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Busy week!

Filed Under: Uncategorized

This has been a crazy week! Monday and Tuesday one of my husband’s old friends came to stay with us. although we had spoken on the phone a few times, we had never met in person until Monday. He’s nice, very inquisitive. On Tuesday, I guess any shyness had worn off, he began to really quiz us about homeschooling and…
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My kitchen on a good day

Filed Under: spelling, unschooling

This is the front of my dishwasher. For about the last week or so, the boys have really been into using these magnet letters to spell words and put them on the dishwasher. What started this recent attraction to spelling? No idea. Ryan actually started doing it first then Iain got in on the act. What’s cool is Ryan is…
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Check this out

Filed Under: bragging, yay

Sean, being the absolute lunatic that he is, went out and bought me a new camera. I guess the squeaky wheel really does get the grease. 🙂 It’s a Canon Rebel XTi and I totally LOVE it. This morning, I got up and took some pictures in my yard and now I might have to take up gardening, too because…
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For non-believers

Filed Under: math, unschooling

Iain came in and asked me, “Momma, how many 8’s are in 24?” For some reason I was dull-witted when he posed the question and didn’t know what he was asking. Thank goodness he’s patient because after he repeated it four or twelve times, I finally understood and said, “3.” He thought about it for a minute and said,”Ok, that’s…
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Adventures in the kitchen

Filed Under: unschooling

“Mama, what can we do today?” This is the question my darling, youngest son asked me at 8:00PM. So what did we do? We made our own playdoh! It was stinky, messy, and tons of fun. I’m still not sure the consistency was what the recipe intended but it worked out all right for us. The boys were fascinated watching…
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