tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50621516189584954102024-03-12T18:52:21.236-07:00Lighting the Fire:: learning together each day
:: lighting the fire of life-long discovery
:: listening for God's plan
:: nurturing our souls
:: enjoying the blessings of our familyJillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11293137741430232664noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062151618958495410.post-65944868920527086032013-11-07T16:26:00.003-08:002013-11-07T16:26:27.276-08:00Chemistry class!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Such a mysterious and fascinating place.</div>
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I have always wanted to see what happens here and after living in Pasadena for 15 years, I finally got the chance.</div>
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Our homeschool group from CA church went together to tour the </div>
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We were able to observe the scientists assembling parts for a satellite that would launch in 2014.</div>
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We had a closeup view of the Mars Curiosity Rover built right here at JPL and launched in 2011.</div>
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There is something so sweet and special about hitting the road with just one child in tow. It's like a date night with the hubby. You get to sit across, hold hands and finish whole conversations with someone you love dearly. </div>
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Everett was the chosen child, mainly because as his golden 9th birthday surprise, he got to spend a weekend with his godparents in Atlanta, GA.</div>
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Fortunately, the Sandel kids are homeschooled as well so we didn't miss a beat. We took our studies on the road and made up the fun as we went. Puppet shows daily, a lego class, and a birthday party for Jilly- all in one weekend. </div>
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He ride in style in our convertible Mustang.</div>
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My bestie, Beverly !</div>
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School with friends.</div>
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Jilly, Joey and Everett have fun with clay on a beautiful fall day.</div>
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Class for 2013-2104</div>
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I am all odd grades this year in our homeschool. </div>
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7th, 5th, 3rd, and adding this year 1st grade!</div>
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I wouldn't have predicted this turn of events but our youngest little man is making his way home this year for 1st grade after 1 year in the local public school. He is ready for action and a surprising amount of enthusiasm and cooperation considering what I was dealing with last year at this time. What a difference a year can make. Praise the Lord for many answered prayers and for the gift of homeschooling our children.</div>
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A little help from big sis on those sight words.</div>
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I don't know who needs it more, me as the teacher or my 1st grader!</div>
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That's right folks, I have replaced all the cards (except the character cards, of course) in our game with word cards (see above) to help my emerging reader get more exposure.</div>
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I also had an idea using Pairs in Pears /Scrabble/ Bananagram tiles. Lay out letter tiles in a tall row- you need all the vowels and most of the consonants (except q,z,j,k) Sight word cards (what, why, how, be, me, see, go, have) are drawn, read out loud and the player spells out the letters in the word until you have landed on the last tile in your row. We use lego people to move along the row of tiles. When you land on the last letter in your row, you win that round. We move three tiles to the bottom of the row after each round. </div>
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I had to brainstorm a bit to come up with a plan for the fabulous foursome this summer. We have plenty of travel visiting family, beach days, a few camps and overnights to keep us busy. However, for some reason, my four are particularly susceptible to down time ( read screen time) when we are home relaxing for a few hours in between all the going, going, going. I have a problem with this when there are four of them to play with each other, we have countless toys, games and books, a pool in the backyard, bikes in the garage, and a basketball court across the street. I know!!!</div>
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So, back to my plan. I just couldn't battle the question, " Mom, can I play on the computer? " for the whole summer.</div>
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My thoughts were that if the children had these minimal items performed each day, it would create healthy habits, get them to be conscience of how long chores actually take, have control over their earnings and give them choices on how to spend their tickets.</div>
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It's been freeing for me to not have to monitor the free screens and they are responding beautifully to the lesson of time management and choices. It's a real dilemma to them to have to choose to pay for the screen time ( a temporary fix) or save for the bigger reward. </div>
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Explosions are always a hit!</div>
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Bottle + tissue paper + duct tape = the general shape of a volcano</div>
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water + flour = easy paper maiche for terrain</div>
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Paint + black sharpie = Muana Loa volcano on Hawaii</div>
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Baking soda + vinegar + red dye = lava death for lego tourists.</div>
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Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11293137741430232664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062151618958495410.post-4530270963877461282013-05-02T13:10:00.001-07:002013-05-02T13:10:18.375-07:00Science: plant dissection, root study<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Plant dissection: perfect spring project</div>
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Sadly I don't have a blooming flowers in our garden/yard (yet) so we borrowed some from our neighbors abundant camellia bushes. Mostly just the ones that had already fallen to the ground ;-)</div>
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The kids loved taking each piece off the stem, taping it to the paper and labeling it. We also used food dye to color flowers and demonstrate the vascular system in these plants. The flower tips were blue in a few hours. The celery took more time- 6 -12 hours before we saw color on the leaves.</div>
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Our local library had a drawing contest in the month of April. We entered three pieces of artwork and two were winners! Harper and Everett received 2nd and 3rd place and some goodies to go along with the joy. </div>
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On a related note, we've been studying the French Revolution and Harper drew this for her history notebook to remember the details.</div>
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How much do I love our library? So much! Not only do the librarians know my kids by name but they invite the homeschoolers for special art and activities. </div>
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This is a mixed media artist who came by to help the students create some displays for the library's art month in March. They used everything under the sun starting with old books that were recycled, painted, torn, and glued upon. The kids thought it was awesome that nothing was off limits. Rip that book, douse it in feathers, add some paint splatters - yep!</div>
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Mackenzie was getting the hang of things.</div>
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Is there anything more exciting to study than the American Revolution? I certainly love it and I love teaching it, so many great characters and too many biographies to possibly read in one unit. MFW provides some great reads but I thought I would offer up a few of my choice additions and supplements.</div>
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I found these History Pockets (pics 2,3,4) to make - they help to sort things out and give a sequence to events leading up to and during the Revolution.</div>
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George Washington's World is a brilliant book and I copy the black and white people pages and let the kids color all the characters while I read the assigned pages.</div>
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Benjamin Franklin - Live Wire - from the Heroes of History collection along with the Ben and Me novel written from the mouse, Amos' point of view.</div>
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Famous Figures of the American Revolution - color, cutout and put together these movable figures to make history come 'alive'</div>
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Each child made a history pocket for the pages that we will add week to week. </div>
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We starting reading 'The Hobbit' in November in anticipation of the movie coming at Christmas time.</div>
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The book is fantastic, a classic, a masterpiece in setting up the 3 following books, it's just also really wordy for their age. Tolkien's descriptions are sometimes paragraphs long about scenery. I love it, they tend to start moving around so....... we now color while we listen. It's great, no talking, lots of concentrating and sometimes a snack before bed.</div>
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It's an LCD writer that works well for math work, spelling words, and vocabulary lists, saving us lots of scratch paper.</div>
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Each student has one and they use them everyday. </div>
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Pacheesi ( the 'r' was added later) was invented in India and apparently the ruler used to spend hours playing a life size version of the game with his concubines as pawns. </div>
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We have a beautiful Liquid Amber tree in our front year and it's leaves put on a dazzling display every Fall - around Thanksgiving. We get 5 different colors on one tree and then.......they all fall off.</div>
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Kibru wanted a sample of each color and then made a collage to share with his class.</div>
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We love a good field trip and this one was made for our study of early colonial times. We learned about all the chores that had to done on a farm. We made some music with a washboard, spoons, and a metal triangle. The kids had lessons in panning for gold, archery, cider -pressing, apple tree farming, etc.</div>
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The big boys, Jack, Everett, and Kibru donning aprons for some old- fashioned farm chores.</div>
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Finally, picking some ripe ones to take home.</div>
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I ordered the owl pellets <a href="http://www.pelletsinc.com/">here</a> when we started our lessons on birds in the animal kingdom.<br />
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Patience and a gentle hand are the keys to success here. It took tiny tweezers to get all the hair and yuck off the skeletons but we discovered a lot about what owls consume. We also dissected a a perch fish. We had to do this one outside because the fish were preserved and oh so stinky! The kids were able to identify the swim bladder, gills, stomach, intestines and even took apart the fish eyes.........Brave scientists.<br />
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First, a game for the U8 boys team, the Red Dragons, where Kibru is still miffed that he can't play goalie.</div>
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Later in the day, Harper (U10) suits up and gets to play with her team, the IceBreakers. </div>
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You heard me, it's the LA County Fair. It's not all star sightings and high heels here folks. We have a fair and farm animals to prove it. </div>
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The BIG Red Barn is where all the baby animals are held. </div>
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Baby pigs clamoring for a drink and baby goats only a week old held the attention of my crew. Precious. </div>
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Here they are with their Nana and Papa.</div>
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Here little piggy!</div>
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Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11293137741430232664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062151618958495410.post-14647122038633555522012-10-18T13:02:00.003-07:002012-10-18T13:02:52.450-07:00The King of Bling - Charles IIWe are having way too much fun studying the 17th century. America being colonized at a rapid fire pace, English monarchs beheaded, Puritan rule, and now Charles II - the King of Bling has come to power in the middle of the 1600's. <br />
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Here's a little ditty we found that is being hummed all around the house this week:<br />
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Gotta love the rapping King!<br />
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:: My students enjoyed the age of exploration - we played a game called <u>Explorers</u> by Lakeshore to drive home the names and places.<br />
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:: I had to find a way to help us all with memorization, so I turned to APPS for the Ipad. I love technology when I can find a great tool for school. It's called <a href="http://fighterverses.com/product/iphone-ipad-app/">FighterVerse</a> and it allows me to enter the verses that we need to study and then the App produces quizzes where words are left out and the kids have to come up with the correct answer. We have used it every day and found it to be essential to our memorization of the book of James.<br />
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::We watched the movie <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Desperate-Crossing-Untold-Story-Mayflower/dp/B000JU7JE6">"Desperate Crossing"</a> about the Mayflower crossing the Atlantic to settle at Plymouth.<br />
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:: We made wigwams and LEGO replicas of Jamestown and Salem Village.<br />
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<br />Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11293137741430232664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062151618958495410.post-27760403171557336232012-08-27T11:47:00.002-07:002012-08-27T11:47:55.699-07:00Final Curriculum for the 2012-2013 school year.I finally got around to flagging/circling/highlighting all the materials in the myriad of catalogs I have collected and ORDERED the curriculum and supplements for this year. We can't wait to get started!<br />
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<a href="http://www.mfwbooks.com/">MFW Exploration to the 1850's </a>will be our core for History, Bible, Mapwork, Science, & Read-Aloud Literature<br />
Math is Abeka Levels 2, 4 and 6th grade<br />
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Flashcards for History- Explorers Homeschool Kit with CD<br />
CD for Geography Songs<br />
<a href="http://www.christianbook.com/prima-latina-leigh-lowe/pd/836001?item_code=WW&netp_id=306383&event=PPCSRC&view=details#CURR">Prima Latina </a>for 2-6th graders Kit and DVD lessons<br />
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I know, I know,......it's not all about the resources. I also go for a bit of inspiration and to see what God has for me in the coming year with my students. I pray about attending and hearing who I need to hear and finding what I need. By His grace, I was able to hear <a href="http://www.gracefamilybaptist.net/voddie-baucham-ministries/vbm-about/">Voddie Baucham</a> again and the hilarious and incomparable <a href="http://www.balancingthesword.com/homeschool/speakers/speaker_detail.asp?ID=2579">Jessica Hulcy</a> . Her personal stories and words of wisdom on why we need to stay the course of homeschooling were music to my ears. After 6 years, I get the feeling I am repeating myself alot!<br />
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I did spend about 4 hours in the exhibit hall and found some great supplements; workbooks, games, online programs and readers to go along with the MFW Exploration to the 1850's curriculum. Great day all around!<br />
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I bought<br />
<a href="http://www.abeka.com/HomeSchool/Default.aspx">ABeka</a> Math again - levels 6, 4,2<br />
Abeka Grammar for Ev @ level 2<br />
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Read alouds from Heroes of History by Janet and Geoff Benge:<br />
William Penn<br />
Benjamin Franklin<br />
Capt John Smith<br />
and George Washington - True Patriot<br />
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The Light and the Glory - Book One 1492-1787<br />
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Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes<br />
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Mr. Pipes and the The British Hymn Makers<br />
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I got a few games: Monumental, Mancala, 10 days in the USA and Ticket to Ride Europe ( to accompany our Ticket to Ride - NAmerica!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">WISH LIST::</span><br />
1 ) I am still considering a Latin program - I am assessing the Latin Road to English Grammar and Latina Christiana I and II.<br />
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2) IEW writing class - Fairy Tales, Myths and Fables and Narnia - I am still evaluating the teaching available to me and the appropriate level for M and H.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">REALITY: </span>Kibru will be attending the local PUSD Kindergarten @ Norma Coombs - (Go Lions) in the Fall after having such great success at preschool. The easy answer is that K has so much to catch up on with language and reading but there are so many reasons why this was a hard decision and why I think that it will be to his benefit.<br />
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A year (or more like 2 years) of books that we have used for MFW Creation the Greeks and Rome to the Reformation. Both were incredibly rich and loved by my students. I am planning on loaning this to a friend in the Fall so I am keeping it handy and altogether. I usually keep the read-alouds out and add them to our bookshelves.</div>
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I really am excited about doing this curriculum again in a few years when my younger ones are ready for it again at a higher level ( 6th, and 8th)</div>
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goodnight friends, Romans, countrymen.</div>
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Morning Doves have roosted in my pergola beams just outside our back door.<br />
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Hummingbirds too!<br />
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They are a marvel! This is our hummingbird's nest taken at close range. It's about the size of a hen's egg and it has two tiny eggs inside too!<br />
The kids are tracking the birds and watching the momma and daddy come and go with food for the hatchlings.<br />
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It's like having an aviary in our backyard.<br />
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Two eggs turned into two babies and then we went to camp for a week and they were gone. Flew the coop! The nest is still there but the birds are bye-bye. </div>
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<br />Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11293137741430232664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062151618958495410.post-88977280737683002772012-06-13T19:57:00.005-07:002012-06-13T20:03:19.216-07:00Building Project - watch out PINTEREST<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
SO my parents from IL came to visit. </div>
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These are hard-working, project-oriented, handy, crafty, and generous folk, my parents.</div>
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Now, just FYI, I live in southern CA so this IS a practical addition to our back patio with only a handful of rain days in a year. I suppose a tarp or rain/snow cover would be the best bet for cooler climates. It's shady under our pergola too, so there is little direct light or dust/debris ( because we have solar panels up there...more on that later)</div>
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Had a crazy dream</div>
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of a bed in my backyard</div>
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hanging swinging soft</div>
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( that was a Haiku!)</div>
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This is my mom and I staining the frame that my dad built. He used treated redwood lumber and built it to fit (with room) a twin mattress</div>
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We used MINWAX in black to stain it and it matched the pergola perfectly.</div>
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Mackenzie (10) helped with this part.</div>
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My Dad, did I mention that he was patient - VERY patient! He taught all the kids how to drill holes and screw in the boards for the backrest.</div>
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I was the daring one up on the chair to measure ( twice) and cut the ropes for the hanging of the bed. </div>
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Finally relaxing after two days of building</div>
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the finished project. It's beyond enticing to head out to the backyard </div>
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and just swing the evening away. </div>
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It's, by far, the coolest thing we've ever made and it doubles as a guest bed to boot!</div>
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Thanks MOM and DAD for making another dream of mine come true!</div>
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There is a new cook in town, Ree Drummond, she's a homeschooling mom living on a ranch in Oklahoma who cooks DEE - licious food with some of the most mouth -watering photo spreads in her 2 cookbooks. <a href="http://www.pioneerwoman.com/">www.pioneerwoman.com</a></div>
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I love this woman's life and I'd like to think that we could be friends, what? </div>
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minus the huge spread of land, the skills with a camera and the show on Food Network. </div>
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We are so similar! </div>
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Jill, my REAL girlfriend, and I went to the book signing at Vroman's in Pasadena. My awesome hubby went to get tickets for me that morning when the store opened and we were in the first 75 people in a line that wrapped three city blocks down Colorado Blvd. Ree was fresh and chatty and had the most fabulous cowgirl boots on. Keepin it real! I can't imagine having to do that for 3+ hours and I like people.</div>
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We made a date of it and took our freshly signed copies straight to Chipotle for some tacos!</div>
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A few minutes between subjects turns into this. </div>
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THIS is how I know it's the end of the school year.</div>
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The kids pose in front of a plain background, making silly expressions like they are hanging, jumping, falling, etc. and we print them on heavy paper, laminate them, cutout, and tie on a tassle right at their hands. </div>
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Viola- bookmarks that make you laugh every time you open the book. hehe</div>
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