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July 2006 - Posts
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We’re taking a road trip, and we’ll all be in the van from 5:00 a.m. until about 7:00 p.m. with four kids and no portable TV/VCR! This is our second trip without the help of the TV. With the kids ranging in age between 4 and 10, I’ve come up with ideas Read More...
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Here are two more family games we love to play, ranging in ages from four to adult: Monopoly, Pokemon Monopoly, Lord of the Rings Monopoly . The Monopoly games are fun to rediscover with young kids. My four-year-old and my seven-year-old actually manage Read More...
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I love playing board games, but my children are quite young. So I’ve had the fun challenge of finding games which are easy enough for a child as young as 3, yet challenging and interesting enough for the adult parents as well. We have found several, and Read More...
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I posted before about eating our wild spinach weeds (commonly called Prostrate Pigweed). We’ve gotten so much rain lately I’ve been weeding and eating the pigweed almost every evening for supper, just to keep up with them! Most of the time I wash, chop Read More...
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With summer I focus a lot of my energies towards gardening. As a result, you’ll often find me working in the garden till supper time, dirt smudged on my fingers and knees, and absolutely no interest in coming inside to clean up and cook supper for my Read More...
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Another area where my love for medieval adventure has come out this summer is through homeschooling my kids. I like to school them year-round so they are homeschooling over the summer (they attend a Montessori school during the school year). Of course, Read More...
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For me, however, just putting on medieval garb makes me feel like I’m in an adventure. This must have come from growing up on Narnia, Lord of the Rings, King Arthur and the like. My husband said “You don’t have to dress up to have an adventure.” But the Read More...
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Our experience at the Rennaissance Festival exemplifies true adventure. Adventure happens with the unexpected, and with hardship to overcome. At the time it usually is not enjoyable, just hard. But when you overcome and get through hardship together, Read More...
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On Sunday my family had our own medieval adventure! We donned medieval clothing and went to the local Rennaissance Festival for the day. We experienced two weather extremes there. The first half of the day, it was swelteringly hot, and we in our long Read More...
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I’ve been reading and learning about edible landscaping lately. My goal is to grow as much of our own food as I can in our small urban yard. But my husband and I also want the front to look nice, and I have many favorite flowers I’ll want mixed in with Read More...
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