Ultimate Insult for a Bush Kid

(Gabe is a jaguar, Toby is a snow leopard, Zach is a Tiger, I am a clouded leopard, and Ben is a “dragon that I made up”…. he did it himself.)
 
 The last day of October, going to a costume party, and as usual we haven’t even discussed costumes.  Gabe says (this morning), “Couldn’t you sew [...]

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Story of the World

We’ve had all of the Story Of The World audio CDs (read by Jim Weiss) for quite a while, and we finally started listening to them on a regular basis after settling in here.  The big boys love them so much that I decided to order the Story Of The World  Activity Books that go along with them.  Having the [...]

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Art Personality Test

I noticed a new “incoming link” to my blog and checked it out – Southpaugh Homeschool. At that time the most recent post was this art test, and I decided to take it too.  
Since the test reports that I am Extroverted, Progressive, and Intelligent, of course I had to publicize that on my blog! [...]

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Consume, Consume, Consume

I often wonder why “global warming” and other global problems aren’t tackled with a STOP CONSUMING angle.  Why are companies even permitted to design “planned obsolescence” into products?  Can’t we stop this at the corporate level? And what about all the useless, ugly trinkets that are sold by the billions?  I’d start by banning production [...]

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Socialization: A Different Conversation

This “conversation” can be found posted across the internet on homeschool sites and blogs. Perhaps you’ve read it already.  I just came across it the other day and found it amusing.
Author Unknown
Two women meet at a playground, where their children are swinging andplaying ball. The women are sitting on a bench watching. Eventually, they [...]

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Snow Romp and Face Painting

It was snowing already last night and some boys were not impressed with their stickler-mother when she didn’t let them go out and play in it.  I promised a snow romp for morning.

Here Toby discusses with Jaska the many exciting facets of snow.

And joy of joys, we were all out enjoying it.  I have to [...]

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Bridge of Hope

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Warning: This Post May Contain Creepy Crawlies

We had a big city adventure this weekend.  When Graeme got home on Friday we headed to Toronto.  We stayed with friends in the GTA.  On Saturday we went to a wood carving show and competition.  It was held at the Blackcreek Pioneer Village, which also had some other “Halloween” stuff going on.  The first [...]

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A House of Straw

Jaska loves his new straw bale house!  We had to pull him out to let Zach in to stuff the cracks with straw, and toss in the bedding.  As soon as he could he was back inside nestling down in his new house.  It is probably nostalgic for him! 

I’m so happy he has a nice [...]

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Extra Boys

From Sunday evening to Tuesday evening we had two extra boys.  They played hard.  It was fun for everyone and my boys were sad when it was time for them to leave.  It is great for these boys to have all gotten together and even greater – they will be moving here soon! 

The boys built [...]

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