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March 29, 2007
Heather L
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Munchkin Garden

Posted in Family, and Homemaking

It was still a beautiful day today even though the temps had dropped back down to the 60s. We worked on the garden some more. I moved the seating area that I had put down by the water over by the shed by munchkin’s garden. You can see munchkin’s garden next to the shed in the background. The 2 end tables I picked up today for free. They were originally black and gold. I spray painted them white to match the other pieces. (We still need to finish painting the benches. We want them to be all white.) Here’s munchkin…

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March 28, 2007
Heather L
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Works for Me Wednesday: Kids Garden

Posted in Family, and Homemaking

This year, we’re really trying to grow our own fruits and veggies. While we haven’t had much success in years past, we’re hoping that square foot gardening/container gardening will yield us some crops. My daughter loves to help with gardening, but the large tools are too big for her. Today, I found real, kid size gardening tools. She was in heaven and had to test them out as soon as we arrived home. Now, the reason for our outing was to allow her to pick out the plants for her very own garden. All too often we forget that kids…

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March 28, 2007
Heather L
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Today’s Math Lesson

Posted in Family, and Homeschooling

What do you do when it’s over 80 degrees outside? It’s a beautiful day and you child can’t focus on schoolwork because they want to be outside??? Well, today we took the schoolwork outside — onto the pavement to be more accurate. Today, we were talking about improper fractions and common denominators. So, I wrote out the problems with sidewalk chalk on the pavers. Eureka! We had a winner. She loved doing her math problems this way. Our work on adjectives quickly became a game of sentences about describing plants and trees around us. It was a lot of fun…

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March 26, 2007
Heather L
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Marriage Monday: Encouragement

Posted in Christian Life, and Family

For this week’s Marriage Monday over at Fruit in Season, we are being asked to talk about ways that we lift up and encourage our husbands. This is one that I can easily write about as D has recently told me some of the things that I have done recently (and in the past) that really encourage and lift him up. It’s always nice when we get a nice little bit of help in that area. One of the main ways that I can really lift up and encourage my husband is by making sure our daughter and our home…

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March 25, 2007
Heather L
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Lazy Day

Posted in Family, and Thoughts

(picture of crane taken by Munchkin from our backyard) Today, the sun was shining through the window, but I didn’t want to wake up. I had a difficult time sleeping last night due to a horrible headache and it still lingered this morning. Munchkin decided to wake up early this morning. I slowly climbed out of bed and made her some breakfast. I put on a movie for her to watch (I know bad mommy….), took some Tylenol, and went back to bed. She tried to let me sleep; she really did. But, it wasn’t meant to be. Alas, I…

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