September ’13

Reagan’s art from TC-

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Giving and receiving love from Dixie…

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 Celebrating Aunt Mona’s birthday-

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Watching the city’s fireworks from Mona’s back porch (an annual tradition)!  It is usually around July 4th, but this year it was postponed because of weather until a few weeks later.

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Emmy told me that she colored a “tat”.

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Writing sight words-

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Papaw Meredith spent some days in the hospital, but kept a good spirit about him.  We thank God for his healing.

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Do you ever see angels drawing hearts in your driveway?  I do!

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Another Thursday zoo trip for Emmy and I-  The otters are my favorite exhibit at the zoo.  I love how they interact with the kids.  As anyone can see, we love the photo opps at the zoo!

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Peeking in Reagan’s class-

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Snuggles-

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Walking the dog-

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I sampled Shakeology, but wasn’t really a fan.  It is supposed to be one of the best shake mixes as far as nutrition goes, though!

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Pancakes for lunch!

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Dude wore 8 shirts for homeschool!

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Learning about posessive nouns- (Dixie loved that lesson.)

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“Watch out, Mom!  I’m about to get my swagger on!” – Reagan

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Rea brought a praying mantis to school-

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Here’s Emmy enjoying a Thursday morning nap in the car while we’re in Knoxville.  Don’t be deceived, though!  We have lots of fun one-on-one time on Thursdays.

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Lunch at PF Chang’s

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Chuck E Cheese & Puppy Zone

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Dinner at Wasabi’s- finding other uses for chopsticks.

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Creepy Max-

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Hide-and-go-seek fail-

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On our way to church-

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“The Max Store (story)” by Reagan

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Home school at the park-

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Writing spelling words on ipad-

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Max glued his blocks together.  I guess you could say this is good problem-solving skills?

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Reagan busting down the hallway after a day of school at Thursday Connection-

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Reagan got to help with a commercial for a local walk in clinic.

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Grocery shopping with Spiderman-

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Rea took a frog to Thursday Connection to show, too!

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Max glued his artwork to the wall in his room.

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Finally seeing some muscle after working so hard!!!

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We found the perfect bike for Mr. Giggles (Uncle Jared)!

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Nothing like being squished between two papaws…

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The Miner’s Mile ’13

I ran my first 10K.  My goal was to run it in an hour so I was very close to accomplishing it!

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“The day we played in the mud” – Aug. 31, 2013

I bet many kids have played in the mud throughout their childhoods.  However, as my kids grow up and recall this day, I bet there will be no doubt or confusion as to what day they’re talking about when they say “You know, that day we played in the mud at Gran’s house.”  I was working at the studio when these pictures come through on text.  All I could do was smile.  They loved it.  I’m sure they will never forget it.

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August ’13 happenings…

I am going to be trying to do some major ‘catch up’.  I don’t know how I let myself get so behind. Actually I do know- it’s called three kids, business, homeschool, and life! ha

Reagan’s art pieces from TC!  Her teacher Ms. Margarat Migas is seriously the best at bringing amazing talent out of children.

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Writing spelling words, letters, and shapes in shaving cream-

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Our spelling curriculum “All About Spelling”.  It is a very thorough program.  I really like it- it just takes some extra time to complete the lessons.  We just do AAS every now and then.  I hope to maybe incorporate it more over the summer to help keep her on track.

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My Healthy food-

TJ’s Cinnamon almonds, kiwi, blueberry yogurt with blueberries and flax seed….

And a banana/kale shake (not as bad as you might think!)…

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Stamping out spelling words-

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Emmy making a snake.  Reagan doing her Sonlight LA copy work.  Sonlight’s program believes in hearing, seeing, and modeling good literature in order to teach. Every week has a copy work section where she simply has to copy what she reads.

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Dixie hanging out during home school and then helping clean up a mac n cheese fiasco.

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Mommy/Emmy Thursday Zoo Trip-

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Our first stop to Earthfare “The healthy supermarket” was a surprise when we walked up on the bakery! I wasn’t expecting such yummy treats to be in there! ha

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Emmy always peeks in Reagan’s last class while we wait to pick her up.  She cannot wait until she can go to TC.

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A boy obsessed with plungers (unused, of course! ewww)-

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Sunday Dinner goodness-

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Journaling my calorie intake and burn-

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How about the day I decided I was going to drink a whole gallon of water…  Fail.

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Hanging out of the sunroof of my car on a warm summer afternoon….

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Thursday morning nap in the car-

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Emmy/Mommy Thursday Zoo Trip-

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