(And just figure that we will be posting LOTS of photos these days... I am thoroughly enjoying my new camera... )
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Fun in the Sun
We had a grand time the other day out on a pontoon boat with some friends. The day was beautiful, and a great time was had by all!!!
(And just figure that we will be posting LOTS of photos these days... I am thoroughly enjoying my new camera... )
(And just figure that we will be posting LOTS of photos these days... I am thoroughly enjoying my new camera... )
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Bethany's First Birthday
Our sweet Bethany turned one on July 9... so I thought I would post a few photos of the birthday girl. She is such a blessing to our family... I am really glad that God chose to give us our little baby #9!
Monday, July 13, 2009
Bible Bee Week 8 Study Schedule
We took last week to review and reinforce our verses from before... but are back into it today.
This week we will be studying the book of Matthew (we have completed Genesis, 1 Samuel, and 2 Samuel.)
We will also be doing the following verses:
Category 1
Romans 8: 31-32
Romans 10: 10-11
Romans 10: 17
Romans 12: 2
Romans 15: 4
1 Corinthians 2: 12
1 Corinthians 2: 14
1 Corinthians 10: 13
Category 2
John 1: 10-14
John 3: 16-18
John 6: 37-40
John 8: 25-27
John 11: 25-27
John 17: 14-16
Romans 1: 16-17
Category 3
Acts 17: 24-28
Romans 1:28-32
Romans 5: 18-21
Romans 6: 8-14
Romans 8: 12-19
Romans 8: 31-38
Romans 10: 8-13
We've been playing lots of games to review the verses and the Bible Knowledge questions. I have combined the review with the opportunity for the children to earn money for our children's mission fund at church. Over the summer our church has a boys vs. girls competition to see who can donate the heaviest amount of coins to missions. So we have been varying the ways the children can earn monopoly money... each dollar represents a penny for missions.
So for category 1 they can earn (or lose) 1 dollar. Cat. 2= $2, and Cat. 3=$3. Or they can bet any amount to earn or lose if they know the random verse I pick. Or whatever I think of.
Another game is to play Chutes and Ladders... roll a 1 or 4, get a category 1 verse. If you get it correct, go forward 1 space. Wrong, go back 1 space. 2 and 5 get cat. 2's and move 2 spaces, cat 3 goes 3. If they don't have to memorize cat. 3, they get a cat 2 verse for that roll. When they get on a Chute or Ladder, they have to answer a bible knowledge... you get the picture. Anything to review things.
During mealtimes I review the Bible Knowledge, and they earn a dollar (remember it's fake... and only worth 1 cent!!! All to go to missions...) for each correct answer.
It's going to cost us an arm and a leg, but it's worth it.
Another thing I have done is to download the verses, the Bible Knowledge questions, and the books of the Bible onto my iPod... all the sudden the kids are eager to listen to it, just to get to use the iPod. Another great way to review.
Just some ideas for people who are studying for the Bible Bee too. We are a little behind in our memory verses, so I doubt that we will memorize every one of them, but we will get most of them.
Anyone else have any great ideas for memory work?
This week we will be studying the book of Matthew (we have completed Genesis, 1 Samuel, and 2 Samuel.)
We will also be doing the following verses:
Category 1
Romans 8: 31-32
Romans 10: 10-11
Romans 10: 17
Romans 12: 2
Romans 15: 4
1 Corinthians 2: 12
1 Corinthians 2: 14
1 Corinthians 10: 13
Category 2
John 1: 10-14
John 3: 16-18
John 6: 37-40
John 8: 25-27
John 11: 25-27
John 17: 14-16
Romans 1: 16-17
Category 3
Acts 17: 24-28
Romans 1:28-32
Romans 5: 18-21
Romans 6: 8-14
Romans 8: 12-19
Romans 8: 31-38
Romans 10: 8-13
We've been playing lots of games to review the verses and the Bible Knowledge questions. I have combined the review with the opportunity for the children to earn money for our children's mission fund at church. Over the summer our church has a boys vs. girls competition to see who can donate the heaviest amount of coins to missions. So we have been varying the ways the children can earn monopoly money... each dollar represents a penny for missions.
So for category 1 they can earn (or lose) 1 dollar. Cat. 2= $2, and Cat. 3=$3. Or they can bet any amount to earn or lose if they know the random verse I pick. Or whatever I think of.
Another game is to play Chutes and Ladders... roll a 1 or 4, get a category 1 verse. If you get it correct, go forward 1 space. Wrong, go back 1 space. 2 and 5 get cat. 2's and move 2 spaces, cat 3 goes 3. If they don't have to memorize cat. 3, they get a cat 2 verse for that roll. When they get on a Chute or Ladder, they have to answer a bible knowledge... you get the picture. Anything to review things.
During mealtimes I review the Bible Knowledge, and they earn a dollar (remember it's fake... and only worth 1 cent!!! All to go to missions...) for each correct answer.
It's going to cost us an arm and a leg, but it's worth it.
Another thing I have done is to download the verses, the Bible Knowledge questions, and the books of the Bible onto my iPod... all the sudden the kids are eager to listen to it, just to get to use the iPod. Another great way to review.
Just some ideas for people who are studying for the Bible Bee too. We are a little behind in our memory verses, so I doubt that we will memorize every one of them, but we will get most of them.
Anyone else have any great ideas for memory work?
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Well...
Once again we have been just plain too busy for posting much. Whoever said that summer days are lazy didn't live my life. Or just wasn't in their third trimester during the summer! But we are knocking some things out.
- The blackberries are ripe. the kids have been enjoying going out in the evenings and getting some. They are wild, and have a bitter after taste, but are great with ice cream, and in jam.
- We've been getting lots of cucumbers, green peppers, jalapenos, and banana peppers. And my herbs are growing strong. There are lots of green tomatoes... still waiting for them to ripen. Lots of watermelon and cantelope are growing. Can't wait to eat them... I could eat those two fruits all day long right now. Pregnancy cravings and all.
- I did not get officially diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes, but did come back borderline. I will need to follow the diet, and do a two hour test once a week to monitor, but am glad I am not in the dangerous zone.
- Believe it or not, Bethany is 1 year old today! That is an amazing trick. I am not sure how in the world this year passed so fast. I'll be trying to get a few good photos today, so keep posted.
-We are almost done with the downstairs as far as decluttering and organizing goes. I threw out about 6 big garbage bags of stuff, took some to the thrift store, and generally just put back where things go. I also have about 5 boxes of things to sell. It will feel good to have it all done!
- We are re-doing our chore charts, etc. before the baby is born. It's always a transition, but hopefully things will be running smoothly again soon.
- Bible Bee memorization continues. We are taking a week to review, just to help it to stick a bit better in their heads. I plan on making a Bible Bee entry soon, just to record what all we are doing. The children have put so much of the Word in them!!!
- Soon I need to turn my mind to planning for school again. Wow... where has the summer flown? Oh yeah... in doing all this organizing!
I am 29 weeks pregnant today. Since I have 37-38 week babies, we only have 8-9 weeks left. It will come up on us all too fast, especially since we cannot figure out a name we love! Poor little thing!
- The blackberries are ripe. the kids have been enjoying going out in the evenings and getting some. They are wild, and have a bitter after taste, but are great with ice cream, and in jam.
- We've been getting lots of cucumbers, green peppers, jalapenos, and banana peppers. And my herbs are growing strong. There are lots of green tomatoes... still waiting for them to ripen. Lots of watermelon and cantelope are growing. Can't wait to eat them... I could eat those two fruits all day long right now. Pregnancy cravings and all.
- I did not get officially diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes, but did come back borderline. I will need to follow the diet, and do a two hour test once a week to monitor, but am glad I am not in the dangerous zone.
- Believe it or not, Bethany is 1 year old today! That is an amazing trick. I am not sure how in the world this year passed so fast. I'll be trying to get a few good photos today, so keep posted.
-We are almost done with the downstairs as far as decluttering and organizing goes. I threw out about 6 big garbage bags of stuff, took some to the thrift store, and generally just put back where things go. I also have about 5 boxes of things to sell. It will feel good to have it all done!
- We are re-doing our chore charts, etc. before the baby is born. It's always a transition, but hopefully things will be running smoothly again soon.
- Bible Bee memorization continues. We are taking a week to review, just to help it to stick a bit better in their heads. I plan on making a Bible Bee entry soon, just to record what all we are doing. The children have put so much of the Word in them!!!
- Soon I need to turn my mind to planning for school again. Wow... where has the summer flown? Oh yeah... in doing all this organizing!
I am 29 weeks pregnant today. Since I have 37-38 week babies, we only have 8-9 weeks left. It will come up on us all too fast, especially since we cannot figure out a name we love! Poor little thing!
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Majorly Big For Sale List
Well, after you see how much I am posting for sale, you will know that we have been busy de-cluttering around here. Sorry for not posting much, but we are just plain ol' busy Living Life!
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I am clearing out our shelves of the curriculum we are no longer using, and trying to raise money for this year’s stuff… I tried to price things reasonably. I will gladly make a deal on multiple items.
I will accept checks, money orders, and paypal. I ask that if you are sending via paypal that you add $.30 and 2.9 % to cover what they will take out.
Please e-mail me at petersonclan at momys dot net if you are interested in anything.
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BIBLE AND CHARACTER:
Student of the Word… New $415. Asking $300 ppd with priority mail and insurance/ del. Conf. Please note: This is all you would need for all 6 years of the program, except the CD to print the forms out. That is available for $35 from the website. Would prefer to sell the books as a set although I will consider splitting them.
Student Edition
Teacher Edition
Resource Edition
Teacher Supplements
Pearables Personal Help for Boys New Condition. $15 ppd.
Pearables Personal Help for Girls New Condition $15 ppd.
The Building on the Rock Series from Vision Forum... $25 ppd.
How God used a Thunderstorm
How God Stopped the Pirates
How God Used a Snowdrift
How God Used Drought and an Umbrella
How God Sent a Dg to Save a Family
HISTORY:
History Pockets Ancient Egypt (Taken out of comb binding for ease of copying. On page wrinkled, but will not effect copy quality.) Reproducible. $10 ppd.
History Pockets Moving West (Pages out for ease of copying.) Reproducible. $10 ppd.
Color and Learn Ancient Rome by Edupress. $4 ppd.
Brown Paper School USKids of History: Book of the American Revolution - $8 ppd.
Veritas Press History 1815 to present… Teacher’s book (separated and hole punched for a binder), cards, and cassette tape. $30 ppd.
Sonlight Book of Time… somewhat used… maybe 20 entries? $6 ppd.
Story of the World Volume 3: Early Modern Times. Paperback. Some bending on cover. $17 new. Asking $12 ppd.
LANGUAGE ARTS:
Easy Grammar Level 1 (Purple book… level 5/6?) Teacher edition on one page, student on the other. Reproducible. Hole punched for ease of copying. $20 ppd.
Easy Grammar (Silver book… Level 4/5) Teacher and student edition… reproducible… hole punched. $20 ppd.
Daily Grams ¾ $12 ppd.
Daily Grams 5/6 $12 ppd.
Christian Light Education Reading 3 Light Unit Booklets… 301- 310. $18 ppd.
Reading Comprehension and Test Taking Skills Grade 7. $5 ppd
Spelling Power, 3rd Edition. Some small bending on the bottom front cover. Small amount of writing inside. $35 ppd.
Story Starters by Karen Andreola. Some wrinkles on front cover. $20 ppd.
Painless Poetry (Sonlight Curriculum). $6 ppd.
Elements of Writing Introductory Course and Second Course. Two of Each. Free to a good home for the price of postage… $3 each?
Writers Express – Used. $7 ppd.
Writing for Children and Teenagers. Free to a good home for the price of shipping. $3
Building Thinking Skills Beginning Verbal Cards. $5 ppd.
MATH;
Modern Curriculum Press Mathematics B Teacher’s Guide. Bent Cover. $12 ppd.
Saxon Math 6/5 Second Edition. Hardback Text, Test forms, and Home Study Packet. $25 ppd.
Bob Jones Math 3 Home Teacher Packet. $5 ppd.
Developmental Math 7 Teacher and Student book. $8 ppd.
Developmental Math 2 Teacher Book. $2 (free for the shipping, basically)
MISCELLANEOUS:
AGS Experiences in Science: $6 each ppd, or $15 for all.
Matter, Motion, and Machines,
The Mysteries of Plant Life,
The Mysteries of Animal Life,
A Survey of Fiction
Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting (DK Hardback- new condition) Sonlight book… $50 new, asking $30.
Horizons Science Teacher Edition 6 – Free for the price of postage. $5 (?)
Dinah Zikes Big Book of Books and Activities $15 ppd.
Learn How to Set Up Learning Centers In Your Home. By Mary Hood. $4 ppd.
Notebooking! Yes! You can be a binder queen! By Cindy Rushton. Like New. $15 ppd.
Homemade Books! Yes! You can be a writer too! By Cindy Rushton. Like New. $25 ppd.
Hidden Woman of the Heart… Cindy Rushton. $15 ppd.
Childhood and Adolescent Stuttering Treatment and Activity Resource Guide. $75 new. Asking $50 ppd.
Managers of their Chores by Steven and Terri Maxwell. No Chorepack kit. $13 ppd.
God Always Keeps His Promises Student Bible Study Workbook. $5 ppd.
Preschool activities in a bag… pre-assembled and ready to go. 10 games , $40 ppd.
Can You Remember?
B or d?
Can You Remember Numbers?
123 Trail
ABC Puzzles
ABC-123 Match
Alpha-Beads
Boredom Buster
Color Me Puzzles
Alpha-Spoons
Supermag Magnetic Genius- Magnet sets… several put together into one box. $60 plus postage. It is very heavy. Probably could send it in a flat rate box cheapest.
MOMYS Cookbook… 1600 recipes sized for large families. Hardcover binder format. $30 ppd. 2 Copies
Joy of Cooking - $15 ppd.
Financial Freedom DVDs by Jim Sammons. $100 new, asking $80 ppd.
Learning Lifestyle record of Learning… Notgrass publication. $12 new. Asking $6 ppd.
Soap Making Supplies:
All you need to get into the art and sale of soapmaking. Goat’s milk base, different oils, many colors and fragrances, containers, etc. Will sell whole lot for $250 postage paid with delivery confirmation and insurance. Please write if seriously interested in getting a detailed list.
~~~~~~~~~~~
I am clearing out our shelves of the curriculum we are no longer using, and trying to raise money for this year’s stuff… I tried to price things reasonably. I will gladly make a deal on multiple items.
I will accept checks, money orders, and paypal. I ask that if you are sending via paypal that you add $.30 and 2.9 % to cover what they will take out.
Please e-mail me at petersonclan at momys dot net if you are interested in anything.
~~~~~~~~~~~
BIBLE AND CHARACTER:
Student of the Word… New $415. Asking $300 ppd with priority mail and insurance/ del. Conf. Please note: This is all you would need for all 6 years of the program, except the CD to print the forms out. That is available for $35 from the website. Would prefer to sell the books as a set although I will consider splitting them.
Student Edition
Teacher Edition
Resource Edition
Teacher Supplements
Pearables Personal Help for Boys New Condition. $15 ppd.
Pearables Personal Help for Girls New Condition $15 ppd.
The Building on the Rock Series from Vision Forum... $25 ppd.
How God used a Thunderstorm
How God Stopped the Pirates
How God Used a Snowdrift
How God Used Drought and an Umbrella
How God Sent a Dg to Save a Family
HISTORY:
History Pockets Ancient Egypt (Taken out of comb binding for ease of copying. On page wrinkled, but will not effect copy quality.) Reproducible. $10 ppd.
History Pockets Moving West (Pages out for ease of copying.) Reproducible. $10 ppd.
Color and Learn Ancient Rome by Edupress. $4 ppd.
Brown Paper School USKids of History: Book of the American Revolution - $8 ppd.
Veritas Press History 1815 to present… Teacher’s book (separated and hole punched for a binder), cards, and cassette tape. $30 ppd.
Sonlight Book of Time… somewhat used… maybe 20 entries? $6 ppd.
Story of the World Volume 3: Early Modern Times. Paperback. Some bending on cover. $17 new. Asking $12 ppd.
LANGUAGE ARTS:
Easy Grammar Level 1 (Purple book… level 5/6?) Teacher edition on one page, student on the other. Reproducible. Hole punched for ease of copying. $20 ppd.
Easy Grammar (Silver book… Level 4/5) Teacher and student edition… reproducible… hole punched. $20 ppd.
Daily Grams ¾ $12 ppd.
Daily Grams 5/6 $12 ppd.
Christian Light Education Reading 3 Light Unit Booklets… 301- 310. $18 ppd.
Reading Comprehension and Test Taking Skills Grade 7. $5 ppd
Spelling Power, 3rd Edition. Some small bending on the bottom front cover. Small amount of writing inside. $35 ppd.
Story Starters by Karen Andreola. Some wrinkles on front cover. $20 ppd.
Painless Poetry (Sonlight Curriculum). $6 ppd.
Elements of Writing Introductory Course and Second Course. Two of Each. Free to a good home for the price of postage… $3 each?
Writers Express – Used. $7 ppd.
Writing for Children and Teenagers. Free to a good home for the price of shipping. $3
Building Thinking Skills Beginning Verbal Cards. $5 ppd.
MATH;
Modern Curriculum Press Mathematics B Teacher’s Guide. Bent Cover. $12 ppd.
Saxon Math 6/5 Second Edition. Hardback Text, Test forms, and Home Study Packet. $25 ppd.
Bob Jones Math 3 Home Teacher Packet. $5 ppd.
Developmental Math 7 Teacher and Student book. $8 ppd.
Developmental Math 2 Teacher Book. $2 (free for the shipping, basically)
MISCELLANEOUS:
AGS Experiences in Science: $6 each ppd, or $15 for all.
Matter, Motion, and Machines,
The Mysteries of Plant Life,
The Mysteries of Animal Life,
A Survey of Fiction
Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting (DK Hardback- new condition) Sonlight book… $50 new, asking $30.
Horizons Science Teacher Edition 6 – Free for the price of postage. $5 (?)
Dinah Zikes Big Book of Books and Activities $15 ppd.
Learn How to Set Up Learning Centers In Your Home. By Mary Hood. $4 ppd.
Notebooking! Yes! You can be a binder queen! By Cindy Rushton. Like New. $15 ppd.
Homemade Books! Yes! You can be a writer too! By Cindy Rushton. Like New. $25 ppd.
Hidden Woman of the Heart… Cindy Rushton. $15 ppd.
Childhood and Adolescent Stuttering Treatment and Activity Resource Guide. $75 new. Asking $50 ppd.
Managers of their Chores by Steven and Terri Maxwell. No Chorepack kit. $13 ppd.
God Always Keeps His Promises Student Bible Study Workbook. $5 ppd.
Preschool activities in a bag… pre-assembled and ready to go. 10 games , $40 ppd.
Can You Remember?
B or d?
Can You Remember Numbers?
123 Trail
ABC Puzzles
ABC-123 Match
Alpha-Beads
Boredom Buster
Color Me Puzzles
Alpha-Spoons
Supermag Magnetic Genius- Magnet sets… several put together into one box. $60 plus postage. It is very heavy. Probably could send it in a flat rate box cheapest.
MOMYS Cookbook… 1600 recipes sized for large families. Hardcover binder format. $30 ppd. 2 Copies
Joy of Cooking - $15 ppd.
Financial Freedom DVDs by Jim Sammons. $100 new, asking $80 ppd.
Learning Lifestyle record of Learning… Notgrass publication. $12 new. Asking $6 ppd.
Soap Making Supplies:
All you need to get into the art and sale of soapmaking. Goat’s milk base, different oils, many colors and fragrances, containers, etc. Will sell whole lot for $250 postage paid with delivery confirmation and insurance. Please write if seriously interested in getting a detailed list.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Some Updates... Mercy and Otherwise...
Wow have we been busy around here. Sometimes it seems we can hardly take a breath!!! So for all of you who have been expecting phone calls, etc. Sorry. By the time the kids get to bed I fall in my own, totally exhausted. And really- any quiet time I get during the day I don't really want to fill with talking! haha.
Eric and Josiah took Mercy to Cincinnati yesterday, and all looks wonderful!!! The hemangioma is reducing drastically. Watching a miracle is an amazing thing. The other good thing is that we don't have to return for 2 whole months!!! We are continuing the propranalol since it is still working at reducing the size of the hemangioma.
In other Mercy news, the ophthalmologist said we no longer need to patch! That is good news too.
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I guess while I am giving medical news, I can tell you all that I failed my 1 hour gestational diabetes test pretty spectacularly, so head in for the 3 hour this week. The numbers after the 1 hour (199) were only 1 away from where they don't bother giving you the 3 hour, so we are figuring I will be dealing with GD for the rest of the pregnancy. That will make things a little more challenging, and make the last 10 weeks seem to DRAG, that's for sure.
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Thought you might like to see a sweet photo of Bethany, who is going to be 1 on July 9...
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And here's a photo of Eric wearing one of his father's day gifts... a BLACK, TEFLON coated grilling apron. How much more manly can you get?
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As far as fun... we had the fun time of another set of visitors from our past. This time it was a friend from WSS . I worked there for 7 summers, and Eric and I met on the porch of that wonderful hotel, so it has a lot of great memories. Anyway- Claire and I had worked together for many of those summers. Now we have 16, almost 17 children! What a wonderful legacy! Here are some photos from the weekend...
The Mom's and Kids-
Oops... forgot one...
Taking a walk...
Like our Redneck Stroller?
Sara and G.
Sara and J.
Aren't they a beautiful group?! Having beautiful babies is my super power. :)
Eric and Josiah took Mercy to Cincinnati yesterday, and all looks wonderful!!! The hemangioma is reducing drastically. Watching a miracle is an amazing thing. The other good thing is that we don't have to return for 2 whole months!!! We are continuing the propranalol since it is still working at reducing the size of the hemangioma.
In other Mercy news, the ophthalmologist said we no longer need to patch! That is good news too.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I guess while I am giving medical news, I can tell you all that I failed my 1 hour gestational diabetes test pretty spectacularly, so head in for the 3 hour this week. The numbers after the 1 hour (199) were only 1 away from where they don't bother giving you the 3 hour, so we are figuring I will be dealing with GD for the rest of the pregnancy. That will make things a little more challenging, and make the last 10 weeks seem to DRAG, that's for sure.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thought you might like to see a sweet photo of Bethany, who is going to be 1 on July 9...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
And here's a photo of Eric wearing one of his father's day gifts... a BLACK, TEFLON coated grilling apron. How much more manly can you get?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As far as fun... we had the fun time of another set of visitors from our past. This time it was a friend from WSS . I worked there for 7 summers, and Eric and I met on the porch of that wonderful hotel, so it has a lot of great memories. Anyway- Claire and I had worked together for many of those summers. Now we have 16, almost 17 children! What a wonderful legacy! Here are some photos from the weekend...
The Mom's and Kids-
Oops... forgot one...
Taking a walk...
Like our Redneck Stroller?
Sara and G.
Sara and J.
Aren't they a beautiful group?! Having beautiful babies is my super power. :)
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