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My High School Graduate
I write the following post for myself of our homeschooling journey. However, I hope it’s of benefit to others as they will reach this stage all too soon. We’re beginning a new journey and although our story is not a perfect one (as you’ll read below), real life rarely is. We’re human; we make mistakes. Inevitably. But we serve a God who has all in order and who makes all things perfect in His time. We rest in that. Our Story – My first son, Seth, has finished high school. It happened rather unexpectedly. You might think that very strange and I hesitate to even write it because it does sound rather odd. …
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Public Speaking – One of the Most Feared Activities
Over four thousand people gathered this past weekend at out state homeschool conference. A great many speakers were brought in but my personal favorites were Teresa Moon and Mary Schofield. Teresa Moon spoke on Public Speaking and Coaching Cultural Communicators. Some of the things we heard were: "Nothing we do is done without communication." and "Only 5% of Americans are ready and willing to take the public platform." How often do we see people in public who cannot speak intelligibly, who only give mono-syllabic replies? Or if they’re like myself they have to battle shyness and cannot seem to get those words out because their mind is in a half…
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The All-New Bluetooth Phone
Kids imaginations are just the funnest. The other day my daughter showed up at the kitchen sink to wash dishes with her new bluetooth phone. Copyright 2008 Treasuring the Moments
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Waters Alive With Movement
My son found a thread-like worm moving in a mud puddle the other day. When he brought it home I thought he had a piece of black wire or something similar in his hand but THEN I SAW IT WRITHING. It just constantly writhed back and forth. We put it in a jar with water to observe it some more (even though I’m completely repulsed by it, I just had to keep watching it). We found out it is a Gordian Worm or it’s also known as a Horsehair Worm since it looks like a piece of hair from a horse. They are parasites that can live inside an insect and you find…
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Glad to Be Home
We just got back from driving over 4,000 miles. My poor hubby drove it all himself since we had a big trailer on the back and he didn’t feel comfortable with anyone but himself behind the wheel. Don’t you just feel for me not being able to drive? Our journey’s took us to a youth camp where we enjoyed ourselves immensely and then to my parents where we loaded up their furniture in the trailer we were towing to bring it back to Nevada. They’re going to be only 6 hours away from where we live. What a treat for me since they’ve always been so far away. It almost feels…
