Let them know your feelings on CAP AND TRADE, and the UN Treaty of the Child. Cap and trade is being voted on today.
If you don't call and talk to your rep.'s office they can't vote to represent you.
Educate yourself and call....now...
Friday, June 26, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
The Circle deadline is tomorrow...
and I called and got the information on how to transfer.
This may not seem significant to you, but I have been with Circle since Maddy was a kindergartener. There is comfort and safety and loyalty all mixed up in my feelings towards Circle.
And then there is my wallet... and Circle is VERY expensive. It is 9 times more expensive than the other umbrella school I am looking at and they offer the same services I would be obtaining from Circle...
I really like HOUSE, the Circle co-op, and want Olivia to attend again, so I think we are going to take this year off, and then enroll Liv with Circle next year so she may go to co-op and Maddy can stay with Crossroads...
Why do I not feel great about saving all this money???
Circle has done a wonderful job of earning loyalty and making you feel like a family..
I'm sorry Linda ;)
This may not seem significant to you, but I have been with Circle since Maddy was a kindergartener. There is comfort and safety and loyalty all mixed up in my feelings towards Circle.
And then there is my wallet... and Circle is VERY expensive. It is 9 times more expensive than the other umbrella school I am looking at and they offer the same services I would be obtaining from Circle...
I really like HOUSE, the Circle co-op, and want Olivia to attend again, so I think we are going to take this year off, and then enroll Liv with Circle next year so she may go to co-op and Maddy can stay with Crossroads...
Why do I not feel great about saving all this money???
Circle has done a wonderful job of earning loyalty and making you feel like a family..
I'm sorry Linda ;)
I have decided to design my own homeschool curriculum...
after 5 years of using sonlight I feel I have a gift for putting together curriculum pretty well.
So I have decided to use Dr Quinn Medicine Woman as a spine to our American History study.
You may laugh or think I have really lost it and have been at the bar all night but let me just tell you in the season and a half we have watched we have touched on topics of:
* Woman's suffrage
* The Civil War
* Slavery
* racism
* The gold rush
* mining
* Union and big labor
* Indian relations
* General Custer
* Cheyenne Indians, Dog soldiers, & their culture
* The railroad
* The Flu epidemic
* Cattle drives
* KKK
* The orphan train
* western justice
** and the list goes on and on....
These are all topics we have and are covering in our actual "curriculum". And they have put a real face on the struggles and what life may have looked like in that period. Of course with a smokin hot mountain man named Sully to guide poor Dr Quinn and kiss her when she needed it ;)
This series has opened up alot of dialogue about this time period that I am sure we would never have discussed. The KKK episode was hard to watch and made me feel such anger and injustice. I know about racism but Maddy had not ever witnessed it in a dramatic form. It is one thing to read about it, but quite another to have it layed out in one of your favorite series.
It helps that Maddy loves it and that she will finish all school work and chores diligently so she can watch it every night. I love when the kids have currency!!
Well look at convention next year for my booth, Homeschooling with the Quinn method
So I have decided to use Dr Quinn Medicine Woman as a spine to our American History study.
You may laugh or think I have really lost it and have been at the bar all night but let me just tell you in the season and a half we have watched we have touched on topics of:
* Woman's suffrage
* The Civil War
* Slavery
* racism
* The gold rush
* mining
* Union and big labor
* Indian relations
* General Custer
* Cheyenne Indians, Dog soldiers, & their culture
* The railroad
* The Flu epidemic
* Cattle drives
* KKK
* The orphan train
* western justice
** and the list goes on and on....
These are all topics we have and are covering in our actual "curriculum". And they have put a real face on the struggles and what life may have looked like in that period. Of course with a smokin hot mountain man named Sully to guide poor Dr Quinn and kiss her when she needed it ;)
This series has opened up alot of dialogue about this time period that I am sure we would never have discussed. The KKK episode was hard to watch and made me feel such anger and injustice. I know about racism but Maddy had not ever witnessed it in a dramatic form. It is one thing to read about it, but quite another to have it layed out in one of your favorite series.
It helps that Maddy loves it and that she will finish all school work and chores diligently so she can watch it every night. I love when the kids have currency!!
Well look at convention next year for my booth, Homeschooling with the Quinn method
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
A Ethan Funny
Ethan has the cutest way of asking about himself right now. He refers to himself as "me". So he will say is...me sick, is me going, where was me at... I know I should correct him but it is so darn sweet....
My sweet boy has also learned how to lie. I noticed a sharpie marker drawing on my wall in my bedrooom.
Me: Ethan did you do this?
Ethan: As sweet and innocent as can be he said no, Livia did it..
Me: I called Liv in and asked her, "did you do this?"
Liv: No, she is rather insulted I would think a 6 year old would color on the wall
Me: Ethan did you do this tell me the truth...
Ethan: wide eyed and still proclaiming innocense, "No, Maddy did it"
Maddy please come in here...
Maddy: I did NOT do that, Ethan did. Of course I know he did it!!
Me: Ethan, it is wrong to tell mommy stories, did you color on mommies wall?? I am giving him my most serious mommy stare down. You know the one that can discern all wrong doing...He is starting to cave under the stare, but he gets an epiphany....He looks up with his big eyes getting wider and whispers... "the aliens did it................."
Me:biting the inside of my cheeks to contain the laughter I feel coming...Maddy and Liv are snickering.. He is still looking at me innocently trying to judge if I might be ok with the alien answer...it got pretty boring after that.. some talking, a spanking and some more talking...about how aliens shouldn't lie to their all knowing mothers...
My sweet boy has also learned how to lie. I noticed a sharpie marker drawing on my wall in my bedrooom.
Me: Ethan did you do this?
Ethan: As sweet and innocent as can be he said no, Livia did it..
Me: I called Liv in and asked her, "did you do this?"
Liv: No, she is rather insulted I would think a 6 year old would color on the wall
Me: Ethan did you do this tell me the truth...
Ethan: wide eyed and still proclaiming innocense, "No, Maddy did it"
Maddy please come in here...
Maddy: I did NOT do that, Ethan did. Of course I know he did it!!
Me: Ethan, it is wrong to tell mommy stories, did you color on mommies wall?? I am giving him my most serious mommy stare down. You know the one that can discern all wrong doing...He is starting to cave under the stare, but he gets an epiphany....He looks up with his big eyes getting wider and whispers... "the aliens did it................."
Me:biting the inside of my cheeks to contain the laughter I feel coming...Maddy and Liv are snickering.. He is still looking at me innocently trying to judge if I might be ok with the alien answer...it got pretty boring after that.. some talking, a spanking and some more talking...about how aliens shouldn't lie to their all knowing mothers...
Licking Toliets at Walmart....
will give you the plague, so that must have been what my kids have been doing....
Liv is better, Ethan is in the midst of the croup, and Maddy came home from VBS yesterday throwing up?????????????????
Ay,yi,yiiii you can find me down at the bar if anyone is looking!!!
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
SICK
How yucky is it to be sick in the midst of summer.
Liv has the croup. Last Sunday she started in with blood shot eyes, fever, and a sore throat. Then a few days later she had a barking cough and felt like she couldn't get enough air. Wednesday we saw Dr. C who said "croup" and started her on steroids and respiratory treatments. Yesterday she seemed much improved and the fever was gone. Last night she woke up again coughing , and a fever and she has proceeded to sleep on the couch all day today...
Ethan is trying to decide if he is sick. He had a fever and a sore throat this morning, but after some advil he has played as usual all day.
So pretty much it will go like this.. Liv will get better over the weekend and then Ethan will be sick all next week so I can miss 2 full weeks of a good night sleep and have to wash every blanket and sheet in the whole house, again....
The joys of motherhood..
My cousin Amelia is down and staying with my mom. They are playing at the beach today.
Well that pretty much sums up our week. I am still schooling Maddy and we are on track, and this weekend I think we are hunkering down and watching the next 3 Dr. Quinn discs.
Liv has the croup. Last Sunday she started in with blood shot eyes, fever, and a sore throat. Then a few days later she had a barking cough and felt like she couldn't get enough air. Wednesday we saw Dr. C who said "croup" and started her on steroids and respiratory treatments. Yesterday she seemed much improved and the fever was gone. Last night she woke up again coughing , and a fever and she has proceeded to sleep on the couch all day today...
Ethan is trying to decide if he is sick. He had a fever and a sore throat this morning, but after some advil he has played as usual all day.
So pretty much it will go like this.. Liv will get better over the weekend and then Ethan will be sick all next week so I can miss 2 full weeks of a good night sleep and have to wash every blanket and sheet in the whole house, again....
The joys of motherhood..
My cousin Amelia is down and staying with my mom. They are playing at the beach today.
Well that pretty much sums up our week. I am still schooling Maddy and we are on track, and this weekend I think we are hunkering down and watching the next 3 Dr. Quinn discs.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Summer
Summer is here and we are as busy as ever. I love the lazy pace of summer, even as busy as we are, it still feels like "summer".
* the first week of June we attended the methodist VBS it was themed "Paul in Rome." This is one of my favorite VBS's. They have dinner for the family and then the kids go to their class. Maddy attended Mega Sports camp and learned the "Hoedown Throwdown."
* We are schooling full time in the afternoons after VBS and before swim team. Olivia started Sonlight Core 1 and Maddy has 10 weeks left of Sonlight Core 4. We are taking a break in October for 2 weeks and then 6 weeks off in November & December. We are currently reading Charlottes Web with Liv and The Great Turkey Walk & The Terrible Wave with Maddy.
* We are in week 4 of no TV. It has been one of the best things I could have done from a school standpoint. I no longer fight with the TV to keep their attention. And once the lure is gone, there is so much more time freed up. We do have netflix and Dr Quinn Medicine woman has been our family treat in the evenings. I will be so sad when season 6 comes to an end....
* Liv has the croup so I am home with her giving breathing treatments for the rest of the week.
* My garden is in it's final death gasp... the heat and rain have been too much for her. When it is finished I will dig and grade up the whole thing and put down 8-10 square foot gardening boxes.
* and what is on my bedstand... The backyard Homestead by Carleen Madigan.
* I'm contemplating getting in the camper and meeting up with the Humston's...
* And in general just enjoying summer....
* the first week of June we attended the methodist VBS it was themed "Paul in Rome." This is one of my favorite VBS's. They have dinner for the family and then the kids go to their class. Maddy attended Mega Sports camp and learned the "Hoedown Throwdown."
* We are schooling full time in the afternoons after VBS and before swim team. Olivia started Sonlight Core 1 and Maddy has 10 weeks left of Sonlight Core 4. We are taking a break in October for 2 weeks and then 6 weeks off in November & December. We are currently reading Charlottes Web with Liv and The Great Turkey Walk & The Terrible Wave with Maddy.
* We are in week 4 of no TV. It has been one of the best things I could have done from a school standpoint. I no longer fight with the TV to keep their attention. And once the lure is gone, there is so much more time freed up. We do have netflix and Dr Quinn Medicine woman has been our family treat in the evenings. I will be so sad when season 6 comes to an end....
* Liv has the croup so I am home with her giving breathing treatments for the rest of the week.
* My garden is in it's final death gasp... the heat and rain have been too much for her. When it is finished I will dig and grade up the whole thing and put down 8-10 square foot gardening boxes.
* and what is on my bedstand... The backyard Homestead by Carleen Madigan.
* I'm contemplating getting in the camper and meeting up with the Humston's...
* And in general just enjoying summer....
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