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by 6timeboymom
Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:24 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Just have to share...
Replies: 6
Views: 3184

I catch Greyson singing the hand rhymes during the day. He'll put his own little tune to them-the other day he was going around, "OFF!! OFF!! OFF!!!" from the letter O pages. :D
by 6timeboymom
Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:23 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Newbie intro
Replies: 12
Views: 5049

welcome! I can't wait to hear about your "box day!" :lol:
by 6timeboymom
Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:21 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Motivated Moms Chart
Replies: 8
Views: 4613

I have MM, too! I like it, and while I don't use it exactly (I tweak) it's still nice to have that guide right in front of me!
I get the bible one, too. :-)
by 6timeboymom
Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:20 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: BOX Day - It's here!!!!
Replies: 10
Views: 5515

Gina! I'm sure I'm a Betty, too! :lol:
How fun to get your things! I can't wait...except I think I'm going to get everything at the conference in June, so I will have to take dh to be my pack mule! rofl!!
by 6timeboymom
Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:15 pm
Forum: Archived Threads for Bigger Hearts for His Glory
Topic: Storytime and DITHOR?
Replies: 7
Views: 12319

well, you could still come to Des Moines and see me, too! :lol:
by 6timeboymom
Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:02 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: The spelling code..
Replies: 4
Views: 2587

I remember when we used to spell. *sigh*

:lol:
how cute she is learning the Chinese quickly, too!
by 6timeboymom
Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:00 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Door-to-door witnessing
Replies: 12
Views: 6092

Tansy wrote:
We gave at the office.
We love Jesus.
and we mow our own lawn.
ROFL!!!!
I so want to make one of those!!!!
I would add, "And I've decided who to vote for"

:lol:
by 6timeboymom
Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:50 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Brainstorming....
Replies: 4
Views: 2539

we started with Sonlight, too, many moons ago. :-) We only used it for one year, though.
My 8th grader is slowly working through the Foster books. They are very "deep" or so he calls them.
by 6timeboymom
Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:46 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Poll? What does your teachers Manuel look like?
Replies: 24
Views: 12468

Not in my HOD books, but in the workbook kid's curriculum I not only write in them, I TORE THEM OUT of the spiral binding and 3-hole punched them into binders! :P

I take that back-I do write in pencil in my HOD books.

Julie! :lol: you're too funny!!
by 6timeboymom
Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:37 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Carrie and Mike...thank you!
Replies: 12
Views: 5791

hear, hear!
*standing ovation*
by 6timeboymom
Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:35 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Door-to-door witnessing
Replies: 12
Views: 6092

well, since I'm in Iowa, I've had plenty of people knocking on my door for the last twelve months or so. :lol: If they are religiously affiliated, we tell them thanks for stopping but we are comfortable with our faith and they generally leave. I try very hard to be cordial, but I never open the scre...
by 6timeboymom
Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:27 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Phonics question
Replies: 6
Views: 3254

we usually follow a more relaxed outline in the summer, so I would vote for keep going but do less.
by 6timeboymom
Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:55 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Waaah..., not doing HOD this week!
Replies: 12
Views: 6414

we went to one of his classes and it was so awesome! there was over 120 kids there...they said it was the biggest one they'd done for a long time!

*hugs Mama Mary* there, there! you will be back in the HOD groove soon!
:D
by 6timeboymom
Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:52 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: well, no more worries about that boy!
Replies: 12
Views: 5851

well, no more worries about that boy!

:lol: I was worried about placing my Benjamin in the correct curriculum next year since he's almost 8, and doesn't really read much yet. In the last two days he's read about ten dr suess books to me! Woo hoo!! So I may just do Beyond with him after all!! It's so awesome, it's like a lightbulb just s...
by 6timeboymom
Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:36 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Curious, how did you first learn about Heart Of Dakota?
Replies: 24
Views: 12142

I met Carrie and Julie at the homeschool convention several years ago. It was the first one dh and I went to, and we had already decided to take no money on day one, but just shop. Then we could really avoid the impulse purchases. We talked to Julie on day one, and knew we'd be back! So day two we t...