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Yep. This is it. The last post. It’s been a fun ride. My first post was in May 2005. Hard to believe that I blogged for 7 years. Wow! A huge thank you to all of you who took time out of your busy lives to check in on what our family was doing. I’ve had a few of you ask me why I’m ending this. There are several reasons. One is that I have very few readers. I think I’m down to about five. My original hopes for the blog were to not only keep friends and family updated on what our family was doing, but to also be a resource for those looking for craft and schooling ideas. Since my following has dwindled so drastically, being a resource is not feasible. Also, keeping up the blog is a lot of work for only five people to view. Am I sad? Yes. There is a part of me that is very sad to see this chapter of my life close. Blogging is something that I really enjoyed. In my blogging break I have found some fulfillment in just doing some of my picture and ideas on Facebook. It is indeed a lot easier and a lot faster. Again, a huge thank you to all of you who took an interest in our family and visited our blog.

Good bye.

I’m going to take a blogging break while I consider whether or not to keep the blog going. During my break I will just post some of my pictures onto Facebook.

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You may remember on my last Misc School post that Cohen and Alina made a list of nouns and had to combine two of those words to make an invention. They enjoyed this activity so much that they wanted to do it again.

Cohen made a robot table. Anything you need comes out of the table.

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We made a Greek dessert called Ekmek. It is WONDERFUL! We made it with Lyndal several years ago when she was studying Greece. I was reminded of how yummy this dessert is and that we should make it more often.

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I’ve been wanting to spruce up the walls of the house a little bit. However, I don’t have a lot of money to spend on art or anything like that. Someone had given me a $75 gift certificate to Amazon a while back. I don’t normally like to tell how much gift certificates are for, but I wanted to tell you guys about my incredible deals! I decided to get some wall clings. I got $202 worth of wall clings for only $73!!!!!! I found lots of these on clearance racks. I’m so excited about how these are turning out!

In our family room there is a door that leads to the sunroom. Here is what I put above the door.

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After Alina and Cohen finished learning about the digestive system, they had a couple of projects to complete. The first one was to write a comic strip about a piece of food going through the digestive system. Here is Alina’s.

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Alina and Cohen learned about how the Olympics were in ancient times. Did you know that women were not allowed to compete in ancient times? In fact, only single women could even go watch the Olympics. Married women were not allowed to go. If they did and were caught, the penalty was death.

Alina and Cohen had a project of setting up Olympic games for the family to participate in. Cohen fully understood the competition part. :0) However, Alina (not being competitive at all) set up food and crafts for us to do. :0) It’s really interesting to see their personalities come out.

When we came into the room, Alina had these Olympic rings set out that she had made.

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