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I got hooked on sewing blogs a little while ago! And they all hook into one another, so you only need a couple to start with. I find them particularly great for cute little projects and nifty ideas for smaller things--you'll find a lot of free tutorials on how to make them too!
I like Sew, Mama, Sew
Angry Chicken (more crafty, but plenty of sewing)
Montessori by Hand (check out her patterns, yum)
The Handmade Dress if you like heirloom sewing and crochet--a fellow homeschooler runs this one!
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High school was OK. Well, 9th grade was pretty much the worst year ever, but otherwise it was pretty good. I went on a study abroad my junior year. I had good friends, wasn't popular, got decent grades.
As an adult, however, I've realized just how bad my HS education was. It was close to useless, and sometimes worse. Algebra II was pretty good, but otherwise, bad bad bad. I was totally unprepared for the big-time college I got into, and I think I missed a lot because of that. I think I simply had no clue that there was more to education! Sure, it wasn't very interesting, but I had lots of books and my exchange year.
So one reason I homeschool is to improve on that in the academics. It would be hard to do worse; we've already surpassed most of my official grammar knowledge (in R&S 3). But mostly I do it because I'm hooked on the classical thing.
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From an adult perspective: my mom used to enjoy memorizing poetry when she was a girl. She can still recite yards of it--all of "The Night Before Christmas," "The Housewife's Lament," all kinds of fun stuff. It even helps her at work since she is--a storyteller. (And librarian.)
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We've done a lot of field trips to match our studies, but one thing I really love is the field trips put on by the local college. All year they have a series of cultural performances, and you can buy child tickets for the evening performances -- 5 tickets for $25. They also have field trip performances in the mornings, and tickets are $3 each. So we have done some of each this year, and it's been great. We've seen Celtic music, kung-fu monks, ballet, all sorts of good stuff.
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OH! You are a GENIUS! Yay! This is going right on my wish list. Thank you!
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Sadly, I can't get your url to work. Is this it? It's pretty cool. Love it.
I'm a stitcher who hasn't stitched in a while, but I just got a good pattern I'm looking forward to doing. I'd love to get a good one for the schoolroom. My futile quest is to design my own pattern with the motto of the Madras Library: "To be literate is to possess the cow of plenty." Only I need an Indian-looking cow or something and I'm not having much luck.
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Private Message. Look up at the top right corner of your screen, under where it says "Welcome, Julie in Austin."
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I chose "break out my own bunny," but actually I break out the big rocky road egg that I much prefer! The bunnies we buy are made of the same Guittard's chocolate that I have pounds of in the freezer, so I have plenty of my own if I need it, just not bunny-shaped.
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Oh, I so sympathize. We have the nut/peanut allergies here too, and I'm very suspicious of raw eggs (yolks) as well, so I would also be very worried! Hm, the only thing I can think of is biscuit dough (such as Bisquik with milk added, no eggs). You could make it sweet by adding cinnamon and sugar landscaping...maybe jam for lakes? It would rise in baking, but not that much.
Or pie crust, that might work in a similar way. Oh! How 'bout a gingerbread recipe for making houses; they leave the eggs out because that makes it too cakey! I have a recipe for that--I'll type it out if you like.
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OK, I'm glad you got them out. From now on, always put a drop in before you try to grab the contact out. It makes it much easier. :)
:blink: <--person who can't get contacts out
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Joanne, I'm another one who isn't understanding your posts. You say that your methods do all these things, which is great, but I'm not seeing them described so that I can use them.
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Eyedrops. Flood the eye with drops. You don't say if she's been using them, but you can't get them out dry at this point. Put in a lot of drops several times for several minutes, then try again (put in drops right before she grabs at the contacts).
It can take a while to get the hang of it.
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We have a lot of books around the house; it helps a lot that we can rifle through the library donation table and my mom does too. We get a lot of free or very cheap books, one way and another. My mom has a huge collection of folk/fairy tales, classic childrens' lit, and so on, too, and I'm not too shabby in that dept. either.
We check a lot of books out of the library--I currently have 83 checked out--and since I work for the library I don't pay fines (whew!). (Being a volunteer will frequently get you out of fines too! Even just once a month!) I do keep track of them online and we have a ~monthly Book Hunt where we track down every single library book and account for all of them.
Also my daughter is willing to re-read a lot, which helps. I don't even know how many times she's read the Little House books, but she's probably got them memorized.
When I started library school my husband said that he thought it would help us in raising our family. We had not thought of homeschooling at that time. Boy was he right. ;)
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This is a pretty new version for younger kids--6 and up maybe? My girls have enjoyed it (in fact, my mom bought a copy for the library with their names in it as a Christmas present).
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Ha, well, you have my sympathy. I think my method of "yanking kid out" in your situation would be to ask a friend to keep an eye on the happy younger kid (I'm assuming that there are other moms there too), yank out naughty kid, and go sit in the car. He can sit in the car, I'll hang out nearby with my book. We'll go home after everyone's done.
I can't actually think of a better logical consequence any more than you can; no entertainment sounds fine to me.
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It sounds like you handled yesterday just fine; I'm sorry everyone's been sick.
When we have a sick kid, one of us--whoever doesn't have responsibilities--stays home with her.
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Gosh, I haven't read them since college! Where did you get copies?? (Did you get copies?) I would love to read those again. I enjoyed them, but let's face it, I was 19. So I don't know if they were incredibly well-written or anything. I don't remember a whole lot of plot points, but if you're asking about how clean they are, I'm sure there is some off-color humor in there. They were about the same as the TV shows in that respect, I think.
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The Engineering an Empire series was great.
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I've seen quite a few online. I've been looking at the offerings for baptism dresses for my daughter, and they overlap a lot. There are some nice simple ones as well as the more elaborate dresses. Don't worry, you still have time!
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I've done it a couple of times, and it comes out great. Just let it sit all day with whatever you want to put in the pot.
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You wash the diapers on a hot load with bleach. It's not a bad idea to line-dry them and then fluff them in the dryer--the sun is a disinfectant too. But if you don't like the idea of washing them yourself, you could always get a diaper service--they take the dirty diapers away and give you lovely sanitized ones, it's like Christmas every week.
I'm sure you've washed dirty baby clothes in the laundry before. You don't throw away that cute outfit just because there was an explosion--you rinse it off and wash it and wear it again.
Does that help?
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Wow. There are so many things wrong with that--I can see having an hour or so for board games but a whole afternoon for individual video games that the kids might not even own? I would definitely keep my kid home for the day; we could read a neat book together, go on a nature hike, and play our very own board game! (Or heck, we could go shoe shopping, it would still be a better use of time.)
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Oh wait, there's a really awful one. The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark is a fictional book that pretends to be real until the end, at which point it tells you that no, it never happened but wouldn't it be neat if it had? Grrr.
Here's the copy from Amazon:
Although it is billed as "legend," Deedy's (The Library Dragon) WWII story raises disturbing questions regarding the importance of historical accuracy. Here Denmark's courageous King Christian responds to the Nazi edict that all Jews must wear a yellow star by wearing a yellow star himself, and his act inspires his subjects to do likewise. Deedy's writing is vivid and lyrical, but in an afterword she acknowledges that her story is "unauthenticated" and that no Danish Jews were "forced" to wear the yellow star. As Ellen Levine points out in her recent Darkness Over Denmark (Children's Forecasts, June 26), the order about the star was never issued in Denmark. Where Levine cited the false story of the king's yellow star to explore the facts about Danish resistance to the Nazis, this book, in perpetuating a myth, clouds history; it also deflects from the country's most famous act of resistance in rescuing the overwhelming majority of its Jews (the afterword reports that Danes smuggled over 7,000 Jews to Sweden in fishing boats). Ultimately, despite the graceful prose, the insight offered into a dark era and Danish artist Sorensen's magnificent oil paintings, the book's fundamental flaw is difficult to overlook. Ages 8-12. (Sept.)
European girl's clothing patterns? Sewing...
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You might like to start with the smaller American companies too--there is a lot online. However, if you're brand new to sewing, you're going to want to make a few simple pieces first to get your skills going! The simplest pattern can be given flair with a good fabric and interesting details.
Here are some interesting pattern sources:
Here's a list of indie pattern companies stocked by this online store. Lots of style here!
Here's a list of a whole lot of heirloom pattern companies--mostly old-fashioned elegant (or foofy), but also some very cute simpler outfits, so look through them.
Sense & Sensibility don't have chic flair, but they're a lot of fun.
Ottobre is a Euro sewing magazine that has a lot of chic patterns for girls. Be warned that European patterns work differently--you have to trace them yourself and add seam allowances.
Japanese patterns are wonderful--but almost always in Japanese. I've only seen crafty books translated so far. You have to be able to use them as inspiration.
Hope that helps you get started.
(Also, what was your Japanese book? There's one I want...)