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Learning to Make Homemade Skin Care ProductsHomemade Natural Lip Balm and Body Scrub
July 18, 2012
Heather L
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Learning to Make Homemade Skin Care Products

Posted in Homemaking, and Homeschooling

Munchkin is having fun with her natural health class. This week, she’s learning about natural skin care products. As she’s looking at products to avoid (and why), she started to get more excited about making her own skin care products with natural ingredients. The first thing on her “to do” list was cleaning out some old lip balm containers as she was going to be making her own lip balm. The funny thing was that cleaning out the lip balm containers was a longer process than actually making the lip balm. She was pretty proud of the end result. She’s…

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USS Midway
July 3, 2012
Heather L
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USS Midway

Posted in Family, Homeschooling, and Military Life

While we were over in San Diego spending time with Grandma and Grandpa, we decided that we would visit the USS Midway. To make the trip even more fun, we hopped on the ferry in Coronado and road it over to San Diego. We explored the ship, learned a bit more about aircraft carriers, and enjoyed listening to the World War II veteran. We all agreed that we wouldn’t really care to live aboard the ship – too close quarters for us. 😉 Poor Daddy had to duck pretty much the whole time we were on board except when we…

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Putting Together Homeschool Courses
June 12, 2012
Heather L
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Putting Together Homeschool Courses

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Over the next few days (weeks?), you’ll probably see a few protected posts on the blog. You may be wondering what is going on. Well, I’m working on putting together homeschool courses for Munchkin. Because Munchkin is working fairly independently now, I need to assemble all her course work (as much as possible) in advance. We’ve tried a variety of methods of presenting assignments, but I’m beginning to see that she likes having everything laid out up front. This gives her an idea of what to expect for the class itself. Basically, she likes to have a “college style” syllabus from which…

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