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kiddo kraft of the month - november
there is so much going on over here that i cannot keep up! so pick your craft of the month!1) this is where we're at currently with our bug collection:2) this is what i did with my MOPS group for our...
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kiddo kraft of the month - december
ho ho hoLY cow, december's almost 1/2 way gone and christmas is almost here! i guess that's what happens when you go on vacation in december - oh yay! the hubs and i had a MARVELOUS time on our cruise,...
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kiddo kraft of the month - january
my laptop was broken but is now fixed!!! whew - so thankful for computer-savvy friends!!! what did we do before computers????so, for january, since i've been without my computer and my pictures, i'm...
View ArticleHe LOVES Me!
I am in love, and he's amazing! He's totally into me, and I'm totally into him.He thinks about me all the time. He knows me, even the dark, gritty places of my character and my past, but they don't...
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kiddo kraft of the month - february
so i'm feeling VERY uncreative. i've been soaking all my ideas off of pinterest, and it's sapped my creativity.so here's a no-brainer, low-energy, fun thing to do with all those mardi gras beads that...
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Courtney's Quest: Life with Chicks
Before I begin, I know that I've been absent from my Quest for a couple months. I think I am going to be stopping or changing my kid kraft posts. We've been homeschooling/mommy-schooling all year, and...
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Courtney's Quest: Are They Alive?
"are they alive?" those are the first thoughts i've had every morning for the past week. and with relief, my husband's answer has been "yes" every time. WHEW! our chicks have been with us (and have...
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Courtney's Quest: A Coop for Poop
the chicks are 3 weeks old and look like....well, they look like chickens instead of fluff balls! they're almost all the way covered in feathers, except their fuzzy little baby heads and bellies. and...
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Courtney's Quest: The Trouble with Roosters
so, a couple weeks ago the inevitable came true. the poultry farm said our chickens' sex is 90% accurate. so, out of the 100 females the feed store ordered, and the four that were specifically for me,...
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Courtney's Quest: The Trouble with Chickens & Me
9 weeks ago, we brought home fluffy little balls of sweet peeps. today we drove them to their new home an hour away - where there are no HOAs or neighbors who report your chickens.right after we found...
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Courtney's Quest: teaching kindergarten!
i need some pump-up music! or a big microphone: let's get ready to rumble!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wait, that's not right either...oh well, here we go!last year i homeschooled the girls (ladybug was 4, and...
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homeschool room(s)
we have moved our schooling areas around in the house a couple of times, but i think we're finally all settled (until i get the urge to redo something...which i don't foresee happening anytime soon)....
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Starting on the CC path
as i mentioned in recent posts, we've joined a Classical Conversations (CC) homeschool group. and the girls (and I) are LOVING it. i love learning things to music. if i had been more self-aware, i...
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CC makes me like history - GASP!
whoa, that is something! my entire life, history has been my least favorite subject to study. and with my major, i had to take a lot of upper level history courses...which were painful and dull.but...i...
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Courtney's Quest: To the other side of the World
i'm at it again. my suitcase is packed with a week's worth of clothes and toilet paper, gifts for the new friends i am going to make, and velveeta & rotel for our missionary family (it's the small...
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To the Space Station, and Beyond!
I AM THANKFUL! so blessed!we are now halfway finished with our very first Classical Conversations cycle. if i were giving a review, it would be two thumbs up and a very big smile. the girls (ages 4 and...
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sci-fun & tape-tivities
school is back in session at our house and we've been delving into the girls' My First Mind Blowing Science kit that they got for christmas. it has fit in perfectly with weeks 13 and 14 of our cc...
View Articlecourtney's quest: know thyself
i've had a personal revelation today that shocked me.while sitting at the playground with some other homeschool moms, one of them asked me what I like to do when i had free time.and i couldn't answer...
View ArticleCourtney's Quest: me?
I've taken a big step out of writing this year. I have been having negative thoughts about the point of me writing or keeping my Quest. There are so many authors and bloggers and free amazon ebooks...
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2014-15 Homeschool Curriculum: BIBLE
I've been asked a handful of times about what curriculum I've been using, so I remembered that I needed to write it down so I can share that information better.Ladybug (age 6) is studying 1st grade...
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