Out and About

I meant to write a post about our fun trip to the zoo with our home school group on September 25, but things keep pulling on my time and it didn’t get done.
School takes up a good portion of our day, but it is going very well.  We are enjoying our curriculum and the girls [...]

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Adoption Progress

Our home study is in draft form and waiting for approval from Journeys of the Heart.  I have filled out and sent my I-800A (the immigration approval form) and a check for that fee to JOH for them to send in as soon as the home study is approved and signed and notarized by the social worker.  [...]

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Kalindi – Learning

I have written before about some educational challenges with the girls and Kalindi in particular.  After home schooling them both for a full year I had a pretty good idea that Kalindi would need some intervention of some kind.  I worked with both the girls on phonics and reading and Kira was doing well, but Kalindi [...]

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What We Have Been Up To….May

My energy level lately has been pretty low.  This time of year my allergies sap my energy and I feel like I am walking around in a fog!  There are days I wake up that way and it is hard to do anything beyond what really NEEDS to be done in a day.  I am always [...]

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Our Busy Week

I wanted to post about all the fun (and some not so fun) adventures of the past week beginning with Sunday, 3/15.  On Sunday, we got together with my parents, grandma, and my sister’s family to celebrate three March birthdays.  It was a really fun day and we were all thankful that my nephew Nate asked [...]

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Home Schooling and the Older Adopted Child

I thought I would take some time to explain what our typical school week looks like.  Home schooling the girls has been like starting with preschool/kindergarten age kids – but without the immersion in English most kids get their first four years of life!
I began home schooling Kelsey when she was starting second grade.  I [...]

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Educational, uhhh, attempts

Pretty much every day something happens in school with the girls that makes me either want to pull my hair out, run from the room screaming, or laugh my head off. 
I recently got this book called Dr. DooRiddles.  It is supposed to help teach logic and thinking skills.  There is a little riddle with clues [...]

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Almost a Year

The past eleven months has gone by so quickly.  I was recently reliving our call we received from the adoption agency telling us that our guardianship order had been signed and that we could make our travel plans.  The reason it all seemed so fresh and exciting is because some friends were preparing to travel [...]

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Thanksgiving Fun

The girls and I go to a monthly home school group that my wonderful, creative, energetic, enthusiastic, organized, fun, patient, thoughtful, and young at heart friend runs for all us moms.  She is the grandma of the group – literally.  She started the group with her daughter-in-law in mind as a way to help her to get started [...]

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Unique English Usage

I keep forgetting to write down and share some of the cute things the girls still say.  Reading a blog of a family who has recently adopted siblings from Ethiopia I was reminded of some of the language hurdles that I thought we would NEVER get over.  One of those was to stop referring to [...]

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