If you have been reading this blog for very long, you may know that my word for 2013 is Peace. I have had a different focus each month, not because I planned it that way, but because it just happened. In January, I focused on Finances. In February, our focus was food, where I tried to re-think healthy eating and
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I walked out on the porch with book in hand. The door wasn’t even all the way the closed when he started racing toward me very excitedly. I thought maybe it was the Skittles, but he had caught site of the book in my hand, 65 More Short Mysteries you Solve with Science! “I love that book!” he exclaimed. “Are
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Another Five-Minute Friday. Just Writing, minimal editing, today’s prompt: SONG See what others are writing here. Growing up , my dad used always say “it takes all kinds.” He would say this when we as kids or as a family we perceived something as different or strange, or an action we didn’t understand. It comes from Don Quixote. In Spanish
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My dad is retiring this year and his celebration was today. I couldn’t be there in person, so I sent him a gift of words. Forty five years ago, a man and his bride moved to Garden City to carve out a new life together far from family and friends. He took a job to make a living and she
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Spanish for You! is a theme based foreign language curriculum developed by Debbie Annett after years of teaching Spanish to children of all ages. We received the Fiestas package which covers birthdays and major holidays in Spanish-speaking countries. The curriculum is a well-rounded mix of reading, listening, drawing, singing, worksheets and of course speaking. There are three levels of the
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Five Minute Friday: Write for five minutes without worrying if it just right using the prompt found at Lisa Jo’s. Comfort. Begin: What does it take to be comfortable? Where do you find your comfort? We toured some very fancy houses this week in a tourist town. We loved it. The houses were perfectly situated with perfect decor, selling an
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Last year, when I was choosing our core curriculum, History was my hardest choice by far. I loved what we had been doing, but we at a place in our chronological study of history that brought us to one war after another in almost every country. So I made a switch to a literature based American History and supplemented as
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This is a Five Minute Friday POst, where I write for 5 minutes using the writing prompt at Lisa Jo’s. No extreme editing, just writing. I hope you enjoy it! Today it is BRAVE. I saw it today. Bravery, shakily leading women in Bible study. I saw beautiful, blossoming young women conquer their fears and rise to the
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On Wednesday, we joined a local group of homeschoolers to tour our State Capitol Building. We had not been to the Statehouse for over three years. We have spent this school year covering the 19th and 20th centuries, so our visit to the Statehouse was a perfect fit. The first reason I am glad we went: History is literally painted
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There are times when we despair over the sad state of our world. Times, when we dread seeing the latest headlines. But even in those darkest times and those darkest days, there is still hope. Sometimes the goal is elusive and seems unreachable, but then there is that patch of blue that breaks through the clouds. And you know
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She walked away without another word. She was gone and I had no idea if she would ever talk to me again. I was uncertain what I had done to offend her so greatly. The hurt ran deep. Deep hurts take a long time to heal. It was well over a year later and I was 3/4 of the way
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