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Festive Spirit and Family Drama
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Source: Review Copy from Publisher
TYPE OF AUSTENESQUE NOVEL: Modern-day Adaptation of Pride and Prejudice
SETTING: Pemberley Ohio, almost Christmas
- Darcy Fitzwilliam: An independent, wealthy, but lonely hedge fund investor who left her hometown and didn't look back eight years ago.
- Bingley Charles: Her best friend from high school who moved to LA to be an actor.
- Luke Bennet: Darcy's childhood arch-rival who works in Pemberley as a carpenter.
- Carl Donovan: Darcy's on-again-off-again boyfriend that Darcy's father wanted her to marry.
In this gender-swap retelling of Pride and Prejudice, Darcy Fitzwilliam has spent the last eight years estranged from her father and with little contact with anyone from her hometown. But her mother's heart attack scare has her rushing home. Even though Darcy's mother's health improves, Darcy stays in Pemberley for a few days because a part of her is tired of the loneliness and emptiness of her life. While there, she encounters many classmates from her past, comes to terms with some hard realizations about her life, and makes some decisions about her future.
- Successful Gender Swap: Sometimes P&P gender-swap stories aren't my favorite because they portray such an unlikable and insufferable female Darcy. And I find it challenging to admire a book when I can't admire the heroine. That wasn't the case in this story. This Darcy isn't too proud or arrogant, she is driven and respects herself. I loved how we saw this Darcy's softer and more vulnerable side and her romantic ideals that she keeps to herself. Plus it's easy to love a heroine who finds comfort in rewatching Gilmore Girls episodes! 😉 In addition, I loved that Bingley Charles was Darcy's gay best friend!
- Engaging Premise and Conflict: I enjoyed how Ms. de la Cruz centered her story from Darcy's perspective and how she introduced some conflict within Darcy's family. There is still some pride, prejudice, and bad history between characters, but this story follows a refreshingly different path. Luke Bennet is not someone she just met, but a classmate who has always pushed her buttons. And even though there is some intense chemistry between the two, there are one or two roadblocks that prevent them from pursuing each other.
- Festive Holiday Spirit: With lots of eggnog, mistletoe, and caroling this holiday read is sure to get you into the festive spirit! I love stories with a holiday backdrop. But I also I thought setting this story during the holiday season served the author's purpose well of bringing all these families and classmates together.
- Abrupt and Sometimes Unbelievable: While I am fine with occasionally suspending my disbelief, some events in this story started to feel a little far-fetched. The quickly decided engagements, the abrupt jump from making out to declaring love, and Luke's total 180 (although it is later explained) – all contributed to me feeling that some plot points weren't well developed. In addition, some aspects of the story just didn't feel plausible, such as a school principal and secretary working in their offices on Christmas Day (that isn't a thing!) and Darcy's lack of a relationship with her brothers all these years (Darcy was estranged from her father, did all 3 of her brothers excommunicate her too? If so, why?)
- Backtracking: (Spoiler Alert!) In a different turn of events, after Darcy and Luke get together Darcy starts to dwell on how Luke misjudged her and thought she was snobby and selfish. And then, she passive aggressively picks a fight instead of maturely bringing up her concerns. I wasn't a fan of this development, or how Luke was so easily manipulated by his ex. The ending would have been better without this flare up.
Regardless of my complaints, I found myself enjoying this festive and fun holiday read! In the midst of the hustle and bustle of holiday preparations, taking an afternoon to curl up under a blanket and read about finding love, repairing relationships, and coming together at Christmas is just the thing to get you into the holiday spirit!

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An expert's look at NAFTA by the people who made it happen and the academics evaluating it
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was bold and controversial from the start. When first conceived, it was far from obvious that it would be possible given the circumstances of the times. This book presents an expert view of NAFTA from the perspective of economists, historians, and policy makers in the words of those who negotiated it and whose research evaluates it. The contributors describe NAFTA's origins, from when the idea was born to its goals, detailing the give-and-take in the negotiations, the extensive consultation with business and labor groups in their respective countries, and the complex navigation of US congressional approval.
In the context of the fundamental economic and political transformation of North America, they discuss the trade, real wage, and welfare gains that NAFTA has produced for the United States, Mexico, and Canada, along with a review of the major energy markets within and among the three countries. They conclude with a discussion of the lessons from NAFTA for the future of both NAFTA itself and other trade agreements, stressing the fundamental importance of political leadership and informing voters and potentially ill-informed politicians, who hear most loudly from the opponents, about the benefits of trade liberalization.
AUTHORS: Kyle Bagwell, Michael J. Boskin, Lorenzo Caliendo, Caroline Freund, Stephen Haber, Carla A. Hills, Jaime Serra Puche, George P. Shultz, Thomas F. Stephenson, James L. Sweeney, John B. Taylor, Daniel Trefler, and Michael H. Wilson
Michael J. Boskin is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In addition, he serves on several federal advisory panels and as an adviser to presidents and prime ministers, finance ministries, and central banks around the world, from the United States to China.
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Wine and Wild Things
© by John Juergens
Now, I'm no expert on preparing wild game, but I understand that much of the palatability of the catch depends a lot on how the animal is treated immediately after its spirit has passed on to that big petting zoo in the sky. I will assume that the meat you are working with has been processed to optimize its quality.
When it comes to wine and food pairings, I have always used the rule of thumb that the stronger or more aggressive the food flavors, the more robust the wine needs to be, and vice versa. In general, this is a good way to approach the issue. However, in this experiment, I found some exceptions to the rule.
The most startling revelation was the wine that went best with venison. I have had venison that I could not distinguish from ground chuck and some that was so tough and strong that I became a vegetarian for a week. But for this research I had medallions of tenderloin that were prepared very simply in a chicken fried steak manner.
The wines selected to go with the venison included several big heavy wines, which I was certain would be needed to hold up to the flavor of the meat: Syrah, red Zinfandel, and a French Rhone. We also had a California Pinot Noir to sip on while the meal was being prepared. What we quickly discovered was that the big wines pretty much overpowered the meat, but the lighter Pinot Noir blended perfectly with it. The Zinfandel did okay as well, but it, too, was a massive wine that partially obscured the flavors of the meat.
My recommendation for venison, then, would be lighter wines such as Pinot Noir, Chianti, and Beaujolais Village.
Now on to the bunny. There are many ways to cook rabbit, but it basically comes down to whether you fry it or bake/roast it. Either way you go, I found that the flavors in a French Gigondas or an Italian Sangiovese make for a real taste treat, particularly if the hopper is marinated and baked or roasted in a wine sauce. I haven't tried it lately, but I suspect this wine would also go well with squirrel.
Duck and geese are a holiday tradition in some households, but the kinds you get in the grocery are going to be a bit different than those blasted from the sky. The store bought birds, along with those you snatch from your neighbor's pond, tend to have more fat that the wild variety because they don't normally spend most of their energy just trying to stay alive day to day. In addition, the wild ducks tend to have darker meat.
A red Zinfandel should go well with either type of bird, and for the store bought bird, a big rich Chardonnay should work well. A French Rhone or Gigondas will also mesh well with the darker meat flavors of the wild duck. I don't know that I've ever had wild turkey other than the sipping kind. However, I would think that these wines would work well also with the gobbler.
I tend to lump quail, dove, and Cornish hens in the same category since they have some nice delicate flavors you don't want to overwhelm. Chardonnay and French Rhone wines work well, as will a flavorful dry rosé, a Pinot Noir, and maybe a lighter red Zinfandel.
As with most any dish, so much depends on how the animal is cooked, the seasonings, and the sauces used. Therefore, some of this will have to be trial and error. For example, I got up the nerve to try fried Mountain Oysters for the first time on a recent trip to Denver. The Zinfandel we had going worked about as well as it could, given the challenge, but beer probably would have done a better job of just washing those rascals down. We're not exactly talking delicate and complex flavors here.
What I have tried to recommend are wines that I think match well with the basic flavors of the meat. There are lots of other possibilities out there. South American, Australia, South Africa, and Spain all have good candidates as well. If you are not sure which wine to select, your best bet would be to get two different kinds of wine and see which works best. You can always drink the other bottle with a different course or after the meal while you reminisce about what a fine animal your catch had been.
I suppose the ultimate dining experience for a true hunter would be swooning over the quality of a perfectly prepared deer steak while the mounted head of the donor observes from its place of honor on the wall.
My wine picks of the week are two reds: Karly Pokerville Zinfandel and Centine Vintage Red Table wine. The Karly Zinfandel is just a tad lighter than some other California Zins, but it still packs a lot of fruit flavor without blowing you away with high alcohol. It sells for about $11 around town and makes a terrific holiday party wine. The Centine is from Italy and is a blend of Sangiovese, Merlot, and Cabernet Sauvignon. It has a classic dry Italian style that is similar to good Chiantis, but without the high price tag. It also sells for about $11, and, although some people might like it as a cocktail wine, it really goes well with cheeses and sausage, and Italian dishes.
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Ethnography in Context
- Dick Hobbs - London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Ethnography | Research Methods & Evaluation
This collection emphasises something of the range of possibilities by focusing on Ethnography in different settings. Implicit in the text is the very specific problems encountered by ethnographers engaging with these very specific fields.
Volume One: The Urban Condition addresses attempts by ethnographers to describe and understand urban life.
Volume Two: Work covers a range of employment experiences and highlights issues surrounding the ethnographic penetration of the work environment and the cultures that lay hidden within them. Volume Three: Body, Sport and Leisure considers the sociologies of health, sport and the body.
Volume Four: Deviance features the move towards more contemporary forms of transgression in Ethnography itself.
|Jelly's Place: An ethnographic memoir
|Elijah Anderson
|Ethnography and Housing Studies
|Adrian Franklin
|"People's Lives Are Hanging Here": Low wage workers share their experience of job loss
|Amanda Gunn
|The Toilet Paper: Femininity, class And mis-recognition
|Beverly Skeggs
|Inside the Empire: Ethnography of a global citadel in New York
|Gregory Smithsimon
|Talking City Trouble: Interactional vandalism, social inequality, and the "urban interaction problem"
|Mitch Duneier and Harvey Molotoch
|Keeping Ethnography Alive in an Urbanizing World
|Roger Sanjek
|The Asshole
|John van Maanen
|New Hobos or Neo-Romantic Fantasy? Urban Ethnography beyond the Neoliberal Disconnect
|Teresa Gowan
|Hospital Ethnography: introduction
|Sjaak van der Geest and Kaja Finkler
|Habits and Amusements of Costermongers
|Henry Mayhew
|A Stranger at the Gate: Reflections of the Chicago School of Sociology
|Nels Anderson
|Police Lying
|Peter Manning
|Behind Bars: Social Control in Licensed Premises
|Phil Hadfield
|The Hustler
|Ned Polsky
|Wine Alley: The Sociology of a Dreadful Enclosure
|Sean Damer
|A Night in a Taxi-Dance Hall
|Paul Cressey
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|Dick Hobbs
|Empire of Scrounge: Inside the urban underground
|Jeff Ferrell
|Being at Home: Space for belonging in a London caff
|Suzanne Hall
|Work Culture in the Nursing Home: Adaptation and resistance among nursing aides
|Nancy Foner
|Becoming a Firefighter
|Matthew Desmond
|Bodies for Rent: Labor and marginality in Southern Louisiana
|Rylan Higgins
|Working in the Fantasy Factory
|Elizabeth Anne Wood
|Clinging to Collectivism? Some Ethnographic Shop-Floor Evidence from the British Lock Industry 1979-98
|John Black, Annie-Marie Greene and Peter Ackers
|The Driver: Adaptations and Identities in the Urban Worlds of Pizza Delivery Employees
|Patrick Kinkade and Michael Katovitch
|Self for Sale: Notes on the work of Hollywood talent managers
|Sasha David
|Organisational Time: Temporal demands and the experience of work in restaurant kitchens
|Gary Alan Fine
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|Lorraine Bayard de Volo
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|Howard Becker and Blanche Geer
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|Peter Bearman
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|Lee Monaghan
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|Chris Shilling and Tanya Bunsell
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|A Woman's Place is in the Cardiovascular Room: Gender relations, the body and the gym
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|Sport Ethnography: A personal account
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|Donald Roy
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|Steven Vanderstaay
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|John Irwin and Donal Cressey
|Becoming a Marihuana User
|Howard Becker
|Shifts and Oscillations in Deviant Careers: The case of upper-level drug dealers and smugglers
|Patricia Adler and Peter Adler
|In Search of Masculinity: Violence, respect and sexuality among Puerto Rican crack dealers in East Harlem
|Philippe Bourgois
|The Madam as Teacher: The training of house prostitutes
|Barbara Sherman Heyl
|Crack to Heroin: Drug markets and transition
|Bruce Jacobs
|Alibis and Aliases: Some notes on the 'motives' of fiddling bread salesmen
|Jason Ditton
|Sociology of Vincent's Place
|Carl Klockars
|A Successful Female Crack Dealer: Case study of a deviant career
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Trailer for Miss Representation:
Are current advertising campaigns such as this:
Really that different to the openly sexist campaigns from a few decades ago like this?
Dolce and Gabbana do not literally spell it out, however a half-dressed Madonna (who is seen as a strong, powerful women in todays society) is still scrubbing the floors. Women are bombarded with pictures and underlying messages like this everyday and we are also the only ones who hold the power to truly change what is put out by the media. Dismiss products that degrade women in sexual advertising campaigns and purchase magazines and films that celebrate women's accomplishments. That way young girls and women will realise that it is not normal for them to be objectified in such a way and have the confidence to know that they are much more than a cleaner or a cook.
For more information on Miss Representation and how to get involved in the campaign go to http://www.missrepresentation.org.


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CONSERVATIVE MP and barrister Jeremy Wright is appealing against a demand to pay back nearly £800 he claimed on expenses against the rules.
He is seemingly acting in defiance of his leader David Cameron's earlier instruction that Tory MPs should pay up, despite being a Conservative whip responsible for Tory MPs towing the party line in the Commons.
The Telegraph, in investigating the Rugby and Kenilworth MP's unedited expenses claims in May, uncovered years of claims for part of his mobile phone bills since 2005 under his second home allowance.
Read the Telegraph political editor Les Reid's view on the story here....
Auditor Sir Thomas Legg has agreed with us that it was not allowed, and has ordered Mr Wright to pay back £769.80.
But Mr Wright is to appeal against Sir Thomas's ruling, joining about 80 MPs reportedly defying party leaders' instructions to comply with Sir Thomas's demands.
He's the only one of nine MPs in the Coventry and Warwickshire region known to be appealing.
As we reported, such a claim was banned under the second home allowance by Parliament's Green Book rule book.
Any claim for mobile phone bills for work purposes should have been made under the separate office costs allowance.
But we reported on a letter from Mr Wright's office to the Commons – subsequently removed in the heavily censored version of his expenses files later published by Parliament – which said he was claiming for family calls.
Mr Wright protested about our report in a letter to our newspaper.
As we had reported, he said the claim had been sanctioned by the Commons' authorities and he had checked with them about using the mobile phone instead of a landline at his London flat, which would have been allowed.
Read the Telegraph political editor Les Reid's view on the story here....
In a statement, Mr Wright said: ""He (Sir Thomas) is right on a strict interpretation of the rules but common sense says otherwise.
"Had I done as he says I should have, I would have claimed for connection charges and line rental, in addition to the cost of calls, and the claims in question would have been twice as high.
"I believe that, in finding economical ways of claiming legitimate expenses, I have done the right thing and that is why I am appealing.
"If at the end of the appeal process I am still asked to pay this money I will, of course, do so."
Mr Wright told us he was therefore acting in accordance with Mr Cameron's instruction for Tory MPs to comply with "the process" of Sir Thomas's recommendations, and would not be in trouble with his party.
David Cameron's call to Tories
DAVID Cameron had previously said before the appeals process was announced that Tory MPs not paying back money recommended by Sir Thomas could face being barred from the party. The shadow cabinet was ordered to pay back £24,782 in expenses claims by Sir Thomas, in addition to voluntary repayments.
Mr Cameron was recently quoted as saying appeals would be acceptable only in "one or two" cases where Tory MPs had felt they'd made claims "within the letter of the law but also the spirit of the rules."
Read the Telegraph political editor Les Reid's view on the story here....
Mr Wright said the appeal conducted by retired High Court judge Sir Paul Kennedy would have a wider remit than Sir Thomas's audit, and examine whether any repayment would be "fair and equitable" in all the circumstances, rather than just whether they were against the letter of the rule book.
The appeals process is expected to be completed by January 15, after which MPs will be asked to vote on a Commons' committee's recommendation that they pay back the sums requested.


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As we celebrate 100 years of service in 2016, A.H. Harris made it a mission to give back to charities close to their hearts. On November 18, 2016 the A.H. Harris and Kenseal Charlotte, NC branches came together to donate their time to volunteer to the Ronald McDonald House of Charlotte Meal Team. The RMH strives to help families who are going through rough times and provide them with a more comfortable 'home-away-from-home'.The Ronald McDonald mission is: "To provide a safe, affordable and caring 'home-away-from-home' for the families of children receiving treatment in Charlotte-area medical facilities. Families are stronger when they are together, and this is never more important than when a child is sick or injured. During this uncertain time, the presence of a familiar face eases the strain of medical uncertainty and is proven to aid the healing process."
The Charlotte Harris team chose the Ronald McDonald Hose as their charity of choice for our Harris Cares initiative.
As part of their volunteering duties, the team was responsible for preparing meatloaf, mashed potatoes, chopped salad bar, and chocolate cream pie. Members of Harris and Kenseal split up and each took on an assignment and had a blast working together for a great cause. Our team was pleased to purchase all the ingredients to prepare the meals. In addition to cooking, associates donated assorted gifts for dads and teens given for their Ronald McDonald Holiday Shop. The gifts included; candy, stocking stuffers, scarfs, gloves, hats, cell phones accessories, homemade soaps, shaving kits, and perfume/lotion sets. According to Harris FSD Technician AnneMarie Williams, "It was wonderful to give back to such a great cause and we were happy to include Kenseal to share this day with us."
Successfully, our team collected over $350.00 in Monetary and Ingredient donations from local grocery stores.
Excellent job to the A.H. Harris and Kenseal Charlotte, NC team for going above and beyond for their community. We can all do a little something to give back, check out these helpful tips on how you can give back this holiday season! Harris Cares!


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Visions Federal Credit Union
- Manage the Operations team overseeing the infrastructure of a $3.5 billion dollar credit union
- Report directly to the CIO/COO
- Direct a team of 8 individuals that directly support the staff and membership of a rapidly growing institution.
- Work with executive leadership to improve product delivery strategies, business development strategies and member service strategies using cutting edge technologies.
- Architect data center and site infrastructure improvements across the organization


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File download question
I made successfully a file download center which so far works awsome, unless the downloadable files are getting a bit big.
As soon as there are bigger files involved, one has to wait a considerable time until the file is ready for saving, which is ok and can be expected.
What maybe would be nice to have is a message poping up, similar to the form progress bar or maybe a little tutorial about how to make it.
The bigger issue I run into, was that while waiting for the file to be ready for download, the entire site got blocked until the file was ready.
I wonder if I missed a detail somewhere while setting up the DL center or if it maybe possible to set up a read only database instance on the same server with the dl infos to avoid the rest of the site being blocked ?


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Other Activities
Globalization in education and the concomitant necessity to evaluate and compare standards, has rendered benchmarking an increasingly important activity for leading institutions. AC21 inter-university collaboration has resulted in studies on student course experiences, quality and evaluation in higher education, and faculty development.
The benchmarking activities were initiated with the aim of comparing the research, education, and management of each university on an objective basis. This information can be used both to identify areas for improvement and, thus, to take action to remedy the weaknesses.
Student Course Experience Questionnaire - SCEQ - Survey
As a pilot project, the University of Sydney and Nagoya University conducted a survey of graduating students to determine their degree of satisfaction with their host institute. The questionnaire was initially prepared by the University of Sydney and subsequently translated into Japanese for use at Nagoya University. The University of Sydney proposed in 2005, and the survey was carried out in Nagoya University in March 2006. The results were reported during the AC21 International Forum at the University of Warwick.


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For whenever you have one of those days, here is some inspiration to get you up and going!!!!
(ht: My Domestic Church)
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Some inspiration!
For whenever you have one of those days, here is some inspiration to get you up and going!!!!
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This Crust is So Easy
This is the easiest crust for lunches, quiches, and etc. Originally from the LLL Whole Foods For The Whole Family cookbook, as part of a recipe for "Mexican Dinner," I've decided that the crust itself deserves a separate entry.
Easy Crust
1/2 cup flour (may be whole wheat, or not)
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 cup shortening
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 egg, beaten
Mix together the dry ingredients. Cut in the shortening until it is well combined, mix in the buttermilk and egg. Pour into a greased and floured 9 or 10-inch pie pan (or cast iron skillet!!).
That's it for the crust. It will support 1 lb. meat, or a regular sized quiche recipe, etc.
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Monday, December 22, 2008
Lego craziness
Okay, this has got to be the funniest nativity I've seen in a very long time. (ht: Seabird Chronicles) I wonder if my Mom would like one like this. You see, every year my sister and I seem to manage to get my mom a new Christmas decoration. The decorations are usually long on, um, for lack of a better word, Character, and short on taste.
In the past, she's been gifted several really so-cute-they're-ugly nativity sets, various musical Santas, some scary snowmen, and a lovely nativity scene done in clear acrylic, on a mirrored base, that spins and plays music. We've been doing this for the past 15 years or so. At this point, now when my Mom decorates for Christmas, she REALLY decorates. Anyone who comes over to her house around Christmastime has got to think, 1. This woman really loves Christmas; and 2. This woman has absolutely NO Taste. (You're welcome, Mom.)
This year, I think I've got the prize. I found an angel, done is lovely clear acrylic, that, although it does not play music, does light up with LED's and goes through many dramatic color changes. I'd put in a picture of it, but it's already wrapped. Maybe I'll be able to capture her reaction. I'm sure she'll have a good one.
Speaking of somewhat tasteless things, here are some of the WORST Christmas songs ever recorded, just for you.
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Labels: Holidays
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
The Probem I Have With Labels
I was reading this post over at SeaBird Chronicles, on the subject of labels, or more specifically, how should we should define "homeschool." Why do we need a definition anyway? What purpose would it serve? I know a lot of homeschool parents who really have a DIY attitude about schooling. They basically write their curriculum from scratch, and their kids are doing fine. Others I know have a very school-by-the-book attitude, and their kids are doing fine too. Still others pick and choose from a variety of sources, including co-op classes, tutors for some stuff, and independant learning for others. Know what? Those kids are doing just fine as well.
I think the thing that makes all these different homeschool families alike is the commitment they have toward their childrens' education, and a recognition of their own strengths and weaknesses.
Some of the DIY homeschoolers that I know have a real attitude about having a tutor come in or having the kids attend a class on something like math or literature. Some hold the idea that having a teacher or a tutor isn't "real homeschooling." But these same parents have no problem enrolling the kids in a gymnastics course or guitar lessons. That is just goofy. Math and music, literature and P.E. are ALL important aspects of a well-rounded education. Just because you choose to outsource some of that does not make you a non-homeschooler.
By that definition, in fact, we would probably fail as homeschoolers. After all, Ace is attending an American History class with the Indian Hill Co-op, with a teacher, exams, and (eek!) HOMEWORK. Both Ace and Three attend piano lessons. Deuce goes to violin lessons. Plus, for two weeks during the summer, Ace and Duece attend classes with the gifted Worlds of Wisdom and Wonder program at National Lewis University. This year Three will be going as well.
The thing we should look for in a definition is: Who has control over our children's education? If we, as parents can choose what the kids learn, when they learn it, and how they learn it, then we are homeschoolers. If someone else, whether a tutor or the government, dictates their scope and sequence, then we are not. That is the bottom line.
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
My Kids Have Their Own Agenda
It drives me a little nuts sometimes, when despite my well-made plans, my kids have their own agenda, and it isn't what I've got planned at all. To wit: today we were going to spend the morning on academics and music. The kids were amenable to this. Ace practiced piano for an hour and did part of her American History, and some math (although it was difficult to tell her she was going about it the wrong way:-( ). Deuce practiced her violin, and even attempted to arrange a duet with Three playing along with the piano. I couldn't sit her down for math, but she did her grammar without complaint, as well as entertained Jack and the baby for a good hour. Three played on the piano a little, practiced reading and spelling, and played a math game.
I had intended to do a little Christmas study during lunch (which we did, I read Becky's Christmas Dream by Lousia May Alcott), after which we were going to finish up the metalloids for our periodic table, and read some history before I took Deuce to choir, and went grocery shopping.
Here is what my kids did instead:
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Crock Pot??
I love my crock pot. I love coming home after a day of running around, and having dinner DONE. No worry. I've found a new blog, "A Year of CrockPotting" I've seriously got to try this. Using my crock pot every day for a year. How cool. How very cool.
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Monday, November 17, 2008
You may not know, but I'm a Daisy Girl Scout Leader. This month, we are making bird feeders to be considerate and kind to our feathered friends. I made a little feeder watch sheet for the Daisies to take home and keep track of who visits their feeder. Then it occurred to me that they may not be the only one interested. Here is the feeder watch page.
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Labels: Science
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Darling needs a hug
One of my darling friends is suffering from the terrible loss of her baby. We are all mourning with her. There's not much more to say, except that we are all very sad for her and her family.
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
A Science Experiment For You - Free!
Here is a science experiment that uses antacids to explore acids and bases. We are using it for Deuce's Science Fair entry this year, and also for our chemistry lessons. We are using the book Fizz, Bubble, & Flash! Element Explorations & Atom Adventures for Hands-On Science Fun! by Anita Brandolini, Ph.D. as our core, and this is one of the ideas for further study. It turned out pretty cool, so I've written up an actual science experiment lab sheet for it using a generator at teach-nology.com.
Let's try this link: Antacid Test
If you do this, let me know how you like it.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Have you ever? meme
Not wishing to comment on the election (yay! - oops, sorry) I'm posting a meme instead.
Bold the things you've done and will admit to.
1. Started your own blog - You're reading it
2. Slept under the stars - with my cousins, Dallas and Becky when I was young.
3. Played in a band - Does Jr. High count?
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower - see #2
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world
8. Climbed a mountain - well sorta, I drove over the Rockies.
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch - Cross Stitch for one, Beading
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you're not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb - but I've petted one!
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied (I'm easily satisfied!)
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person - The leaning Tower in Niles is the closest I've gotten.
39. Gone rock climbing (does a wall count?)
40. Seen Michelangelo's David
41. Sung karaoke - oh yeah.
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Gotten flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar - yum!
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone's life - When Ace was choking on a Fruit Loop.
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous - no, but I've seen Warren Zevon (rip) in a bar!
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
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Sunday, October 26, 2008
A coloring page
I've been looking for a coloring page of Brunelleschi's Duomo in Florence, but to no avail. Here, I've made one, in case you are looking for it too.
Be sure to print it in landscape.
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Labels: Homeschool, Renaissance
Thursday, October 23, 2008
The Renaissance - Giotto
We're continuing on the renaissance, examining the work and artistic influence of Giotto. Famous Men of the Renaissance and Reformation has a really nice, easy biography. After reading this, we looked at some of his paintings. Then, for a real art appreciation, I gave my kids a little "window" cut into a piece of cardstock that they could put over the picture and draw what was in the window, rather than have them sketch an entire work, which can be overwhelming. Here are the results:
Can you tell the figures
that Ace copied??
Here are Deuce's
She copied one of the little angels kneeling by Mary.
Three of Hearts did two sketches from the Lamentation picture. I helped her with the face on Mary Magdalen.
The angel is a little scribble-y, but I think you can tell which one it is by the pose.
Of course I needed to set a good example, so I did one too.
My dudes were the three amigos to the right of the Roman soldier next to Judas. I think the fellow near the top looks like the husband of a friend of mine. (hah!!)
Anyway, we had a lot of fun, and learned about how hard it is to make faces look life-like!!
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The Renaissance - Continues
Here are some pictures from our bas-relief project, here we are putting the latex onto the clay forms that we previously prepared. There will end up being about 10 layers of the latex when we are all finished. The latex is quite thick, thicker than I expected it to be, and it has a very strong smell. It is hard to get a light even coat of it, and I think we'll have some goopy areas. It is pretty fun to spread around, though.
Putting latex on the clay forms, layer 1.
More latex.
This stuff is really stinky, by the way. Do it with the windows open.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Palin for President
This is Genius!!
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
The Renaissance - Days 3, 4, & 5
I suppose you want to know how the unit is going. The Book of Days project was wonderful. Check out the pictures!
We've read about Ghiberti and the Doors of Paradise in Learning Through History magazine, and are looking at bronze bas relief. Then following the instructions here, we are making our own plaster bas reliefs. First we are making the forms out of modeling clay. This week we will be making the casts out of latex, and then making the plaster casts. I'll try to keep photos to show our progression.
This week we also are going to be learning a bit more about Gutenberg and his printing press. I've got a few books on Gutenberg, and also have read some from the Famous Inventors book over at Baldwin Project.
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Sunday, September 7, 2008
A Blast from the Past
If this doesn't bring back memories - the good kind, and the scary kind, what does??
The Sweater Song.
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
The Renaissance - Day 2
The second day of the Renaissance. This day is pretty light, considering.
Yesterday we began the "Book of Days" project. We continued with them today. Ace is finished, Deuce and Three are still working on theirs. Jack is just coloring the outlines.
Today's subject is Dante. Van Loon's Story of Mankind has a nice introduction of who Dante was. After such introduction, we cut his portrait out and put it in our timeline notebook. Our timeline is a large sketchbook with a black line across the top of it, each page representing 100 years. We put Dante in at 1300 for writing his poem, The Inferno. We've been working on this timeline for several years now. It is something we add to whenever we feel that something "needs" to go into it.
Here are some directions to make your own timeline notebook.
From KnowlegeQuest
From Donna Young
From Sqidoo
Some links to Dante.
Here is the portrait we used.
A pretty neat explanation of the poem.
A pretty easy translation.
Stay tuned for tomorrow's adventure?
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Monday, September 1, 2008
The Renaissance - Day 1
We are going to study the Renaissance for the next little bit.
Day 1 reading: Story of Mankind by van Loon, section on The Renaissance, end today at the section just before the introduction of Dante.
Label a map of the Renaissance: Italian Renaissance States, Italian Renaissance Cities
Blank Map of Italy
Art Project: Limbourg Brothers Book of Days, from Discovering Great Artists book
Some samples: http://www.gardenofpraise.com/art27.htm
Stay tuned for how this went, and also for Day 2's adventure!!
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
More New School Year stuff
After much agonizing, here is what is on the agenda for Deuce:
Deuce: 4th Grade
Reading: Free Reading 300 minutes per month
Make a book list
Required Reading: My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George
Not My Dog, Colby Rodowsky
Small Steps: The Year I got Polio, Peg Kehret
Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren
How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell
The Ghost in the Third Row, Bruce Coville
Malu's Wolf, Ruth Craig
Secret Letters from 0 to 10, Susie Morganstern
Language Arts: LLAL Yellow (or Orange – I haven't decided yet)
miscellaneous grammar exercises and book reports
Handwriting: Getty-Dubay level D
An Elegant Floral Alphabet
Spelling: Spelling Power 3x per week.
Math: Try Living Math Intermediate Level, Cycle 1, Unit 1. If this works, I'll keep it up. If not, then back to Singapore Math, or supplement with Singapore Math.
Social Studies:
History: Unit 1: Renaissance
Unit 2.: Feudal Japan
Unit 3: Vikings!
Geography: Home Geography for Primary Grades (in PDF form on computer)
Science: Unit 1 – Elements
Unit 2 – Life Science
Unit 3 – Solar System
Foreign Language: German
Music: Violin Practice 15 min/day, lesson 1x per week
Art: Hands of a Child Art Appreciation
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Saturday, August 2, 2008
Planning the Year Ahead
Well, its been fun, but I think I'm almost done planning our school year for 2008/2009.
Here is what is on the slate for Ace (6th grade):
Reading: Free Reading 300 minutes per month
Make a book list of books read
Required Reading:
Banner in the Sky, James Ullman
Never Cry Wolf, Farley Mowat
Cheaper by the Dozen, Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr.
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Terry Pratchett
Stowaway, Karen Hesse
Agnes the Sheep, William Taylor
Habibi, Naomi Shihab Nye
Halfway to the Sky, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Language Arts: Intermediate Language Lessons
miscellaneous grammar exercises and book reports
Spelling: Spelling Power 3x per week.
Math: Singapore's New Elementary Math 1, NEM 2
Social Studies:
History: Most of the resources we will be finding in Learning Through History Magazine
Unit 1: Renaissance
Unit 2: Feudal Japan
Unit 3: Vikings!
Geography: Trail Guide to World Geography
Unit 1 – Elements - Fizz, Bubble and Flash! Element Explorations and Atom Adventures
Unit 2 – Life Science - The Science of Life, Frank G. Bottone, Jr.
Unit 3 – Solar System/Astronomy - My World Science
Foreign Language: Calvert French
Music: Piano, Practice 20 min/day, lesson 1x week
Art: Hands of a Child Art Appreciation
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
The Itsy Bitsy Spider
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
A Frugal Breakfast Just Became -- CHEAPER!
Pancakes are, I think, one of the most dirt-cheap breakfasts you can serve your family. Six ingredients, and they think they are getting a real good treat. Now I can go one better, instead of regular pancakes, how about Bread Crumb Pancakes? I don't know about you, but I have a hard time "selling" the heels of bread around here. So I stick them in the freezer. And I use them for ... nothing, actually. I get a big bag of crusts that I do nothing with, then I end up tossing them after a while, when they are all dried out and freezer burned.
But not anymore. I have found a way of using those bread crusts (mostly from my homemade bread, too!) in Bread Griddle Cakes. The recipe is from an old Fanny Farmer recipe book:
Bread Griddle-cakes
2 eggs
11/2 cups scalded milk (I just used it out of the fridge, no scalding)
1/2 cup flour
2 tablespoons butter (melted)
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons baking powder
Add milk and butter to crumbs, and soak until crumbs are soft; add eggs well beaten, then flour, salt, and baking powder mixed and sifted. Cook same as other griddle-cakes.
Now for the $64,000 question, how do they taste? They taste like FRENCH TOAST!! Yum-O! (to quote Rachael Ray). Seriously, you could sprinkle a little powder sugar over them, instead of syrup, and really make it frugal. Or fresh raspberries from the brambles outside, or applesauce, you get the drift.
Good, cheap and easy.
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
What didn't work for us Meme
Time to start (Like I ever stop) thinking about next year's curriculum. In pruning some dead wood, so to speak, here's what didn't really work for us this year:
1. Starting too late in the day. I have a dear friend who can begin school in the mid-day, and they do a very good job of it. If we procrastinate, linger over breakfast, get too involved in chores or hobbies, and so on, school gets shoved aside, and we end up not doing much.
2. Turning on the computer before 3:00 in the afternoon. This thing sucks you in. Seriously. There is no need for it, and we are waaaayyy more productive if it just isn't turned on.
3. The telephone trap is also a bad one to get into. Even if I have a legitimate need to call someone for something, to pick up the phone is to spend (waste) a half hour. ugh.
4. Assignments that are too open-ended. We attempted a unit on King Arthur this year. Although I think that the girls did learn alot, it was hard to get them to complete assignments without a concrete framework of what I expected from them.
5. "Winging it" without really preparing anything specifically. This had two problems, first, I wasted too much time trying to figure out what I was doing, and it lead to more of the open ended assignments that my kids rebelled against, see above.
6. Expecting too little of Deuce. She is a challenge, make no mistake, but giving her less to do, because I thought that it would be better, or would avoid arguments, was nearly always a mistake. Bribery worked much better.
As far as specific curriculum, we had some hits, such as My World Science (which, sadly, is no longer being published), Genevive Foster's George Washington's World, Henty's The Dragon and The Raven, and Friday math games. We've also had some misses, such as the above mentioned King Arthur study, Primary Language Lessons (for Deuce, it worked well for Ace), and nearly all the attempts at art.
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Thursday, June 5, 2008
Having a Heat Wave
Summer seems to have arrived. It is hot today, and luckily we are still in our week away from school, because it isn't an atmosphere that would be easy to study in. As it is, it's been a hard one to even manage getting along with each other and getting the basic day-to-day stuff done. My garden is growing, though.
To date, we have lovely lettuce, arugula, and spinach. The beets are up, as are the carrots, and the swiss chard. I've got some sugar snap peas almost blooming, and we've already been eating at the radishes. The zucchini and acorn squash are up, and there are flowers on the tomatoes and the peppers. The garlic and other herbs are strong and healthy. There's more oregano and mint than I know what to do with. I've also got a lot of healthy weeds. (bleeach!)
The flowers from a few posts ago have really filled in. The garden looks almost tropical. I'll have to get out there with a camera (and also weed it as well.)
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008
The New Joker
Well, here he is: Astro (he came with the name). Some notes on Astro. First, he was supposed to be neutered. He isn't. So I've got to take him over to the clinic for that little operation. But first, he is going through some antibiotics for some sort of a bug. He came home with a little cough, and then it really blossomed into a respiratory infection of some kind. The antibiotics seem to be working though, he's much more playful than he was, and the disgusting side affects have stopped.
Second, he's big. Ninety-six pounds of joyful yellow lab. Ninety-six pounds of never stop smiling, running all over the place, bringing back every stick he can find, yellow lab. The kids adore him. They hug him, they ride him. I think the feeling is mutual. You usually don't find a kid without a dog, or a dog without a kid.
Third, Carmen, our other dog (breed: brown) likes him pretty well. Proof: she'll allow him to touch her. Even when she's trying to sleep. Plus, she likes to play tug of war with him and a stick.
Instant dog, just add family. Get a used dog.
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Day at the Museum
I took the family hearts (well, the kids anyway) to the Milwaukee Public Museum. We had a lot of fun! The MPM has a butterfly exhibit where the butterflies are allowed to fly around. Deuce was a butterfly magnet. She had butterflies landing on her back, her legs, even her hair. She was also the most successful at getting them to walk onto her fingers. All the kids (except the baby) did get one to walk onto their fingers. They were prepped before about not touching their wings at all, and not grabbing them or anything like that. The kids, (even Jack of Hearts) were exceptionally gentle. It helped that the butterflies were clearly used to being handled. There were quite a few that landed on me, and even the baby had some land on her, but I shooed them away before she could notice she had one on her and love it a whole bunch to death.
Other things of interest were the dinosaur exhibit (a little to real for the Jack of Hearts, though, so we pretty much ran past the T-Rex), and the native cultures exhibit from Africa, South America, and Australia. The kids also liked exploring the Streets of Old Milwaukee, and the European houses exhibits.
This is day 2 of our week away from school.
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Labels: family, Homeschool
Friday, May 16, 2008
A new heart
Yes, the Hearts family brought home a new dog. It's been about a month since Bilbo, our old loyal Lab mix passed away, and left a huge empty place in our home. We went to Orphans of the Storm, a no-kill shelter in our area, and there we found our new dog, Astro. (like the Jetsons.)
Astro is a large yellow Lab (mix? maybe - maybe not). His coat is very short and sandy-feeling. He is very gentle and patient, especially with the little kids, who climb on him and such. He is also very friendly to Carmen, our brown dog. What else can I say, he loves to play fetch, and will indefinitely, loves to be outside, but mostly loves to be with us. He is not a dog who wants to be "just left alone."
He had such a sad story, with his owners getting cancer, then giving up Astro and his buddy, Star, to the county animal control, when they could not take care of them anymore. Luckily, they were sent over to the shelter, but then Star was adopted, leaving poor Astro with no family, no home, and no companion. I was told that he had been in a home with kids, and that he loved children, so I felt good bringing him into our home, where we have sort of an infestation of children. It's been a short time, but I have a good feeling about Astro. He really is an "instant pet."
To anyone who is wary of adopting a fully grown dog: There is a perfect family for every dog you see at the shelter, especially if the dog is an adult. No housebreaking, you know what size they'll be, and none of the irritating "puppy stuff" like chewing the cushions off the couch. You just have to look, and be optimistic.
All I have to say is: Welcome home, Astro, welcome home.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
My yard
This time of year things start looking pretty nice around the Heart's yard. Here are some pictures of parts of our backyard. The garden shots are of my shade garden. I got some of the plants at Walmart, some from Jamaica Gardens, and the rest are perennials that are making their spring arrival.
Last year the pink flowering tree had only ONE branch that had any flowers at all. I seriously considered having it removed. This year it is making up for it's poor display last year.
The nasty bench under the tree is a treasure we found in a dumpster. It painted up pretty nice, but now it looks like it needs another coat of paint. It is pretty peely.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
What is it about my kids, that on the days that I think "golly, I've really been making them do some boring stuff, how about something fun today, like making their own games, etc., they become the biggest crabby cry-babies?" What is it about getting away from the table to do something that I figure MUST be more fun than worksheets and drills and assigned reading that brings out the worst in my kids?
Does unschooling=crabschooling?
Apparently it does in my house.
"Why don't you play one of those math games for math today, instead of your workbooks?" I say.
"No." replies Ace, "she cheats."
"I do not" says Deuce.
"You do too." says Ace.
"No, you just don't like it when I win." says Deuce.
Sensing that this is spinning rapidly out of control, I suggest a cooperative game that it doesn't pay to cheat at. This seems to be okay until Deuce brings up a coop game.
"I hate that game." says Ace.
"But I like it," says Deuce, "and I won't play any other game."
At this point I am about to toss them both out the window. When Jack and Three pipe up that they also LOVE the game. Sighing in resignation, Ace sits down to play the game. "There's no rules." She announces triumphantly, for now they can't play the game. "I guess we can't play this game."
After a little rummaging in the box, Three comes up with the rules - "aren't these the rules?"
"Yes." says Ace, resigned again to playing the game.
The games goes along just fine til the end. Then the bickering begins anew. Jack shoves a chair into Three, Ace begins bossing around Deuce, who then starts bossing around Jack, who shoves the chair into Three again.
Luckily, the baby is sleeping.
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
The baby is sick. Not throwing up sick, but the runny-nose, coughing, fever, grouchy out-of-sorts, crabby sick. I was up with her all night last night, just trying to comfort the poor thing. Tylenol can only do so much. It seems like she could only sleep so long as I was willing to sit in a vertical position and hold her just so.
Today I'm dragging my tired butt around the house. Thank goodness it's Saturday, and I can let the kids play on the videogames guilt free, (like we don't have to do school work. Although we will still probably do some art - there's a homeschool art show coming up, and we have sort of let the electives slide while we focussed on the essentials. A bit like the public schools, eh?)
Speaking of art, the art book we are using is "Art Adventures in the Home." Level 2, although I think it is adaptable for multiple ages. Another one we use has the unfortunate name of "Let's Discover Crayon" but it actually covers the basics of art very well.
We've also been learning about Monet. Here is TOH's "Waterlilies" torn paper collage. It is from an Usborne art book.
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Labels: crafts, family, Homeschool
Friday, April 11, 2008
Good Boy.
Yesterday we had to euthanize our dog, Bilbo. He was fifteen years old. The family is very sad, but so go those things. Here is a photo journal of our dog, from puppyhood to pictures taken on his last day.
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Saturday, April 5, 2008
Spring Cleaning
It's late for the Organizational Challenge, but I wanted to at least post pictures of my before and after of one of the cupboards in my kitchen. The kids keep their candy there, and the ants get in every year and just make a humongous yucky mess, eating and spreading the candy around. We also keep kitchen appliances there, so as you can imagine, this cupboard was a huge pile of ick.
This is the After picture:
I think you can agree that this is a giant improvement. Now I'm itching to get at another one, but it is so nice outside that I think I'll go outside and play for a while.
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The Days Are Long, But The Years Are Short...
Ace just had her 11th birthday. Happy Birthday Ace!!
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Another Food Porn Site
Okay Michelle!
Now that I got your attention - another site to make your mouth water!!
Bake Or Break
I haven't investigated it thoroughly yet though... but as Michelle so nicely said "it'll make you want to lick the screen."
My only wish is that I knew how to make my own cooking look so good, even in pictures! Food styling lessons anyone?
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Saturday, March 15, 2008
English Muffins
Ace and I made English muffins from scratch today. The recipe is from the book: "The Bread Baker's Apprentice" by Peter Reinhart. They were surprisingly fun to make, and quite easy. The book is full of interesting information and different "formulas" that you can put together to make different types of bread.
I've been interested in stepping beyond the basic whole wheat family bread into some more artisan hearth types, and I think that this book has nice clear instructions on how to bake that kind in our little regular home oven.
I've got a bowl of starter dough for making French bread tomorrow. We'll see how that turns out. My French bread is usually pretty boring. I hope to make it super yummy, like what you would get at Panera or Breadsmith. I can dream, right?
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
A Tea-Riffic Birthday Party!
Here are some pictures from TOH's sixth birthday party. She had a tea party with all her little girl friends. Ace and Deuce were bribed to go by permitting them to go see the
Spiderwick Chronicles afterwards. But I think they had a nice time nevertheless.
The tea party was held at a local B&B, and a very nice lady-owner ran the tea and made the very scrumptious looking treats and sandwiches and stuff. The little girls really used their best manners. It was a very sweet scene. Afterwards, the kids were allowed to look at the neat bedrooms and check out the balconies.
My daughter's favorite gift was a Disney Cinderella digital clock (?) She loved it so much she slept with it last night. I imagine it was lumpy.
Now to get on to writing those thank you notes!
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Labels: family, Silly things my kids do
Friday, February 8, 2008
Potato Bread
This is the bread I made today. It is a tall, soft loaf. Very delicious. The recipe is from the "Best Breads of 1987" - No idea what magazine, maybe Good Housekeeping, or BH & G.
Potato Bread
2 Tablespoons sugar
4 teaspoons salt
2 pks. active dry yeast (I used 4 tsps.)
about 8 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cups water (I used the water I cooked the potatoes in)
1 1/2 cup mashed potatoes (about 2 medium)
1 1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup butter or margarine
2 eggs
In a large bowl, combine sugar, salt, yeast and 1 1/2 cup flour. In a 2 quart saucepan mix water, mashed potatoes, and milk; add butter or margarine; over low heat, heat until very warm (120 to 130 degrees F), stirring often. (Butter or margarine does not have to melt completely.) With a mixer at low speed (or a wooden spoon!) gradually beat liquid into the dry ingredients just until blended; beat in eggs. Increase speed to medium; beat 2 more minutes, occasionally scraping the bowl. Beat in 1 cup flour to make a thick batter; continue beating 2 more minutes. Stir in enough flour to make a soft dough (about 3 cups).
Turn the dough out onto a well-floured surface and knead about 10 minutes, until smooth and elastic, kneading in more flour (about 2 cups or so). Shape into a large bowl. Roll in oil so it is coated, cover, and let rise until about double.
Punch down, turn onto a lightly floured surface and cut dough in half. Put each half into a large loaf pan. (The original recipe had you putting each half into a casserole dish and slashing the top. I used regular large loaf pans and my bread was very good. You decide which you want to do.) Cut two parallel slashes on top. Cover, and let raise until double again, about 1 hour. Preheat oven to 4oo degrees, brush each loaf with milk, bake 40 minutes until loaves are well browned and sound hollow when tapped. Remove from pans and cool on a rack.
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
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Sunday, February 3, 2008
I've been baking our family's bread for a few months. I think it is healthier and tastier. Normally I bake 4 loaves a time. I use the Hillbilly Housewife family bread recipe. It is just fine for our daily bread. Usually the first loaf is gone within 30 minutes of coming out of the oven. The next is gone by the end of the day. The third and fourth loaves take a couple of days. I think I'm saving money, not sure, but with bread loaves costing $2.00 or more a piece at the store, and I can get 2 whole bags of flour for that price (white at Aldi), I somehow feel that I'm coming out ahead. Not to mention the idea that my family isn't eating a whole bunch of additives and preservatives. I'm not a real fanatic about that, just would rather not, thanks.
So today I made Italian Bread. (No recipe, just basic white bread with the addition of olive oil and some sesame seeds over the top.) I was able to snap a picture of it before the kids got their hands on it. What do you think?? Can you smell it though your computer?
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Curriculum Review and a UFO report
On Monday, Ace begun her new math book. We are using Singapore's New Elementary Math, Book 1. You can look at it here. Well, it's been a week and I can say, so far, so good. It is more advanced, but Ace has completed the Singapore Primary Mathematic course, so she is ready.
The toughest adjustment is that she actually has to write out the problems and solve them on notepaper, not fill in the blank in a workbook. Anyone who uses Singapore will be familiar with this if they do the Practices in the textbook. There is a workbook for NEM, but it is mainly test papers to follow up finishing a chapter or section. Not for daily work. Otherwise, I think it will be rigorous, but not too difficult. I hope the explanation in the book will be sufficient for learning the skills, though, because there are no other explanation - even the solution manual has no teaching strategy, and the teacher's manual is mainly a schedule to get it all done in a year, and solutions to the workbook. We will have to update as it goes. I asked Ace what she thought of the new math book. Here was her response:
Just kidding, I just thought that this picture was hilarious.
In other news, Three just finished her Singapore Earlybird 2B today - with flying colors!! Yaay!
Big Smiles!!
Now for the UFO report. You might remember the list of 13 UFO's I posted. Well, I've made real progress on Ace's sweater. I've finished the back, and have begun the front. Yay me! In the meantime I've also knitted a couple of hats. Pictures sometime.
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
So I decided to dye my hair - This is nothing new, since my hair went grey back in the 1990's, I've been diy-ing my own. Normally it is either light ash brown or dark ash blonde, depending on whether it is summer or winter. Maybe I'm a little tired of shades with the word "ash" in them, or just need a (major) change, but I decided that this time I'd try auburn.
I can't say it looks auburn. It looks more like this:Does that mean that I deserve a break today?
Man, I hope so.
Or at least free burgers.
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Labels: family
Saturday, January 19, 2008
When was the last time you blogged?
Mea Culpa!
I've been in the middle of my life, and haven't really touched the keyboard, except to check my e-mail and download soup recipes. No excuse really, just that my dear hubby has been traveling an awful lot, and by the time evening rolls around I'm just to pooped to think of anything interesting to say.
Except have you ever experienced a panic attack? I don't mean a moment of panic, but a real, middle of the night, heart pounding, think you are having a cardiac arrest, panic attack? I've had a couple now (conveniently when my husband is traveling) and they must be stopped. My girlfriend asked me, well, what do you do for you? I thought she was asking something in a foreign language, so I just looked at her with a blank look, but she continued, that maybe I need to blog more about the stuff that I feel anxious about.
Sorry, no.
I will keep my anxiety in a little box with my irrational fears, and maybe my paranoia as well, and it can be one big party in there, and I will not look and see what that noise is, because it might really be something this time, and I really, really don't want that, so there.
In other words, my anxiety isn't up for blogging. Unless the panic attacks get really bad. Maybe then, unless I'm dying of a heart attack.
I saw some friends for breakfast this morning. I've decided that I need to tap into my friends' creativity more - one of them SPINS FIBER!!! and the other one does floral arranging type stuff. These are things I cannot do. Not that I've tried spinning, but my floral arranging looks like something that my 5 year old did -- and she has a better idea of it than me. (the joke here is that I did my own flowers for my wedding) They looked o.k. Still they'd look better if I had any actual skill, rather than enthusiasm. (loads of that, though.)
So that is it in a nutshell, aren't you glad you asked?
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MASTER WORKS: THE DEGAS PLAYS Comes to Commedia Beauregard, 5/29-6/1
Commedia Beauregard, a Chicago-based theatre company, announces the publication of three play collections as part of its Master Works short play festival. This is the seventh time that Commedia Beauregard has held the festival, which translates paintings to the stage, but the first time the plays will be available in print. The new scripts include works based on the paintings of Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Degas. This year's offering, Master Works: The Degas Plays will also be performed at the Den Theatre for one weekend only -- May 29th through June 1st, 2014. Shows are scheduled for Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3:00 p.m.
"[Commedia Beauregard] has given these scripts what I'm calling 'the museum treatment'," stated Spenser Davis, one of the featured playwrights. "Much as the paintings of Degas are hung next to one another in an art exhibition, so too are these Degas-inspired plays published next to one another, so [readers] can take in several in one sitting... giving them the opportunity to revisit the adaptations that they particularly enjoyed and comparing the experience of reading these scripts with their memories of seeing the productions and possibly making new thematic discoveries along the way."
Allowing the audience and the reader to make such discoveries fits well with Commedia Beauregard's mission, which focuses on bringing translated works to the stage. For Master Works: The Degas Plays, six award-winning playwrights were brought together to each translate one painting by Edgar Degas into a new short play. One such painting is Café Singer (which can be viewed at the Art Institute of Chicago). Playwright Rachel Bykowski explained "I was absolutely fascinated by the woman depicted in the Café Singer, and I think Degas was too. To translate something like this I had to conduct my own interview with this Singer... who is she singing to and most importantly, why is she singing in the first place." From this "interview" with the painting's sole subject, Bykowski created She Sings for You - a play which includes a colorful cast of characters.
Master Works: The Degas Plays is full of color and movement, much like the paintings of Degas. It is also full of dance, deception and laughs! Each piece is brought to life by a local Director, translating the works from the page to the stage. Wm. Bullion, who directs See You Soon (written by Commedia Beauregard Company Member, Jackie Davies), shared "I am loving the chance to create - or at least echo - the mood of Degas's L'Absinthe. Very moving, very ethereal; like a long, sad date with the Green Fairy herself."
Also new to print are Master Works: The Rembrandt Plays, featuring works originally performed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2010 and Master Works: The Van Gogh Plays, a collection of plays from the 2013 festival in Chicago. All three collections will be available for purchase at Master Works: The Degas Plays performances and through the Company's IndieGoGo campaign. www.indiegogo.com/projects/master-works-the-degas-plays
"There's always something magical about holding your manuscript in your hands for the first time... you realize that this thing you've created is real. It has weight." - Cassandra Rose, playwright of Dancers at Rest, one of 18 the newly published plays, part of the Master Works: The Degas Plays collection.
Master Works: The Degas Plays performances Thurs., May 29 @ 7:30 p.m., Fri., May 30 @ 7:30 p.m., Sat., May 31 @ 7:30 p.m., Sun., June 1 at 3:00 p.m. at The Den Theatre, 1333 N Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL 60622. Tickets: $15 tickets can be ordered in advance through www.cbtheatre.org, or by calling 800-838-3006.
Master Works: The Degas Plays features new plays by Matt Beard, Rachel Bykowski, Jackie Davies, Spenser Davis, Cassandra Rose and Julia Weiss. Directed by Wm. Bullion, Jonathan Goldthwaite, Tiffany Keane, Kacie Smith, Abby Stark and Ginny Trover. The cast includes Ashley Boots, Kayla Boye, Natalee Cooney, Linsey Falls, Kanome' Jones, Chris Lysy, Amber Robinson, Brendan Stallings, Steven Stinson, Shawna Tucker, Leigh Yenrick, and Phil Zimmerman.
Master Works: The Van Gogh Plays includes plays by Ellen Cribbs, Christopher Kidder-Mostrom, Rory Leahy, Jason Lindner, Alberto Mendoza and Sean M. Wagner. Master Works: The Rembrandt Plays consists of plays written by Shanan Custer, Matthew A. Everett, Greg Giles, Christopher Kidder-Mostrom, Adam Sharp and Brian Watson-Jones.
About Commedia Beauregard: Founded in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1999, Commedia Beauregard is a non-profit theatre company with a mission to translate the universal human experience to the stage; to expand our horizons and share knowledge of all cultures, translating between languages and between arts to create theater that is beautiful in expression. Today, Commedia Beauregard is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and is producing exciting theatre in translation throughout the Midwest. For more, visit CBTheatre.org. Recent productions include A Klingon Christmas Carol - the only full length play performed in tlhIngan Hol (the alien language created for Star Trek), Macchiavelli's The Mandrake and last year's festival offering, Master Works: The Van Gogh Plays.