This happened:
Our boy is growing up!
February 14, 2013
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February 12, 2013
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Kids say… (some more)
December 11, 2012
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Kids say…
The scene: buckling Tebow into the car. He’s holding a book.
December 6, 2012
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Our family’s ram (or Fuller’s first piano recital)
If you are celebrating Advent (or more specifically, using a Jesse Tree), today may be the reading on Isaac and the Ram. It’s found in Genesis 22:1-14. It’s a retelling of a man’s faith, his willingness to sacrifice what he holds dear in order to obey God.
This is the retelling of our family ram.
In June, Damon lost his job due to company cutbacks. He was fortunate enough to receive a severance of four months, so we weren’t immediately destitute. God provided in other ways- Damon making money doing freelance work for a few companies who needed his expertise. And while he was working these extra jobs, he was also sending out his resume, meeting with people, and trying to find another job.
We hoped he would find a job quickly. But time went on and suddenly we were at the half way point in his severance. It was summer, so in some ways it just seemed like Damon was taking extra vacation days. We were busy with CFC, travel, and working on finishing our backyard fence. But a job offer wasn’t coming. And it seemed very bleak.
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August 22, 2012
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Our second grader!
It took me a little while to be motivated but here is Fuller’s second grade introduction collage:
Meet Fuller! He’s awesome!
We put the picture in his introduction slide to his teacher (due today- hence the motivation) and she reports she loves it.
Our Literature and Comprehension lessons have been covering main topics and supporting details. I had Fuller come up with 6 sentences to introduce himself (the main topics in the picture) and then in our power point slide, he added some supporting details. On Friday, in his virtual homeroom, he gets to introduce himself, and he’s pretty excited about it.
August 12, 2012
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Color keeps it organized, Astrobright keeps your attention
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Astrobrights Papers by Neenah Paper for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
School officially starts for us next Monday. And Wednesday we resume our weekly co-op with other homeschool families. We had an open house today so we could visit with the parents and the kids could find their rooms for next week.
A bulk of my time getting ready for the open house was creating "family folders" for each family. It involved lots of copying/ pasting, formating, printing, and copying of all kinds of information. And when I handed each person their folder I tended to say something along the lines of, "We usually email this stuff to you, but honestly we never know if you got it or read it. At least this way I KNOW you got it."
It took a lot of work to make the folders, but it was worth it. One of the organizing techniques I was able to use was putting different categories of infomation on different colored paper. Hopefully that helps parents keep the information straight and not let it all run together and get forgotten.
Do you do that? Put different information on different colored paper? To draw attention to it? What kind of paper do you use?
I prefer Astrobrights. I had some at home, but not with me at the copier. I was regretting not getting more. The color is eye catching and comes in so many colors (23!). And it is really a good weight of paper which is important because Astrobrights are used for so much more than printing and copying.
For instance, if you follow Astrobrights on Facebook you will find they have monthly design challenges to use their paper and Make Something Astrobright! Recently flowers were the theme, and on August 13th you can start submitting your designs for the "Get playful" theme. I'm thinking Astrobrights would work very well with all kinds of paper crafts.
Another reason to like Astrobrights is their "Give a Brighter Year" sweepstakes going on now. The winner of the sweepstakes will receive $30,000 in school supplies for their elementary schoo. And that winner (it could be you!) gets to take home a $500 gift card as well. Just head over to their "Give a Brighter Year" sweepstakes facebook page, give them a "like," click "go to app," and fill in the form.
So I guess now I need to go get more Astrobrights. If not to make something fun, to at least have some on hand next time I want to make copies for the co-op.