tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267816482207045662023-11-16T04:19:41.329-08:00Always a "good day" at Casa BuendiaI gave my life & my heart to Jesus Christ in 1996. I married my best friend & man of my dreams & gained 2 wonderful stepchildren in 2005. I was told I would never get pregnant without fertility treatments, yet despite refusing them I ended up giving birth to my miracle child in 2009. He has changed my world sooo much & all for the better. I blog about a wide variety of topics.Frau Guten Taghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16653229285252138595noreply@blogger.comBlogger401125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326781648220704566.post-26299820069676893912014-07-28T12:30:00.001-07:002014-07-28T12:30:03.478-07:00RV Life: Lake Tahoe, Idaho, Utah<b><u>Day 1: Saturday, July 19</u></b><br />
I had spent the week making food & packing the motorhome for the trip. We had debated on sleeping in the motorhome Friday night & just taking off early Saturday morning, but we ended up sleeping in the house. I got up extra early Saturday morning & finished packing the last few items that couldn't be packed ahead of time. I told my son the night before that I would be waking him early so we could go camping. I woke him & gave him a quick shower & we ate breakfast in the motorhome on the road. <br />
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<i>I love to see the sun rise. This one I saw as I was going back & forth packing the last few items Saturday morning.</i></div>
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<i>Pretty clouds--I took this right before we drove away.</i></div>
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<i>There's a whole lot of nothing but desert as you cross California to Nevada.</i></div>
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<i>My son likes to live on his head these days, even while we're travelling in the motorhome!</i></div>
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<i>We stopped at a gas station & I just had to take a pic of this!</i></div>
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<i>We stopped at a park to eat a quick lunch. It was very pretty.</i></div>
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<i>Back on the road, at least there were mountains to look at as we passed through the Eastern Sierra.</i></div>
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<i>I'm not a big fan of the desert, I think it looks dead & dry &a little depressing; so I was very happy to see a little stretch of forest!</i></div>
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<i>We passed a lot of water--reservoirs & lakes. This was Lake Mono, I thought it was very pretty</i></div>
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<i>My son enjoying the view</i></div>
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<i>My hubby didn't even know I took this! </i></div>
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<i>Since I woke him so early & there was so much excitement about the trip he ended up taking a nap!</i></div>
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<i>Crossing the border into Nevada, back into desert</i></div>
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<i>We kept seeing signs warning of a fire nearby & to watch for low flying aircraft. We never saw anything aside from this one lonely fire truck</i></div>
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<i>We took a strange route to Lake Tahoe.......turns out the RV Park gave hubby the wrong address, but the route was pretty nevertheless. Here we were climbing a big mountain & we were looking down on farms.....there were millions of cows down there</i></div>
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<b><u>Day 2, Sunday July 20</u></b></div>
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<i>A little hard to see, but this is a prison. There was a sign on the highway that stated "entering prison zone, hitchhiking prohibited" It was a little creepy.</i></div>
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<i>We passed through South East Oregon. It was a little sad to see. It looked like an area that was hit very hard by the economic collapse in recent years. Lots of empty & abandoned businesses. Lots of farmers & most living out of shacks & houses with holes in the roofs, windows, walls, etc. I did want a pic of the sign stating we entered Oregon, but I didn't feel comfortable taking pics of the things I saw that made me sad.</i></div>
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<i>It's interesting to me to see how different states do things differently. In California we have "call boxes" along the highways. That is something I don't see in other states (I think Nevada might have them?) Some states have rest areas along the highways, & some states have much nicer rest areas than other states. In Oregon I didn't see call boxes or rest areas, but I did see lots of turn outs with a trash can along the highway. And they had a sign stating "no littering". I found this a little odd. I mean, this was truly in the middle of nowhere. I had to wonder first of all, who would pull over just to throw away trash. And secondly, who comes along & empties these trash cans??</i></div>
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<i>We finally entered Idaho & were clearly back in desert terrain. I had no idea so much of Idaho is just desert.</i></div>
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<i>I've always heard that it's the potato capitol of the country. So I was surprised to see so many fields of gluten......uh, er, I mean wheat!</i></div>
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<i>We made it to our RV Park. This place looked really pretty on their website, but it was not pretty when we got there. Hubby felt he made a bad choice, but I think that's just all there is in a city like Boise. The spot they had assigned to us was right up against this giant electric-blue motorhome. Even the windows were electric blue. The place was basically just a big parking lot. No grass, no picnic table, nothing. The office was closed when we arrived so we couldn't talk to anyone there. As hubby tried to hook us up (in the rain I might add) he found it was a 50 amp hookup (& we need a 30 amp hook up). We got out & walked around. There was a small strip of grass with hook ups & a few cabins beyond that. We looked there & the hook up had a 30 amp option. We were worried if we took the spot someone else might be coming for it & we would have a problem. But there were no other forms left for anyone, as our's had been. So we went ahead & took that empty spot. Nobody ever came to claim the spot & no one came banging on our door asking what we were doing there. The next morning hubby went to explain to the office & they apologized. It was all fine & dandy.</i></div>
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<b><u>Day 3: Monday July 21st</u></b></div>
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<i>It was mostly filled with people who were living there permanently. At least it offered trees for shade & a picnic table, I am always grateful for those.</i></div>
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<i>As I wandered around in the RV Park itself I found this beautiful garden. It had flowers & fruits & veggies. It was amazing! It was out in the open, anyone could've come & raided it for food. We learned it was owned by the people running the RV Park. They said we were welcome to take whatever we wanted, but they warned that there was a weird bug on the raspberries that they didn't know what it was. Take at your own risk they said. :)</i></div>
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<b><u>Day 4: Tuesday, July 22nd</u></b></div>
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<i>I had heard that lots of celebrities & big wigs have home here in Sun Valley. The real estate is very pricey in this area. I kept wondering where the celebrity homes were located & then discovered they were on this river right here. From the highway you turn in to enter the RV Park we stayed in. Just past that if you continue on the street is the nicest mobile home park I've ever seen. Just past that is a biking/hiking trail. And just past that is this Big Wood River & private streets. We ventured into one of the private streets but none of the others. Then I started googling the street names & coming up with 20 million dollar homes!! We could see some of the houses through the forest from the hiking trail. One of them we had thought was some sort of lodge or hotel, but later realized it was a house. I thought it was pretty funny to hide the celebrity homes behind the RV Park & Mobile Home Park!</i></div>
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<b><u>Day 6: Thursday, July 24th</u></b></div>
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<i>This is a little hard to see, but it was a very nice wood carving. A bear waving on top & a fish on the bottom</i></div>
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<i>We stopped at the botanical garden, it was so pretty & the people here were so nice. They couldn't wait to tell our son about the sandbox, which was a very nice sandbox. </i></div>
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<i>I don't like watching TV while camping, but occasionally I allow it. After finishing Oliver & Company (is that what it's called??) there was an ancient Disney short film on the VHS. He was sooooo into it. I loved this expression as he watched it, just had to snap a pic, hehehe</i></div>
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<b><u>Day 7: Friday, July 25th</u></b></div>
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<i>Because it got so cold the first night, I turned on the thermostat for the heater the second night. We turned it on, but still at 4 AM my hip woke me up, in horrendous pain. Even though it wasn't all that cold inside the motorhome somehow my hip knew it was cold just outside. I had to look at the weather app on my phone just to see how cold it was for that to happen. Yep, pretty darn cold, especially in July!</i></div>
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<i>Crossed into Utah!</i></div>
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<i>Utah has some weird cement trucks. When I first saw one driving down the street I thought it was going backward!! My son really enjoyed watching these!</i></div>
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<i>I'm sure I probably passed through Salt Lake City when I was a kid, but I don't really remember it. I was excited to see it this time.</i></div>
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<b><u>Day 8: Saturday, July 26th</u></b></div>
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<i>It was too dark when we arrived to get a pic of our motorhome in our camp site. This place was VERY nice. I actually wish we had been able to stay here a little longer. It was a very fast stay. No picnic tables, but everything else was really nice. </i></div>
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<i>And then we crossed into Nevada, which isn't worth taking photos in my humble opinion. Just dry, dead, depressing desert & depressing Las Vegas.</i></div>
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<i>And then we crossed into California. There's a whole lot of nothing out here, not much to take pics of. And I actually ended up falling asleep, which is very rare for me.</i></div>
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<i>How my kid entertains himself on long drives</i></div>
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<i>We always stop here when we pass through Barstow. Great shoes, socks, etc. We love Timberland!</i></div>
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<i>One of the MANY reasons I love travelling by motorhome. You can be so totally comfortable during the long drives. </i></div>
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<i>Of course we had stop & go traffic to welcome us home!!</i></div>
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I have a school memory book (sort of like a "baby book" but for preschool thru 12th grade). Once we're done I will finish off the preschool portion of it. <br />
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A couple of weeks into summer school I will order the caterpillars for raising into butterflies. <br />
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"Summer School" will be very different from preschool. I haven't planned in any 'book work' for Lil J, just lots of reading aloud & discussing, observing, & hands on activities. So I'm sure he will be resistant to the change of pace at first (he always is), but hopefully he'll be able to enjoy it. And hopefully he will transition back into K easily come August. <br />
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That is all for now.........Frau Guten Taghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16653229285252138595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326781648220704566.post-50746100614930770002014-04-09T12:30:00.001-07:002014-04-09T14:54:15.777-07:00RV Life-Santee Lakes<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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We took another weekend trip recently. We had been trying to come up with a plan of where to go. We had been looking at Lake Owens (it's North of us, 4-5 hours, east of Sequoia), but ended up heading to the San Diego area instead, which is about 2 hours south of us. I had not been feeling well & hubby was hesitant to take a trip at all. But I was insistent that we still go on a trip. I'm not gonna be feeling well either way--whether I'm at home or on a trip. So long as it's just 'us' (& I don't have to be playing hostess to anyone) I would rather be not feeling well on a trip than at home like I always am. Oh how I love the mental break I feel from just getting out of the house, even if only for a weekend. Being a stay at home mom is a challenge for me in that sense. Don't get me wrong, I love raising my son & homeschooling my son, but at times I sure do get sick of always feeling stuck in the house. </div>
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So hubby had found a couple of places he wanted me to look at & for me to choose one. I did not have time to do this & so I ended up telling him to just pick one & he did. On Thursday I had headed to the RV storage place & turned on the fridge. This was our very first trip where the fridge was properly chilled while I packed the RV & when we took off on our trip. On Friday morning I took Lil J to his swim lessons & then I came home & packed the RV. My back was KILLING me (still is) so I had to do multiple small trips of packing, rather than piling up large loads of stuff & getting done fast like I normally do. So it took me a lot longer to pack for this trip than it usually does. Then when hubby got home from work in the evening we took off. Before leaving we got Lil J ready for bed--brushed his teeth & put him in his PJs. He was very tired on the way there, but didn't want to lay down in his bunk & go to sleep. We got there just before 10 PM & thank God we did, as there is no more access in after 10 PM! I snapped this pic of him trying to stay awake on the seat at the table, I was rubbing his leg in hopes of putting him to sleep. </div>
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We stayed at the Santee Lakes Recreation Preserve. I believe it said they had a total of 7 lakes. We didn't get to see all of them. It was a very nice place to stay, I would definitely recommend it. We did have an attempted (failed) break in into our motorhome on Saturday, but that can certainly happen ANYWHERE.</div>
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On Saturday we saw these ducks playing in the stream. The one downside to this place is that the water is not clean. There are warnings everywhere to not drink (& even to not TOUCH) the water. I have to wonder about the health of these poor ducks. (the whole weekend I constantly saw people of all ages in the water splashing & playing & fishing, etc--it really freaked me out)</div>
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There were lots of playgrounds within this whole place, but this was the only one that was close to our campsite/campground. We spent some time here on Saturday morning, letting Lil J have some fun. Unfortunately a large portion of this playground was closed, it appeared that they were installing this new equipment, which I thought was pretty cool. I've been to A LOT of parks with Lil J & have never seen pirate ship playground equipment before. Too bad it wasn't open for use yet. </div>
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And Lil J buried his feet in the sand, LOL, he thought this was <i>sooooo</i> funny</div>
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This was the first lake we saw as we went exploring</div>
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They had lots of cabins for rent around this lake, but they also had a few of these "floating cabins", which I thought was pretty cool. And these floating cabins came with their own boats, one boat per cabin, included for unlimited boating on the lake. </div>
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Lil J really liked this trailer that had a Buddy with a flag on it. I think it was called the Americana (or was it the Patriot?). I have never seen this brand of trailer before, can't remember what state they were from.</div>
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We rented a pedal boat (they had pedal boats, canoes, & kayaks). And we bought a bag of duck food for $1, which I thought was really cool. It was hard for me to take pics, but this was Lil J feeding ducks. I can tell by his cheek bones in this pic that he was smiling really big here. He really enjoyed feeding the ducks.</div>
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We got to go under this bridge, which Lil J & I thought was really cool</div>
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This was the best shot I could get of hubby taking a break & me doing all the work LOL</div>
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We saw lots of pairs of ducks like this. I don't know if one of these is the male & one is the female perhaps. It just seems funny that there were so many "couples" exactly like this.</div>
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This is a little blurry, but this bird was being very silly, strutting around with his wings like this. He was doing this for at least 5 minutes. Lil J was cracking up, saying "he's trying to be like Batman!!", which made it even funnier!!</div>
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When you toss them food & it goes under the water they go hunting for it, LOL "Bottoms Up!"</div>
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This guy was begging for food</div>
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For a little while Lil J sat on daddy's lap & leared how to pedal the boat. Then for most of the ride (we rented the boat for an hour) he sat between us & learned how to steer. He did a really good job of steering the boat, I was very impressed.</div>
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This is the bird that was trying to be like Batman.</div>
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This was our boat.</div>
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Lil J exploring little caves</div>
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Daddy/Lil J silliness on the way back to our campsite</div>
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Lil J being silly with my sunglasses</div>
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Lil J spent some time playing with this little girl, Ava (6) & also her brother Addison (10). They were extremely nice kids. Their license plate was from Washington, but they said they had been travelling so long they couldn't remember how long even. Their dad seemed to have a business selling things on the internet. And for some odd reason the little girl, Ava, had an accent (sounded like Boston to me) but her brother did not. Here, in these trees, they were playing "boyds" according to Ava. Lil J couldn't figure it out & I had to translate it to "birds" for him, LOL.</div>
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There are so many things in life that you take for granted......until you're faced with food related issues. The amount of those things quadruples when you're a mother of a kid with food issues, rather than it just being YOURSELF that is dealing with said issues. Play dough is most definitely one of those issues when you are a mother of a child with gluten issues.</div>
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Such a simple & seemingly harmless part of every child's life--play dough. It makes me cringe with fear. And I would bet that every mother who has a child with gluten issues feels the same way.</div>
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Last summer when I was setting up needed supplies for our homeschool preschool I bought some play dough.....but I always keep it out of my son's reach. We use it for school & only when I'm right there watching him & then I have to take it away from him & make him wash his hands three times. And even then it isn't completely off of his hands. So I have to remind him constantly to not put his fingers in his mouth or anywhere near his face. It's very stressful for me. </div>
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Prior to learning that my son had gluten issues I use to make him home made play dough. I'm sure there are many recipes out there, but I used one from the book "Super Baby Food" by Ruth Yaron. It calls for: </div>
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I had made this many times for my son. But once we went gluten free I tossed out all wheat flour & certainly won't handle wheat myself for any reason. </div>
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Since going gluten free I've tried to find recipes to make gluten free play dough, since all the ones in the stores contain gluten. All the recipes I've found required cooking it on the stove & none of them turned out well at all. </div>
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A couple of weeks ago I was going through my bookcase, trying to get rid of unnecessary books. I stumbled upon the Super Baby Food book & was going to put it in the giveaway pile, since my son is no longer a baby & I never cared for the baby food ideas in it anyways, but then thumbed through it & saw that it had a lot of great birthday party ideas & other creative ideas in the back. So I decided to hold onto it. As I was finding a place to put it I saw the flag for the play dough recipe & I realized that this was where I had gotten that recipe from. I knew I had made it before, but couldn't remember where I had found the recipe. It suddenly occurred to me that I could try to <i>convert</i> this recipe to gluten free, rather than trying to find a gluten free recipe elsewhere.</div>
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Today I gave it a try & I am so very pleased. So here's my gluten free version of the above recipe:</div>
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I actually bought the King Arthur flour mix when I first realized I needed to be gluten free. I knew nothing about gluten free flours & flour mixes back then. I had impulsively bought it & then when I got started baking, the cookbook I was using taught me how to make my own flour blends & I have always done so. So today, when I decided to try my hand at the play dough, I decided to finally put that box of flour mix to good use, LOL!!</div>
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When I first started mixing it I noticed it was pretty mushy. The gluten in the wheat flour is what gives wheat dough it's structure. Xantham gum (or guar gum & sometimes other things like psyllium) are used to imitate the gluten. I always find that xantham gum gives the best results, at least with loaves of bread. With other items, life muffins or cookies, you can get very decent results with guar gum or psylium. </div>
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I recently purchased the unit study on Godly character through literature that I plan to use over the summer. I am also planning to return to Leading Little Ones to God for the summer. And I want to cover The ABCs of Handling Money God's Way over the summer. (on a side note: I am planning to reuse these items each summer for at least a few years; I do think repetition is an important aspect in learning important things. Additionally the character study comes with 2 sets of books-one for K-3 & one for 4-6, even further extending the use of the study)<br>
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So today I sat down with a calendar & I see that we'll be finishing up preschool the week of April 14th. That weekend Lil J will have his 5th birthday. So my plan is to take a week off after his birthday & then start up 'summer school' (though it's technically 'spring & summer school') the week of April 28th & it will last 12 weeks. Then we'll have 2 weeks to kill & Kindergarten will begin on August 4th. It's possible that I may decide to take a week off somewhere during summer school & then we would only have 1 week off before starting Kindergarten, which I would prefer. <br>
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I also looked at how much material was in each of these books I want to cover & split them up over the 12 weeks. I am still planning to do school Monday thru Thursday, as we are currently doing. So I will do Leading Little Ones to God each day, Monday thru Thursday. I will need to cover 2 lessons in this book some of the days to get thru the whole book in 12 weeks--but the lessons are short, that's totally doable. 2 days each week we will spend on Godly Character thru Literature, covering 2 lessons per week. 1 day each week we will cover the money management book, doing one chapter each week. These chapters are super short, so that's very easily doable. And then I have one more day left. I'm not entirely sure (& probably won't be until we actually get going & see how it goes) but it will probably be some sort of Spanish & possibly Lil J reading as well. <br>
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So that's it for now.....in the coming weeks of preschool we will be covering more of Jesus' miracles, Jesus' parables, Jesus' teachings, Jesus' ministry, preparing for Jesus' death, Jesus' crucifixion & resurrection, Jesus' resurrection & ascension, the spread of the Gospel, & we finish off with the Apostle Paul. Frau Guten Taghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16653229285252138595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326781648220704566.post-30866251536809638292014-02-03T16:30:00.003-08:002014-07-27T18:06:27.075-07:00RV Life-On The Road Again<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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We are not allowed to keep our motorhome where we live, our HOA doesn't allow it, so we have it in a storage facility. Upon picking it up we realized we had had a mouse visiting while it was in storage. Thankfully we had just had it home for Christmas time & there was no evidence of that then, so we know it hadn't been there very long & it didn't appear to do any damage, aside from building a nest with our toilet paper! We set a trap & never caught anything, so I think it had already moved on prior to us picking up the motorhome from storage. Unfortunately this meant we had to wash all our dishes....just to be safe. From what I hear it's a common problem when keeping RVs in storage facilities, we will have to do more to deter them in the future. A friend of our's used to store her trailer in the same storage facility & she told me they had never had an issue there, so we had mistakenly thought it wasn't going to be an issue. She had said it's more of an issue when you store it parked on dirt rather than pavement.</div>
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And then when hubby hooked up the water at the camp site it caused water leaks in the kitchen faucet & behind the toilet!! It really felt like everything was going wrong at this point, but we handled each issue as it came. We ended up unhooking from the water there & using what we had in our freshwater tank. That seemed to slow down the leaks. Hubby was chatting with our camp neighbor (from Oregon) & he said we needed a water pressure regulator valve when we hook up to protect our motorhome. We ended up realizing we had one, we just didn't know what it was. We have sooooo much to learn!!! (& we still need to buy a surge protector also!) On our first trip, back in September, we noticed that the heater was kinda noisy, but it worked well aside from the noise. It was the same on our trip in November. But on Saturday night it quit working completely. It had been getting noisier & noisier & we had said when we get home we need to have it looked at it......and then it wouldn't work anymore, at least not without making tons of noise like it was going to blow up. Not to mention no one was going to get any sleep with all that noise going on. We shut it down & our neighbor from Oregon came to our rescue & loaned us an electric heater to use for the night. It was VERY cold in Yermo, even in the daytime, I don't think we would've made it there during the night without heat. We will definitely make sure we have an electric heater stored away in case of future emergency (granting that we have electric hookups!). </div>
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<i>Of COURSE we had to ride on the mining train. When we got to it they were out to lunch. While waiting we went on a mine tour (1000 foot tunnel I believe it was), which was really cool. It was a package deal that included the mining tunnel, panning for gold, & the mystery shack. We did the mining tunnel & then the train & then panning for gold & then the mystery shack. Somehow I didn't get pics of any of those things though, aside from the train. (I got really sick in the mystery shack though & had to exit early there & I don't think I took ANY pics after that) While the 1000 foot tunnel was really cool (& I remembered it well from my childhood--major flashbacks!!) the panning for gold wasn't worth paying for in my opinion, especially in the freezing cold water. And the mystery shack would've been cool, if I hadn't gotten sick. Be warned! I do not remember this mystery shack from my childhood for some reason. </i></div>
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<i>Sunday morning we hiked up a hill & this was our view of our campsite. The bottom pic is zoomed in. </i></div>
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<i>In the top 2 pics: Lil J was REALLY proud of himself for climbing this hill all by himself! On our hike we found several small caves (probably leftovers from mining tunnels), the bottom pics here were Lil J exploring one of those caves.</i></div>
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<i>My hubby didn't care much for the cemetery & didn't understand why I wanted to see it. To me it's just as much history as the rest of the ghost town is. There was a lot of interesting head stones, etc in here. And I was surprised to see some deaths as recent as 2005 & 2008 in here. And there was a 2 year old that lived 1895-1897 & it had fresh flowers on the grave. I really wondered who was still visiting that grave. </i></div>
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<br />Frau Guten Taghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16653229285252138595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326781648220704566.post-41346872182268490632014-01-13T16:47:00.001-08:002014-01-13T16:50:14.247-08:00New Year's Resolutions, etc.......I've been MIA for a little bit......allow me to explain.........<br />
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I haven't blogged since last year. I've never been big on New Year's resolutions, but the past few years I've been making some. I've always been annoyed by New Year's Resolutions because people always get so serious about them & pledge to do all sorts of stuff & usually before the end of January they've completely given up. I've never wanted to be one of those people, however, being a perfectionist, I usually do pretty good at them, even when I say "I may not do it, but I'm gonna give it a try" or something along those lines.</div>
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<b><u>Resolution #1:</u></b> <i>I am planning to read my Bible in a year.</i> <br />
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My church does this each year together as a congregation. I did it 2 years ago I think. I don't know that I could commit to this every single year. I'd like to do other types of daily Bible studies sometimes, so I'm thinking doing this one every other year might just be the ticket, allowing me to do other Bible studies on the alternating years. Or, perhaps, as my child matures I'll be able to have more time in the Word & will be able to do both. Anyways, I am only 13 days into this, but I am doing very well. Most days I'm up at 4 am & I workout, shower, spend time with God, & then sometimes have a little free time until my son is up--which is usually around 6:30-7am-ish. There have been a couple of days where I didn't get it read before my son got up & I just told him I needed to read my Bible & he allowed me to do so. I was very proud of him!!</div>
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My church always offers a "book of the month" & every December they offer the "One Year Bible" as the book of the month. I prefer to do the reading out of my own study Bible, so I headed to a Christian bookstore & got myself a schedule for reading the Bible in a year (it was a pamphlet & it came with 3 or 4 different schedules for reading it in a year--I'm following the one that my church does--a little Old Testament, a little New Testament, a little Psalms, & a little Proverbs each day). [On a sidenote, one of the years at my church they decided to do the Chronological reading of the Bible in a year; my pastor said it was SOOO hard & he would probably never do that again, LOL]</div>
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When I did this two years ago I did it in the YouVersion app on my phone. But I REALLY don't like e-books. Especially the Bible, I really want to read this out of my own study Bible.</div>
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However, my hubby decided he wanted to read his Bible in a year also (neither of discussed this with each other, we both just decided to do it on our own & then were excited to find that the other was going to do it also) I showed him my schedule but he wasn't really liking that. He tried to do it from the YouVersion app, but was disappointed that they don't offer it in NKJV. So he ended up buying the 1 year Bible from our church--it's interesting, I never thought about it, but it's set up where you don't have to flip all over the place each day. I told him everyone is different & if he likes it that's all that matters--but I still prefer my study Bible, LOL. </div>
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I have to say while I enjoy reading my Bible each day, even more I enjoy being able to discuss it with my hubby, because he's reading it also!!</div>
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">Resolution #2:</u> <i>to get back in shape.</i> <br />
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Sometime late in 2012 I stopped working out regularly. This coming after like 21 years of consistently working out--pretty shocking, I know. I was really struggling health wise, from a lot of different angles. I felt like my body needed a break to be able to heal. There were several times that I tried to get back on the fitness horse, but each time it seemed like my health would start back pedaling. I'm determined to succeed this time & so far I'm doing ok--aside from some anemia (it would seem that the damage gluten has done to my intestines is pretty severe & may never heal at this point). I am doing Suzanne Bowen's Barre Amped & Leah Sarago's Ballet Body so far, though if I find myself bored that will change. I really do love these workouts though. They are both slightly different & I feel like I couldn't choose one over the other. (I also have some that both Leah & Suzanne did together)</div>
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">Resolution #3:</u> <i>To spend less time on the internet.</i> <br />
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I honestly don't do much on the internet--I basically just check email & instagram & blog on occasion. I do enjoy Instagram a lot & I never have an issue keeping up on there. Pretty much the only contact I have with Facebook these days is what I get in my email--which is mostly just posts on groups that I'm in. Oh yeah, I do try to keep up with a couple of blogs on my blog reader app, although I do fall behind frequently & sometimes can never get caught up & just mark everything as read & start all over again LOL. </div>
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Anyways, we did start back homeschooling on December 30th. My hubby works A LOT & didn't get New Year Eve's or New Year's Day off, so it didn't feel much like a holiday & I didn't take a school break for it. For now I'm enjoying not feeling pressured to document everything we do in school for the blog. I'm sure at some point I'll resume blogging, though probably not every single week--maybe I'll do a monthly blog on it?? I don't know, I'll see how it goes. </div>
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Frau Guten Taghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16653229285252138595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326781648220704566.post-51277544289540063982013-12-19T09:20:00.002-08:002013-12-19T09:20:14.721-08:00Homeschool Preschool--Unit 17--The Time of the KingsI am using Heart of Dakota's Little Hands to Heaven curriculum, Bob books emerging reader books, various forms of Spanish, & reading aloud, usually from the chapter books &/or the Bible for my 4 year old son.<br />
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This week focuses on the letter N, & the kings Joash, Hezekiah, Josiah, & Job.<br />
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We started off Monday with a new fingerplay. We read in the Bible about Joash. Lil J practiced writing "N" & "n". He did 'count on me', drawing pillars in each box & counting each box & then all pillars. He read a Bob book. We did Spanish & then we colored a coloring sheet about Joash. Then we did our songs--a song about Israel & our usual 3. Later there will be reading aloud, from Christmas books & also from the Bible. <br />
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On Tuesday we continued with our fingerplay. We read about & discussed Hezekiah. Lil J did "hide & seek N". He read a Bob book. We did Spanish & our songs--a song about Israel turning back to God & our usual 3. Later I will read aloud from Christmas books as well as the Bible at bedtime. </div>
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On Wednesday we continued with our fingerplay. We read about Josiah in the Bible. He read a Bob book. We did both devotionals for the letter N. On a piece of paper I demonstrated what he needed to do--eyes, Bible, & smiley face--representing Josiah's eyes, the Bible, & Josiah's smile. It was masking tape "N" day, which my son loves--he had his monster trucks drive on the N today. We did Spanish & colored a picture of Josiah & did our songs--a song about Israel turning back to God & then our usual 3 songs. Later I will read aloud from our Christmas books & also from Luke in the Bible at bedtime.</div>
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On Thursday we finished off the week with our fingerplay, combining days 4 & 5. We read about God's people turning away from God, marrying women who didn't believe in God. And we read about Job. We did a lot of discussing of what we read, there were a couple of activities that I skipped here. He painted the letter "N" & wrote "N" & "n". He read a Bob book, did Spanish, & did our songs--a song about Israel turning away from God & our usual 3 songs. </div>
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Frau Guten Taghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16653229285252138595noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326781648220704566.post-6896845356519629492013-12-12T10:07:00.001-08:002013-12-12T10:16:51.587-08:00Homeschool Preschool--Unit 16--Elijah and ElishaI am using Heart of Dakota's Little Hands to Heaven, Bob books emerging reader books, various forms of Spanish, & reading aloud, usally from a chapter book, for my 4 year old son.<br />
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This week focuses on Elijah, Elisha, and the letter M.<br />
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On Monday we started off the week with a new fingerplay. We read about Elijah in the Bible. He read a Bob book. He wrote M & m (& he wanted to N & n also). He did 'count on me', drawing birds in each box (birds representing the ravens that fed Elijah). We did Spanish & our songs--a song about Elijah & our usual 3. This is still an area where I can't really find crafts that correlate, so I found a coloring sheet that went with today's Bible reading & he colored that. I don't really mind though because I've been super busy with holiday stuff & finding crafts & doing all the prep work that goes along with extra crafts would be a bit much right now. He's never really been into coloring, so I joined him on this one to help make it more exciting for him. Later I will read aloud & I will for sure be reading aloud at bedtime from the book of Luke. I have to say I really love reading to him at bedtime. I think I will continue reading to him from the Bible at bedtime even when Christmas passes. He is so calm & he really is listening, as he comments on certain things. <br />
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On Tuesday we continued with our fingerplay, we read in the Bible about God sending down fire for the sacrifice, Elijah being taken to heaven on a chariot of fire, & about the widow with the never-ending oil supply. I combined days 2 & 3, to make for a 4 day school week. We did a lot of discussing of what we read, we did masking tape "M" & a "bean M". I left out a couple of things, but added on a worksheet. He did Spanish & read a Bob book. And we did music--a song about Elijah & our usual 3. Later I will read aloud, probably from Christmas books, which I did yesterday, & then reading from Luke at bedtime.</div>
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Yesterday I sat down & went through the remainder of the school year (we are about half way through or close to it I guess, it's a 33 week curriculum) & pulled up coloring sheets to go with each week & printed out the "count on me" pages, the "hide & seek" pages, & "color" pages that are coming later on. I organized them all by unit & day & put them in a folder. It feels like such a weight off, knowing that it is all done & planned & I can truly just grab & go for the remainder of the school year. I am also feeling burned out on crafts, but I think that may pass after some time off from it, & especially now that all the rest of the planning & organizing is completely done. It now leaves me time to possibly find a craft & do all the planning & prep work involved. But even if I don't return to doing crafts I still have lots of coloring sheets that I printed off the internet, to go along with what we are learning. I am wondering if I should make sure I buy next year's curriculum early enough for me to do all of this before we begin, but I don't know that next year's will need this. It looks like A LOT, so I don't think I'll be needing to add on extra stuff. And printing pages out won't take all that long, if that is all that's needed. </div>
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On Wednesday we continued with our fingerplay, we read about Elisha telling the leper to wash in the river 7 times to be healed. He did 'Hide & Seek M'. We did a drawing activity where I demonstrated & Lil J copied my demonstration on his paper. There's been activities similar to this before & from what I recall they never made much sense to me, but this one I actually understood. We were to draw red circles at the top of the paper--these represented the lepers sores. Then we drew a river in the middle of the paper--this represented the river he washed himself in 7 times. Then we drew a happy face at the bottom--this represented that the man was happy once he was healed. Of course my silly son had to draw a happy face AND a serious face--because he might not have been happy ALL THE TIME he says. Then he read a Bob book, & then we did Spanish. And then we did our songs--no song to go with today's lesson, so just our usual 3--books of the Bible, God made the universe, & 10 commandments. Later I will read aloud from Christmas books & at bedtime from the Bible. </div>
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On Thursday we finished off the 4 day week with our fingerplay. We read in the Bible about angels watching over Elisha. We did our devotionals--I'm still using both--I really like ABC Bible Verses, but my son really enjoys the illustrations in Big Thoughts For Little People, so I include it also. He wrote "M" & "m". We read some scriptures in the Bible about angels & discussed the fact that we are not to worship angels, but only God. He read a Bob book, we did some Spanish, & we did our songs. There was no song for today's lesson, so we just did our usual 3--books of the Bible, God made the universe, & 10 commandments. Later I will read aloud, probably from Christmas books, & then from Luke in the Bible at bedtime. And that's a wrap for this week!</div>
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Frau Guten Taghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16653229285252138595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326781648220704566.post-18360788260328060532013-12-05T08:46:00.000-08:002013-12-05T08:46:14.320-08:00Homeschool Preschool--Unit 15--King Solomon<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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After taking a week off to focus on Thanksgiving, I must say I was quite eager to get back to our regular schooling. My son seemed to feel the same way. I had worried that time away might lead to him being more lazy about it or not wanting to do it, but that didn't seem to be the case at all I am pleased to report.</div>
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On Monday we started off the week with a new fingerplay. I decided to read the Bible reading from both my own NKJV Bible as well as from Lil J's own Bible that came with the curriculum & I will continue to do so from now on. This curriculum is written to be used with any Bible--it lists the Bible reading in a standard Bible as well as the 2 Bibles they offer with the curriculum (they offer 2 to allow you to choose which one best fits your child's age & abilities). So I read out of my Bible & then out of Lil J's Bible. Then there was a "math activity" where I had a pile of pairs of shoes & Lil J had to sort the pairs & put them together & tell me which was largest & which was smallest, etc. & also which pair of shoes belonged to who in our family. I don't really see that as being math per se, but it still seemed like a good learning activity so I did include it. The point of it was that Solomon was wise & knew how to match the baby with it's own birth mother (what we read about in the Bible today). Being a review week, I had Lil J write all the review letters, A-L. And then I had him write his numbers as well. Then we did an activity where we draw a blue cloud at the top of the page, a red smiley face in the middle, & a yellow rectangle at the bottom, representing the temple Solomon built. The cloud represented Solomon's dream, where God came to him in a dream. Then Lil J read a Bob book, then we did Spanish, our songs (a song about Solomon, a song about Proverbs, & our usual 3), & then he colored a print out page about Solomon. I seem to have reached an area in the Bible where it's really tough to find crafts to go along with it. So I was able to find this coloring page on Solomon & I settled for that as an add on activity. Later I will read aloud. The reading of Little House in the Big Woods has been put on hold for now....I've been doing a lot of library books instead. And since it's December now, I've started my tradition of reading a chapter of Luke each day, beginning on December 1st & I've been reading it aloud to my son this year.</div>
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On Tuesday we continued with our fingerplay. I chose this day to combine days 2 & 3 together to make a 4 day school week. Yesterday seemed too busy to do so, so each week I will look for the lighter days to combine together. We read about Solomon building the temple, we did a lot of discussing about what we read. Being a review week I let Lil J choose what letter he wanted to decorate on paper (he chose A & chose to decorate with "o"s) & what letter he wanted as masking tape letter on the floor (he chose B). Then he read a Bob book, we did Spanish, & our songs--a song about Solomon, a song about the temple, & our usual 3 songs. All in all it was a very good day & I look forward to having Friday off! There was an activity I skipped, building a temple out of food--it's in our curriculum & I had also found it when searching online for craft ideas. I just have such a hard time with wasting that much food to do that. I'm sure that's probably silly of me, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I will read aloud later on today.<br />
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On Wednesday we continued with our fingerplay. We read more about Solomon in the Bible. We did letters I-L review in our devotional (for reviews I ONLY use ABC Bible Verses), he did Hide-n-seek Review. He did Count on Me, drawing 2-3 crosses in each box & counting up each box & then all of them together. He read a Bob book, we did Spanish, & then our songs--a song about Solomon, a song about the temple, & our usual 3 songs. I will read aloud later today.</div>
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On Thursday we finished off the week with our fingerplay, we read about Solomon turning away from God, we did some acting out & discussing of what we read in the Bible. Being review week he again wrote letters A-L & I had him write his numbers as well. He read a Bob book, then we did Spanish, & songs--a song about Solomon, a song about Proverbs, & our usual 3 songs. Later I will read aloud from something, as well as from Luke in the Bible, as the Christmas season is upon us. I've been reading from Luke right before Lil J goes to bed & I love it. He's so calm & still & it's so nice. Anytime I read to him during the daytime he's running & wiggling or swinging on his swing, etc. If I question him I find that he is listening, it's just distracting to ME when I'm reading & he's all over the place. </div>
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My hubby's job doesn't allow for much time off. The most he can take off at a time is one week & he can only do that 2 or 3 times a year I believe. And when he does do that it takes him close to a month to get caught up again when he goes back to work. So we mostly plan to take lots of weekend trips in our motorhome. Our goal is to do so once a month. And that means we have to stay fairly close to home. We didn't manage to go anywhere in October (early September was our week long trip we took right after buying the motorhome in late August). But we did head south to the San Diego area for our November trip. We stayed at "Chula Vista RV Park". It was nice & I would recommend it, BUT someone we spoke with there said there was another RV Park in the area that had lots of fun stuff for kids, so if we do go back to San Diego again I think I'd rather stay where there's fun stuff for my son. This place was nice, but geared more for senior citizens it seemed. It was a little like the place we stayed at in Las Vegas--where some of the people were living in there long term & lots of people in there knew each other & played bingo there, etc. I guess this sort of thing is pretty common, it's just not something I ever recall seeing when I was a kid travelling in our motorhome. </div>
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This was our campsite, if it's called "campsite".....I'm not really sure what to call it, but it had a picnic table to the rear of the motorhome, overlooking the bay. {My hubby originally had planned to stay Friday night & head home on Saturday.....but I really wanted to stay Saturday night & head home on Sunday. Our original reservations were for Friday night only. On Saturday morning we asked about staying an additional night. They were able to accomodate us, but had to move us. So first we stayed here, right on the bay. Then we moved to a site overlooking the marina. It was actually nice to have had both views. And the site overlooking the marina just seemed more roomy to me. But somehow I forgot to take pics of the second site.}</div>
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This was the view from the picnic table behind our motorhome.<br />
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The blue dot on this map shows where we were, right on the bay</div>
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My kid, being silly as always--climbing the ladder.........</div>
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..........hiding under the motorhome..........</div>
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We took a walk on the marina</div>
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My son was excited to see this cat sunning itself on the dash of a neighboring motorhome (later we saw a second cat doing the same--I don't recall ever seeing people travel with cats in a motorhome!)</div>
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All in all it was a very nice weekend away. We look forward to more trips like this as well as more longer trips. My hubby says he is definitely addicted to RVing & I have been since I was a kid. Lil J sure does love it as well, he was so sad when we went back home & returned the motorhome to the storage facility.</div>
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<br />Frau Guten Taghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16653229285252138595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326781648220704566.post-34201764543001549102013-11-25T16:45:00.002-08:002013-11-28T07:46:14.453-08:00Squanto<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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I got this book several years ago & have read it each year to my son. I don't remember where or how I learned of it, but I really do like it. Plus it's a true story. I always love a great true story. If you've never read this book I recommend it highly. You just might want to make it a family tradition each year. :)</div>
<br>Frau Guten Taghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16653229285252138595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326781648220704566.post-43194587632622495302013-11-25T15:58:00.002-08:002013-11-27T07:15:10.267-08:00Gluten Free Thanksgiving<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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Most of the time my hubby & I have hosted Thanksgiving at our house. My hubby was already doing that when I first met him & had been doing so for quite some time. I have always allowed him to do the turkey, but I used to always do all the sides, which can be exhausting.</div>
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At some point we decided we were tired of hosting it every year & we took a break for a couple of years & then it was sometimes yes & sometimes no. Last year was supposed to be at our house & then I got the flu from my son & my poor hubby was on his own cooking & he transported everything to his sister in law's house! I felt so bad but I was incredibly sick & couldn't even get out of bed for more than a trip to the bathroom. </div>
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This year we are hosting it again. I like to prep as much as I can ahead of time to keep the day as <strike>sane</strike> enjoyable as possible. I realize most people don't cook from scratch, but I like to & also need to in some cases. </div>
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So for this year my plans are:</div>
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Monday--made gluten free bread flour mix, make cornbread, make 2 loaves bread, make pie crusts, chop celery & onion, & cube & toast corn bread & bread.</div>
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Wednesday--Bake 2 pecan pies & 1 triple berry cobbler, make gravy, saute celery & onion & assemble stuffing (minus broth)</div>
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(My sister in law is bringing yams & a green salad, so that lessens the amount of work I have to do!!)</div>
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Neutrogena Naturals Face Wash</div>
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Spry Xylitol Rinse (ALL Spry products are gluten free)</div>
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Everyday Minerals makeup (I use some of their eye shadows)</div>
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Everyday Shea Lavender Lotion (the unscented variety is also gluten free, but I've seen a lot of reviews online saying it smells awful)</div>
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Alba Botannica (do not keep tabs on the presence of ANY allergenic ingredients/contaminants)--I was using quite a few products from this company, am still using one that I'm trying to find a replacement for</div>
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I am using Heart of Dakota's Little Hands to Heaven, Bob books beginning reader books, various forms of Spanish, & reading aloud (usually from a chapter book) to my 4 year old son.<br />
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This is the continuation of unit 14, since we only accomplished one day of the unit last week & then I got sick. So on Tuesday we continued with our fingerplay. We read about David bringing home the Ark of God in the Bible. We had a craft in the curriculum where we made the Ark out of a small box. (I used a mouthwash box) This was 'masking tape L' day--which my son loves. He had his little toy turtle walk all over the "L". We were then supposed to dance around & sing praises to God carrying the Ark we made, but I decided to just incorporate that with our song time at the end of school time. So we moved on to reading, he read another Bob book. And then we did Spanish & then our songs--a song about Psalm 150, the books of the Bible, God made the universe, & the 10 commandments. Later I will read aloud.<br />
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I had meant to do a craft on this day, but we didn't do it. It was really cute, making David's harp. But it just seemed like it wasn't meant to work out for us. It had a lot of prep work involved, which I was working on 2 weeks ago, because we were supposed to be doing this school day last week. And every step of the project had things go wrong for me. And then I had needed to buy yarn, to make the strings of the harp, & it seems I never got around to doing that.....so I just decided today to just let this one go. It's not the end of the world. <br />
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I've recently purchased a few new makeup items that are gluten free.....Cover FX pure pressed mineral foundation & erase paste concealer by Benefit. Buying makeup is a rare thing for me these days. And I'm happy to report that I'm really liking them.<br />
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I saw Rebecca Black using them & reviewing them on YouTube & I really liked what I saw. For anyone interested in Gluten Free living I highly recommend looking up Andrew Cordova & Rebecca Black--they have a podcast, a magazine, & are both on Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, Instagram (I LOVE instagram), etc. As a woman I really appreciate Rebecca sharing info on beauty products. There's so little info out there on those types of products. These two people do what they do simply to help others, they don't make money on any of it, they just love to help people & they do a great job at it. They have helped me tremendously. I must say I am really not into podcasts. Podcasts & videos are super hard for me to watch & listen to with my son. But I make a point to follow their podcast because it is so full of useful info. I highly highly recommend following these two if you have any interest in the gluten free life. Frau Guten Taghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16653229285252138595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326781648220704566.post-26526248017212130902013-11-20T09:12:00.000-08:002013-11-24T08:13:45.989-08:00Preschool Apps & Modern Technology in Preschool Learning<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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I'm pretty picky about not letting my son play on my phone or the computer. I know there are a lot of educational apps out there & people get so excited, saying how smart it's going to make their kid. I'm pretty picky about sticking with old fashioned type ways of learning. When I homeschool my son we use actual BOOKS. </div>
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The one exception I've allowed is when it comes to learning a foreign language. I do want my son to be fluent in both English & Spanish. And since I'm NOT fluent in Spanish I struggle to teach him. If I was fluent I could simply just talk to him in Spanish, but I am unable to do so. We do practice Spanish words & I do read aloud to him in Spanish. Even if I don't know what I'm reading my pronunciation is still very good. But I feel I'm lacking, so I have downloaded an app on my phone that teaches Spanish. We don't do it a lot, however, it's just an occasional fun thing. It's great when we're stuck somewhere & he's getting antsy. Or if I'm under the weather & need to keep him entertained.</div>
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And I am planning to order a CD Rom program of Spanish instruction when my son gets a little older. Of course I am also planning to do Spanish workbooks as well, when he's old enough to do so. I do feel like the modern technology really helps to reinforce a lesson like this in a way that I personally am unable to do so. This is a tough one to simply learn from a book alone. </div>
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Our library books were due yesterday. So we headed back to the library to return them. After our last visit I took a look at the library's website. There were a lot of neat features there, one of which was that you can request a book from another library in the same county. </div>
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I can recall my first trip to the library. And I can recall the very first book I ever checked out from the public library. (I cannot remember what I first checked out in my school library--I remember loving the school library when I was in elementary school. I do recall some of the books I checked out from the school library, but not the very first one.) Obviously it's a very old book & is no longer in print today. I have looked for it online before, to try to purchase it, but wasn't successful at finding it. The library we've been visiting is very new & doesn't have this old book BUT another library in the same county had TWO copies!! I put in a transfer request for the book. A few days later I received a text message on my cell phone telling me that it was available & would remain available until a certain date. The final date of availability was after the due date of the first round of books we checked out, so I decided to just pick it up when I returned these books.</div>
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I must say that back in the early days of library use things were very different than they are today. Back then there were no computers. There were the drawers of cards listing each book. I have no idea if requesting books from another library was a possibility back then. But there was no internet to do it from home like I did! I must say that I REALLY REALLY REALLY miss the card catalogs at the library. I have actually never learned how to look up books on the computer systems. So I usually just browse at libraries now, rather than looking up anything specific. (I did, back in the 80s I think, learn how to use the computer replacement of the card catalog, BUT it was a weird microfilm type system, which no longer exists today.)</div>
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Anyways, I grabbed the requested book, then took a browse in the book store. We grabbed 4 books (for $4!!) & then headed to the children's library section & picked out some more books to check out. Last time we checked out a Franklin book. We already have 3 Franklin books (from kids' meals at Chick-Fil-A) & my son REALLY likes Franklin. He loves turtles in general & really enjoys Franklin books as well. This time we checked out SIX Franklin books & then a Little Bear book (my son loves watching Little Bear & has one Little Bear book).</div>
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This was the very first book I ever checked out from the public library. I can remember my first trip to the library when I was a kid. And I remember how much I loved this book. I have looked for it over the years online, to purchase, but it's obviously out of print by now. The library my son & I have been visiting didn't have it, but we were able to request it from another library branch in the same county. That branch actually had TWO copies of this! I'm excited to be able to share this book with my son. </div>
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At the root of a lot of it is selfishness. As you peel back the layers of our sinful hearts selfishness is at the root of most of it. It is appalling how selfish we all are. I know I've mentioned the book "Respectable Sins" in the past. It is really eye-opening in regards to this topic. I am planning to re-read it soon, although that will take a while with a 4 year old underfoot. I get precious little time to be able to read & most of that is limited to my Bible & devotional, as it should be. </div>
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<strong>FOR TODAY: </strong>Monday, November 18, 2013<br />
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<strong>Outside my window...</strong> it's clear, sunny, with a high of 68 F, although I must say it feels much warmer than that to me<br /><br /><b>I am thinking... </b>about gluten & how challenging eating at people's houses is going to be for the rest of my life & my son's life<br /><br /><b>I am thankful... </b>for my son--motherhood has taught me sooooo much<br />
<br /><b>In the kitchen...</b> not much going on.....last week I was fighting a bad cold (sinus congestion & sore throat) & yesterday I was 'glutened'....so I"m not gonna be well again for some time now<br /><br /><b>I am wearing...</b> my pink Hummer tshirt & black sweat pants<br /><br /><b>I am working on...</b> getting well enough to take my son to the zoo<br />
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<strong>I am going...</strong> back to the library tomorrow.....have to return the books we checked out & I requested a book from another library & it's supposed to there for me<br /><br /><b>From the learning rooms.....</b> no school since a week ago today has occurred, but I'm planning to pick it up again tomorrow<br /><br /><b>I am reading...</b> nothing aside from my Bible & devotional....but I want desperately to finish off the book my pastor wrote, Turn Around At Home<br /><br /><b>I am hoping...</b> to recover from this glutening episode in record time!<br /><br /><b>I am looking forward to...</b>Thanksgiving!! I LOOOVE Thanksgiving, I love to cook, I love to eat, & it's fast approaching.<br /><br /><b>I am learning.........</b> that I need to put my health & my son's health of great importance & do whatever I can to protect our health from gluten<br /><br /><b>Around the house...</b> no housecleaning taking place today.....trying to rest & recover.....laundry is in full force today<br />
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<strong>I am pondering...</strong> Christmas plans<br /><br /><b>A favorite quote for today...</b> The name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous run into it & they are saved ~Proverbs 18:10<br /><br /><b>One of my favorite things...</b> playing with my son<br /><br /><b>A few plans for the rest of the week:</b> Praying hard that I can take my son to the zoo, and a library trip tomorrow<br />
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<strong>I am praying for:</strong> lots of friends & familyFrau Guten Taghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16653229285252138595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326781648220704566.post-72261968562566198712013-11-14T11:59:00.001-08:002013-11-16T06:48:35.697-08:00Converting to gluten free products--part 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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I know I posted before that I was switching over to gluten free body wash, shampoo, conditioner, & lotion. I am so grateful to Costco for selling body wash, shampoo, & conditioner that is gluten free, paraben free, sulfate free, etc, etc. They are not the most natural of products, but they are much better ingredient-wise than most of what you find in the average store & they are effective & super affordable. Having difficult hair as I do, I have to say that many of the natural hair products just don't work at all for me. And many of the natural body washes don't lather well. And I absolutely adore the Everyday Shea lavender lotion I am using. <br>
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I am little by little trying to determine what is & isn't gluten free that I'm using. It feels a little overwhelming to try to figure everything out all at once. It almost seems impossible as well. I know that seems like an unbelievable statement, but it's really hard to stop & think of every single product that I come in contact with. It's sort of a gradual realization over time as I'm using each product. <br>
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I'm close to eating gluten free for one year now. And it's been challenging but I feel I have learned a ton of stuff about eating gluten free in the past 11 months or so. <br>
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And now I'm feeling I should ensure that everything else I'm using is gluten free as well, whether it enters my body or not. (Especially for my son, but he's very simple--just body wash, shampoo, lotion, toothpaste, & mouth washes) I did contact Neutrogena Naturals regarding a face wash I use by them--I use this one when I'm wearing foundation because it has a makeup remover built into it, which isn't very often these days. They did verify that it's gluten free, although they couldn't guarantee that no cross contamination occurs along the way. Since I don't use it very often, & I know that statement is mostly to cover their butts in a legal sense, I feel ok with continuing to use it. (Most restaurants that offer gluten free menus also have the same legal disclaimer, that they cannot guarantee the foods are gluten free, but in most cases I don't react & I am very sensitive)<br>
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My toothpaste is clearly labeled gluten free, so I didn't have to check on that one. I am surprised that more products aren't labeled as gluten free when they are in fact gluten free. Especially the brands you find in health food stores.<br>
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I did contact Alba about my face wash a while back & I never got a response. So I contacted them again, this time including other Alba products that I use in the question--unpetroleum, sun screen, lip glosses & lip tints. I had actually never realized how many Alba products I use! I am hoping they all check out as gluten free.<br>
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We use 3 mouthwashes/rinses. I decided to ensure that these are gluten free, especially since they go in our mouths (Lil J only uses 2 of the 3). I was thrilled when I went to the website for Closys because it clearly states gluten free on the main page of the website, in big & bold print. I had never heard of this product prior to reading the book "kiss your dentist goodbye" & I had no idea that it was such a healthy & natural product. But based on what I read on their website it certainly is. I just wish it wasn't so hard to find. I emailed listerine & spry to check on the gluten status of the mouthwashes I use from them. Listerine responded saying that I need to call them on the phone with my question. I should be able to do that this coming week. <br>
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I was fighting a cold recently & as I took my dimetapp that I take for sinus congestion I found myself worrying that it might not be gluten free. I didn't have a reaction, but still called pfizer the next day & they verified that all of the dimetapp products do not contain gluten & there is no risk of cross contamination. Thank God for that since the liquid children's cold & allergy formula is the only thing that helps my sinuses!! <br>
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And for now that's all I can think of that I haven't checked on as of yet..........my makeup is gluten free, well all the bare minerals stuff I use.....my everyday lip balm is also......but I'm waiting to hear from Alba about the lip gloss & lip tint that I use for special occasions. (if my lips are extra dry I use the alba unpetroleum on them, so I'm also really hoping that one is gluten free as well)<br>
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<strong>FOR TODAY:</strong> Monday, November 25, 2013<br>
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<strong>Outside my window...</strong> It's sunny & clear....,& in the 30s!!!<br><br><b>I am thinking...</b> About life & relationships & how good God is--I feel like I've been punished for years for something I hadn't even done & the truth is finally being revealed-my God is restoring the years the locusts have eaten so to speak. <br><br><b>I am thankful...</b> For my life, my family, my friends, my son<br><br><b>In the kitchen...</b> Tons of prep work for Thanksgiving begins today<br><br><b>I am wearing... </b>Jeans & a red Levi's tshirt<br><br><b>I am working on...</b> Thanksgiving preparations.......my mind is racing<br>
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<strong>I am going...</strong> To spend my day in the kitchen, aside from swim lesson for Lil J & laundry <br><br><b>From the learning rooms.....</b> School is breaking this week-hopefully we can do some crafts & definitely will read the Squanto book<br><br><b>I am reading...</b> Nothing aside from devotional & Bible.....no time :(<br><br><b>I am hoping...</b> To get lots accomplished today so tomorrow & Wednesday can be much easier days <br><br><b>I am looking forward to...</b> thanksgiving, I so love this holiday, it's not a big flashy materialistic holiday-just about reflecting on thankfulness & gratitude & eating with family & friends<br><br><b>I am learning.........</b> How to be more flexible, it's a good thing<br><br><b>Around the house...</b> Need to do some small things on our motorhome (our other house)--hopefully before our next trip<br>
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<strong>I am pondering... </strong>What the future holds<br><br><b>A favorite quote for today...</b> "Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness" Proverbs 25:5<br><br><b>One of my favorite things...</b> Cooking & baking--plenty of that this week<br><br><b>A few plans for the rest of the week:</b> Thanksgiving prep, crafts, swim lesson, church on Wednesday<br>
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<strong>I am praying for: </strong>lots of family & friends Frau Guten Taghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16653229285252138595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326781648220704566.post-66245690396480649022013-11-14T11:28:00.001-08:002013-11-19T08:45:36.346-08:00Learning Styles<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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Back in 2006, when I was in college, in the LVN to RN transition class to be exact, we had a guest speaker one day. Surprisingly, it had absolutely nothing to do with nursing or medical anything. But it amazed me & will always be one of the most informative lectures I've ever sat through. </div>
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The speaker was just a guy whose expertise was in people's learning styles. Since nursing school is tough (crazy tough--20 super long chapters of reading every single night & tests on those 20 chapters every single day) our teacher felt it would be beneficial for us to be able to study more effectively & that's why she had this guest speaker join our class. </div>
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I can't remember all the details & the guy had brought quizzes, etc, to help us determine how we best learn, but I do remember being amazed that some people learn best with absolute silence & others learn best with lots of 'distractions'. Everyone is different & if you can determine how you best learn you can maximize how/what you learn. </div>
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Pretty cool stuff if you ask me. And I can clearly see in my son that he needs lots of sensory stuff/distractions going on while he is learning. But knowing what I do, I can help maximize his learning rather than yelling at him & forcing him to learn the same way I best learn, which would not be to his advantage at all. That sort of makes me think of public schools & that's probably a big part of why it's such a failing system.</div>
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When SB48 was passed into California law my pastor decided to put up a fight. He began a statewide campaign. When the government passes a law without the public voting on it we have the right to collect signatures. And if we collect enough signatures we can get the law on the ballot to be voted on by the public. </div>
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Sadly (& shockingly I might add) we didn't get enough signatures to repeal SB48 & it was put into law January of this year. </div>
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So once again the government (or should I specify that Governor Brown was the responsible person) passed AB1266 into law. Once again my pastor jumped into action. My pastor feels that when he stands before God & is accountable he can at least say that he tried to fight the evil laws, irregardless of the outcome of the fight. </div>
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This time we have collected enough signatures--so long as the government doesn't find a loophole. Apparently for any error in the signature collection paperwork the government will automatically deduct 15% of the total signatures for each error. This could be someone signing on the wrong county, someone signing more than once accidentally, not filling out their info properly, etc. </div>
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