Words Every Child Needs to Know

Posted on February 28, 2010 - Filed Under Guatemala, Homeschool, Kids | 10 Comments

I bought a set of Ben 10 flashcards for Dante the other day. They are for shapes and colors and since he is a HUGE Ben 10 fan, I figured we could use that and he could do a little “school” too sometimes.
Here’s the outside of the box . . .

You’ll notice that [...]

Just Today

Posted on February 27, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments

My kids are on a roll! Tonight they came up with a ton of funny little sayings that I have to write down so I won’t forget them.
We read “Just Go to Bed”, a Little Critter story for our bedtime story. As I was finishing up, Dorian ran, jumped onto his bed and yelled, “He’s [...]

Long Hair

Posted on February 25, 2010 - Filed Under Kids | 2 Comments

Dorian’s hair is finally long enough to put back in a ponytail and he is thrilled! It’s still too short on the sides, so those bits fall around his face. We think he looks like the kid from Treasure Planet . . . what do you think?

A Very Strange Rain

Posted on February 25, 2010 - Filed Under Guatemala, Simple Life | 6 Comments

I was working away in my room tonight and when I went out to talk to Irving, I noticed a hissing sound, rather like the sound snow makes when it’s falling, that prickly ssss noise. I asked what it was and he couldn’t hear it at first.
We went outside to see if it was the [...]

Just Another Day

Posted on February 24, 2010 - Filed Under Guatemala, Personal, Simple Life | 4 Comments

Feeling kinda crummy today. Something I ate last night disagreed with me and while I felt fine when I went to bed at 1am (thanks to the internet going out), I woke up at 4:30 with a horribly unhappy stomach. Ugh.
I’ve actually managed to stay pretty healthy for the past while, so this is particularly [...]

Guatemala: Where They Send All the Crap

Posted on February 23, 2010 - Filed Under Guatemala, Simple Life | 8 Comments

It’s no secret that I have a bad go of it with electronics, but back in Canada, I SWEAR stuff worked for me! It really did! I had a laptop that actually functioned correctly for 2 years, amazing as that may seem and I never touched a television only to have it flash the death [...]

All About Dirt

Posted on February 21, 2010 - Filed Under Guatemala, construction | 6 Comments

When our house was built, we knew the ground at the back of the property where we were building was not at the right level for drainage to the street. So the house was built considerably above ground level, with the plan to fill everything in later.
Fast forward five years and we’ve been using [...]

57 Random Bits of Information About Me

Posted on February 20, 2010 - Filed Under Fun, Personal | 10 Comments

Christine just did a fun list and encouraged others to do one, too, so here we go. 57 bits of info about me.
1. I was never supposed to be in Guatemala, I was actually going to travel to Egypt and was even learning Arabic!
2. If I hadn’t decided that Egypt was too dangerous [...]

Homeschooling, a Hot Debate

Posted on February 19, 2010 - Filed Under Homeschool, Kids, Personal, Simple Life, Uncategorized | 8 Comments

I just read a post that Mark put up on his blog about why he and his wife homeschool their children and found it interesting, but even more interesting were the comments! Homeschooling is SUCH a hot topic for people. When I told my friend (who was a teacher by profession) that I was going [...]

Ouch

Posted on February 18, 2010 - Filed Under Body, Guatemala, Personal | 1 Comment

One day between Zumba classes . . . not enough. I hurt today! From the looks of it, most of the ladies in the class were still feeling the strain of Tuesday’s class and nearly everyone took short breaks throughout . . . this is definitely good exercise. Hopefully the four day break now will [...]

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