Poems by the Prairie Family Kids

Two of my kids, John and Cosette, have been diligently working on their activity cards for our library’s summer reading program.  Cosette has finished hers which qualifies her to attend a special party in a few weeks.  John is also hoping to finish his.
As part of this activity card, John and Cosette each wrote poems [...]

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Baseball Season is Half-Way Finished!

We are now officially half-way through our summer baseball season.  I do enjoy going to the games, but I must admit that going every night is a bit much!  I decided that this is a good time to make a slideshow of the pictures from the first half of our season.  The main picture for [...]

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The Hole In My Counter

Lovely, isn’t it?!  There is a story…..
This hole used to be the home of a glass built-in cutting board.  Several weeks ago, I asked Dan if he could break a large box of frozen ribs into family-size portions so they wouldn’t take up so much room in my freezer.  I went to the store and [...]

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For those who may be considering A Beka Academy K4….

As my regular readers know, our family uses the A Beka Academy DVD homeschool program.  This will be our 8th year, and we have used it for all five our kids.  This year our kids will be in 7th, 5th, 3rd, 2nd, and K5.
4 out of 5 our kids used the K4 program.  It was [...]

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Paper Route Substitutes

John’s Scoutmaster’s family has a newspaper route.  It’s not a big route, but a responsibility nonetheless.  Several weeks ago, the Scoutmaster had asked John and Brock if they could help his wife deliver the newspapers while he and his kids were out of town because she is having problems with her knees.  So, the boys [...]

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Is America a Judeo-Christian Nation?

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It’s Summer Time–Time for More Painting!

Last year I spent the summer painting most of the interior of our house.  This year we had to do the outside.  It hadn’t been done for several years, and it was starting to show pretty badly.  Of course, exterior painting often grows into other projects, and this has proven to be the case for [...]

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Kids a Cookin’ Class

This summer Cosette has been enjoying the Kids a Cookin’ class offered by the extension service of one of our state universities.  This is really a neat program.  They offer 4-week sessions several times each year to teach the kids about nutrition and cooking.  This summer they are meeting on Tuesday mornings, and Cosette has [...]

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Guinea Pig Update

About a month ago, I wrote this entry telling about John’s Boy Scout pet merit badge project and the resulting additions to our household.  Well, a few weeks have passed, so I thought I’d write an update about how things are going with the guinea pigs.
First of all, they have grown and tamed a lot.  [...]

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Summer Picnics

Each week this summer, I am trying to take the kids on a picnic lunch.  It has been unusually cold and wet here for the last several weeks, so our picnics have been “interesting.”  We finally had a nice day today for our weekly picnic.  It rained quite a bit last night, so the parks [...]

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