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Filed Under: Home Management

The Lunch Challenge: Day Five and Six

These last two days have been pretty crazy. You'll see why the Lunch Challenge has been pretty much pushed aside these last two days. Here's the rundown of my frantic weekend. Friday we had Music Camp till noon, then we raced to our friend's house to feed the animals, and then we stopped at Sonic […]

Filed Under: Curriculum

13 Books My Avid-Reader Daughter Highly Recommends (2nd edition)

This second edition of my daughters recommendations may only be the beginning. My 10-year-old daughter reads constantly, so she has a seemingly inexhaustible supply of books she likes. This week I asked her to bring me just 13 more books that she'd like to recommend to my readers. If you missed her first edition of […]

Filed Under: Home Management

The Lunch Challenge: Day Four

Lunch challenge day for switched with day five. Menu planning in our house is flexible due to circumstances. I haven't made it to the grocery store all week, so my originally-planned lunch of homemade pizza "Lunchables" wasn't possible today. Instead I made the deli tortilla wraps that were on the menu for Friday. We brown-bagged […]

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The Lunch Challenge: Day Three

Peanut butter balls for lunch challenge day three was okay with 2 out of 3 kids. Lunch was a big hit with the girls today. Unfortunately, Jaden still swears he can't stand chocolate and peanut butter mixed together, so he didn't have any of the peanut butter balls. He fixed his own lunch while the […]

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My Girls at the Mic & the Piano

Joely and Jerah have been really motivated to improve their piano skills these last few months. Sadly, I haven't worked with them at all in the last year. I say sadly because as a piano teacher, I'm helping all these other kids learn how to play the piano, but I'm not working with my own […]

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Our 2nd, 5th, and 7th Grade Homeschool Curriculum

Jaden will technically be in the 7th grade next year, so his 2009-2010 homeschool curriculum has changed substantially from last year; he'll be doing much more of his work independently. Here's his curriculum plan for 2009-2010. Language Arts Curriculum 1. Grammar & Writing: Rod & Staff English 7 — Jaden began Rod & Staff with […]

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