Day 159

Last night we watched more of the Christmas shows on ABC Family. We're determined to watch every single one! LOL
Twas the Night Before Christmas: An entire town gets on Santa's naughty list so a father and son must find a way to get back on Santa's good side.
The Story of the First Christmas Snow: For a wayward young shepherd named Lucas the first snow comes with a miracle.
Once Upon A Christmas: A disheartened Santa Claus calls an end to Christmas because of the ever-growing number of naughty children. Can his daughter Kristin (Kathy Ireland) prove to him that the Christmas spirit is still going strong?

Tonight is:
Pinocchio's Christmas: Pinocchio's in a lot of trouble when he tries to earn money to buy Geppetto's Christmas present and falls in with the sly Cat and Fox. Will Pinnochio finally learn his lesson, and will he get home in time for Christmas?
Twice Upon A Christmas:
Christmas is in danger when Santa's oldest daughter Rudolfa (Mary Donnelly Haskell) plans to build a casino in place of Santa's workshop. Santa's last hope is his other daughter, Kristin (Kathy Ireland), but can she save Christmas yet again?

Other goings-on...
Shawna is doing a performance this Saturday with her storytelling club. This will be her second one since she's joined. She loves going and she's really good at it! :-) I'll post some pictures after I develop them.

Both the girls are finishing up Girl Scouts for the holidays. They start again in January and they're doing a canned food and toy drive before they take their break.

We took down all our Christmas decorations from the attic and have started filling out cards. We also need to buy a Christmas tree this week. We've always had a small tree because it was only Billy & I, plus we didn't have a big apartment in Brooklyn. But now that we're a family of five (plus my mom is six) and we have more room, we're looking for a bigger tree. Not a real one, an artifical one but at least 7-8' tall. i think our old one was 6'.

I hope you're having fun getting ready for whatever you celebrate this time of year! :-)

Links to Unschooling Voices #6

Thank you to the following bloggers and web site owners for sharing a link to the latest edition of Unschooling Voices. I'll update this post for about a week so if you add a link, let me know (you can leave a comment here).

Heather @ Heathers Moving Castle
Sandra Dodd @ Radical Unschooling
Ren Allen @ Learning in Freedom
WJFR @ Every Waking Hour
Phoebe @ Avec Mes Zebres
JoVE @ Trictomania
Carlotta @ Dare To Know
Leonie @ Living Without School
Henry @ Why Homeschool
Kimzyn @ The Chicago Homeschool Habitat
Stephanie @ Throwing Marshmellows
Flo at Sumbthucker


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Chuck E Cheese's

My kids LOVE going to Chuck E. Cheese's. We go during the day while kids are in school and it's so empty, it's like their own personal arcade. There is always a few pre-schoolers in the section for younger kids but that's usually it. Once in a while we'll see some other homeschooled kids there but not very often. If there's one near you, check out their website for coupons and specials. The one by us is definitely geared towards older kids and I don't know if they're all the same. Here's some random pictures.

This is from Jacqueline's 8th birthday this past August. We woke up on the morning of her birthday (it was midweek) and went there after breakfast. The staff gave her a hat and free ice cream. :-)



Shawna (11 years old) with Mr. Chuck himself.



My son Cimion (he's 13 in this picture) and Shawna on her favorite simulation ride. I love their expressions! LOL



Jacqueline screams LOUD! LOL!!

2nd annual Not-Back-To-School Party!

August 7th was the first day of public school here and we hosted our 2nd annual NOT-Back-To-School Party at our home. Yes, I know it's December. It took me a while (alright-a LONG while!) to develop and scan the photos. :-)

We had roughly 50 people here!! Kids ages ranged from 3 months to teens, there were about 10 moms and 3 dads...one of which was my husband who took the day off of work to attend.

The weather was beautiful (which means no rain here in Florida!!) They played and swam in the pool, played on our playset, played on the trampoline, there were Yu-Gi-Oh duels going on all over the house, some kids were playing on our playstation, other kids were playing X-Box (or maybe it was Nintendo). I even had neon colored pencils made up that said "2nd annual Not-Back-To-School Party '06" The party started about 10:00 AM and went until 5:00 PM!!! I was so wiped out when it was over!! LOL!! I can't wait till next year!

The sign we made for the front window.



Hanging out by our pool. We just had that screen room built last year. Off to the side is our hot tub.





The younger girls decided to play in Jacqueline's room after lunch.



Some of the older girls.



Gotta love those homeschoolin' dads!



This is the rest of the backyard where the playset and trampoline are.




Playstation and yugioh.

Two links that taste great together

I've had these two links sitting in my favorites folder for about a week. I was waiting to see if I came across any more but I haven't, so I figured I would just post them now.

Something I'll be doing with my kids:
Calculate Pi by using frozen hot dogs

Something I'll be doing with my husband
Dec 22=Global Orgasm Day

I think these two links compliment each other very well, don't you?

LOL ;-)