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Throwback Tuesday: Santa Paws and Santa Buddies Day of Learning

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 *Originally posted December 16, 2013 when my boys were aged 9, 7, & 6*   We had two movies picked out for school today and as an added treat we started watching one of them at breakfast. We began our day watching The Search for Santa Paws and planned to watch Santa Buddies: The Legend of Santa Paws after school.  We did have to pack up and head out to Ian's trampoline class but we brought the movie along to finish up in the car. While Ian was in class I worked with the younger two boys on their math.  Ian and Alec were working on another plot the grid paper-- this time they were making a Santa's face (all of our work was themed around Santa today!).  Evan had another roll and cover worksheet.  He was pretty impressive when he told me that 6 plus 6 was 12 and he didn't need to count the dots on the dice since he remembers that from before.  I'm hoping over time he'll be like that with most of the other math facts too! Alec pu...
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Talking About it Tuesdays #101

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 ** This will be our last link up of the year! I'm taking the next two Tuesdays off as part of my holiday break but will be back on January 6th with a new link up for the New Year. I will, however, keep the party open until Jan 3rd for anyone that wants to continue sharing! So you can disregard the 3 posts only rule this time.**       The link with the most views from last week's party:   Simple Holiday Kitchen Decor Ideas by Thrifting Wonderland   A few that caught my eye: Brown Color Combos: Teal by Within a World of My Own   Christmas Tree Clay Pot Ornament Craft by Darcy & Brian     Pot Roast Soup by Recipes Simple       This party will remain open until the weekend.  My hope is that everyone will share all sorts of wonderful posts: travel, recipes, how to's, crafting ideas, and more-- up to 3 posts per blog.  Anything that is family friendly is welcome; even old posts that you'd like to get some new vi...
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My Fall Photo Challenge

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 I began making my own photo challenges for each season; I often consul with other photo challenges on Pinterest and pick and choose those prompts that I think I will have a somewhat easy time fulfilling. I always have the intent that I'll take beautiful photos with my camera, lining up the shot just so but more often than not I treat these challenges much like the 52 book challenge. That is to say I take photos and ten see which ones fit which prompts AFTER the fact.    Autumn Leaf Music    Fog Pumpkin Yellow  Delicious Fall is Night Lights Loud Peaceful Frost Books Candle   Outside Trees  Flowers Recipe Animal Wild      Feast   Christmas lights   Linking up with:  
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Holiday Home Tour 2025

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 We took one single year off from celebrating Christmas and that made it so much harder to decorate this year. We could not remember where much of our decorations used to go; adding in the help of my husband and Ian and I was pretty blazé about the whole thing this year. I think the house still looks fabulous though. And best of all it took us under an hour and half to get it all done!  Front Door:   Front entry way:  one of my high school friends and her husband made this reindeer for us our first Christmas in this house before we even had kids!  The sleigh my grandmother painted by hand is on the side of our bench on prominent display and the metal wreath will get filled in with holiday cards as they arrive. My candy cane wreath went on the back of the front door this year  Our great room:   I had fun tucking all sorts of little decorations in with my plants  The kitchen just got a few small touches:  Our formal living/dining room:  Ba...
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