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Friday, March 12, 2010

7 Quick Takes Friday, March 12

7 Quick Takes Friday is hosted over at Conversion Diary.

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We've started hosting the Bible college boys over on Sunday nights for dinner. Our house has been way too quiet on Sunday nights, we are glad to have them back!

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Date night, we ate at a new place (we are creatures of habit and rotate through 4 places usually), so- at this new place for dinner, we were served our diet cokes in mason jars! Happy Thought!
I decided I need to do this at my house. :)

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I need to stay away from scones at Starbucks.

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Amie & Demi had a win at hockey this week. This was their team's 2nd win of the season, this season they had a lot of beginner players. It was a very close/exciting game. Because they won, they now get to play in the playoffs. I am talking beginners- the first few games, we would watch as random players would just fall down. Standing still...just fall, and then another...! We cheered and laughed in equal measure.

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I've been looking at business cards to take for the casual blogger conference. This is very hard. I have expensive/picky taste, and cannot justify it on a hobby-thing...It's just hard, I love creative/pretty/hand-made things...

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Took the kids to the park today for some physical education. Beautiful day, perfect for an afternoon at the park. The physical part looked like this...(see above)

and this (see below)

we had dog relay teams. The kids and the dog got exercised. Evidence: 1 tired pooch laying at my feet. The kids ran in teams and/or solo..the dog ran every time.
I've been told a tired dog is a good dog.
wisdom

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My curricula-lust is a re-occurring thorn in my flesh... I stumbled upon a new online curriculum program from Alpha Omega called Monarch, and then just go in for the kill- the print catalog arrived in my mailbox this week. I've read it cover to cover twice already. Somebody help me!
So, here's what I'm thinking...Bible and health for Meg and Josie and then maybe the lifepac Bible for the littles and maybe Grammar, because Teddy has the whole auditory processing disorder thing going, he would do better with colorful printed things...Still thinking.
it's a sickness for me.

Have a great weekend, blog-friends!

Labels: Jen's world

posted at 7:30 PM
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5 Comments:

At 10:56 PM, S.I.F. said...: Amazing pictures! And I love watching beginner hockey! We have a lot of that up here, and it just makes me giggle! :)
At 10:23 AM, Elaine said...: Hello fellow curriculum junkie! I love love love looking through the catalogs, and searching all over the internet. Someone just told me about teaching textbooks for math. I'm checking it out, but don't want to give up the comfort of Saxon. Oh the decisions! Great pictures by the way!
At 11:59 AM, Lori said...: Hey Jenny, I see you live in CA. I wanted to pass on to you the website for the California Virtual Academies (CAVA), a K12 online public school that provides all the curriculum and everything a public school offers and you school your children at home. It's a publc school so it's free.

http://www.k12.com/cava/

If online education doesn't interest you, K12 offers an outstanding core knowledge curriculum.

http://www.k12.com/

The sites do have sample lessons, but in my opinion they just don't give a good picture of what K12 offers. If you're interested, please let me know and I'd be happy to e-mail you the demo account for the month of March which would give you a really good idea of what K12 offers.

Also, those are some great pictures of your children.
At 3:54 PM, Hen Jen said...: S.I.F.

so glad you stopped by! I bet you have lots of hockey where you live!
At 3:57 PM, Hen Jen said...: Elaine,

I love looking at catalogs, it's a sickness with me. I was thinking of teaching textbooks for Algebra.

Lori,

we use a home-based charter, and I have looked at K-12 off and on, my problem is I like to pick and choose different things, and..I seem to be looking more at online stuff for my older kids, but our charter will not pay for K-12 classes above 6th grade, I think.

thanks for the suggestion. If I look at it again, I will let you know, a demo would be great!

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