The Monster at the End of This Book
How many of you remember this book? I do not know what brought it to mind, but I remembered reading it to my little brother when I was a teenager. It was SO much fun!!
Then I got to thinking that I don’t even own this book, nor have I ever checked it out from the library to read to my own kids!! So, I ordered myself a copy. I couldn’t wait to read it to the kids.
When it arrived on Thursday, I snuck it into the laundry room so the kids would not see it. I didn’t want them asking me what was in my package. You know how nosy kids can be especially when they see a package in the mail. Plus, they were still doing their studies and I didn’t want to distract them. But oh how I so wanted to just say, “STOP! Mom has a book she wants to read.” But I didn’t.
I waited until story hour at 7:30. Usually we start with the Bible, but that day, I announced that I had a book I wanted to share with them. They got curious when I headed [...More]

Donnie is going through the Italic handwriting course, which is going great! I have seen a great improvement in his writing. He is in the third grade, and I never really concentrated too much with him on writing his letters. We did a lot of his work oral up to this point because his writing was so shaky. His letters would come out squiggly. So I figured it was a fine-motor issue.
Well, this year as he was entering 3rd grade, I knew we would have to work and improve on his penmanship because more writing would be required. So, I bought the italic course because it seemed the simplest to do.
I started him out on the first book, the very basic book with just the alphabet. He did a page a day, sometimes two. We made sure he took his time. Sometimes I had him recopy the page on a primary writing pad we had bought some years ago.
He then moved to the second book. And now he is beginning the third book. Even in his everyday writing that he does outside of studies, I can see an improvement.
But as he did his other writing for other subjects on wide [...More]

My daughter made me this cake the other day. I was SO surprised.
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On March 1st, we had snow! We live in north-west Georgia, so this was a treat! Last year when we were closer to Atlanta, we had snow too. As you can imagine, the kids were delighted.
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Geesh, where has the time gone. It has been TWO weeks since I last posted!!
Our Thanksgiving went well. We had SO much leftovers! It was just us this year, me, my husband and our two kids, and I cooked a full fledged meal. If it is ever just us again, I will NOT cook so much. We even took some to my husbands sister and mother.
I thought I would never say it, but I am tired of pie! I even had to freeze our second sweet potatoe pie because we, or I, was just not going to finish it.
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About a week or so ago, MaryEllen made this cute teepee all by herself. She was hard at work drawing, coloring and cutting. I noticed her hard at work at something, but did not know what. When she presented her finished product to me, I was very impressed.

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