tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38777006602910376632024-03-05T02:14:04.068-07:00sloansuburgSarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12657080694551574960noreply@blogger.comBlogger741125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3877700660291037663.post-81786193471428366052016-01-31T19:50:00.001-07:002016-01-31T19:52:09.282-07:00A Day Book {School Edition}<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">We are 21 weeks deep in to our third year of homeschooling {WHAT?!} and this year finds me with two 2nd graders, 1 kinder, and one very enthusiastic preschooler. In a lot of ways, I feel like this has been our easiest year yet, mostly because my kiddos are bigger, but also because I do believe I'm figuring a thing or two out. Like you don't have to teach <i>every</i> subject <i>every</i> day! I'm not entirely sure why but I was incredibly nervous to add in a new{and third!} student this year. Judah has done amazing though! He is excited to learn, picking up phonics quickly, motor boating through math, and quite possibly my neatest hand-writer which means a lot if you've ever seen him eat!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Over the summer when I was purchasing materials for our new year, I had strongly considered making significant changes to our school curriculum but then I found out I was pregnant...so yeah. Back to the old stand by's for the year. Sonlight Cores B/C for all three boys {history/geography/bible/read alouds}. Corresponding grade language arts/readers. And Math-U-See Primer for Judah and Beta for Abe and Ben. We also joined co-op again this year and each of the kids is enjoying their class of choice. As for me, well I was teaching a fall semester history class for 1-3 graders and let me just tell you that their comments in class were worth every late night spent prepping! As for what's new to the rotation this year? Music lessons. All three boys are either strumming, playing, or drumming their way towards being musical. It's been so.much.fun {although not very quiet} to see each of them take on their instrument of choice and really start to play. The big boys have even performed in their first recital! I think Jeremy and I were more nervous than they were. Especially when we saw how little they looked on the stage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Now on to our daybook...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The latest in boy creation</b>...This year Ben has really developed a strong desire to draw. His passion seems to be in drawing animals so a few books from the library later and he turned up this gem. I immediately loved it and started to think about where I could display it! He informed me, however, that it was not for me but for a GIRL! One that is very special to him and who also happens to be an older woman of eleven. I may or may not have had to breathe into a paper sack over that one. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Fridge worthy endeavors</b>...while we don't exactly include art as part of our regular school week, on occasion, I have been known to shirk our morning table work for a fun and usually Pinterest inspired art project. My M&O includes easy instructions, quick prep, and enough result to justify a morning of uncapped markers rolling off my kitchen island. Here are two of our fav's that totally delivered in all departments...</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Our favorite part of the day...</span></b><span style="font-size: x-large;">popcorn and read alouds. After years and years of picture books, I never imagined that I would enjoy reading chapter books aloud even more. Oh, but how I do. I dare to even say that I think my boys all feel the same. Our favorites this year include a repeat of Little House in the Big Woods, George Mueller: The Guardian of Bristol's Orphans, Stuart Little, and Understood Betsy. If my kiddos remember one thing and one thing only about being home schooled, I hope it's all the hours we spent huddled over the popcorn tray as the book pages turned. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Total randomness...</b>seven year olds. They are strange, strange creatures, aren't they? </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Because life...</span></b><span style="font-size: x-large;">need I say more. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">News in Gracie Land...</span></b><span style="font-size: x-large;">This little nugget can't get enough of helping in the kitchen. And apparently, clothing is optional. Isn't it funny how in the moment things like a child's nakedness make total sense while baking scones but when you look back at the picture you have no earthly idea how this situation came to be? Ah, motherhood. She's getting to be quite the little sous-chef though. The other day, I asked her to find me the cheese grater and the parchment paper and she knew precisely where both were located and delivered with ease. That and last Saturday she asked for an episode of Pioneer Woman in place of her morning cartoon. Be.still.my.heart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Something I hope I never forget</b>...having all my people gathered round the table, books open, a hot cup of coffee, and settling in for our day. The summer that Jeremy and I made our table, we talked over the hours and hours of sanding about how our babies would someday sit at that very table and work math problems, practice handwriting, and sound out readers. That dream is now a reality and now every morning when we gather round that table, it is so very sweet to my soul. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Our schooling must-have for the moment</b>...kinetic sand. Even the big kids love it. One of the best $15 investments we've made. The three year old is positively smitten which means the history lesson is {mostly} uninterrupted. Lakeshore Learning for-the-win!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">So there's a recap of what we've been up to this year. Part of me can't believe that we are more than halfway through our year and the other part has the detailed outline including every jot and tittle that it took to get here. It's been a good 21 weeks though and I am proud of my boys and their hard work. As we slide in a few more weeks before baby makes his or her debut, I'm so very thankful for these months behind us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">And what a crazy couple of months it's been! For one, morning sickness. Scratch that. All.Day.Sickness. And nighttime sickness. And eating sickness. And walking sickness. And car sickness. And smelling teriyaki sauce everywhere I go sickness. Gah!! I cannot even believe how sick this little baby has kept me! For not ever having even a hint with the big boys, to a touch with Judah, and then finally what I would deem a normal bout with Grace, this baby has surprised me, to say the least. Thankfully, at 20 1/2 weeks I have some relief but it is still not gone. There are hardly words, so I just keep hanging on to the encouragement of a friend who can totally relate and am trying to keep my eye on the prize. And that's the last I will say about that. Now on to the belly...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> {19 weeks}</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Little baby is growing wonderfully, though. And I am feeling the occasional kick and flip despite having an anterior placenta again like I did with Grace, which kept me from feeling her move until about 23 weeks. This go-round, I've not really had any cravings but I think feeling so queasy has played a big part in that. I have, however, been frequently visiting Subway where I can load my sandwich with banana peppers, pickles, mustard, and green chile. That sandwich has been the the pinch hitter when all other food sounds awful. I've also been seeing a perinatologist, for a host of things that have all thankfully checked out. It's a bummer to have extra appointments but the ultrasounds have been a blast. We've had two so far and go back in December for another. I don't think I will ever get tired of seeing those little skeleton looking face shots. Or the side profiles with the button noses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I think the most fun this time around, however, has been experiencing the excitement of a new baby with bigger kids! Last time we did this our oldest were 3 year olds and our youngest wasn't even two {shudder!}. This go-round, our oldest are 7 1/2 and understand a great deal more {and are asking a great deal more!! AHEM!}. They can also help a TON more. All four are very excited to see whether this baby is a boy or girl and one eager beaver has even graciously supplied a baby name list! Hope this little one likes Lord of the Rings...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Outside my window: Two words. Sunrise. Sunset. The first weekend in November will mark four years since our family moved up to our sweet little spot in the mountains. Sometimes I still can't believe we live here! Living in the city, we appreciated the spectacular sunsets, however, there is nothing like getting to experience them up here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Giving thanks: For the birth of my precious little nephew, Noah David. I know I've said it before but there really are hardly words for watching my sister become a momma. Welcoming him into the world was one of the best days in my nearly thirty-three years. It was a special day to be sure and I'm so very thankful to God that I got to be a part of it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In the schoolroom: NOTHING. The best laid plans, right? But that doesn't stop the kids from hunkering down with a history book anyway. Best ever. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I am creating: Another set of Jesse Tree ornaments for a mutual friend of my sis-in-law's. That and a giant list of books to order for this coming school year. I also have a mental kid chore list up and running but I am lacking follow-through. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I don't ever want to forget: This summer's trip to Durango. We had so much fun, this is the only picture we have of our entire five days there. We swam, BBQ'd, explored and took all four kids rafting. It was a blast. And it was the trip where all three boys transitioned to swimming the length of the pool with no floaties. A camping trip for the books for sure! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I am reading: Nobody's Cuter Than You by Melanie Shankle. It's shameful how slowly I am moving through this book by one of my favorite author's but...life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Around the house: It's a bug collector's paradise. We have had so much rain in June, there are critters everywhere! We also have crickets! Once the sun sets, it sounds like we live in The South. Love! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">One of my favorite things: Oreo's. Have you tried the new lemon ones? To-die. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A few plans this next week: Swimming, swimming, and more swimming. Summer is grand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The news in Gracie Land: She is in love with nail polish, dressing herself {send help!!} and is dead set on convincing us to let her pierce her ears. She already has a yes from one of us. But I bet it's not from the parent that you would think. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Sometimes on a particularly crazy day, I'll encourage an hour of quiet by suggesting to one of the big boys that they pick any spot in the entire house and tuck away for some page time. It usually works and within a few minutes our kid-gang has broken off into different activities throughout the house and I can catch my breath. On this Tuesday, however, I noticed the quiet was too quiet and so I was off to investigate. Imagine my surprise {and my joy!} when I found all four stashed away in our master closet, shoulder to shoulder, book in hands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Somehow, we are thick into June and finding our summer rhythm quite nicely. I don't think I've even set foot out of bed before 7 o'clock one single time {hoo-rah!}. Par for the course, the noble plan to keep the kids reading, writing and 'rithmatic-ing through the summer has instead been replaced with cartoons, pool dates, outside play, and a whole bunch of popcicles. I think we all needed a break more than I thought we did. And really what else can you do when the sun comes out and the grass greens up and your four little people beg, "Swimming, Mommy? Puhhhh-leeeeese?" That, and it's harder to work on your tan while monitoring math worksheets ; )</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This last week, we also took an hour's jaunt North and hit up the Santa Fe Canyon Preserve. The kids had an absolute blast hiking, birding, watching for beavers and wading through water-a BIG deal for these desert dwelling babies. It was positively fabulous. Like, "When can we go back?" kinda fabulous. We made it there by about 10:30 in the morning but I can only imagine what this place would be like early in the morning or at dusk. Frogs, and birds, and beavers, oh my! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">All three boys played soccer this Spring but Judah is my favorite five year old. And besides, his baby shinguards were constantly sticking out the tops of his socks (because he's Judah) and we lost his brand new cleats even before his first practice (because, well, FOUR KIDS). So by far, he wins MVP and earned a highlights post all his own. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Really though, he was just so deliciously cute. And surprisingly good! I would even daresay he is more coordinated than his big brothers! He played hard and well and {mostly} with his team and man did he score some goals! But more importantly, he learned to look his coach in the eye, shake hands, and thank him after each game-no small feat for this third son of ours. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">-After scoring one of his first goals, he ran immediately to the sidelines to high-five Ben and Abe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">-His hands down his pants when he didn't know what else to do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">-Watching him chug Gatorade. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">-Him asking to go play on the playground when it was his quarter to sit on the bench. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">-The team's name, The Thunder Bunnies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">-At the last game, his coach offered him a certificate, which he politely declined. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">What a joy it is watching this boy grow into the person the Lord created him to be. You are such a treasure to your daddy and me, Judah Boy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">It's been quiet on the blog. It's much harder to write now that the weather is warming up. Who wants to trade sitting on the porch or planting flowers for a keyboard and a screen? I'm just sayin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Quiet on the blog but not quiet in the house. Since mid March, we've had a steady stream of action and visitors, some of which were these guys...or girls. Our Painted Ladies hatched Easter Sunday (what timing, huh?!) and we released them a few days later. The whole endeavor was *extremely* hands on for the kids so quite honestly I was a bit surprised that we still had four butterflies to release in the end. But we did. Even with Lennie Jr. in the picture...score.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Oh baby girl. My baby girl. Can I even call you that? Baby? Today I really wonder. Three is oh-so-big and so are you. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;">Small enough to still be wrapping up in his favorite {baby} blanket but big enough to wear a cavernous smile. I think he is doing a bang up job at being seven, don't you? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">All the way back in August, I asked Jer's dad to consider some life skills that he might work on with the boys. He agreed and jumped right in, offering to first work with them on building a birdhouse! They decided to meet on Saturday mornings and after picking a design, they faithfully spent many mornings cutting, sanding, gluing, and painting. Only taking a few weeks off for the holidays, they finally finished around the beginning of February. It was a rather big deal for the boys to complete their houses and an even bigger deal to them that we got them hung in time for all our migrating bird-friends to have the opportunity to take up residence in. Well, imagine our surprise when just a few days after we hung them, Judah spotted our first family busily setting up house. Needless to say, our morning of table work came to an end and we traded our math and reading for cameras and binoculars and learning right out our dining room window. A little further <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.whatbird.com/birdexpert/StateColorSize/2/279/birdexpert.aspx" target="_blank">investigating</a></span></span> told us that our bird family are Eastern Bluebirds, a variety that we had never noticed around our house or one that we even knew existed! What a fun little endeavor it's been trying our hand at birdwatching. And come next February, perhaps we'll be a little more prepared for <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://gbbc.birdcount.org/" target="_blank">The Great Backyard Bird Count!</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Outside my window: Sunsets like these. Amazing. Jeremy and I even managed an evening on the front porch this last week. The later sunsets, the warmer weather; Spring is nearly here! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Giving thanks: For friends. Isn't life just so much sweeter when you have dear friends? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In the schoolroom: We have finally {FINALLY!} hit a stride. I remember finding our groove last year about this time too. It's like everyone is on board with what's expected of them. Our days have been smoother, we are jumping in each day with little to no hiccups, interruptions are limited. Praise God. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">From the kitchen: One {two?} words. Whole30. Basically it's thirty days of no dairy, no sugar, no gluten, no legumes, no wine, no fun. But I feel so much better, I kinda don't care. The last 24 days have taught me a lot about how important it is that I take the time to eat well {i.e. stop cramming goldfish over the sink while the kids eat lunch}. I have more energy. My skin is clearer. My jeans are looser. I'll take it. But for now, someone pass the chocolate chip cookies, STAT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I am creating: Our curriculum list for our new year. How, how, how we can nearly be at the end of this year, I am still not sure. How Judah will be in Kindergarten and the boys in second grade, I am still not sure. How I will teach three kiddos and still manage a pre-schooler, I am still not sure. But my hope and rest isn't in those things but rather in the One who does know. So I'm banking on Him and planning on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> I don't ever want to forget: Our snow day of 2015. We woke up on a Saturday morning in February to 16 inches of Narnia snow. The kids were over the moon. Who am I kidding, Jer and I were too! Despite the fact that it was the day of their 7th birthday party, we let it all go, the house, the to-do, the errands, and we made our own sledding hill instead. It was a day filled with so.much.laughter. And coffee. But mostly laughter. And a giant breakfast and the house mess to prove that our day was spent treasuring each other in the outdoors. Too much fun. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I am working on: Planning a baby shower for my sweet little nephew who is due in June. No words to describe the sister-joy here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> I am reading. Shauna Niequist's Bread and Wine. DI-VINE. An absolute joy to read. Also, What Did You Expect by Tedd Tripp. Five star read.
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">One of my favorite things: Honeycrisp apples. Seriously, have you ever tried one? Open back doors aren't too shabby either. It's like a trophy for winning the winter games where the event is four young children stuck inside for 43 consecutive days due to weather. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A few plans this next week: Waiting for Jer to get back from Mexico. He's doing some work down there at an orphanage that is near and dear to us. The big boys have their PE and cooking class on Friday at the CC and Judah has a soccer meeting on Saturday morning. All three boys start soccer next week! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The news in Gracie land: Can you say momma's little helper? A few weeks ago, while we were skiing in Wolf Creek, I hit up an antique store and found the most perfect little step for the kitchen. It has been her life line to all the things she was missing in her short life. Now, every time she even hears a drawer open in the kitchen, there she is, on her stool and ready to help. It's equally precious and "what have I done?!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Total randomness: I took the kids in to the pedi two weeks ago and Gracie weighed in at 32 1/2 lbs, Judah was 46 1/2, Ben was 44 1/2, and Abe was 52! Big babies!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">He's gonna play it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">And if he plays it, chances are his little sister will probably want to dance to the song.
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">And if she dances to it, it'll mean the attention is most certainly NOT on him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Which means he'll give his mom this exact face...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">And then he'll add in a side of pout to really make his point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">And then his mom will likely ask his sister to let him finish his song. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">But his groove will be gone so he'll have to think for a minute or two. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">After a short brainstorming session, his inspiration might start to flow a little...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0000ee;">But </span>then his fingers will really start to fly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">He'll rightfully take his stage again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Solo, as it should be for every boy-rockstar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">And then he'll gladly drink in the attention of a snapping shutter and his momma's undivided watchful eye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">He'll really start to jam. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">And probably throw in some of his best moves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">You know. Hypothetically, of course. </span></div>
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12657080694551574960noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3877700660291037663.post-67358092436611579382014-12-30T16:46:00.001-07:002014-12-30T16:48:26.178-07:00Year's End<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">It's nearly January and these pictures have been sitting on the laptop, waiting quietly for their chance on the blog since mid-November. It's the kind of thing I often want to apologize for. But then I remember that there are no blog police ready to jump out and arrest me for failure to write and hit publish...so be what it may, here is a bit of the end of 2014 just in time for 2015!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> This year our troop tick-or-treated for the first time! A sweet neighbor organized a hay ride to take all of the kids in our development door to door to all the houses who desired to participate. It was AMAZING and an even better way to meet a lot of our neighbors, or if you're me, take a tour of their house and check out what kind of flooring they have! Ha! There were nearly forty children, two trailers rigged with lights, boom boxes, and coolers of soda. It was so much fun, Abe even asked if we could "move here." "Here" being just about 8 houses down the the street. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Halloween for us this year included two red Power Rangers, Captain America (Abe) and Doc McStuffins. I am STILL finding glitter in the house from Gracie's costume. It's the costume that just keeps on giving! The kids and I also took our yearly pumpkin patch jaunt out to McCall's but this time with our homeschool group. We had such a great time, although, I let the kids choose their pumpkins on their own since I was tied up with Grace and we made it home with some wonky ones. Thankfully, they carved up okay. Two were original designs and Judah went with a stencil. I love how Ben's pumpkin has huge eyes and a small mouth and Abe's is the opposite. Twins. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In true Abe fashion, we had to sort our candy. Which made it very hard to steal candy from them when they were in bed, by the way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In other Sloansburg news, here's Grace in her unders and doing a puzzle. Did I mention that's all she wears now? Every person in this house, including the dog, is *OFFICIALLY* potty trained. Overnight, naps, church. All of it. We are diaper bag FREE. Praise Jesus. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">And now some pictures of the day to day. Here's Ben and Grace getting their paint on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The boys love to practice spelling words on the windows and on this particular day, Abe left me a little note too :) Man do I love seeing them bloom in reading and writing! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Gracie and Judah washing dishes while I work with the big kids. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Mess. Every day. End of story. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Ju Baby and the Nativity. He can't stop, won't stop, rearranging.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A new Christmas wreath. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A certain boy on the eve of turning FIVE! Man did it feel like a big deal! We celebrated by taking the day off of school, as is our traditon, and going to a jumping place and lunch at Dion's. We had such a lovely day, despite the snow! But how can a day that includes pizza and chocolate cake go wrong, really? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">We also had a cousin day at our Mimi's to celebrate these back to back birthdays! Evie turned 8 and Ju turned 5 and all the momma's sighed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">You may have noticed our family walk having grown...by four feet. Meet Birdie, our Border Collie/German Shepherd rescue mutt. We adopted her October 11th from the local shelter and are over the moon with her! She has fit in around here almost seamlessly, the kids have handled her needs willingly and with much care, and I have yet to complain {even once!} about dog hair. I did gripe about the cat skull she dropped on the living room floor, however. After all, one has to draw the line somewhere :) </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/45/011A41D793BD0A1E1B130C1BFDF8D2AA.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /></a>Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12657080694551574960noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3877700660291037663.post-85851386950317368122014-10-02T08:48:00.000-06:002014-10-02T08:48:00.045-06:00Kind of a Big Deal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/45/011A41D793BD0A1E1B130C1BFDF8D2AA.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /></a>Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12657080694551574960noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3877700660291037663.post-53933057117641789662014-09-28T20:35:00.001-06:002014-09-28T20:46:10.114-06:00Our New School Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">So we're off and running with our school year, nearly two months tucked under our belts, and I'd be lying if I didn't say things started off a little bumpy this year. For a variety of reasons, most of which had to do with scheduling and our workload, our days came a bit off the rails. But thankfully after some very teary talks with Jer about just <i>what </i>we're trying to accomplish here by schooling our children at home, I think we've mostly ironed out the kinks. Mostly. As in, I am no longer considering flagging down the local school bus and enrolling the kids at the elementary school down the road. And for the most part, we are all back to smiling at the end of days. At least more days than not, anyway ; ) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">For the majority, our year looks the same in terms of curriculum. This year, we've decided to revisit Sonlight and so I reordered the <a href="http://www.sonlight.com/readers-1.html" target="_blank">1st grade Language Arts program</a> and <a href="http://www.sonlight.com/BC1R5.html" target="_blank">Core B</a> {which covers our Geography, History, Bible and chapter book read alouds}. After loving Math-U-See's Primer last year, we moved on to <a href="http://store.mathusee.com/catalog/math-u-see/general-math/alpha" target="_blank">Alpha</a> this year and have been just as pleased. We also continued on with our handy <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Explode-Code-3-Nancy-Hall/dp/083881462X" target="_blank">Explode the Code workbooks</a> {3 & 4} and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/My-Printing-Book-Jan-Olsen/dp/1891627597/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1411957730&sr=1-1&keywords=handwriting+without+tears+grade+1" target="_blank">Handwriting Without Tears</a>. Last, for science we are still relying on our old faithful, <a href="http://pbskids.org/wildkratts/" target="_blank">Wild Kratts</a>. We also purchased an <a href="http://www.explora.us/en/" target="_blank">Explora </a>membership, as well as signed up for a class on the human body through our <a href="http://www.homeschoolfamilyco-op.org/" target="_blank">co-op group.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">New to us: <a href="http://www.spellingcity.com/" target="_blank">Spelling City</a>. Spelling City is a free website where the kids can practice their own spelling words for the week by playing a variety of games. I use it as an incentive for when the boys get their independent work done. They just think they're getting to play a computer game! It's great for the boy who finishes ahead of his brother or just to occupy someone when you need a hot second to catch your breath. While I still think the best way to retain spelling words is in the context of practicing reading and writing, I've seen enough fruit to keep it around. Best part is, when it's run it's course, we ditch it because it was FREE. Winner, winner, chicken dinner!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">New to us: <a href="http://preschoolersandpeace.com/circle-time/" target="_blank">Circle time</a>. Seriously, CIRCLE TIME! This has helped our home school along tremendously. You can read about Circle Time on a variety of blogs but suffice it to say that it's a easy way to include all the kiddos while still accomplishing a portion of our planned school day. We use it to practice the pledge, work on our scripture memory, our poetry memorization, counting, picture book read alouds, poetry read-alouds, days of the week, months of the year, hymn study, art study, and prayer. We make it fun {like counting in a monster voice}. We make it interactive {think playing instruments along with our songs}. Everyday we end with a joke and I try to smile. <b>A lot.</b> In fact, I remind myself quite a bit to SMILE! And laugh! And not to make it so serious and dire that they remember every jot and tittle of every sentence spoken. Sounds silly, but for me, the struggle is real. Four star addition for us this year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">New to us: <a href="http://www.homeschoolfamilyco-op.org/" target="_blank">Co-op</a>. This year, we decided to join a local homeschool co-op. We only meet every other week but the intent is to forge some relationships outside of our usual circle and just change up the scenery a bit. This semester, the twins are learning about the human body, Judah's exploring his ABC's through a Wheels on the Bus theme, and Gracie is making frequent potty breaks and enjoying some playground time and snack. As for me, I'm camped out in a women's Bible study. Have I mentioned that it's bliss to know your kids are being cared for and taught, all while you sip down a Starbucks?! There's also a park day tacked on to the end for all your outside play needs :) While we've only been twice, co-op has been a breath of fresh air for our year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">New to us: Lego Club. Local library. Friday afternoon once a month. Need I say more?! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">What's not working: <a href="http://classicalacademicpress.com/song-school-latin-book-1-program/#.VCjE6xZ2SMU" target="_blank">Song School Latin</a>. I ordered it. I loved it. I thought about how I could possibly add it in. And I came to the conclusion that there is just not enough time in the day. So I shelved it. Maybe it will make it's way out during summer...or never. But either way, it has been moved to the back burner. The best laid plans, right?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">What's not working: Charlotte Mason's ideology of structured mornings and free and easy afternoons. While I LOVE the idea of it and behind it, practically, it just did not work for us. At this stage in the game, I just cannot afford to get everything done before lunch...at least in a sane manner, anyway. By continuing with our plan from last year to break up school into two portions of the day, one of which is during Grace's nap time, we are back to successfully accomplishing our day together and our mornings don't feel so...well...grueling. </span></div>
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(Laundry, laundry, laundry and a nerf bullet in the crockpot. A day in the life...)</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">What's not working: Trying to do it all. Seriously, why do I keep doing this to myself? You'd think this girl would get it through her brain by now that checking all the boxes is just absolutely unattainable, at least at the same time anyway! But I still wrestle with it! Some days more than others. But man is it hard for me to remember that this gig is a marathon and not a sprint and that the goals don't always line up with the things that are pretty or that you can see. And can I just get an amen on the mess?! Oh.the.mess. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">What's not working: Art. Do kids need art? Yes? No? Maybe? This is such a frustrating area for me. I don't have many thoughts about it, other than I can't help but think our time is better spent in a book or outside at this point in the game. So for the time being, art is benched. I am looking in to an "help yourself" art nook for the future. But for the time being there are no paper mache trees or Tempera family portraits for this house. Play-doh and good ol' Crayola's are as serious as we get around here. And maybe, just maybe, some watercolors if it's a Friday and daddy's on his way home. ; )</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">So that's the jist of what our days are made up of, around here! Just normal life with a bunch of reading crammed in to every nook and cranny that we can fit it in to. Are there days where I just want to scrap the whole thing and put the lot of them in school? Yes! Are their days when my head hurts and the boys can't remember if it's a "d" or a "b" and the tears fall far too many? Yes. But there are also days when a boy reads his own menu at a restaurant, or days when you practice spelling words over pizza or the baby recites Psalm 1 along with her brothers? Yes. And you laugh, incredulous, because you see catch a glimpse of how the Lord is feeding the multitudes with your meager offering of a few fish and a few loaves of bread. And so we continue on, trusting His promises and not being anxious for tomorrow. He will provide. He has provided. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Gracie cooking for me while I get ready for church</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Sometimes on a Tuesday morning, you can be on your way to the laundry room when a boy can catch your eye and remind you that though the days are long, the years are short. Nearly six and a half and one of his favorite things right now is to tuck away and read about knights. Weren't we just cheering on those first steps yesterday?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Lately, we've been having the most wonderfully cool mornings. It's the kind of cool where you find the back door open, fully welcoming in every flying insect this side of the mountain, all for the sake of feeling the breeze while you clean up breakfast. I can't imagine I'm the only one but it does wonders for the soul and the oatmeal crusted bowls I'm scrubbing, know what I'm sayin'? Just last week, the kids wandered out, full of breakfast and a sense of adventure. The light was splendid and I could do nothing more than dry my hands and pick up the camera and snap a few pictures of their exploring. It seems this summer has found us with an abundance of tiny sand colored grasshoppers and they are right bent on finding every single one. Their pursuits are admirable and I've been impressed at the tender care that is given to even littlest one that they find. Although, if we're being honest, sometimes even careful brings an amputated leg or a cup left in the sun. Such is the things of boyhood, though. And girlhood, too. Because don't think for a second that baby sis is left behind. These babies of mine are growing and changing so fast. Sometimes when they're together and quiet, it terrifies me to think that we're past the noise and bustle of babies and toddlers and moving on to the "bigger kids" stage of life. But then the noise picks right back up again and all is right again in the world. At least for this summer, anyway. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Recently, these brothers have been enjoying afternoons off the front of the house. There is no grass and hardly any shade but the crushed rock makes for a fine gravel yard for their trucks. Often they don't say a word, each keeping to himself with the exception of a small "beep" or air break "hiss" here and there. I don't sit out there much with them. Usually, I am eager to use the quiet minute to accomplish a task or clean something or another but today was different. Careful not to disturb them, I snapped a few pictures in hopes of remembering when the sun shone hot and Camo watch bands and shorts were all the rage. Because it really is just a million little moments just like this that make up our one single life, isn't it? What's beeping and hissing in your neck of the woods today?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">On Jer's side of the family there are eight kiddos under the age of 7. With the exception of the age of 5, we have one at every stair step. So needless to say, our time together is not often photographed. The odds ar<span style="background-color: white;">e<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://sloansburg.blogspot.com/2014/05/resurrection-sunday.html" target="_blank"> just plain against us</a>.</span></span> However, a few weeks ago, I brought our blow up pool over to Mimi and Pops and the kids had an absolute blast playing in the water and soaking everyone {and everything} with the hose. It was a lovely afternoon that ended with naps for the littles and a popcorn and fruit picnic for the bigs in the shadiest part of the yard. Sweet summertime.
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The next leg of our trip had us driving to Sequoia National Forrest for a little camping and to see The General, of course! But not before the long, long, loooooong stretch of highway through the Mojave Desert. It was bad people. The RV was beyond hot. I was road sick from standing and walking so much while we were driving. The kids were beside themselves with the fact that we had been driving for 15 hours. It was a poor showing on all of our parts and about the only "good" I can say about this day is that we didn't breakdown, overheat, or blow a tire. All I kept asking Jer was HOW in the world did early settlers cross this desert?! Can you even try to imagine what crossing this stretch of land in a covered wagon with your family would have been like?! Unimaginable, in our opinion. I felt like it was torture going 65 with air conditioning, all the while sipping on a coke from In-N-Out!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Which brings me to my next modern day convenience. The iPad. It saved our sanity more than once this time around. Here are the kiddos circled around Despicable Me while the last minutes of daylight dwindle. Not pictured: Two parents furiously chugging coffee and searching every mind-reserve to come up with things to talk about to keep each other awake. I think we still had 4 more hours of driving to do that night. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">After a four star sleep in Barstow {not!} we hit the road again bright and early with the anticipation of seeing giant redwoods. The excitement proved to be too much for some of the rookies on board. I can't even remember the last time I held this boy until he fell asleep. Maybe 2010?! Times have changed. This kid is HEAVY! Here is us; him asleep and dreaming of Legos, me silently longing for my white cheddar popcorn stored waaaaaaaaay out of reach. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Finally, around hour twenty-something the scenery began to change. Fruit stands started popping up all over the place and there were orange groves for miles and miles! Our six pack even managed a road side stop for some peaches, strawberries and cherries. It was Jer's attempt at a morale boost. Seriously, the drive time was threatening to do us all in! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Meanwhile, back in the RV for the last bit of our haul, I pulled out every trick in the book to keep the kids busy. Books, coloring, and Play-doh. I absolutely loved Abe and Ben's creations! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">At last we arrived at our campground. Sadly, these are the *only* two pictures I have of our stay. They were taken while we were waiting for our food at a little restaurant beside the river. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Long story short, we drove up to the Sequoia park entry only to be turned away because our RV was too long. Ten feet too long, to be exact. To make matters worse, the nearest entry our RV would be able to access was hours away and the nearest rental car shop was closed, as well. We looked into guided tours-closed for out of season. We looked into hiking it-out of the question. We even asked a college student if we could rent her Honda Civic (HA!) for the day. Three guesses what her answer was! As you can imagine, it was disheartening to have come all that way only to have no way to actually make it in to the park. There were tears and not from the kids or Jeremy. However, the Lord took such good care of us, giving us a much needed night of rest and some down time in such a beautiful place. It was a gift we didn't even know we needed. As an added bonus, just a few hours in to our stay, our boys met up with a pack of kids who were inner tubing down the river. After some good ol' fashion rock climbing and jumping off into the swimming hole, they all became the greatest of friends and we could hardly keep track of them after that. As for Jer and I, well, we made friends too. After someone's little girl roasted a dead rat over our neighbor's campfire (true story!), the sweet couple from San Diego was more than eager to combine firepits, talk about life and kids, and manage a s'more or two, as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">It still makes me smile thinking back on how filthy our kids were at the end of the night. Scooters, swimming, tad pole catching, running barefoot through the campground, bug spray, s'mores. You get the picture. But the smiles on their faces? Best ever. Obviously it was a moment meant for capturing right there in the minute and no where else. But picture it. Clanky air conditioning running. Clothes reeking of campfire smoke. Kids laid out on any soft spot to be found. Feet and faces dirty and the feeling that vacation is just starting to unfurl. Pure bliss. It's probably best that we didn't get in to that national park after all. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Those redwood giants would have paled in comparison to what I saw that night. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Not gonna lie. It is a little hard to believe that just a little over a week ago, we were sitting on the beach in Cali trying to figure out the hardest decision of our day...where to eat dinner. And yet tonight I sit on the couch in my living room wondering who's gonna do all this laundry and when (oh when!) we're finally gonna get the RV unpacked. As if we weren't crazy enough the first time, Jer and I decided yet again to pack up the kids and the coffee pot and this time head west. This go-round found us RV living for sixteen days all along the Pacific Coast. We went as north as San Francisco and as south as San Diego and we did it all in approximately 400 square feet and with a small fortune in gas money. Ride along with us? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I'm not entirely sure what had us wanting to take our kids to see the Pacific coast but Jer and I sat down in the fall and started planning out just what all California might hold for our family. Mountains, beaches, touristy things, seafood, warm weather, and some dear family were just a few of the things that beckoned us. We decided on May, hoping to miss the crowds and to round out our homeschool year with a little of what we call in these parts, "school of life." We left on a Friday morning with our cabinets full of snacks, an arsenal of clean underwear, and a wee-bit anxious momma who was not quite sure she had remembered to pack it all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Our first stop found us in Williams, Arizona. Even though Jeremy and I have lived well within a day's drive of the Grand Canyon all of our lives, neither of us have never been there. A shame? We thought so. So we made the slight detour and decided to find out what we've been missing all these years. Finally pulling in mid-afternoon, we swam our children at the RV park until their bellies rumbled with hunger and pool water. Then we walked them until we arrived at the most glorious BBQ honky-tonk joint I have ever seen in my whole life. It was on the old Route 66 and it had stuffed and mounted animals, pool tables and a juke box. It had wooden floors and a waitress who called you darlin'. But beyond that, it had a hamburger topped with pulled pork, horseradish cole-slaw, AND FRENCH FRIES. It was entirely over indulgent and it was DI-VINE. And one of us {not me} might have even made ours a double. Woof! We spent the remainder of our evening stuffing ourselves and forgetting about the day's fits and hot drive and then miraculously, everyone slept. In.their.own.beds. Glory, hallelujah!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Saturday morning is when we actually made it to the park. Between the heat and the crowds, we figured early and rested was our best shot at walking the rim. Can I just confess that I was a BASKET CASE? Like in the sweating hands, stomach in knots, hot mess sort of way. The boys were psyched and I was convinced their enthusiasm would lend to a long, long, looooooong fall complete with dramatic mother-esque screaming. Obviously, after the fact, none were lost to the Canyon but taking four little people hiking along the Canyon rim with NO RAILING ranks up there with my list of things I am now glad are over. As for actually seeing the GC, though? Beautiful. And oddly fake looking. It's weird. You can tell that what you see immediately in front of you is real but the rocks in the back sort of just look like someone hung a backdrop with a picture screen printed on it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Easter this year found us celebrating first with our church family and then with a kick-yer-shoes-off afternoon with Jer's side of the family tree. True to form, the boys ate their weight in candy and we all had some good laughs watching the newbie's try to fall in to line with the well seasoned egg hunters. It was quite a sight. But then again so is a four year old wearing a camo hat who's hopped up on 22 miniature boxes of Nerds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">New to the party this year was my venturing out into the world of matching shirts. {Hasn't every mother dabbled?!} The boys were not fans and even less so of tucking them in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Dolly's Easter dress, though?! Swoon. It was a peach smocked chiffon number, reminiscent of The Great Gatsby and bought by her Grammy. I died a thousand deaths. It's a shame the only pictures that made it were of her wrinkled, dirty faced, and waaaaaaay over leaving her headband in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">After lunch and egg hunting, we tried our hand at some family pictures. They are just too precious and HI-LAR-I-OUS not to post. As a disclaimer, I guess it should be said that we have 8 kids, seven and younger. The very fact that they are all dressed and in one place and that someone is not crying or throwing up is reason enough to take a picture. But now add in the fact that we still have our Nana (92 in a few weeks) and we just had to. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Our family was next. It's practically tradition. See <a href="http://sloansburg.blogspot.com/2010/04/easter-sunday.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://sloansburg.blogspot.com/2012/04/easter-and-37-weeks.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This week, the kids and I are on Spring Break, or rather the kids are on Spring Break and I am catching up on neglected parts of our world like a mad-woman and potty training the baby. Add in the snow that we got on Monday and we're all a little off kilter. Today, I started to feel sorta bad that the boys have been trapped at home on their "break" but then I remembered that yesterday Gracie peed on Abe's backpack and today Ben stepped in some #2, so at least they have some good stories to tell their friends about their week at home come time to share around the park jungle gym. I also made them Kool-Aid for the first time in their lives. Gotta make those memories somehow, right?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Really though, Spring Break starts tomorrow when all three boys leave with Jer and his dad to go turkey hunting. To say they are excited would be the understatement of the century. They are PSYCHED. The cutest part? Abe and Ben begged their pop to give them the hunting rule book that came with their permit. The books only have a bunch of laws written inside but because they have animals on the fronts and they are from Pop, they are considered official and as good as gold around here. Precious, boys. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">As for me and Grace, well we're gonna paint the town and party like it's someone's second birthday. I haven't entirely decided how to celebrate Friday's festivities with my girl but I'm thinking it just might include cupcakes, Build-A-Bear, and definitely a sleepover in daddy and momma's bed. To say I am excited would be the understatement of the century. I cannot tell you how greatly I am looking forward to some down time with just Gracie. It may be her birthday but it feels like mine too and so I'm hoping to finish one of my eight reads, tackle a project, or just go cruise Target with a Starbucks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">As for school, the boys and I will start Monday in our 30th week and can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Our remaining book stack is soooooooo small. It's crazy when I look at our notebooks and read-alouds and math books and consider just all the Lord has allowed us to accomplish this year. It makes me almost weepy! Sort of like my first year as a momma. The day to day can be just so dang hard and yet when you get through it, you look back with such a sweetness on the the time as a whole. We have definitely found our groove and I'm *almost* sad to give it up but I know the rest is needful. We are all certainly ready for summer and the different flow it brings to our days. And the boys cannot hardly contain their elation over swimming lessons. Lord help us and those upcoming swimming instructors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">As for my little people, well they are just as busy and funny and sweet as ever. Judah is forever my helper boy, constantly wanting to help me pull weeds or bake or sweep the kitchen. And Grace, she just wants me...and books...and songs...and to, "sit, mama." The two of then definitely keep me on my toes but they remind me to play and be silly and to just chill out. I mean, who in the world can take themselves and their mountains of dirty clothes seriously when the baby asks to help, "Foad da yaundry?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">And last, because there is just no rhyme or reason to my life, here are the only photos I have as of late. They are all random but precious nonetheless, as they do contain the five that I love so dearly and a little glimpse in to life here at Sloansburg. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Yet another read aloud. Ben's form is gold medal worthy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">One of his many costumes. Note shoes on wrong feet and the fact that, "This is what great looks like."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This kid does more costume changes than Cher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A rare baking appearance. My friend Sue's Challah. Making it is as bad as having a newborn in the house. It's needy. But at least you get to eat it at the end of the day. With butter.<span style="background-color: red;"> <a href="http://chowcity.blogspot.com/2009/03/challah.html" target="_blank">Make it</a></span> for Easter and people will love you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Twenty years of friendship. There's hardly words for seeing our babies play together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">My not so helpful helper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The boys' interpretation of Calvary Hill. Sad part? I was accidentally watering it with a spray bottle full of water/vinegar. No grassy hill this year, folks! </span></div>
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