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altarflameI feel really good about homeschool. Today Ananda got up and did this big arts and crafts thing with fake flowers and beads and fluff and so on. She did 3 more workbook pages of fractions, after we reviewed the 3 she had done yesterday. We told stories at tea time. She spent half an hour in leotard with her ballet bar, doing everything with this video she has. Located the date and day of the week on the calendar as usual. And tonight she begged (I'm so not kidding) to do two more pages of fractions before I read them Wynken, Blynken and Nod and they went to sleep. She's progressed from learning what congruent parts of an object are, to being able to recognize what is and isn't them, and on to knowing what a fraction is, and then identifying the different parts of one...now she's matching up and labelling things like 2/3 and 3/8 correctly, coloring in 1/4, that sort of thing. We've spent most of the past week on time, but I wanted to shift to fractions before we go any further into dissecting quarter hours and whatnot, so she knows what we're talking about...and of course she's sitting up on the counter adding things to the mixer and surfing around her favorite lil websites and taking care of the garden and asking me to read her the ingredients off of the bag of bread and then wanting to punch them into google and find out whether any of the ones with long names are bad for you :p And we're gradually plodding through the 3rd Narnia book. She's saving her money (mostly change I find and let her have when I clean, periodically a dollar Grant will give her some way to earn) for this sea turtle ring she saw at Claire's while we were at the outlet mall last Saturday. It's $7.50, I think she currently has about $2+ - she keeps it in this box on the top of her dresser, that Shaun gave her for Christmas.
My problem is that I don't RECORD things NEARLY enough. Her portfolio is a horrendous, sporatic lot of nothing. I'm supposed to be keeping it up on the off chance that the Superintendant ever requested it for review, and I think that if it weren't for us sometimes using workbooks and the odd week that I get into detailing our projects, it'd be a total lost cause :/ I keep their signed copy of my notice of intent to homeschool in the back and there is some handwriting stuff and scales from her recorder work in it. Blah.
You know, I googled my beloved licorice tea and found out it's contraindicated for breastfeeding. Grr! So we've been doing english breakfast tea for the past two days, mainly because I found some in the cabinet and everything else in there is powdered Lipton stuff with no taste.
Tomorrow we're going to meet Melanie (LLL co-leader) and Eli (Aaron's friend, her son) at the park, and stay until P.A.T.H. shows up. She's planning on homeschooling too and wants to check the group out. I'm giving her all the little wool diaper covers I was given that Jake's already outgrown, she's 36 weeks along. It's weird, her and the other LLL leader Kristen both cloth diaper and use wool covers, but they're totally unresearched. I had to explain to them about lanolin and where to get it, they were just throwing the things in the washer and not understanding why they didn't work. And neither of them are really willing to buy things off of the internet or spend time learning on messageboards, so they're just struggling to learn to knit and going along with these bunch of Biobottoms wraps that they found on freecycle. It's like...well...how the heck did you ever find out about wool diaper covers to begin with, then? Or freecycle? If you aren't on the internet? They're the only two real life people I've ever met who use cloth.
And Saturday Laura's sister in law Linda's kid Junior is having his first birthday party and we're invited. I think I'm going to take him all the still-in-box surplus gifted items we have from Christmas.
Jake's started going to bed earlier and sleeping later, but not napping in between. It's rather bizarre - he seriously sleeps from like 10-10:30 pm til almost noon, with only 2-3 10 minute naps in between. So I like this, in it's way, it gives me a lot of morning time with the kids and nighttime with Grant or to myself, but I'm having to kind of regroup and figure out how to get any cleaning done during the day without him napping. This place is in shambles right now, and as much as it's driving me nuts I feel like a limp noodle and am not even really willing to consider cleaning before bed. Well, other than the stupid kitchen which is my default bedtime routine.
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beebeeann hooked me up and forwarded me a brand new Graco DuoGlider someone was giving away. Our Old Faithful Graco DG from when I was having Aaron is...well...the metal is rusty, the cargo bin has MAJOR holes, the one canopy we still have is mildewing no matter what I try. The back wheels lean in towards each other, and Problem #1 is that the front seat belt no longer works. So this is a total windfall for us :) Grant went and picked it up earlier, it's PERFECT, comes with every extra in the world, like even the bug net thing. Seems right out of the box. No way could we have went and shelled out $300 for a stroller (hence Old Faithful).
To finish - G and I worked on a guest list earlier for a bit, and a list of expenses, for the wedding. I'm excited as heck about it, but really...I feel SO MUCH BETTER spiritually, it's making a huge, tremendous difference to my state of mind already. I'm not crashing and getting hysterical in the evenings 2 nights in a row now, and I've stopped eating compulsively again...And my devotions from my devotional book, yesterday and today (first days I've done them in quite awhile...) have been scarily right on again, the way it used to be. Because I want to remember it and it's right on - today's scripture was;
"A person without self-control is as defenseless as a city with broken down walls." -Proverbs 25:28
My problem is that I don't RECORD things NEARLY enough. Her portfolio is a horrendous, sporatic lot of nothing. I'm supposed to be keeping it up on the off chance that the Superintendant ever requested it for review, and I think that if it weren't for us sometimes using workbooks and the odd week that I get into detailing our projects, it'd be a total lost cause :/ I keep their signed copy of my notice of intent to homeschool in the back and there is some handwriting stuff and scales from her recorder work in it. Blah.
You know, I googled my beloved licorice tea and found out it's contraindicated for breastfeeding. Grr! So we've been doing english breakfast tea for the past two days, mainly because I found some in the cabinet and everything else in there is powdered Lipton stuff with no taste.
Tomorrow we're going to meet Melanie (LLL co-leader) and Eli (Aaron's friend, her son) at the park, and stay until P.A.T.H. shows up. She's planning on homeschooling too and wants to check the group out. I'm giving her all the little wool diaper covers I was given that Jake's already outgrown, she's 36 weeks along. It's weird, her and the other LLL leader Kristen both cloth diaper and use wool covers, but they're totally unresearched. I had to explain to them about lanolin and where to get it, they were just throwing the things in the washer and not understanding why they didn't work. And neither of them are really willing to buy things off of the internet or spend time learning on messageboards, so they're just struggling to learn to knit and going along with these bunch of Biobottoms wraps that they found on freecycle. It's like...well...how the heck did you ever find out about wool diaper covers to begin with, then? Or freecycle? If you aren't on the internet? They're the only two real life people I've ever met who use cloth.
And Saturday Laura's sister in law Linda's kid Junior is having his first birthday party and we're invited. I think I'm going to take him all the still-in-box surplus gifted items we have from Christmas.
Jake's started going to bed earlier and sleeping later, but not napping in between. It's rather bizarre - he seriously sleeps from like 10-10:30 pm til almost noon, with only 2-3 10 minute naps in between. So I like this, in it's way, it gives me a lot of morning time with the kids and nighttime with Grant or to myself, but I'm having to kind of regroup and figure out how to get any cleaning done during the day without him napping. This place is in shambles right now, and as much as it's driving me nuts I feel like a limp noodle and am not even really willing to consider cleaning before bed. Well, other than the stupid kitchen which is my default bedtime routine.
Backtracking to freecycle - my homie
beebeeann hooked me up and forwarded me a brand new Graco DuoGlider someone was giving away. Our Old Faithful Graco DG from when I was having Aaron is...well...the metal is rusty, the cargo bin has MAJOR holes, the one canopy we still have is mildewing no matter what I try. The back wheels lean in towards each other, and Problem #1 is that the front seat belt no longer works. So this is a total windfall for us :) Grant went and picked it up earlier, it's PERFECT, comes with every extra in the world, like even the bug net thing. Seems right out of the box. No way could we have went and shelled out $300 for a stroller (hence Old Faithful).To finish - G and I worked on a guest list earlier for a bit, and a list of expenses, for the wedding. I'm excited as heck about it, but really...I feel SO MUCH BETTER spiritually, it's making a huge, tremendous difference to my state of mind already. I'm not crashing and getting hysterical in the evenings 2 nights in a row now, and I've stopped eating compulsively again...And my devotions from my devotional book, yesterday and today (first days I've done them in quite awhile...) have been scarily right on again, the way it used to be. Because I want to remember it and it's right on - today's scripture was;
"A person without self-control is as defenseless as a city with broken down walls." -Proverbs 25:28
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I was looking...
Date: 2006-01-26 05:59 am (UTC)when I was looking at your website the Textile Junkie, I fell in love with the fairy dolls and actually wanted to know if you were still interested in making them, and for what prices and such. If you want to email me about it, you can get me at waiting4heaven@gmail.com
Thanks and again, I'm sorry!
Re: I was looking...
Date: 2006-01-28 06:44 am (UTC)Anyway, the fairies are typically $25 plus $3.85 shipping. The bodies are made of and stuffed with wool, though the accessories can be blends and other fibers. Do you have specific things you're looking for in one, or do you just want a fairy? I only have certain yarns here right now, but I'll see what I can do based on what you're after. It would probably be 1-2 weeks until I shipped.