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As part of our homeschooling we are doing a literature unit study on Charlotte's Web. Today, we took our Venn diagrams on "country" and "city" and wrote "Diamante Poetry". Essentially, it is a seven line poem with contrasting objects. The first line is one line, a noun. The second is two words, adjectives; the third is three participles, the fourth begins with two nouns and ends with two nouns as well. The first three lines, as well as the first two nouns of the fourth line describe the initial noun. The second two nouns in the fourth line, as well as the following lines, describe the contrasting noun of the seventh line.

I know, this may be a little confusing to explain in a blog post, but really, there is a point.

The kids had to do two poems...one using "country" and "city", and another using a set of words of their choice words. Maira chose "mom" and "dad". She decided to start with Mom, and when she was choosing her adjectives to describe me, she started with "happy". I asked, "You think that I am happy?" To which she responded, "Yes, most of the time!" Then Reiley chimed in with "Yeah, you are pretty much happy all of the time!"

WOW!!! That of course brought a smile to my face. Not that I think I am a huge grump ALL of the time, but I was sure that my kids thought I was a total ogre.

Today was a good day!

Cement shampoo

....A little background info...We are building a fence in our back yard, or should I say that Kyle is building it....beside the point. We have a few bags of cement in our garage still, one of which is a little broken open, so there is "dust" on the ground. So...we spent most of the afternoon hanging out in the front yard today because it was such a beautiful day, and at one point Arami walked out of the garage with a dusty white head. She thought it would be fun the take a cement dust shower.

Can you say FREAK OUT! I was thinking...what do I do? If I try to wash it, won't it turn hard? Well, thankfully I had a sane friend present who calmly stated that I should just go wash it out.

Who'd a thought!

Phyllis Yvonne Green

My father's wife, my bonus mom (I hate "step" mom). She passed away on Sunday, 2 minutes after I walked into the room to say goodbye to her. Thanks for waiting for me Phyllis.

She was a very kind, giving big hearted woman, who loved her grandchildren to death. Her death came as a surprise, definately unexpected. She would have been 59 on the 18th had she made it three more days.

She had pneumonia (sp?) and after choking, aspirated on food, she then stopped breathing, and ultimately it was the major stroke that did it.

I am so grateful for all that I know about God's plan, the peace it brings to those of us who loved her andknow that we will see her again soon.

We will all miss you!

Don't fall over!

I know it has been like fifty years since I have REALLY blogged, but all for good reason.

Dave and I decided to stimulate the economy and purchase a home. It has been a whirlwind month and a half. This is how it went....

I came home the week before Christmas, the day of the big snow, from spending some time down at my mom's house. David came home from work and knowing that a huge stomr was headed our way the conversation commenced.

Dave: How do you feel about maybe using the fireplace, you know, in case we lose power? (we haven't ever used it)

Stacie: Hmmm, I think we should look into buying a house.

Dave: What!!

Stacie: Yeah, let's check it out.

Dave: OK

So, I made a call to a friend in the area who is a realtor and asked her to recommend a mortgage broker. We scheduled an appointment for two days later...and the rest as they say is history.

We found a house we both loved at first sight. It was right around the corner from where we lived, so we didn't have to move far. It is large enough for us to live in with all our kids forever (even if we have more) and not too large that we will want to move, at least until we are too old to want to tackle the stairs anymore.

Anyways...I hope that explains my lack of posting. We are done moving out of the other house now, and close enough to moving in the new one, so I should be blogging more now.

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Sweet Girl

Driving down the road today, Maira and Reiley were talking about who they were in love with. Maira says she isn't in love with anybody...but if she were, it would be with somebody who has lived on earth, but isn't alive anymore, which ensued a conversation about dead grandparents.

Arami pipes up..."Mommy, I don't want daddy to get older and die, you know why? Because I love him so much!"

She is such a sweetie!