Marine Corps Nomads

March 28, 2007

Today’s Math Lesson

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…

Tackle It Tuesday: Closets

Posted in Homemaking

Click on image for link Whew! It’s hard to believe it’s that time of week again; time to post another tackle. I have to admit that this week’s tackle was a bit easier than the last couple of weeks (thankfully). This week, I’ve been tackling re-doing some of the closets. They all need to be updated to meet our needs instead of the previous owner’s. So, without further ado… The master bedroom before and after photos: The master closet has matching plastic storage drawers on both sides that the previous owners left behind in the garage. The closet organizer was…

March 27, 2007

Heather L

Make It From Scratch Carnival #6

Posted in Homemaking

The entries are in over at Stop the Ride for the Make it from Scratch carnival. There are all kinds of yummy treats and creative ideas to see this week. You can see my entry here. Munchkin and I had a lot of fun filling the planter boxes with plants that will hopefully turn out to yield yummy fruit. To find out how you can participate in the Make It From Scratch Carnival, head on over to Stop the Ride. Next week’s edition will be a Make It From Scratch for the 1st time edition which means that you will…

Quirky Quotes Contest Entry #2

Posted in Commercial Break, and Thoughts

My second entry into the quirky quotes contest is (first quote and more detail can be found here): “Courage is endurance for one moment more…” ~Unknown Marine Second Lieutenant in Vietnam ************************************************************ As you can see, I decided to do one quote for myself and one quote for my husband. I also wanted to post a few extra quotes in honor of my husband… * “The United States Marine Corps, with its fiercely proud tradition of excellence in combat, its hallowed rituals, and its unbending code of honor, is part of the fabric of American myth.” ~Thomas E. Ricks; Making…

Quirky Quotes Contest Entry

Posted in Commercial Break

Here’s another fun contest that anyone can enter. It’s easy to do. Just “post your favorite quote to your blog by midnight on Saturday March 31st, in an entry entitled “Quirky Quote Qontest Entry”… to see the rest of the details, head on over to So Much To Say, So Little Time and tell her that I sent you. The great thing is you can actually enter the contest twice. Plus, if you refer someone over to the contest, and they give your name, you receive another vote (more about the voting in the entry details). The prize? Your blog…