It's been a long time since I ran this - just thought some new readers might be brave enough to give this a whirl - especially with summer weather here. The best $25 I ever invested was in a Wahl hair clipper kit seventeen years ago when I had four sons under 6. …
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July 4th at our house - Maddy off to Walpole Island
http://mommylife.net/archives/2008/07/july_4th_at_our.htmlAwesome July 4th at our house with 26 people and complete chaos - but happy chaos - all day. Sam and Kip, my five grandchildren, Josh and Hattie, Zach and the six Curtis kids still at home, a couple of Sophia's friends and a family with five kids we've been wanting to get together with from church. …
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WALL-E - Pixar does it again!
http://mommylife.net/archives/2008/07/wall-e_-_pixar_does_it_again.htmlHaving raised kids in the 80s and still raising them today, I'm here to tell you that one of the major perks of being a parent now is kids' movies. Every parent I know looks forward to the next Pixar film, holding our breaths: Bugs? Fish? Cars? Robots? Can they do it again? Can they produce yet another classic? …
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Freedom’s Price
http://www.nothinggold.net/blog/archives/1011in the 2/7 are back in the USA. When the bus full of exhausted Marines, anxious for a familiar embrace and the promise of a home cooked meal pulls into the depot, we will be there - at the edge of the world on soil that is still free. HT to Barbara at MommyLife
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Really Boring Bookmarks, General
http://milehimama.blogspot.com/2008/07/really-boring-bookmar...Unschooling and Planning Homeschool Curriculum Reviews Planning the School Year - Footprints on the Fridge Dawn's File Folder System Parenting Small Manual of Civility Manners in the Catholic Home HealthyToys.org When Mom/Teacher Role doesn't work Food A Little Cookbook for Girls Frugal Abundance Practical Pantry everything you ever wanted to know about the staples Whole Wheat Cinnamon Rolls No Fail Pie Crust Calcium Requirements Catholic Finding God
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Random Musings
http://blogmuse.blogspot.comGay pride and politics - a wake-up call for families
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Charming the Birds from the Trees
http://charmingthebirdsfromthetrees.blogspot.comThe past six months have found our family (at least mama and daughter) getting more and more interested in and being introduced to homeschooling. I've been reading books by Barbara Curtis and perusing websites all the while getting more and more interested in combining Montessori and Waldorf homeschooling methods and mixing them up with our Faith to make up our own kind of Orthodox Mondorf
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Our First Foray into Homeschooling...
http://charmingthebirdsfromthetrees.blogspot.com/2008/07/our...picking one thing to work on and then practicing it until we can do it... right now, we are working on making the Sign of the Cross. It was so neat to see her learn how to get a blessing from a Bishop or Priest!I am going to continue working on some Small Beginnings exercises with our daughter. She loves to do them and the skills that they teach are invaluable!So, that's the plan! I am sure that we won't be able to do everything every day, but I have a goal and I feel like this is the time for us to see how homeschooling
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Link Likes
http://wittingshire.blogspot.com/2008/07/link-likes.htmlproblem of evil ("the evidential problem of evil is the problem of determining whether the existence of evil constitutes evidence against the existence of God"). Barbara Curtis brushes up against the same issue, in a painfully personal way, in Family Skeletons (not a post for children): ... when I wondered why God had let those terrible things happen that happened to me as a child, I almost immediately understood how they had been used to shape me into the woman I’d become. I loved the story of Joseph, who
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AllisonYokeley.com
http://theriveraccess.com/allisonyokeleyBlogroll Holly Furtick Joey Yokeley Mommy Life Piedmont Down Syndrome Support Network The River Church
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Bosom Buddies, or better put… WHAT IS IT WITH THIRD CHILDREN?
http://www.oneordinaryday.com/2008/06/20/bosom-buddies-or-be...s not their fault. They were born into COMPLETELY different families and they have TOTALLY DIFFERENT personalities, and yet, they are BOTH CRAZY. Maybe it’s beyond their control. I’ve decided to call it the Third Child Syndrome. I just read this
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Birth Order
http://theriveraccess.com/allisonyokeley/?p=12Mommylife and Joey and I were cracking up. We definitely see our family in these situations.
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parents responding to self-injury
http://jankern.com/2008/06/16/parents-responding-to-self-inj...through. I’m sorry I didn’t understand you, and that I wasn’t there for you.” Simple words. They meant the world. For more about responding to self-injury, check out Mommy Life Blog, where I posted a guest blog on Sunday, June 15th, called Responding to a Child’s Self-Injury. Please feel free to leave a comment or to contact me if you have your own story to tell of your parents’ response to your self-injury. What helped . . . what didn’t.
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