(The sadness of a tree forced in to human form)
Okay, so on a lighter note. I was chatting with the kids today about their history club meeting. They made an Aztec board game of some sort, wrote their names in Mayan glyphs and discussed Aztec culture. Afterwards, my son shared his thoughts on the [...]

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I’ve been perusing the news about homeschooling on the internet, as research mainly for my “serious” blog. I stumbled across a few articles about homeschooling in Germany this week. It has been illegal there for awhile now-oh, say since 1938 (the days of Hitler don’t ya know?) That is how several articles put it. Because [...]

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(A craft idea we ‘borrowed’. These are pens disguised as flowers. Use little aquarium rocks or smooth stones to hold pens upright.)
This is the first full week of all the routine activities we’ll be doing this fall. What a good week to get a summons for jury duty also. As always, this time of year [...]

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Can I just say a few words here about plastic bricks that interlock? Yes, if you are a parent of a breathing child, between the ages of 4 and 15, more frequently a boy-like one, you will definately relate. First off, every day brings new Lego revelations, like sunbeams, in to my otherwise monotonous routine. [...]

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(This one cracks me up! I swear, it is not what it looks like. He was just resting after having splashed in the water section of Kohl children’s museum.)
This morning, due to a looming deadline in a class I’m taking, I pulled a classic line out of my hat, “Guess what kids? It is autodidactic [...]

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(Tip of the day; Having a Flat Stanley handy gives you a perfect excuse to take pictures of men wearing kilts. We went to Celtic Fest yesterday.)
I am very pleased to announce that I have just started a new blog, just when I have no extra time to do so. But you know, a dream-or [...]

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(Scooterist, ant perspective)
I’ve been offline for awhile, as I had to travel to Florida. I was visiting my stepdad, who has cancer and suddenly came down with pneumonia and a mystery infection, scaring us all. The trip was spent mostly hanging around a hospital with my mom and trying to be brave. The whole weekend [...]

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(57th street beach bliss)
Yesterday I had big plans with Fi, her best friend and one of my best friends to go thrifting and out to lunch. It was a glorious sunny day in Chicago. Each girl had a budget and kept track of her own money and shopping list. I was on the lookout [...]

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Are you sick of your PDA running out of batteries and erasing your entire yearly schedule because you are simply too busy to hot sync it, or whatever they call it nowadays? Are you saddened by the ruining of your cell phone and iPod and PDA through the repeated dropping of them in to puddles [...]

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This last week has been exactly the pace I’d like life to remain at for us this Fall. We read stories in the mornings. Made crafts, attended parties, watched movies together, went to a museum, had guests over, tried to observe spacecraft crashing in to the moon, played family games, went thrifting, ate ice cream, [...]

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