This is the End of Motherhood

Really good video. Watch till the end :)

Fall Trees

Trin's tree.
She decided to use her hand print as the tree's trunk.

Mycah chose to use the pre printed tree trunk.

And Jhet, well, you can't even see his tree trunk...lol.

He cuts (with some help) out and glues his own leaves. He just loves it so much.

Fal Wreaths

Mycah's wreath

Jhet loves to cut things out!

Trinity's wreath

Fall Leaves

These are the fall leaves we made Thursday for our craft.

Blessings or a Curse?

How do you view your children? Are you always looking for the "next
thing" to get rid of them? Looking for the next camp? Or for school
to start so they can be someone else's problem? Do you view them the
way God views them, as a blessing? Or the way the world does, as a
bother? Use your time with them to train them up in the Lord and to
love them instead of wishing them away...

Our new pets

We got 4 chickens!

Baby gift quilt

This is a baby quilt I made for a friend who is pregnant with her fist baby. It has been so long since I have made a quilt! It was so much fun getting back into the swing of things.

These pics were taken outside

Springtime!

This week we made paper bird houses. From left to right, Jhet's,
Mycah's, and Trinity's.

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Daffodils

Today we made daffodils for our craft. The kids wanted to use their favorite color instead of yellow. Jhet painted a yellow center piece, but we never got around to making the rest of his flower.

Homeschool Curriculum 2010-2011

This year for Mycah (4th grade) we are using...

Apologia-Exploring Creation with Astronomy

Apologia Notebooking Journal

Bob Jones Universty-English, Writing, and Grammar

LifePac-Bible

LifePac-History and Geography

Math-U-See

This year some of the books Mycah will be reading are...

Adventures of an Arctic Missionary #1, Mik-Shrok

Crimebusters Inc. Series #1: The Case of the Dognapped Cat

Crimebusters Inc. Series #2: The Case of the Sassy Parrot

Sticky Flies, Whirling Squirrels, and Plucky Ducks

These are my People


This year for Trinity (2nd grade) we are using...

Apologia-Exploring Creation with Astronomy

Apologia-Notebooking Journal

LifePac-Bible

LifePac-Language Arts

Math-U-See

Journal

This year some of the books Trinity will be reading are..

A Question of Yams

Buttercup Hill

Haiku on Your Shoe

Looking for Home

Bees!

Here is Jhet's bee

Mycah's bee

and Trin's bee

Shamrock's

Jhet's shamrock

Mine

Bili's

Mycah's

This week we made shamrock's and talked about the story behind them
and how they related to St. Patrick.

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Cloth napkins

My latest cloth napkins.

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Crystal Snowflakes

Mycah's

Mine

Trinity's

Jhet's

This Project Thursday we made snowflakes using salt water. It was
kind of a neat process.

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Valentine's People

This week for project Thursday we made these little people out of
hearts. From left to right is mine, jhet's, mycah's, then on the
bottom is Trin's.

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Paper Mache

This is our project Thursday that we started two weeks ago. We are making paper mache snowmen. It's taking us a while to finish them. Hopefully this Thursday we'll get them finished.

Homeschool books

Well, I get excited this time of year because this is usually the time I start shopping/purchasing my school books for next year. For 1-3 grade I really like Lifepacs and how they work. But for Mycah for fourth grade I have been shopping around and I think we have finally decided on what we will be using.
First, for Language we've decided to use Bob Jones University English.
For Science we are going to be using Apologia, Exploring Creation with Astronomy. Along with that we will be using the The Notebooking Journal. I am going to get one for Trin too and just have them both do it together.
Bible, we are going to be using Lifepac.
Also, for History and Geography we will be using Lifepac.
Math was a little bit harder to decide. I was stuck between Teaching Textbooks and Math-U-See. My husband was all for Math-U-See. After researching and watching the videos from both places I decided that Math-U-See was for us. It seems like the set up for Teaching Textbooks is better for older students. I was very impressed with the video about Math-U-See and the way for teaching and understanding it. I can't wait to try it!

So, what are you going to be using?

So...

I am finishing up my cloth napkins for the napkin swap and I have fabric and a pattern for a quilt that I'm gonna be working on. It's the kind that you quilt as you go. It will be my first time trying it so we will see how it goes. I'm very excited about it!

Penguins

Today we made last weeks project Thursday. We're a little behind...
Lol.

The green one is Jhet's. The pink one Trin's and the blue one Mycah's.

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Nativity scenes

Today we did our project Thursday early. Mycah and Trin made nativity
scenes. They were really big but we made it work. The top one is
Trin's and the bottom is Mycah's.
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