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Cute Birds

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I love working with polymer clay. I’ve made mostly beads and my kids have made various sculptures. They have a good time playing with clay since it’s easily manipulated and changed into something else. I have several projects on my mind for when we are fully unpacked for them to create. But to keep us in polymer clay happiness I bought a couple of adorable birds from etsy.

First, when a package comes with a drawing it makes me want to save the envelope. I don’t draw nearly as well as so many others! And the drawing – just like the bids I bought!

They came in a box with a flower on top

and with a tag with another flower

But on to the birds!

Meet JooJoo and MooJoo – and this time around, BooJoo is traveling with them. I like to imagine BooJoo as that little cousin who had to follow you around when you were a teenager. You know, the one that tagged along when you went to the movies or to see friends or just left the house.

I love these sculptures. They are adorable, fun to look at and my kids have already made up a handful of stories about them.

Oh and rather then throw away the envelope I cut it apart and put the drawing on the fridge.

Homeschool Revisited

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Well we are here in Texas. I know I need to write about leaving Montana and the drive down – and hey, I do have lots of state sign pictures to share! – and I will. But today I’m thinking about homeschooling. As in yes we are still going to do so and being in a new state, I have some searching to do.

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I wasn’t planning on continuing to homeschool. I looked up the public schools here and figured it was okay to send the kids. Alice (2nd grade this fall) went to school for a couple of days to my Aunt’s class, back in South Dakota, and loved it. Jake went with her, sure he’s only four but since he can read and write my Aunt figured second grade would be a piece of cake for him. 🙂 They both loved school – and I think if we lived at home, I wouldn’t hesitate to send them. I know everyone there, the families, the teachers. So yeah, I was planning on sending them to school.

Until we got here and realized we wouldn’t be here through the entire school year. And military kids transfer schools over and over again, and make new friends everywhere they go, and start over at school a lot. But Alice is barely going to be 7 and I don’t look forward to that kind of lifestyle for her. I’d rather she remember our neighbors and friends, the people at the library and her Dad’s coworkers kids – vs the kids she was in school with for a couple/few months. Jake will just now be 5! I don’t want his entire educational career to be a move from school to school to school. Plus I didn’t look forward to having to add transferring schools to the list of things to do while moving.

So we will homeschool again. I’ve gone from thinking we have to get Alice tested to enter public school to searching through my boxes to find what homeschooling supplies we have, researching Texas laws/rules and looking for just a couple more homeschooling blogs to read. Do you have any recommendations? So far here are the ones on my list – and it’s a short list so really – recommend please!

Listed edited to add a few more I found in my blog reader!

I am looking for more and I like a variety of things from a homeschool blog – ideas, tips, words of wisdom. I have a couple of others on my list but I just found them so it’ll take a bit for me to decide if they are permanent fixtures on my list.

And if only my bookcase looked as organized as the picture! As it is, we have almost three bookcases worth of books crammed into two bookcases. We’d like to buy a couple more but are having a time finding any.

Creative Commons Licensephoto credit: Darren and Brad

And We’re Done

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It’s the end of the week! The last day we are here, the last full day anyway, the time to finish the very last minute projects and pack up to go. Today I need to keep up with the kids – finish laundry, pack, pack what we are leaving here (YAY for leaving stuff!), get cash, fill up the car, print my map (or not), and pick out clothes for the week.

You know, the little things.

I’m sad about leaving but trying to not be too sad. It helps to be excited about everything that is coming up – seeing my Grandma for a few days, hanging out with my best friend before moving, swimming in hotels, arriving in Texas with a house ready for us. And of course being with Chris again. He left Rhode Island today and is stopping in Virginia before continuing on. He has a long few days ahead of him since he has to drive down the coast, pack up the storage units and then drive some more. He jumps right into work a few days after getting there too. But I know he’s excited about a lot of things so hopefully that excitement will help him on the drive!

Have you seen this time lapse video? LA to NY in four minutes. Very cool. Too bad it couldn’t really happen, I’d have to only drive for two minutes.

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Long Day

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Hard to believe the day is almost over! I am steadily getting ready to go though the countdown really hasn’t started. We have a few more quirks that need to be worked out. But I’ve finished a lot on my list!

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  • Clean out closet and move other things in
  • Move one dresser out and the bed to another room ~ Changed: the dresser will stay and the bed will get moved after I leave
  • Move my things in boxes to the garage
  • Stay caught up with laundry ~ so far so good!
  • Finish at least half of the tasks list on my phone
  • Rent truck for Chris to drive our things over
  • Finish travel budget
  • Publish craft podcast
  • Read Real Simple ~ my Mom accidentally took this with her!

I love crossing things off of lists. I cleaned up my notebook earlier and took pleasure in realizing it’s almost out of pages – I already have a replacement and I get excited knowing I get to use it soon! Of course since I put all my craft supplies away I have an itch to do something. We’ve been cooking out a lot so playing outside with the kids helps but I really want to embroider. I already have an address for where we will be living but don’t want to buy anything online on the off chance it falls through. Plus it’s not technically ours for another week or so, I’d hate to have mail show up and get tossed or sent back!

And so back to the list! I need to finish laundry before bed. 🙂

Monday Motivation

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It’s Monday and time for Monday Motivation – inspired by my friend Tricia over at Time Saver VA, she’s a virtual assistant.

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It’s late Monday, but technically still the day. 🙂 This week is the start of a very busy one for me. We are leaving here on Saturday, we have to pack, do laundry, clean out the van and do a mini travel budget. We have to still carry on during the week with regular meals and playing outside, as well as keeping the house clean and moving my brother and his kids in. The majority of his things are over here, we just need to rearrange some rooms and figure where things will go.

And so I will have done by Thursday:

  • Clean out closet and move other things in
  • Move one dresser out and the bed to another room
  • Move my things in boxes to the garage
  • Stay caught up with laundry
  • Finish at least half of the tasks list on my phone
  • Rent truck for Chris to drive our things over
  • Finish travel budget
  • Publish craft podcast
  • Read Real Simple

Friday will be all the last minute things and then we drive away on Saturday!

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