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Christmas cookie fun

By Leslie Parks - Tuesday, November 30, 2010
So today I went over to my good friend Marie's house for a little bit of holiday baking.  This is so good for me because I struggle with juggling school and Christmas.  Usually I push really hard for the kids to do school so that we can be done with school by May 15th.  That means that we don't take too many days...

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Family

Winter Wonderland

By Leslie Parks - Thursday, November 25, 2010
Just hear those sleigh bells jinglin', ring ting tinglin' to Come on it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you The snow is fallin' and friends are callin' "you-who" Come on it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with, you With you [Chorus:] Giddy-up let's go, let's look at the show Were ridin' in a wonderland of snow Giddy-up it's...

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Activity

Improv PJ Science

By Leslie Parks - Monday, November 15, 2010
Job was given these books about owls.  He loved them and read the first three books in a couple of weeks.   So I thought why not disect an owl pellet or two?  I ordered a kit from acorn naturalists and it arrived less than a week later.  I figured that John should be the overall science teacher.  Hey, he has his degree in...

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Sports

Indoor Soccer

By Leslie Parks - Monday, November 15, 2010
The regular soccer season has been done for three weeks now and the indoor season has been going strong for three weeks.  There is no break between the two.  Isaac's team is made up of some of the best players from both Horizon and Vista middle school.  These boys have played together on and off for the past 6 years.  The field is...

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Friends

My friend Shawn Marie

By Leslie Parks - Wednesday, November 10, 2010
This is my friend Shawn Marie.  I remember the night that I met her.  Another friend had invited us to dinner with this other family. Shawn Marie was wearing this very stylish black shirt and pants and she was chasing this little boy around, telling everyone how her girls weren't like this. She was talking about work and her husband who couldn't make it because he worked...

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Learning

Signs of Fall

By Leslie Parks - Monday, November 08, 2010
I have sporadically been taking part in a 365 project on ilovephotography.com.  Love this site.  It's free to join and there are some amazing photographers from all over the world that take time to really help me and others out.  Oh, I have such a long way to go but I'm learning.  Anyhow this last weeks theme was fall.  So I practiced and...

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Family

Saturday Mornings

By Leslie Parks - Saturday, November 06, 2010
Now that soccer is done we have our Saturday mornings back.  This morning I begged John to let sleeping children lye.  He wanted to get them up at 7:30!  They need to catch up on their sleep I responded.  He realized the wisdom of my words and let the kids sleep for another 30 minutes before making enough racket to wake our neighbors. ...

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