Happy Halloween!
At the table last night, early dinner, dad not home yet. Mail, going through a small bragging phase that we have often gently and not so gently addressed;
“Anoif, I have all A’s. I’m an A student. You have a B right? All A’s and one B? Or is it 2?”
Let me explain, this year [...]

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(Alphawolf at the zoo, sleeping secure in the knowledge that although he is also visible on several webcams, no one is going to mess with his territory.)
Perhaps you’ve been wondering why I haven’t been blogging so much, or commenting on your blogs so often? Was it that 2nd cold of October that slowed me [...]

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(One of our pi searches.)
Trying to comprehend Pi. It isn’t pi day, but Anoif was doing some geometry that involved pi and it inspired us to explain it to Mail. Mainly because he kept trying to restate it to us in order to clarify it to himself and approximating the truth but never quite hitting [...]

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Here’s an article I bummed from Get In, Hang On. It is about how colleges are accepting homeschoolers, and their changing conceptions about homeschoolers. Encouraging and you might get some ideas how to help your teen prepare form the article based on what the admissions dudes are saying.

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Ever notice how so many grown-ups claim they love this time of year? Well, this is the theory the Hives have about it:
They say our summer vacation
Has come to an end
And that we simply have no more holiday to spend
They say no more barefoot
No playing around in the pool
They say now it’s time for us [...]

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Hey, blogs a-working now! So, nothing deep and meaningful has happened in the interval, but I thought I’d share this A.M. tale with you, of how we attempted to connect learning with life in our usual happy homeschooly way, and it reared up its connectivity and smacked us. Which happens about 20% of the time [...]

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Blog sorta broken. Snuck this one in. Fixing problem soon.

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(I is sleepin’ on yer daughter while she readz me stuff about the enviromint.)
Lori gave me a heads up about BLOG ACTION DAY…I wish I could have provided a bit of dramatic echo there. Anywho, the idea is that on October 15th, which is Blog Action Day, everybody blogs about the environment in a way [...]

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(We went to the zoo on Friday with some friends and came across a little training session.)
When Ken and I were 7 there was no such thing as video games. Or videos for that matter. Or phones without cords. The internet and blogs were probably distant daydreams in Ken’s 7-year-old brain as he lay on [...]

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(Looks good,eh? Strawberry muffin. Tasted mweh. Too bready and not quite sweet enough.)
Do you ever get bent on a weird pursuit? Right now I’m on a mission. It is to find the perfect muffin base, then bake many varieties of it. At first blush this probably sounds reasonable. After all, I’m cooped up at home [...]

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