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Marble Painting and School Under the Kitchen Table

If you haven't visited this website you MUST. This is one creative and fun homeschool mom. I think I read everything she's ever written last night and promised to steal ALL her ideas. The one I stole for today was MARBLE PAINTING. Her blog about it can be found here as well as instructions.

Here's our masterpieces…

Although I am suffering the worst head cold in the world we had a fun day. School today was really a blast. My oldest made a pillow last night so of course the other two had to make one today (I'll post those pics later). Off to Stuffmart we went for more material. And I bought felt. See why here at Felt Mama's website. Stuffmart had a lot marked down to 10cents/sheet. I'm stealing another of Jene's projects for tomorrow.

Oh….before I forget. Stuffmart has all their children's gloves and hats marked down to $2. I bought for next year. If you happen to live in an area that's always cold so they NEVER put anything on sale email me the size of your kids and I'll go get them for you and mail them. You can send a check. This is too good a deal to pass up. Most of the gloves I bought were waterproof and normally $7.

Back to today….
Here's my “School Under the Kitchen Table” segment of the morning…..

It's amazing what the world looks like on your tummy in the middle of the kitchen floor.

Happy American Idol day to all….
Julie

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Posted: March 21, 2006 by Julie |Category: Happenings | Tags:

We're BACK…..

The wonderful Bellsouth man showed up today to restore our DSL. Yea. Now I've got to go and figure out how to reset my password. Fun. Fun.

Here's baby girl digging into my birthday cake. Yum Yum Chocolate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted: March 20, 2006 by Julie |Category: Other Happenings | Tags:

Each child seperately

I think there are decisions we make for our families that apply for each member in the family….certain behavior has certain consequences, maybe traditions like “we always have dinner together.” But then there are the decisions we make based upon each child, their makeup and personality as well as how that fits into the family as a whole.

Last year I know God wanted #1 son at Montessori school. And I'm also sure God had many reasons. Some I will never know. As this school year draws to a close I continue to feel as if God is preparing me and telling me He wants my son at home next year. Some of the struggle he's had with school I wonder if it's more about school struggling with him.

My son loves to sing. God has put a song in his heart since he was knee high to a grasshopper (if you can't tell what part of the country I live in from that statement you need a geography/lingo lesson). He loves to sing. He'll sing anything. He's 7 and still likes Barney because of all the singing in it.

I don't think the school enjoys hearing my son sing the way I do. I mean, he is MY son. And I'm the one who knows God put that song into his heart. I love that about him. Yes, he can't sing everywhere and there are times singing is inappropriate BUT he can sing most everywhere. Maybe if more of us sang EVERYWHERE we wouldn't encounter so many crabby people.

Yep, time to nurture his God Given sweet little personality at home. Time to bring him back into the fold. I miss him.

So when I begin to say “What was I thinking??” next year as I'm struggling through homeschooling three rambunctious boys and a toddling little sister…..remind me of this post, will ya??

IN HIM
julie (update on babygirl….still not walking)

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Posted: March 16, 2006 by Julie |Category: Homeschooling | Tags:

Photos

My middle son and my pastor’s daughter. Just how am I going to keep this one from dating until he’s 30?

My oldest is now interested in bike ramps. Thankfully, they are not too big yet.

Today my hubbie left. I stayed home from bible study and got some much needed rest. I had the chance to get a baby sitter so I opted for sleep instead of spiritual nourishment. Baby girl, who’s leg is still will not support her walking, has been a little pain the last few days. She played with the baby sitter and I slept. When the “mommy factor” is out of the picture she is quite content. Add mommy and it all goes south.

I couldn’t stomach cooking tonight so we all went out to eat. Baby girl screamed whenever she wasn’t in my lap but we managed to make it through dinner. AND someone else had to clean up!!!

Have a good night.
Julie

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Posted: March 15, 2006 by Julie |Category: Happenings | Tags:

Spiderman lives (in southeast US)

Spiderman lives!!!!

Have you seen him flying around your neighborhood????
If you see him, send him home. Lunch is ready.

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Posted: March 14, 2006 by Julie |Category: Happenings | Tags:

Baby Girl

For all of you who have asked BABY GIRL is a little better today but still will not walk. She's tried a crawling/leg dragging thing but seems to still be hurting quite a bit. The mommy factor is definitely in play. I can't leave her or put her down and she must constantly be touching me. Please continue to pray for her quick healing.

On a lighter note my hubbie and I sent friends of ours for an overnight date. It was a thank you for all they do for us. So we put them up in this nice hotel, kept the kids and all that jazz. Come to find out the hotel where they stayed has paper thin walls and the guys next door seemed to be having an all night “you know what”. Can you imagine? How embarrassing!

Oh well. It's the thought that counts, huh?
Julie

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Posted: March 14, 2006 by Julie |Category: Happenings | Tags:

One doozie of a day

It's Sunday. Thank the good Lord my hubbie is home. The night ended with a trip to the ER for baby girl. She fell today and hurt her leg and will not stand on it. She is so pitiful. It's swollen and nicely discolored. Unsure whether or not it was broken we finally took her for x-rays about 8pm (she fell around 4 this afternoon). My husband is such a dear. He knows I hate the ER and so he “took a hit for the team” as he calls it and sat there with her tonight. It actually seemed like a pretty quick trip. They don't think it's broken but will have the radiologist look at it in the morning. They sent her home with some pain medicine so I hope she sleeps well.
Anyone know how to keep a 2 year old still? Tomorrow should be interesting!!

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Posted: March 12, 2006 by Julie |Category: Happenings | Tags:

Today's Field Trip and Nature Hike

Today we visited the World of Energy at the Oconee Nuclear Plant. I learned a lot whether my kids did or not. I love the homeschool outings where there are 3 moms and 12 kids. Oh, the looks we get!!! Here are some pictures from today….

This is how thick the wall are that surround the containment building of the nuclear reactor.

The mama toad we found. We think she was getting ready to lay eggs. We played for a while in the cold mountain stream.

This one is for Julie Persons!!!!! You go Julie!!

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Posted: March 10, 2006 by Julie |Category: Happenings | Tags:

Where else but at home?

When will I ever learn to blog in Word and copy to the New Entry form???

Ok…I'm going to try this again.

Where ELSE but at home…
This week we've been studying the human body. Tuesday we talked about skeletons. We learned there are 206 bones in the human body and over 300 when we were born and 26 bones in our hands. Then we drew our hands and feet on a sheet of craft paper and colored our skeletons. Here's a look…

Then I had to laugh as baby girl added her personality to into our artwork. Where else but homeschool can a girl color herself while sitting on top of the kitchen table? I'd say we accomplished art, gymnastics and science all in the same moment! What do you think?

(don't you love sweet baby feet?????)

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Posted: March 9, 2006 by Julie |Category: Homeschooling | Tags:

Things that make life easier

Every once in a while you stumble onto an idea that really makes life easier. Like OreoSouza’s Cleaning Technique
that she got from Indianamom.

Well, here is ours.

My husband bought this “nifty” soap and shampoo dispenser at Home Depot the other day for $9 and some change. He loves gadgets and this one works great for us. Now the boys can not dump the entire bottle of body wash in the tub to make bubbles! OOPS (or so they say).

The buttons are easy to push and “just the right amount” of soap comes out. I have two different flavors in each side. Don’t tell them, they think it’s actually shampoo and soap. We’re still at the age we use that all over body wash that doesn’t cause tears. I think Suave’s only 1.00.

Of course since the kiddos had something in their shower we had to too. This one was about $20something. Not only does my husband love this nifty little dispenser but it helps him to save on the amount of shampoo he uses. Just two squirts (so I’m told) and he’s good.