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Today I walked into the front office of my girl's school and asked to withdraw two of my girls.  The other 2 (my soon to be K and 7th grader) will stay at their current school.  I was so worked up about doing this, but it was rather uneventful.  I am sure as soon as I turn in the withdrawal slip later today, they will call up some other family on the waiting list and tell them that there are openings.  Good for them, and GOOD FOR ME!

Last night I stumbled upon this ... http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=1500338  I probably got lost in a blog and now I can't recall where I found it.  To see the story on television you can view it here ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRUMmTs0ZA (this is a 40 minute story, so you may need some time to view it, but it is worth it!).  The story may not appeal to everyone ...  I know some people don't love John Stossel, but I kind of like his bold style (although I know he is not right all of the time).  This story may have some skewing, but overall I can understand its points.

There are some excellent schools and some excellent teachers out there, but I also know that our country does not have consistancy by any means.  I think we are do for some major reform with our education system.  The No Child Left Behind Act is not the answer (in my opinion).  Honestly, many countries have better systems, and I do think that we can learn from them. 

INTERESTING ....

Dear Jesus,

I really enjoy learning about you in the gospel of Luke.  I learned that you were very brave to die on the cross for us.  It must have been very hard to give up your life for our sins.

You performed many miracles to help people from dying or from getting very sick.  Your miracles changed a lot of lives.  Those stories are very inspiring.

You are very lucky to have a mother that had no sins at all.  She believed in God so much that she carried you, God's son without a question.  I believe in you Jesus.  You have encouraged me to learn about faith through the bible and through your word.

Love, {K}

I just thought this was so very sweet. 

(1938-2007)

I know he is at peace!  He shouted out a few times this week that he "wanted to go home" ... he is now.

I am at a loss of words.  I can't sleep, and it is the middle of the night.  Dad just passed away at 12:50am EST this morning. He fought a very courageous fight for nearly 9 years.  I will head to be with my Mom this week.  If you could say some prayers for her ... she needs them now.

What Your Favorite Color Blue Says About You:

Emotional --- Affected --- Sensitive Peaceful --- Tranquil --- Connected Spiritual --- Experimental --- Deep

http://www.blogthings.com/whatdoesyourfavoritecolorsayaboutyouquiz/

Sounds about right!

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I am thinking of summer, of family, and of course that involves lots of children.  Between my parents 4 children, they have 15 grandchildren.  Our family is BLESSED!

My mind is heavily focused on family in recent days ... hence the new header photo on my blog.

Three Things That Scare Me: Drugs, dreams of my children drowning, rollercoasters
Three People Who Make Me Laugh: Ellen Degeneres, {K} and {B} ... they are my funny kids, my brother
Three Things I Love: my house, my pillow, my camera
Three Things I Hate: Hypocrites, various white foods (mayo, sour cream, cream cheese, cottage cheese, and more), selfish people
Three Things I Don’t Understand: stocks (I am trying), real estate, and why people SMOKE
Three Things On My Desk: My laptop, my diaperbag/purse, my Bible
Three Things I’m Doing Right Now: playing on the computer (duh!), looking at my calendar, reading homeschooling books (AGAIN)
Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die: go on a romantic vacation with my husband, visit NORWAY, play with my grandchildren.

Three Things I Can Do: Parent, teach, listen.  I am also good at making meatloaf (according to my 7 year old's Mother's Day card ... LOL)

Three Things I Can't Do: yell effectively (my voice just doesn't project), whistle, say goodbye well
Three Things I Think You Should Listen To: your inner voice, God, and your children
Three Things You Should Never Listen To: ignorant strangers, people who wouldn't make good role models, media

Three Things I’d Like To Learn: photoshop, photography, to be a better teacher

Three Favorite Foods: Pizza, filet mignon, chocolate
Three Shows I Watched As A Kid: Tom and Jerry, Happy Days, and Sha Na NA
Three People I'm Tagging: Ln , Texas Mom , and giggle*art  OR ANYONE ELSE who feels like passing this along.

Here's the deal:

Grab the nearest book.

1. Open it to page 161.
2. Find the fifth full sentence.
3. Post the text of the sentence along with these instructions.
4. Don't search around looking for the coolest book you can find.  Do what's actually next to you.

OK, the first book near to me is this book ...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)

Betty Smith

The 5th full line reads ... "In that case, she, in turn, would torment those found guilty, forgetting her own hurt at being tormented"

I feel like this blog has been awfully quiet lately.  I guess I feel so busy in my life that articulating something to write here has been far too daunting in recent days.

Recently I found this educational site that I think looks wonderful.  One of the biggest complaints that I have pertaining to my girl's school is their lack of writing ... they do very little of it.  I would really like to make reading and language arts a big focus of mine.  I know that math has to be up there too, but so far, they have shown great skills in that area.

So here is something that looked interesting to me ...

Daily Paragraph Editing, Grade 5

Lisa V. Mathews

 For math next year I really think I will go with http://www.mathusee.com/.  I have seen a lot of their stuff and our local homeschooling convention will host the developer of this curriculum.

I still need to plan a lot more, but I hope that in the next month I will get my plan's finalized.

Here is the link to taking it ... http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have

Embedding is NOT working lately.  It only pastes a portion of the quiz ... how FRUSTRATING!

We know so many people with BROKEN BONES.

This is our very first experience.  After 11.5 years and 5 children, I guess that is pretty good.

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