tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25044425193507656602024-03-13T01:28:29.409-07:005 minute Mom5minutemomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08647765257848662825noreply@blogger.comBlogger437125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504442519350765660.post-82925674609205496662013-01-25T21:52:00.000-08:002013-01-25T21:52:15.167-08:003 Ways to Reconnect with Your Child<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When you are homeschooling and find that you and your child aren't connecting it's time to take a step back from SCHOOL and focus on HOME.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are a few things that I have done to move forward with my child.</span><br />
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<b>1. Pray</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Spend sometime asking God for wisdom, ideas and direction with your child. Take time to repent for the attitudes, anger, judgements that have built up in your own heart around your current relationship with that child. Bless them in prayer. Start thanking God for all their positive attributes.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. Have a Mediated Talk</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Get the tea ready and perhaps an enticing snack. Sit your child down and ask them what they think of your relationship. Ask them how they feel when the both of you_____ (argue, get frustrated with each other, walk away, etc.) Ask them what they think should change.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just listen. Ask questions and listen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you find that they are hesitant to share, start first. Be short and to the point. (ie. My heart is sad because you and I are fighting/getting frustrated/etc. I want to get along and understand you better.)</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. Make a Plan Together</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I usually come to the table with a lot of ideas, but if we are going to move forward together my child needs to have ownership invested in the plan.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first thing I announce is that any kind of "formal learning" is on hold. I tell them that their heart and their character is more important than science right now. I lay out the plan for the week ahead by saying, "We're going to read and play games. I also want you to teach me how to do something related to your current hobby."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For families who are very curriculum based, this may be hard for you to do. But relax, you can find many games that cover math, geography, spelling, etc.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The idea with game playing is to re-establish having fun together, build memories together and release laughter into your relationship again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some questions I ask are:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What games do you want to play?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What hobby are you currently involved? (In my case, my daughter loves animae drawing, so she is instructing me in how to draw a typical animae eye).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Name two activities we could do outdoors together.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you and I were to cook a meal together, what would it be?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For some families, a question to ask might be, "Can you teach me how to play a certain video game?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What can we build together?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What books do you want to read together?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What audiobook can we listen to together?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once you have come up with enough ideas of things together, plan a time each day that will be "your together time" during the week. Talk with your family and let everyone know that right now you need to spend this time one-on-one with this child. For larger families, work out with the older children a time of working with the younger ones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Enjoy reconnect with your child.</span><br />
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<br />5minutemomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08647765257848662825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504442519350765660.post-68010670281569677072013-01-25T21:22:00.001-08:002013-01-25T21:22:55.964-08:0025 Ways to Overcome Letter Confusion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our brain learns things when we touch, handle and feel things. Most of these ideas are kinaesthetic in their approach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. Use food. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In this example, I used berries and bananas. We ate one piece of fruit at a time while saying a word that began with the letter "D"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. Use your hands to make the shapes of the letters</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. Give the letter a Phonetic Personality</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">4. Glow in the dark letters</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Observe the letter in the dark. Ask the child to close their eyes and to visualize the letter they just saw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Turn the light on and ask them to write it on your hand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">5. Use a geo board</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">6. Press out the letters in tinfoil</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Using sandpaper or in my case, sparkle dust that has been glued onto the letter, have the child trace the letter with their fingers. As they trace it, say the phonetic sound- "Duh". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">10.Using rice, bird seed, shaving cream or salt have the child trace the letter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">12. Use glue and beans</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's not goodbye. It's just, I'll never see you again. -My friend Amber, 1998 <i>(And she was right. I have never seen her since)</i></span><i> </i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How inappropriate to call this planer Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. - Arthur C. Clarke</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A water bucket filled with many different sea mammals</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You remember the way she would bring you hot lemon tea to soothe your throat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She would lay her soft hand on your head and pray words of comfort and healing over you. They would fall down on me like a shower from a bubble breaking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My mama would entertain me with stories of her childhood--wild berry picking, how she met my Dad and their whirlwind romance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I would snuggle under the blankets and hold her hand while she sang to me hymns and old songs from her childhood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This past weekend we were in the city and visited the library there. We tried to show self-control but it was very hard....70 books later, we left.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We chose 5 different books on chemistry as we realized it was a while since we had done anything with chemistry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The book we brought out today is Kitchen Science.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">including the ever popular "string on ice" trick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's funny how excited one can still get after you salt the string and find that you can actually lift up the ice cube. So fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I love youth fiction. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I was a new mother, I needed to read books that were short, but written well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Enter the youth fiction genre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I recently had a friend ask me for some recommendations on some stories of faith for her fourteen year old daughter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are my top picks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I love the spunk that this red-haired, no frills girl has throughout the ups and downs of her life in the Ozarks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">April Grace's life is flipped upside down when her grandma gets a boyfriend, new neighbours from California move into her life and her older sister gets a large dose of hormones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fun fact: this book is set in the '80's and the references to workout videos, big hair and fashion from that decade add to this fun read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jenny B. Jones is my hands down, favourite, I- would-push-you-over-to-get-a-chance-to-meet-her, favourite, favourite,faovurite author.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No one writes comedy like my girl, <i>Jenny B.</i> (see how I make it sound like we are close friends. That's just in case she stumbles on this blog and sees my devotion. Spread the word, friends! I heart Jenny!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's the first in a three part series. The story of Katie Parker, a never-been-to-church, trying to make sense of life foster child who suddenly finds herself living with a foster family who pastors a church.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Katie is trying to restart life, but reality keeps interrupting in embarrassing ways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She thinks she is a temporary kid, but does God have different plans?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fun Fact: I put this book down from laughing so hard. Twice. Belly laughing, friends. The character Mad Maxine is one of my all time favourite characters in youth fiction. She is worth reading all three books for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am just giggling thinking about her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I love Sandra Byrd's <i>Friends for a Season</i> series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has several stand alone stories of two girls who meet and become friends. Sometimes they share the same faith, sometimes they don't. The characters learn how to honour God in their friendships and learn more about who God created them to be. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A lot of fun and filled with all sorts of neat tricks for girls--everything from fun snacks described in the stories to easy hair styles. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b> Island Gir</b>l-a story about a girl who visits her grandparents every summer and has to decide if she is going to live with her father or her mother, once her father returns from active duty overseas. Great faith and prayer lessons in this book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My other favourite book in this series is <b>Chopstick</b>s. Byrd does a great job bonding two girls over their shared faith in Christ, only a serious dilemma arises. They are both entered into the same worship song contest. And there can only be one winner. When both girls desperately need the money and are praying to God to win the contest, what will happen? This book is based on the scripture Philippians 2:3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Robin Jones Gunn wrote these stories in response to the youth group girls she was mentoring. They complained that there were no books around that dealt with girls finding faith and navigating the waters of friends, boys and growing up. Beautiful themes of purity, handling relatives who don't understand your faith and building friendships based on God's word.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I really love that these characters have an active prayer life, a committed role in church and encounter problems in a very real way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I like the Sierra books even better than the Christy books. Mainly because Sierra and I are cut from the same cloth. Sierra is impulsive, blurts out thoughts before thinking them through but really wants to honour God. Can't say enough about this series. Sooooo good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Robin Jones Gunn handles very well the pressures of being a teenager who is trying to be counter culture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Her stand for purity and God go under attack and she learns how to pray for others, make amends when needed and let go when the time comes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And if there is any book series by Robin Gunn Jones that I like better than Christy and Sierra, it's Katie's series. I Loooove this series. I literally read all four books one summer day. My kids got hotdogs and all the juice they wanted as I sat in our back porch summer reading area devouring these great stories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Katie is bold, fun and completely not a girly girl. She is independant and high strung and has a heart of gold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I absolutely love how this character encounters Christ. There are many moments in this book series where Katie is challenged to trust Christ and does so beautifully. There are beautiful moments of healing from a broken relationship with her parents and Gunn Jones masterfully handles a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship in a very honouring way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Spoiler: the character realizes that she and this guy are not really a good fit, but struggles with the fact that she really does love him. This is a dilemma that some girls have faced and I think that it is great book to read together with your daughter and talk about why it is important to really know yourself before going into a relationship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Robin Gunn Jones has characters who don't kiss til their married, don't date til they feel led by God to pursue a relationship that's headed to marriage, girls who do date, girls who choose not to date, girls who are not allowed to date. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This 4 book series is fun and has Savvy dealing with moving to a new area, trying to fit in to a new school while realizing that her old friends are moving on without her. I like the parent/daughter relationship in this book. Very positive, as is the sibling relationship. Savvy's family tries to find a church that is right for them which is a great experience to read about. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The character is very likable and who doesn't love a girl discovering who she really is in London--complete with accents, fish and chips and all things British!</span></div>
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<br />5minutemomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08647765257848662825noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504442519350765660.post-33855891269673951122013-01-03T17:45:00.001-08:002013-01-25T21:25:34.508-08:00Wake Up<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6UpFwnyukOg" width="560"></iframe>5minutemomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08647765257848662825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504442519350765660.post-83096395611193514892013-01-02T07:36:00.001-08:002013-01-25T21:27:31.121-08:00Happy Noon Year!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So tinsel, streamers and ribbons hung from the ceiling</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then it was ten minutes to noon, so we got coats and boots on and grabbed our confetti--popcorn!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We went inside for a smorgasbord of food and started the New Year off with a mouth full of goodies.</span></div>
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5minutemomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08647765257848662825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504442519350765660.post-80308681267697198052012-12-27T15:21:00.002-08:002013-01-25T22:16:27.372-08:00Preparing for the New Year<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: center;">
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God became flesh and dwelt among us</div>
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Glory to God!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And performing Christmas concerts in our living room</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We invited some friends over for a day to learn about the Wise Men from the Nativity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We started by going for a walk and pretending to follow a star.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And we came bearing gifts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We came home to a snack of 3 wise men,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and gifts of frankincense, gold and myrrh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">while my best friend, Lolo B, made camel hump wraps and Iranian Stew.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We read some different stories about the Nativity and Wise Men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Through the Animals Eyes is a unique perspective on the Christmas story, including animals that inhabited the Middle East during the time of Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The book There Was No Snow on Christmas Eve is a great book that sparked discussion on Geography and weather in the Holy Land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We studied the differences between camels from the Orient and the Middle East.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We tried lifting the same amount of weight as a camel holds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(and multiplied it by 20!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After reading about camels, we spent some time playing a game wearing clothes that did similar jobs like a camel`s body does. (ie. backpack for carrying fat that turns to water as it travels, etc.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you find yourself under the weather and under the blankets, like myself today. Here is some incredibly beautiful food to watch (and watch and watch and watch):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today we had some friends over. I knew it would be a good time to learn about gingerbread men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This guy is one smart cookie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He leaps, runs, hobbles and scooches as fast as he can to catch up to his missing classmates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This story has been begged to be read again and again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Very fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This book caused lots of giggles! I love the Gingerbread Pirate. He is quite feisty and ready to defeat the cannibal Santa Claus who is apparently planning to eat the gingerbread cookie crew members!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A good laugh and a sweet ending.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The pictures in this book are so adorable. My seven year old and I have read this over and over. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Such a quaint story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And then my four year old celebrity chef decided to make a concoction of his own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Very inventive, but we all agreed it tasted horrible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We asked a variety of questions and based on everyone's answers they created their respective gingerbread men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> It made for some very creative gingerbread!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Gingerbread Cowboy is a great re-telling of the Gingerbread Man story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's full of Texas-Western themes, animals and antics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A great read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The traditional Gingerbread Man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Classic in every sense of the word. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">While we cut and rolled shapes, we discussed the differences between the stories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Although, very similar there were a few things that stood out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The original story has the fox saying, "My back will get sore if you ride there. Hop onto my head."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This was found to be suspicious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Everyone preferred the logic of the coyote in The Gingerbread Cowboy, who slyly says, "The water is rising, jump onto my head."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When the first batch of cookies was cooked, one cookie was missing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All that was left was a note:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I got bored in the oven. Come find me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So the hunt was on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ginger had ran to his friend Snowman's safehouse and waited there for an opportune moment to...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">escape out the front door!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He was serious about a getaway!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Until our crew members said, "Wait!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ginger stopped his road weary travels to hear their suggestion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He agreed it was a good idea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Instead of eating him, his new friends wanted.... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">to play hide and seek with him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One friend would hide him and everyone else would have to find him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This went on for a very long time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We made a little Catch the Gingerbread board game. The chase was on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gingerbread made it safely to the end without being caught.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I *heart* snowmen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today was all about showing our snow friends a little love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This morning, I woke up prepared to make snowman pancakes. Check out the whipped cream backdrop of snow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I call this one, " Blonde Diva Snow Sistah" (shout out to my sister, Amy. She is my blonde inspiration.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">'Zis is Pierre from France. Ohlala, non?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Banana man was quite tasty as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After work this morning, I came home and set up this display.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then I ushered my kids and asked them a very tough question:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My four year old, the genius, says, "Snowmen, right?!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Correct-o mondo, little genius man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First, we opened our Snowman Assembly Kit and created...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">various works of art,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">using various materials</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">with various hairstyles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We decided to measure things in <strike>carats</strike> carrots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Super fun game!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then we tried making a stacking snowman out of apple and peanut butter. A challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">More snowman art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and a very interesting discussion on how snowmen are nomads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then my daughter B and I invented a game.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is loads of fun. All you need is a transparent sheet to slide the paper thermometer into.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then, using a red erase marker you can draw on the thermometer and move it up and down as the dice indicates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you roll a 2,4 or 6 you move the thermometer up 10 degrees. If you go pass zero degrees, you eat one of the snowmen's marshmallows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you roll a 1,3 or 5 you move down 10 degrees. This is the only way you can save the snowman from melting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As you can see, the heat is high and our snowman is melting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And eventually, he succumbs to his sun-baked fate much to the delight of my daughter's mouth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next we played Word Scrambles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For my early reader, she needed to match and read the words. My eldest had to make the words plural.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And my youngest had to match up the letters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then it was time to visit the Snack Shack--where three grumpy Snowmen were created as well as this poem:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Three Grumpy Snowmen standing out at night</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One said, "Oh gee! My belt is too tight!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The other on said, "Ohh! My belly has cramps!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I guess I shouldn't have eaten that street lamp."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The third one said, " Oh! My tummy feels fat. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I guess that's what happens when you eat your friend's hat."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That gave us an idea....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We enrolled 4 snowmen, who shall remain nameless for the sake of privacy, into the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These four individuals were feeling that the battle of the bulge was hurting their Christmas spirits this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We invited each of them to try our various methods of weight loss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We here at Melt Away the Pounds (M.A.P.) have created a specially formulated plan to remove unwanted weight gain. We use the latest technologically. And since snowmen are made in three parts, it's easiest to just remove that middle snowball, put it through the rigors and then presto-change-oh, a brand new you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We took the snowmen through several treatments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our masseuse Anya will roll you back and forth, taking inches off your waist line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The much talked about Steam Bath Solution allows your middle section to be held over a steaming kettle for 30 seconds to create a slimmer version of you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Fountain of Youth is the simple solution of sitting in cool water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We're hoping to shrink all those unwanted wobbly bits and send you out the door with a rejuvenated look!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let the soothing hot water melt off those top layers of unwanted marshmallow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Start the day off with a new you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's based in the idea of "things will get worse before they get better."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In microwave heat, your middle snowball will be expanded to three, maybe four times, it's original size.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As you can clearly see, the Roll Away the Pounds is the clear winner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Saturday Evening Post has phenomenal art in this <i>Christmas Book for Children</i>.</span></div>
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5minutemomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08647765257848662825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504442519350765660.post-15325955914483716232012-12-09T19:10:00.004-08:002013-01-25T21:32:05.501-08:00Victorian Christmas Songs<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We took out the book: <i>A Victorian Christmas Song Book</i> compiled by Richard Graves from the library.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our family celebrates the Finnish traditon of Pikkujoulu (said Pee-co-yo-lou).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">starts with the first advent Saturday, which is the fourth Sunday eve before Christmas.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This year's Pikkujoulu landed on Decmber 1st.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First, Ann Voskamp's Jesse Tree devotional.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The calendar pictured above is very cool...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">it's a LEGO Advent calendar!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first book is: The 12 days of Christmas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> today's activity: Celebrate Pikkujuolu</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sekahedelma keitto because who has time to take pictures of dessert when you are busy gobbling it down</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Saying one thing we are grateful for before we add an ornament.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger,rage, malice, slander and filthy language from your lips. Colossians 3:8</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyone who has dealt with disrespect in their home is familiar with the sound, volume and tone that finds its way into the words used by your child. Today we are talking about filthy language. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yep, that's right. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Swear words have been said at my house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Apparently, I wasn't muttering under my breath like I thought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> In my lifetime, I have sworn, cussed, said bad words. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Not my proudest moment as a parent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My kids have heard these words and then uttered the same things when faced with frustration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(For those of you who are astute, there is a hidden lesson in there.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is Sue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Isn't she beautiful? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(She was really beautiful moments before this photo...before the oil spill by my four year old) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We made her out of construction paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Her mouth is glued on at the top of the lips. It allows her mouth to flip open. I can easily lift her mouth up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And that is important for the next part.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But first, we have a mediated discussion about the words we've been using.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is filthy language?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why do you think it is called filthy language?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How does it make you feel to say it? to hear it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How does it make someone else feel?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What would happen if all we did was use filthy words?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What if we talked to our friends this way? the community? the world?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then came the moment of impact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I asked the kids to shut their eyes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As they did, I lifted up Sue's lip and dumped a pile of garbage where her mouth usually goes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When my kids opened their eyes, they saw this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Reaction:</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gross! </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ew! </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yuck!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mom, that's disgusting!</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We talked about how sometimes those negative words are inside us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And when they come...it's gross.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But we have a secret plan to keep those words from coming out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We can say the prayer that is on the inside of Sue's lip:</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another mediated discussion:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is the job of a guard?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How does a guard keep things from coming in and going out?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why would we need a guard?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What do you think would happen if we slammed the door on unkind words trying to get out?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How would that effect our family? friends? community? world?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, when situations are getting out of hand, I simply poke my head in the room and say, "Are you standing guard?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is a loaded statement that is helping my kids to stop, think and self regulate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And when you do, be sure to use disgusting garbage. The smellier the impact, the better!</span></div>
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<br />5minutemomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08647765257848662825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504442519350765660.post-31593363835326086042012-12-05T07:09:00.001-08:002013-01-25T21:33:09.237-08:00Geography: Rivers and Seas<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have been thoroughly enjoying this book and all of the activities tucked inside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We made rain and watched the water cycle happen</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">watched a river form, create meanders and widen</span></div>
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