Blogging blunders…

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Or…how I switched to a WordPress self-hosted blogging platform—making every mistake possible! So…I thought I’d go “professional” with my blogging! I have enjoyed blogging off and on (mostly off recently), and I wanted to spiff up my WordPress.com blog and get more serious about blogging! I’d let my homeschool blog go dormant for awhile with…

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We’ve got a new favorite !!

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Ok… Out here they have some AMAZING fruits!  I’ve always said mangoes are my favorite fruit!   And I still love them, but we found a new favorite! We we stopped by a stand and Banana Man bought a rediculous amout of these!  But, once we started eating them, they started to disappear alarmingly fast! Can…

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Li’l Bit’s Blog– Christmas Family Road Trip–day 1

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This is Little Bit, the cat, and I’ve decided to take over the blogging for the next little while.  I don’t get my voice heard as much as I’d like… My humans woke up today and they seemed all excited.  I finally got out of bed and stretched as I sauntered out to see what…

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Fired! No girls allowed!

Ridge Haven Homestead Blog, Character development, Lessons of Life, Practical skills

Today I was fired.  Just like that.  Told I should not come back to this job, and that if I did, I’d be chased right away! That’s some pretty rough treatment, isn’t it?  But, I will have to say that I showed up at the jobsite without the supervisor’s approval, and so was never hired…

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Surprise Lunch

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We studied this week some about the stars, and how God garnished the heavens (Job 26:13).  This naturally led us to a discussion of what a garnish is and how it is normally used, like in decorating food.   Our lesson suggested that when you use a garnish, it can make the person receiving the food…

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Pumpkin Math

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  We did a hands-on math day today in honor of Fall.  Pumpkin Math! We took weights, lengths, circumferences, estimates, and graphed all of our results on a bar graph. Each boy got a pumpkin and got to experiment with many different math terms and calculations. To estimate circumference, each boy cut a string corresponding…

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Bountiful Blessings of Fall

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Little Acorn Boy and I jumped at the opportunity for free green beans for the pickin’ by some of our friends here. We picked and picked and got two buckets full.  Not bad. Little Acorn is a great talker and a pretty good picker too. Next day for part of our school, all of the…

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Our New Blog

Ridge Haven Homestead Blog, Homeschool, Homespun Education--Lessons and Lessons

Welcome to our new blog! I hope to on this blog keep a record of our family’s homeschool projects, field trips, and updates.  I’ve never blogged before, and I’m just learning to navigate the blog pages.  Once the kinks are worked out, I hope that this will be a place for our family and friends…

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