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Planning, Planning, and more Planning

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:42:48 -0500

Yesterday was a very LONG day for me. I had 2 meetings to attend: the first was for our small (but growing!) learning co-op. We met at the local park that we all love to hang out at. We were to get there about 10:30ish and I was running late. The park is just a mile from my house, so I always walk. This time the kids stayed home and came up later since I was going so early, and I was lugging 3 bags of stuff. (I had a 4th bag but the kids brought that for me later.) It was very humid yesterday morning, so I felt terrible by the time I made it to the park. I was there first, LOL so I really rushed for no reason. ;) Everyone got there aby about 11am. We have I think 16 or 17 families now in the co-op, last year we had maybe 10. So it's going to be a fun experience with so many MORE kids.

Anyways, we have some awesome classes on the schedule. I'll be doing science again, this time around focusing on experiments/kitchen chemistry. I've also volunteered to do a Piratology or Wizardology class using the related books. Both have handbook/workbook type books plus code writing books. So I think that will be fun.

My kids really only signed up for 1 class each (there are 3 class/session periods per day). But I have a feeling they'll end up doing something more. Amanda was undecided about whether to hang out with the teens or do the playground games class. So she'll bounce back and forth until she decides on that. Then she is doing science with me, mainly because I'll need her help. She has a following of the younger kids and most of them will be doing science as well.

Jake is of course doing cooking again. Then he figured he'd bounce around, most likely ending with the Lego gang. LOL He might end up coming in to science as well, as he typically like science.

So then our 2nd meeting was our Earth Scouts group. Since most of our members are also in the co-op, we just stayed at the park. Yesterday I had a solar bead activity planned, but it was very cloudy and the beads didn't change as well as i was hoping. But the kids still had fun and were absolutely in AWE over the way they changed colors. So they finished by making bracelets, necklaces, and key chains. The next very sunny day, they'll get another huge surprise when their beads fully change colors. (They are a white/clearish color until the sun heats the pigments in the pony beads. Then they change into very bright colors.)

We won't have anymore ES meetings until Sept. Its been hard this summer trying to hold meetings. But the parents wanted to try thinking we'd be able to but everyone is just always busy in the summer. So we'll resume in Sept.

So we finally got back home about 4:30pm and I was tired! 2 girls had come back home with us, and I just called and ordered pizza. I should have planned something for the crockpot but.. oh well. LOL

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What Season Are You?

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:33:16 -0500

You Belong in Fall

Intelligent, introspective, and quite expressive at times...
You appreciate the changes in color, climate, and mood that fall brings
Whether you're carving wacky pumpkins or taking long drives, autumn is a favorite time of year for you

What Season Are You?

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Saying goodbye to friends

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:37:15 -0500

A local homeschooling family we know is moving to Japan sometime next month most likely. (They were supposed to leave August 12th, but something came up and pushed the date back. The dad is already over there now.) We've only know them for a few months (since about Feb. or March) but they are a great family. So today we had a going away party for them at our local park. Several families came and we had lots of yummy food, the kids had a great time playing and us moms got to sit and chat a hot lazy afternoon away. The day went very slow, which made it nice because it seemed like we had more time to hang out and relax.

I had some baked ziti cooking in the crock pot while we were gone. It is ok, but I won't make it this way again I don't think.. maybe if I add 2 jars of sauce instead one. The noodles in the middle were good, but the outside was very hard and yucky. I did add in some water to help the noodles, but it needed more.

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Usborne Books - New Titles are here!!

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:02:51 -0500

Click on the picture below to visit my site and see the new titles. Lots of great books for starting shcool off right! Email me with any questions. I am looking to set up late Summer and Fall parties (We can do online parties for those that aren't local to me). I cna help your family earn FREE Usborne Titles. Just ask me how!

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Fun contest/giveaway

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:29:15 -0500

Over at Nature Deva's blog she is celebrating her 1 year Blogiversary! YAY!! So she wanted to give her readers a chance to win 2 cool reusable totes. So be sure to swing by, read her blog and enter the giveaway. :) Good Luck!!

You can find the giveaway here - Nature Deva's Blog

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