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Mobile Dog/Cat Groomer in Cincinnati area

I am posted this for a homeschooled friend who is trying to build up her clientele for her grooming business. In Home Pet Grooming Services by Jessica of JC’s Canine Design Affordable ‘mobile’ grooming by award winning groomer Jessica Darnell-Cradic. Services available for dogs and cats 40 pounds or less. In home grooming is less [...]

New Year

Ok. It is a New Year once again. Do you have the same old resolutions as last year? Or did you make new ones? I always seem to find myself falling back to old ones that I never seemed to have accomplished. I don’t exactly sit down and make nay pact with myself or anyone [...]

Alice in Wonderland—-

We are sitting here watching Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. I do think this is one of my favorite versions of it. I found a website with information about the story and thought it would make a good unit study. Some days I feel like Alice. I am often amused that people make assumptions about [...]

Our Christmas tree

We recently put up our Christmas tree a week ago. It has about 800 lights and tons of ornaments. Some the ornaments date back before the 70s to the present. Not sure which one is the oldest. May even have some from the 50s. Sara recently made one in Brownies and added it to or [...]

Autumn?

Really it has been in the 80s/90s here. Where is Fall? I know I had said we kind of missed out on summer again this year but really I did not think anyone was listening to me. LOL I would like it to get a little cooler so that I can plan a few outside [...]

Start of school year

We unofficially started our school year last week by working on our math workbooks. This week we added a few more subjects- Science and Spanish so far. I realized that the one educational website I subscribed to was already expired before I had a chance to retrieve some things for this year. Ugh. I had [...]

Joy…

I recently saw a question on a blog that asked the question, “What brings you joy?” Now I first had to consider the many definitions of the word, “joy.” Most defined it as an intense type of happiness. I thought about that and considered that meaning and realized that you could be void of happiness [...]

Sept 17: The 222nd Birthday of the Constitution!

On September 17th in the year 1787, our Constitution was signed by 39 of the founding fathers of our country, U.S.A. Check out http://www.homeschoolfreebie.wholesomechildhood.com/ to get a free download of a mp3 and links to activities to celebrate this monumental historical event.

Talk Like A Pirate Day- Sept 19th

Remember Talk like a Pirate Day is coming up soon this month. September 19th. What are you going to do to celebrate??? One of the official websites for it is at http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html I have not looked at all of it yet so I cannot endorse how kid friendly it is but just thought I’d post [...]

What now? – kind of an eeyore day

My kids were suppose to go to the in-laws today to stay with them for the week to go to their VBS. MY DH and I had been given a complementary stay at a local hotel so we could at least get away from things for a day and get into air conditioning again. Our [...]