Thankful Thursday

1. We have moved back into the new house! Mom decided that she can handle the stairs until her room is finished. She told me Tuesday that she wanted to, and I had us packed and ready to go within three hours.
2. My garden is growing! My broccoli has recovered [...]

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Giveaways, Meme’s, and Other Web Stuff

Here is this very cool giveaway to win a set of Biology 101 dvds at Heart of the Matter. Three ways to enter and if you do all three, you get three entries! Yippee!
The Homeschool Lounge. I have to be very careful here. I found the too cool Homeschool Toolbar at [...]

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Habits Update

So Barbie, you ask, how is that walking going? Have you been keeping up on your habit-forming? Have you, indeed, stayed away from your beloved message board???? The answers are: okay, sorta, and YES.
I didn’t walk for awhile, because of one useless excuse after another, but I’m back on board [...]

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Some Pictures of the Yard and Garden

The apple tree in the side yard. If the number of blossoms is any indication of the amount of apples, the tree may well collapse under its own weight. It didn’t bloom like this last year.
May 14, 2008

The garden plot. It is about 12×16. Really too small, but I [...]

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Huh?

The Parade magazine has an online poll about homeschooling. Go vote. But I just wanted to point out this little tidbit from the accompanying article.
“If upheld, the California ruling will send shock waves nationwide,” says Richard Kahlenberg, the author of a number of books on education. He says the case “pits those [...]

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