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Wouldn’t it be nice if every day was Mother’s Day? We can’t make every day Mother’s Day, but we can offer savings you can enjoy the whole year through!

In appreciation for all you do CurrClick.com is pleased to announce our

3rd Annual Mother’s Day Freebie Event!

Spend Sunday with your wonderful family and then visit us on Monday, May 12th for an event that will give you a reason to keep celebrating Mother’s Day for the rest of the year:
From May 12th through May 14th, download up to 20 FREE Homeschool titles from our generous publishers, worth over $100.00 in value!

http://www.currclick.com/cclick_mothersday.php

Happy Extra-Long Mother’s Day to you, from CurrClick and it’s publishers: The CurrClick Mother’s Day giveaway event is our way of honoring the tremendous love, creativity and hard work you have dedicated to your children in their homeschools and in their lives.

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Simply Spiritual Forms

How to Homeschool Successfully

Successfully Homeschooling the High School Student

Isreal Country Unit Study

Power Practice: Main Ideas and Details

Tags of Time for the Secret Garden

Planet Heroes Solar System Unit Study

Mom’s Chore Organizer

Gettysburg Address Copywork Notebooking w/Vocab Extensions

Math Mammoth Clock

The Internet Scavenger Hunt

Novel Ideas - Louis Sachar’s Small Steps

Honey Bee- Mini Books

13 Colonies Themed Notebooking Pages

Made with Love: a collection of recipes for Home made baby food-cookbook

A Gentle Tour of Texas History, Part 1- Native Americans and Explorers

Fun with Gene- Student Edition

Menace in the Walls

St. Patrick’s Day

Artsy Animals Learn To Read

Happy Scribe Copybooks - Backyard Birds

Car Shows….gotta love ‘em!

My dear husband is a car lover.  The kids and I ….not so much.  We let him endulge in his ‘redneckism’ every now and then.  Since we live in tourist town, USA, we have car shows just about all summer long.

I thought I’d throw a few pics up so people can see why you should call ahead to find out if a car show is going on in a town you want to visit. (Great info for myself, since the last time we went to Myrtle Beach they had a motorcycle rally that we didn’t know about. <–although DH enjoyed that one too.)

On the better note….we did find out that Pigeon Forge has a new roller rink.  That shows you how much I get to town.

TRAFFIC OUT THE YING/YANG

DS2 - Trust me …he’s just smiling for the camera

DD - She knows the way to travel

Here is a pic of DD’s little baby.  She seen me making baby bibs and had to have one for her baby.

POEM - Little Girl Who Follows Me

My little girl and I were in the restroom at our local Wal-Mart. Someone had put these little books in there with this poem in it. I’m not sure who did it or who wrote it, but it is cute none the less…. (I did a google search and found more than a few hits on this poem.)

” A careful woman I ought to be:

A little girl follows me;

I do not dare to go a stray

For fear she’ll go the self-same way.

I cannot once escape her eyes;

What’re she sees me do, she tries

Like me, she says, she ’s going to be,

The little girl who follows me.

She thinks that I am good and fine,

Believes in every word of mine;

The base in me she must not see,

The little girl who follows me.

I must remember as I go,

Through summer’s sun and winter’s snow,

I am building for the years to be,

For a little girl follows me. “

author: UNKNOWN

CONTEST - WIN AN IPOD TOUCH

You could win an iPod Touch by participating in our Earth Day CurrClick

Commercial Contest, running April 7th through April 20th!

Kids, ages 7-18, are welcome to participate.

http://www.currclick.com/

Earth Day is fast approaching! Help us celebrate and spread the word about the environmental benefits of eBooks by producing your own commercial and posting it on YouTube. Simply e-mail us the link to your video, along with the names and ages of the children appearing in the video, by April 20th. The 3 winning videos will be posted, Monday April 22nd on CurrClick. Then, our members will be invited to vote for their favorite video! The winner with the most votes will win an 8GB iPod Touch (worth $299 in value) and $25 in site credit. The winner with the second most votes will win a 1GB iPod Shuffle (worth $49 in value) and $20 in site credit. The winner with the 3rd most votes will win an iTunes Gift Card worth $25 and $20 in site credit. Prizes will be mailed out to the winners by May 1st, 2008.

Contest Rules:

1. Videos may include multiple children. But please remember that only one prize will be given out to the top three winners. The first names and ages of all participating children must be included with the submission.

2. Feel free to encourage your co-ops friends and family members to vote for your video. (Voting runs April 22nd-28th.)Voters are only allowed 5 votes per account. You must be a CurrClick member in order participate in the voting process.

3. Submissions should be sent to staley@currclick.com by 9:00 pm, Central Standard time on Sunday, April 19th, 2008 and must include a link to the YouTube video submission. CurrClick will not be responsible for missing or broken links.

4. Only one submission per child, please. Individual family members are welcome to create and submit additional videos.

5. Children, ages 7-18 are welcome to participate.

6. Parents are encouraged to help their children with the research, design, production and creation of the video. However, parents may not appear in the video and should encourage their children to do as much of the work as they are capable of doing on their own.

7. Videos can be funny or serious, but all videos must contain information about how eBooks can help the environment. Helpful links include: http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/print.htm, http://environment.about.com/od/recycling/a/harry_potter.htm, http://www.conservatree.com/learn/EnviroIssues/TreeStats.shtml

It is further useful to note that eBooks do not need to be delivered from overseas printing presses and distribution centers (using fossil fuels) and that they use very little energy to create.

8.All videos must be named with the prefix of “CurrClick,” a dash and then the name of your video on YouTube. This way, members, CurrClick employees and contestants can easily find and watch all the submissions on YouTube.

9. By entering this contest, you agree to keep your video live on YouTube until May of 2009. In addition, you agree to allow CurrClick to use your video for possible future promotions.

10. Videos must not last longer than 5 minutes. Videos lasting longer than 5 minutes may be disqualified

Book Cover/Carrier

Just wanted to share my latest creation….

It’s a book carrier. It has its own bookmark and 2 pockets plus a zippered pocket.

I’ll show you the pics now…

Front of bag…snap for closing…full sized pocket

 

 

 

Back of bag…zippered pocket..behind it is the half pocket

 

 

 

Inside of bag with book…bookmark built right in

 

 

 

 

Inside of bag empty.

What are you supposed to say when your 10yo asks you if he can build a fire?

DS2: “Can I build a fire?”

MOM: “Do we have marshmallows?”

DS2: “I don’t know.”

MOM: “Go look. If we don’t, I’ll go get some.”

MOM: “Wait! Go ask your Dad.”

DS2(to dad): “Can I build a fire?”

DAD: “Do we have marshmallows?” <–I swear he was on the other side of the house when I answered the first time.

DS2: “Mom is going to get some.”

DAD: “Do we have hot dogs?”

DS2: “I think so.”

DAD: “Go get some wood together and wait on the marshmallows.”

…I had to go to FOUR stores to buy marshmallows. There must have been a run on them or something. I ended up having to drive all the way to town. The hot dogs went to fast for me to even get a glance at..let alone a picture.

Here are some sticky pics….

DS2 and his robot marshmallow Gotta look stylin’ while getting sticky

Get a load of my DH’s latest haircut! I’m not sure what he was thinking on that one…or if he even was! LOL He went to a friend’s house and came home looking like that. I didn’t do it.

More Little Additions

I had to run to town this morning and called ahead to the local co-op to find out about their chickens.  I ended up running over there and buying five more.  My DH told me to get the Rhode Island Reds.  <–Like I could tell the difference…I’m hoping the guy at the store knows what he’s talking about.

I’m so saddened by the fact that they have had their little beaks clipped.  WHY?  That seems so cruel.  I mize well kill them and eat them now…NOT!  No one is eating my babies.

That makes a total of 11 chickies and 2 ducklings.  Now to get a cow for milk…LOL..that was just a joke.

Easter Memories

Wow! I can’t believe this year is going by so fast. I remember last Easter. I spent the whole morning sewing my daughter’s Easter dress. Thankfully, this year I got it done the day before. I must like to cut it close on timing. I guess that’s why I file my taxes on the last day.

This Easter was different. The kids woke up with baskets of crackers and juice boxes on the table (alongside the ducklings and chickies). I have never made the kids a basket before and my DD had been wanting one of those pre-made ones from the stores. When my Mom heard about my never doing baskets, she told the kids about how we ALWAYS got one. I hope they don’t expect one next year. That was too much trouble.

Anyways, I guess now I have to get ready to file my taxes. I finished my in-laws today. I have theirs down to a science. The lady has us scheduled for two hours. Today we finished them in 30 minutes. I guess I’m getting better. Next year, I’m aiming for 20 minutes.

Here is a pic of my DD’s dress and basket. Never again will I sew stretchy satin. I hate that stuff.

Happy Easter!

I’ll post this here for all of my other readers.

Little Additions to the Family

Quick post to show off our little cuties.  DH and I had to run into town to get new tires on one of the work vehicles.  Needless to say, we came home with way more than that.  We bought two ducklings and six bantam chickies.  He told me to only get five, but they had two colors.  I asked the kids which one we should get more of and they couldn’t decide….so we got three of each.

Right now they live in a cage in our house.  We hadn’t got the coup finished yet.  I think they are warmer in here anyways.   I’m going tomorrow to try and get some more.  We wanted the bigger chickens.

So, does this make us farmers now?