Alltop: all the best home school blogs

7.15.08

Alltop: homeschooling is now live. Thanks to the Alltop team for selecting my blog and a special thanks to Shannon at PHAT Mommy for submitting Paper Bridges.

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A series of unrelated thoughts

7.14.08

Random thoughts... Susan is ten years old as of last week. She's growing into a young lady, so blogging about her is tricky territory now. Excellent blog fodder, the potential for humor and witty snark abound. But she knows how to work the Google, and knows mom has this monicabrand.net thing ...

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I’ll write about a pool, but the picture is of rockets

7.3.08

Because it's my blog. And I don't feel like going into the house to get my camera. We don't have a pool. Not a proper, adult sized pool. Just the blow-up kiddie type. But - and I'm sure any mother would agree - kids will play in any size puddle. It's ...

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Convention

6.2.08

I woke up Saturday wondering how soon I needed to leave the house to make it to the Raritan Center by 10 am. The 9 am opening lecture not important to me this year; I wasn't thrilled with the speaker. In previous years, I flew down to Edison not wanting ...

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Everything at once

5.16.08

I'm looking at my calendar, and holy cow, I have these packed two weeks staring back at me. I mean it's like Welsh's grape, that's how jammed it is. This is what I'm looking at: tonight is home school Arts and Achievement, where Susan will sing the "50 States that Rhyme" ...

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