! We've been following it, and not only is in now erupting, but there was also a terrible earthquake today. http://www.guardian.co.uk/indonesia/Story/0,,1784686,00.html
Things we are using for our study:
1. KidsHaven book on Volcanoes (a gal in our county co-op has a dollar store on-line and I got a lot of great resource books for only a dollar! http://annmoon12.mydollarshop.com/ )
2. Magic School Bus: "Blows It's Top" book and also I going to tape the show on Volcanoes from Magic School Bus that airs in TLC and Discovery Kids. I plan on taping shows in the areas of our interests this summer from them.
3. Library books
4. Googled "volcano" and got lots of great links that we looked at and printed info off of.
5. Did 3 cool experiments from: http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/Instructor/Mar04_volcanoes.htm
6. We are creating a lapbook. I even glued a manila envelope on the back & am going to tuck with the tectonic plate "puzzle and some worksheets.
 
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May. 29, 2006 - Untitled Comment |
| Posted by Leigh2 |
| What neat ideas! I'm thinking of a summer topic, also....but we're taking a couple of weeks off to get this house ready for us to move soon. Maybe something interesting will come to mind while we're deep cleaning. :o) |
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May. 29, 2006 - hey there! |
| Posted by Juliestew |
i'm so impressed that you are still working hard at school. i gave up about a week ago but plan to start again after my kids get the "spring fever" out of them. BOYS!!
i love the volcano unit study.
wasn't that cool winning something??? i was so excited!!! i could fall in love with HSB just for that reason. i never win anything!
hope you are staying cool. i hope to visit sandy again the first weekend of june.
julie |
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"Watch for the storms of God.
The only way God plants His saints is through the whirlwind of His storms.
Will you be proven to be an empty pod with no seed inside?
That will depend on whether or not you are actually living in the light of the vision you have seen.
Let God send you out through His storm, and dont go until He does.
If you select your own spot to be planted, you will prove yourself to be an unproductive, empty pod.
However, if you allow God to plant you, you will "bear much fruit" (John 15:8)." ------------ My Utmost for His Highest, March 11th
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