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Oklahoma homeschool parents, Don't forget to notify your child's school principal, or district, your intent to homeschool if you have not already! Your child's local school, or school district need to be absolved the responsibility to educate your child. Oklahoma is the only state that guarantees the right to homeschool in their constitution and in [...]
This amazing amigurumi Orca Whale is my favorite make of the summer! If you have an orca whale lover in your family, or just love orca whales yourself, this is the crochet project for you. My daughter, Fiona aged 9, began our Summer with a full on obsession for marine biology with a special interest [...]
The First Educating Wildflowers Co-op Meeting really was a raging success. They say to grow you need to continually put yourself in uncomfortable situations. For me I could not think of a more uncomfortable situation than to volunteer to coordinate a meeting for a group of women of which I have no idea who they [...]
Fiona loves Orca Whales and enjoyed making all of these Orca Whale DIY Projects. She is very excited to start learning more about Marine Biology in August in the course we are using from The Good and the Beautiful. This has not stopped her from researching as much as she can about Orca Whales now. [...]
In today's podcast I discuss some difficult topics and am inspired to dive in and research some others for the next few times we meet in discussion. I am looking forward to our co-op meeting this Thursday and look forward to updating you on how it went on Friday. https://www.youtube.com/embed/L3yeoHS4QCY Are you interested in being [...]
Adapting Home Based Education to Your Child's Interests has to be one of the biggest motivators to homeschool for us as a family. In public education your child goes to school and learns a curriculum set and purchased through your school or district based on choices and contracts by the teachers and school board. Depending [...]
Last week I found out I was pregnant and yesterday I had a miscarriage. I found out on Thursday morning the 7th. I bought a pregnancy test and it immediately ignited with two pink lines positive for pregnancy. On Tuesday my breasts were sore and Wednesday I felt implantation cramping along with breast soreness which [...]
I really want my first line to say We Started Our Homebased Education yesterday, but after doing our first day of curriculum I realized more than I ever did that we have been doing this for years. We have been doing home based education for Fiona for her first 6 years. When she went to [...]
I love With Thy Needle and Thread's Jack O Lantern Jubilee Pattern Book. It is filled with the most timeless cross stitch Halloween patterns. However, the book only provides floss colors in variegated threads that can be quite pricey when you need so many. I went ahead and looked up each Fancy Floss to find [...]
I had a ton of fun making an amigurumi crochet unicorn for my youngest daughter Julz. She has wanted me to make her this unicorn for about 6 months and I finally made time to crochet her this pretty unicorn at the beginning of this Summer. An advanced Beginner would be able to crochet this [...]