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Day 100-Drywall Taping

The drywall crew was back today to start the process of taping/mudding/sanding.  It’s so funny how the little details really make such a difference in how you see the space.  Without the taping, it still looked so unfinished, but the mudding and taping really makes it start looking like real…

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Homeschool

Why We’re Dropping All About Reading

I never thought I would say this, but we’re dropping All About Reading, but not for reasons you may think.  When I first looked for a reading program after having failed to try to teach Creative Kid with some simple teaching reading books that CK didn’t take to, I did…

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Days 93-95, Progress

On Monday, Day 93, the gutters and downspouts were installed.  We have what they call Greek Returns on our house and we are loving the look of gutters with that architectural detail.  They look so much nicer than the gutters at our old house since you really don’t see the…

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Day 70-The Logs

So the day finally got here when we had good weather to move the logs that were left on the septic area after the land was cleared.  We asked the company to cut much of the tree trunks into logs and leave them so we could use them for future…

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Day 60-Fireplace

We stopped by the build last night before taking Creative Kid to Taekwondo.  I think getting him involved in Taekwondo will be great for him, but let me tell you the schedule we are keeping right now between his activities and having to drive a half an hour each way…

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First Grade Curriculum Picks!

This week we started our 1st grade curriculum.  Creative Kid was finished with the vast majority of our kindergarten curriculum over 2 months ago and we’ve been filling in with random workbooks that I purchased in the fall of last year from places like Dollar Tree and the Target “Dollar…

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Day 19-Holy Concrete Trucks, Batman!

We went to the land today to meet someone local to get an estimate for tree clearing.  We like the people we have been using, but this next part is such a big job we wanted to do our due diligence and get a couple of estimates.  We will be…

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All About Reading
Homeschool

All About Reading Level 1 Review

Now that we have finished level 1,  wanted to do a review on All About Reading.  When Creative Kid was a preschooler I tried teaching him to read using two different books, The Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading and Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons.  These…

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Day 1-Dig Day!

The day has finally arrived!  Dig Day is here! I know it’s frustrating with delays and permit slowness and other things we had to accomplish to get to this day, but I have to remember that we only got serious about finishing up our improvements on our old house to…

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Parenting

Homeschool Reading

We bought a nice little stack of homeschooling and parenting books from the homeschool convention.  I still have a couple more coming, but here’s the majority of what we bought as well as one I ordered based on information from one of the lectures.  I am starting this stack of…

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