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Great Homeschool Convention Day 3

It’s the third and final day of the Midwest GHC and we’ve decided to take it easy today. We had morning sessions we had originally planned on going to, but with how Creative Kid was yesterday we decided t0 get in one last swim this morning before we have to…

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Great Homeschool Convention Day 2

The morning of day 2 was an early one. Sessions started at 8:30 and we had to go to the kids program to drop off Creative Kid first and we needed to grab some breakfast along the way. We went down to the convenience store/Starbucks inside our hotel and grabbed…

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Great Homeschool Convention Day 1

It’s our second year going to the Great Homeschool Conventions Midwest Convention. It’s held annually in Cincinnati, so it’s an easy trip for us to make. We planned to go even before we sold our house and knew we’d be building our new home during this time frame, so we…

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Taekwondo Commitment

We officially signed Creative Kid up for a year of Taekwondo for a year. It’s a bit financial commitment, even more than I thought it would be, but the teachers are really good with the kids and we really think CK will benefit from his time here. At first we…

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Easter and April Fools

Happy Easter, everyone! He is risen! I pray that everyone is having a great Easter celebration with their family. This year was unique in that Easter landed on April 1st, i.e. April Fool’s Day, and I could not let this opportunity go to waste. Creative Kid loves pranks and joking…

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Taekwondo

So we signed Creative Kid up for Taekwondo a few days ago and today was his first class. I’m a bit nervous about it because we’ve been having some behavioral issues with him recently that I think are greatly influenced by all the change in our lives. This is something…

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Easter Egg Hunt

Normally for Easter we would have a family get together at our house and have a little egg hunt for the kids. This year we are in a small apartment with no yard of our own, but we still wanted Creative Kid to be able to participate in an Easter…

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Recreations Outlet

We thought we would take Creative Kid to Recreations Outlet in Powell, Ohio. It’s an outdoor play equipment place that has the play equipment indoors for kids to play on for a small fee. We thought it would be a great place for CK to get some of his energy…

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Getting Back On Track

So I’ve been trying to get us back on track while my husband is in India on a work trip. Thankfully Creative Kid is feeling better, chesty lingering cough aside, and I never got the full gambit of symptoms. We’re spending our time getting back on track with homeschool after…