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Happy Valentine’s Day

Our boys participated in a homeschool country wide Valentine exchange. Since the valentines were coming from various places, it also allowed for a geography lesson. Each family was asked to send some interesting facts about their state. I have lived in the same city my entire life and when looking for interesting facts about Arizona, […]

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Happy New Year

It’s the beginning of a new year and a new tradition. I read about a different way to approach resolutions and spent a long time thinking about the process. I finally decided on the word “release” for many of the same reasons that are discussed in the article. I have already released some of my […]

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Family Life

County Fair 2009

We had planned to skip the county fair this year because we had heard that a lot of the normal attractions would not be there. I checked their website a couple nights ago to make our final decision about going or not going only to find out that the normal attractions would actually be there. […]

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Family Life

Hau’oli Makahiki Hou!

And for those of you, like myself, who are not fluent in Hawaiian—Happy New Year! We are having a Hawaiian themed New Years so we are serving kalua pig, King’s Hawaiian sweet rolls, pancit, pineapple upside cake, and lumpia. And to drink, we’ll have Mele Kalikimaka Punch to drink along with water and iced tea. […]