Category Archives: Parenting

Parenting, Kentucky Style

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Here I am sitting at my laptop, blogging at 9:26 pm, because the house is finally quiet and the kids are in bed. Yea! Brad just called me upstairs to talk about our future trips to Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Yes, we have big plans. In April we plan on going to Belize for […]

Alexis’s Story – A Letter to My Daughter

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I am sick of being sick! First the stomach bug and now a head cold! Ugh! I am sooo bored! Weird with four kids, I know… I just want to get out of this house! I am not a homebody even though we homeschool… I like to go and do! Sorry if I am complaining. […]

We Bought a Pet Rabbit!

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We bought a pet rabbit at the pet store. Mexico has rabbits too ;-) He is a Chocolate Rex. His fur is short but very soft. We had two rabbits a few years ago in Kentucky but we didn’t keep them long. They proved to be more then I could handle at the time due to […]

Learning To Homeschool

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Homeschool is not easy but it can be enjoyable. At first we were using a website called Time4Learning. It has a full curriculum for elementary and high school. It is not accredited but we decided that wasn’t important to us. Accreditation means that the school has been evaluated for quality assurance and that the school meets […]

Chore Charts For Kids

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Alexis and Taylor are great helpers. Most of the time they love to work with us on projects inside and outside the home because they enjoy spending time with Mom and Dad. They also appreciate the praise they get for their hard work and “a job, well done”. In an continued effort to organize our […]