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2009/2010
Homeschool Field Trip #7
The Lowry Park Zoo
September 30, 2009
Yup, one more zoo trip. Lefty talked us into it, on the last day of September (the last day we could get in for free). Â The weather was very pleasant and mild (a rarity for Florida at this time [...]
My middle-schoolers have been enjoying a Physics class that they’ve been taking during their Friday co-op class.  This was a class that they didn’t want to take, just because the name “Physics” sounded so frightening…but they LOVE it. They have been experimenting with such concepts as inertia, velocity, Newton’s third law [...]
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2009/2010
Homeschool Field Trip #6
The Florida Aquarium
September 25, 2009
In continuing with our celebration of “Swaptember“, on one hot September afternoon after co-op classes we headed down to Tampa’s Channelside District to visit the Florida Aquarium. Although we were members previously, it had been quite a while since [...]
Baby “DeeDee” turned eight months old last Friday! I am constantly amazed by how quickly time flies!
By the time she was seven months old, Dee weighed in at 14 lbs. (yes, she lost a little weight, but the doctor isn’t concerned) and was 27 inches long! Tall and thin. By [...]
2009/2010
Homeschool Field Trip #5
The Lowry Park Zoo
September 8, 2009
We never managed to see everything on our first “Swaptember” trip to the zoo, so we visited again on the following week, starting where we had previously left off…at [...]
Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo offers free educator’s guides for download; to be used in conjunction with your zoo visit, or to complement any zoological study.
Kindergarten - 2nd Grade
3rd Grade - 5th Grade
6th Grade - 8th Grade
9th Grade - 12th Grade
Since Lex Salisbury, tiger killer and despicable man, is no longer associated with the Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa (as of December 2008), our boycott of the zoo has come to an end.
[Before you read on, please go read this heartfelt tribute to Herman and Enshalla]
St. [...]
It was a bittersweet “Labor Day”, due only in part to Rob’s recent job loss, but we celebrated, Florida-style. Â The weather was perfect, so we gathered with our neighbors at the neighborhood clubhouse for games and sundaes by the pool.
First came the Hula-Hooping Contest; an activity for which my children [...]
If you would happen to have the following items to give, loan, barter, or sell cheaply, please let me know.
NEEDS:
Sequential Spelling level 1 [1]
Easy Grammar Plus teacher guide [1] & student books [2] (found on Craigslist - YeeHaw!)
Editor-In-Chief B1 [1]
Saxon Math 8/7 for [2] students, [...]
Another 6 weeks has gone by since I last posted about “DeeDee” (I know, tsk tsk). Â Read further and you’ll see why I rarely have the time to post anymore…
She is now 6 and a half months old; a very busy little thing with huge brown eyes and some serious [...]
The Independence Day weekend began on Friday evening, July 3rd, with a “luau” at our neighborhood clubhouse — a pool party with games, sand art, and a bounce house for the kids, lots of food, and a live band.
Food!
Below:Â a. Rey, [...]
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives …
No, I am not a fan of soap operas, but I find myself understanding those words more and more lately, as baby “Dee Dee” continues to grow up so rapidly, and as my oldest child quickly approaches her [...]
Above: Retro Photo - “Dinky Tumblina” & “Boo” - July 2002
It’s that time of year again…SUMMER. And summer in Florida is best survived by keeping cool — by means of either air-conditioning, or water play.
We don’t like to be stuck indoors [...]
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[...]It’s that time of year again (already!) - summer reading time! As the homeschooling mother to a whole brood of voracious readers, I always enjoy seeing which of our favorite companies are lining up to sponsor the latest addition of summer reading programs.
2009…*sigh*…While there are some fun programs remaining (listed below), I am dismayed to [...]
While searching for this year’s free (or almost free) summer movies, I found that the folks over at fivecentnickel.com already did most of the work for me! (Thanks!)
So I went one step further, for my readers here in Tampa Bay. Using the list generated by fivecentnickel, I [...]
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While visiting the Mommie Daze Virtual Baby Shower at Comfort Joy Designs, I found this post with fantastic giveaways. How does one enter the giveaways? - by participating in a “New Baby” themed Mad Libs game. So I asked my 14-year-old son, Gator, to fill in [...]
Yes, this photo will probably come back to haunt him someday, but this is *proof* that there are just not enough boys in this family - at least not enough that are close to Rey’s age. The poor child; a three-year-old with his closest siblings being 5, 7, and 8 [...]
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I know it’s late, but I have been sternly admonished by my 11-year-old for failing to upload a post about Easter. So here goes, Dinky Tumblina!
I know I had stated that we were going to avoid the egg hunts and such this year, focusing instead on the Christian aspects [...]
It’s time again for my monthly “Baby Girl” post. Yes, little Dee is 16 weeks old already. She continues to consume most of my time (as you may have noticed, due to the infrequency of my posts), but I don’t mind. She is the absolute joy and love of my [...]
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What a blessed day. I absolutely adore my children!
My morning began with breakfast in bed: Creme Brulee French Toast and scrambled eggs (both made with soymilk), and fresh strawberries with non-dairy whipped cream.
Then I was greeted with a whole MOUNTAIN of [...]
A video showing that *someone* in this house is already well-trained in the area of “fetching”.
[...]I never intended for this to happen. When our sweet long-time service dog, Maisy, passed away last July, I vowed never to get another dog. The loss is just too devastating. No, the only pet I would have from now on would be a parrot, or a tortoise…something that [...]
DAY 5: EDIBLE “BIRD’S NESTS”
These are quick, yummy, AND a great way to use that Easter candy that you bought for 50% off the day after Easter.
My little “Cricket” had a birthday this month. She turned 7!!!
Her puppy cake was lovingly made by her big brother, Gator (14). Didn’t he do a great job?!
DAY 4: A SPRING WINDOW MURAL
This was a fun collaborative art project that developed in our house on a recent spring afternoon — a painted spring mural on our sliding glass door!
The children had loads of fun with this, each adding his or her own elements and touches. We had [...]
Yes, Miss Persnickety is 12 weeks old already. Time flies!
Thankfully, she is having longer periods of happiness these days (we refer to it as her “happy time”).
March 23, 2009 - 8 Weeks, 1 Day
And she definitely has her “favorite” people [...]
Amy of Resourceful Mommy is asking for your help in meeting her fund raising goal for Team Emma in the annual March for Babies walk to benefit the March of Dimes. As the mother of a preemie, Amy has experienced the blessings and benefits of [...]
A Self-Chiropractic Adjustment
Since our car accident back in July, we’ve had to go to the chiropractor three days a week. Curly-Top (5) decided last week that she didn’t want to leave the pool to go to the chiropractor. She begged me not to make her go, stating that she’d give [...]
DAY 3: EXPLORING NATURE
It had been a while since we had actually gone on our neighborhood nature trail strictly for the purpose of observation. I tend to enjoy going at least once during each season so we can see the changes, so I figured, what better way to welcome spring!
When [...]
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Mudpies and Mary Janes I Never Grew Up Gruntlings This Full House [...]Where does the time go? The year is already 1/4 of the way over. “DeeDee” is almost 10 weeks old!
March was a somewhat uneventful month. We’ve been celebrating the longer, milder, sunny days of spring with fun and activities. (I need to blog about some of the other things we’ve [...]
You have to take the good with the bad. In addition to the beautiful blue herons, egrets, and sandhill cranes, the cool lizards, and soft-shelled turtles — living in the Florida wetlands comes complete with some somewhat sinister wildlife as well. We have seen our share of water moccassins, and [...]
DAY 2: FUN WITH FLOWERS
I just love flowers! I remember all of those cold dreary winters that I lived in Huntsville, Alabama. Everything would turn brown in the winter, and I would long for the days when my hyacinths and daffodils would peek up through the dormant brown grass and [...]
DAY 1 - THE EGG HUNT
Celebrating “Easter” has always been a bit of a challenge for me. It was my favorite holiday growing up — for all the wrong reasons. My father, who was typically the “uninvolved” type, always did Easter up really big! I have fond memories of waking [...]
I believe I should start chronicling my days with our latest addition by titling and subtitling as follows:
Raising DeeDee: My Life with the World’s Grumpiest Human Being
Yup, that’s her. Now don’t get me wrong — I am still absolutely crazy about her! But she ain’t no picnic. She has an [...]
Wow! The last year has flown by! It’s already blog party time again - the third annual Ultimate Blog Party, that is - hosted by 5 Minutes for Mom!
We’re joining in again this year…without the flu this time! So come [...]
While we are neither Irish nor Catholic, the children always enjoy the holiday celebrations, so celebrate we did!
Although there are many downsides for a country girl like me living in suburbia, some of good things are the clubhouse and the planned neighborhood activities. (It takes a lot of work out [...]
Although a favorite treat of my childhood, I went many years (as in over 20), without having eaten a single creamsicle. I never missed them, until this last pregnancy. At some point the mighty creamsicle became my token “weird pregnancy craving”. I just had to have them. I don’t [...]
I love strawberry season!
In Florida, strawberry season runs from November to April, and just yesterday it dawned on me that it is already March, and we hadn’t been out strawberry-picking yet! So we loaded everyone (plus a neighbor friend) in the bus and headed back to our favorite picking spot, [...]
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