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This past weekend I had the rare opportunity to swim in an indoor/outdoor pool at Pheasant Run while feeling my hair freeze. As if that weren’t enough, I was attending the 11th Annual In-Home Conference with a hundred or more of my best friends. We’ve been going for years and have [...]

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Resources. Have you ever wanted to recall who directed a film or when it came out so you went to the Internet Movie database and got sucked in to the vortex of information? I have. It is a similar feeling to looking upon a word in the dictionary but then stumbling across the word mooncalf [...]

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Lori created a Super Fun Way back Images meme and then proceeded to steal all of my memories of being 9 for her own blogging purposes. Honestly, about the only way my post would differ is that my favorite look might include feathered bangs, how shall I say?…a bit more pronounced than Molly Ringwalds.
So, [...]

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(The local homeschooling group ran a fun Olympic day this week. Here are our highlights. The throwing of the doves and the 50 yard dash. Too bad I didn’t take a picture of the awesome food.)
Quote of the day:
“The main problem we face comes with parents telling us their children are being homeschooled and yet [...]

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(Gene and Jude’s. All they sell is hot dogs and homemade fries. The line snakes out the door most days. They can afford to be bossy.)
Narry a week goes by without my 7-year-old boy asking “When will it be backwards day?” Sometimes he switches it out and calls it opposite day. The appeal is strong. [...]

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(3 homeschooled children welcoming back the academic year with a tradition of fun. This is the first year we went to Great America’s Homeschool Day, and it will definitely be on the list from now on!)
The good news is, many homeschoolers in the Chicago region celebrate the fall and start of the public school sessions [...]

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(some of what I was up to when not accessing computer)
It is summer, and every once in awhile, as I’m putting on flip-flops or slicing up a melon, I think about the confusing jumble that is the looming fall season. Will the boy finally take music lessons this year? When will I take that last [...]

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(Defeating gravity one day at a time.)
The only problem I have with the majority homeschooling/unschooling articles I’ve read in the past year is that they tend to follow a predictable format. They are introductory articles, taking the approach that they just want you to wrap your head around the idea of homeschooling. This is reasonable [...]

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A cell phone is a handy thing. I remember when my Dad got a “car phone” in the 80’s and it was so big it took up 1/3 of the front seat. It took me a few decades, but after we started homeschooling, which meant tons of travel to and fro in various forms of [...]

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Okay, wow. Now it is time to go vote for your favorite blogs over at Homeschool Blog Awards. I believe you can only vote once per category, so pick your faves carefully. I am pleased to announce that I have been nominated in two categories for Relaxed Homeskool, for Best Homeschool Mom Blog and also [...]

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