This is a shameless plug for a product, but I had no part in making it. It is a collection of all 50 state notebooking books, plus more books on the 50 states, the USA monuments, and so on... Normally sold individually, they have them all as a SET right now. This is $226.00 worth of notebooking books, they now have them for $34.95!

You will want to use your highspeed internet speeds for this, as you can imagine how huge the file will be... Or go to your neighbors house and borrow their internet connection... it is worth it! Haha!

$226.00 - $34.95 = $191.05
Not  a small difference!
Also, we use notebooking pages inside our lapbooks. We use it for copy work and for journaling.

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WHOOO HOOOO!

    We finally managed to get everything into the tiny 2 bedroom apartment that we were grateful to receive access to, after J's accident that left him in a wheelchair. Everything was piled upon something else and getting access to just one thing was always a huge undertaking. Remember the old puzzle where you have to move a bunch of parts around to get one part to shoot over to the left.... UGH! I got RID of a LOT of those PARTS! BWAAA HAAA HAAA!

    This is a stitched together panorama of the main living area. It may look reasonably large, but honestly, It is not. I am in one corner, which is the only thing not pictured. Again, it is a panorama, so imagine you wrap this into a near circle.....

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     We chose to turn the dinning room into a living room complete with a sofa, coffee table (Also used as the dining table), Television, Bookshelf, shoe caddy and room rug. The official living room area has been re-designed as a classroom/sewing/computer/play area... Goodness knows, I can't live without this area. As you can see, the sewing area is a complete jumbled mess, right now. I swear there REALLY is a sewing machine on that table . . . Somewhere! Hahaha!      

The false wall, in the middle of this image, was made using two 72" high bookshelves side by side. They have behind them two smaller 36" bookshelves side by side. This helps to section of the two different rooms and adds much needed wall space. My DH had the grand idea to hang the world map on the back of the larger bookshelves to once again, add useable wall space. It works! Although, at this point, it may just end up and wallpaper over the back of that bookshelf, as I keep stacking things higher and higher on the smaller shelves! haha!

Day one:

    The twins got up early, because mom woke them up!  I fed them then we got busy. We talked about what we planned to do this season (We school year round, so we speak in seasons, not in school years...) We discussed what I expected of them, and what they could expect of me. We got busy with working together on making sentences with funny random words, discussing subjects and predicates, editing paragraphs for grammar errors and reviewing double digit addition and subtraction (No barrowing).

     They found out that we would begin our science studies with the Human Body. They nearly fought over who would get to red which book first! Yea! Thank goodness they are excited! Makes life much easier, yes?

S-Baby woke up a bit later,
ate breakfast a the coffee table, then played her Hooked on Phonics CD game on the laptop at the coffee table, while brothers and I continued in the class area, finishing our work....

      Once we finished our main work, which I consider to be the three "R"s, then we moved into reading time and general mayhem and lapbooking and so on... S-Baby grabbed her Hooked on Phonics books and began to re-read them. She loves them. Thank goodness, because when I got them, the twins hated them, back when they were new. At least they weren't wasted! hahahaha!

More later!