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Posted on 11/03/2004 6:16:42 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
Still round the corner there may wait |
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Heheh...
It's snowing outside right now...just a few big flakes coming down.
Are they Chuck Taylors?
Woo Hoo! I gots me an honest precious! I also gotta run to get more ribbon for making bows for the Holly Fair this weekend. We're decorating fresh balsam wreaths for sale, and they are really pretty and smell nice, too!
*sigh*
I can't afford milk, eggs and TP.
The family my family is always talking about sells wreaths this time of year as a way to make a little extra income for Christmas. It's a lot of work, though!
But gosh, I love visiting their house this time of of year! Always smells like balsam. Mmmm...
Good morning! Brr, it's cold. Got vey cold last night, and it's just starting to warm up. There is ice on the inside of my balcony door, but it started melting as soon as I opened the blinds.
Yep, those are Chucks! I think they have some sort of pattern on them...but i can't tell for sure.
And when exactly are you shipping those out to your friends in the Hobbit Hole? ;-)
We have mostly plastic greenery because it has to stay up so long. But the weekend before Christmas I usually run over to my brother's house to get magnolia leaves and holly.
No mistletoe?
Heh...
I'd have more sympathy if I didn't know you were gonna rub in your warmer weather when it's -30 here in January. ;-)
Hope you at least get your home heat situation resolved!
Yeah, me too. It wasn't dangerously cold in my apartment last night, but it was chilly! Brr... and it's still chilly. Serves me right for waiting to try out the heat.
As far as I know, it is only online. I like your thought though.
Joshua just read this story...
"The cat sits.
The pup sits.
The cat bats; it hits.
The pup kicks; it nips."
He read it! Now he's drawing a picture of the situation.
Wasn't Matthew just learning to read or pretty new to it when this whole adventure started? ;-)
Sounds like Joshua is doing great!
I've been keeping the heat on more than I should...don't wanna know what the next heat bill is likely to be!
I really should turn it down to even fifty or less at night and use an electric blanket. It'd be cheaper. But I'm kinda afraid to use one with the dogs around. I guess I'm just paranoid, but...
*sigh* I'm very close to posting a few ads for them. I guess I just don't have the discipline for dachshunds - or the time, for that matter. But even with little time, I'd be OK with a dog you could train once. These just don't give a darn.
I know Matthew started reading when he was 2, simple words you know...Matthew was 4 when he started 1st grade and really, we coulda skipped 1st grade, it was so easy for him. But I didn't want to. I wanted it to be easy for him and get him off to a confident start. We used Calvert School that year.
Joshua is six and right at where Matthew was when he was three. Joshua is blessedly right on track! Everything came (and still comes) easy for Matthew...with Joshua I think I'm more delighted with his learning because he really works at it and success means so much.
Joshua is also extremely motivated. When he gets up, he wants to get started with school and get it over with. He'll be actually done with his classes for today in about 20 minutes!
Matthew requires a lot of prodding!
All of us learned at different times - I think that was really one of the beautiful things about homeschooling, though I wasn't homeschooled when I was first learning to read. One brother (who would probably test in the genius IQ range, seriesly!) didn't learn to read even simple stuff until he was over seven. Mom tried and tried and it just didn't click for him. Then it came suddenly. On the other hand, he was INCREDIBLY good with math and music. Still is.
Margaret read at three - she was the earliest. She's almost scary bright in some ways... I learned a little early - maybe at four or so - mostly because I was sooo eager to read books. Most of the others fell somewhere in between.
Oh, and this is the year that Matthew has begun to surpass me in mathematics...I am having to learn it along with him. Which is kinda fun, because it isn't hard, exactly...I just don't KNOW it.
So I sit with him and learn it. Not so much for his sake...he can learn it without me. But for Joshua's sake.
The few Aussies I have met I have REALLY liked. If things ever get so bad here in the US that I cannot live here, I will move to Australia.
TRISMS sounds good! I have the site bookmarked. Erin is in fifth grade now, so if I am going to the WTM thing, now would be the time to pick it up. I have been worried that I waited too long to do this. Hubby has finally been talking to people. A friend of his who HS their four kids uses the Seton Catholic cclm, which I don't have any objections to so far, but I would like to supplement it with the WTM. I can't remember if someone here recommended the Seton cclm...is it fairly decent inasfar as solid academics? I have a local friend who used to hs using Seton, and then put her children in the private school where Erin attends. She had to be downgraded from fourth to third, and I don't want to be rude in finding out why. I just wondered if it had to do something with the level of education she had recieved through Seton.
I figure Erin will recieve the religious instruction through our going to church and the wonderful people we have in our tiny little parish. I dont see it a necessity to wrap every academic subject in the cloak of Christianity.
I missed this comment earlier. Who was David Wenham in Moulin Rouge?
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