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We’re on a creative streak

Filed Under: unschooling

The boys have really been creative lately and spent much of Monday doing “print screen”, pasting it into paint, cropping it down to the size they want, and then saving it to a file and printing it out. I forgot to add that they also edit their pictures and make them look the way they think they should look. It…
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Sweet Sunday

Filed Under: family, unschooling

Saturday night, we all slept downstairs because we didn’t have a kennel for Lily and the boys wanted to be as close to her as possible. So down come blankets and pillows and we have an indoor campout. Lily was a very good girl and she slept part of the night wrapped around Sean’s head and the other part wrapped…
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New Baby – Lily

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Well, we have a new addition to our family and her name is Lily. She is a German Shorthaired Pointer and we went and picked her up this afternoon. Her breeder was incredibly nice and we are so lucky to have her with us. Melvin isn’t quite sure what to make of her yet and frankly, he intimidates her a…
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Go Carts!

Filed Under: creativity, unschooling

Today the boys have been experimenting with the use of force. It began innocently enough with me using the salad spinner to wash and dry some lettuce. From there the boys decided to see how much force was needed to get their “go-carts” down the stairs. They labored for some time over getting the perfect vehicle and used a tape…
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housework, yeah that’s the ticket

Filed Under: random thoughts

Today has been spent getting caught up on household chore that I let fall to the wayside for the last couple of days. egads, I hate doing the laundry. I can get it into the washer and dryer but have a hard time getting around to folding it. Don’t know why I dread that so. Iain is so close to…
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