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I reviewed the Visual Latin curriculum series awhile back. We started the Latin Curriculum for Latin I this past homeschool year. I received the first half of the curriculum free for the review . I had forgotten the review was posted elsewhere. I found the other review online the other day. It is on the Because Mom Says So curriculum and book review site. Here is the link to my other review...I am not sure if I remember posting it there...but it is mine.

A little over a year ago...I potted two pineapple plants . The how to is here: They were repotted about a weekend ago. For the two potted last summer that are now a year old...they have grown a lot... This one is almost as old as the others...it was quite large, but had to be cut back some after being repotted...I think I tranferred it too fast from the indoors to the outdoors.    This one is about 8 or 9 months old now...it was looking poorly when I repotted it. I should have resoiled it before I did. The roots were showing some signs of rot. They had to be cut away and fresh soil used. It seems to be looking better and I hope continues to improve. This one is the baby pineapple. It has only been a bit over 1.5 months since I potted this one. I am ready for these pineapple plants to grow me a pineapple like this one: This pineapple is not mine, or my picture...click on the picture for picture and link credit for this one. This guy lo...

        elephant ear leaf...shaped like a heart...

nothing like mini learning lessons/field trips close to home... we went to a family friend's home and visited bunnies - mamas and new babies and held a flying squirrel!!  fun and educational all at the same time...

 spinach and cheese stuffed chicken breasts potato, squash, and fresh herb torte it was yummy and very filling... love finding ideas on pinterest ...

My younger son and I went to the local library yesterday. We pick wild blackberries near the library.  Sad to say, the wild blackberry vines are destroyed. Sadder still, we have met other people who come to pick the blackberries here as well. Looking at the destroyed vines brings to mind the elderly man I met last year who came that morning to pick fresh blackberries for his "bride" of many years for her to put on her oatmeal that morning. That conversation and short communication has stayed with me all year to appreciate the simple moments in life that seal a marriage commitment.  My son and I have came by here almost every other day lately to gauge the growth and development of these little berries and to determine when some would finally be ready to pick. They were in full bloom and so pretty. Now, they are literally destroyed. And yes, I do understand why they were destroyed cut away. The railway is replacing the ties and I think the rails. I understan...

I think I have been in overdrive today. My phone went capoot on Wednesday while we were out of town. What really happened to my phone was I killed it. I dropped it in the toilet. Go ahead and laugh..I did. It was a crappy phone anyway.  It was able to be dried out enough to receive and send texts and send emails. It would dial and ring calls in, but all one could hear through either end of the given receivers was static. Thus I got a new phone on Friday. I have spent some of each of the past two days learning how to use the new phone. Today, I was able to repot/replant the remainder of the lemon saplings , orange saplings, and pineapple plants. I will post pictures of the pineapples later. I still need to replant/repot the aloe plants, a lily, and some airplane plants. These are the repotted orange and lemon trees. I started these from seed back in November 2011 and potted them in the first pots in January 2012. I started with more than these of each plant type but these we...

The child and I were on the way to a friend's beach condo the other day and were listening to a sermon en route. It was the Bible story about Mary and Martha, Luke 10:38-42. It had all the typical items we are all familiar with in this story...but then came the lesson. The real impact of the lesson came about the speaker's revelation/thought that Mary was a Martha, before she was a Mary. Now this has more to do with the characters of the women. They were both believers. And, in this day and age would perhaps both be viewed as devout Christian women. The thing about these two women were they were polar opposites on how they dealt with Christ when he entered their house and how they responded to His words to them. Martha flitted about. She made sure all was clean and the men were tended to...she worried about the details of the household and wanted everyone to be comfortable and fed. She became agitated that Mary sat at the feet of Christ and did not assist her in the ho...

I have finished my public school employment, finished up homebound instruction for one child, and finished out the after school instruction position. I am now working with the homeschool association only and on the consulting position. I have been busy adjuncting still on the side. The consulting position is challenging mentally and I like that. It travels with me and my younger son, making homeschooling still very doable. We have traveled away from home for the last several days to check on the older child. This has proved more difficult than I imagined. I will stop on that discussion. He is moving through stages in life.   While away, I promised my younger son we would stop by the local reservation to buy him some more blowdarts. We are planning to taking the thistle pods growing near the house to dry for the season and then try to use them to make our own blowdarts. We were able to purchase sinew this evening, unexpectedly...so this will add to this creation for him. :...