Modern Organic Mama
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Fencing Made Gizmodo!
Check out this article on Gizmodo.com about the new LED masks for fencing! Cool photos too.
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Fall… or is it Winter in New Mexico
We had pea sized hail on Monday. It almost looked like it had snowed. Luckily the garden is pretty much finished. The hail definitely finished off anything that was left. We live more towards the foot hills so the rain runs down the street like a river when it down pores. The boys thought it was …
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The FDA is looking out for us?
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Sewing for Neopets
The boys saw this material in the craft box and decided they wanted to make a little bed, pillow, and blanket for their Neopets. So we had an impromptu craft project.
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Worms and Snails
The boys are enjoying studying the worm family. We tested to see if our worm liked light vs. dark, warm vs. cold, rough vs. smooth etc. Yes that’s he/she (worms are both) in the pan. It was lots of fun. After worms we studied Mollusks. We found this great snail in our back yard. Next up Echinoder …
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Santa Fe Talent Education Fall Play-in
This is the group that C and B are taking Violin and Cello with. They aren’t playing of course because they just started this month. This is soo cute.
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Garden Bounty
We have been getting cantaloupe, peppers, three kinds of tomatoes, carrots, eggplant and zucchini from the garden! It’s wonderful.
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Even More R.E.A.L. Science
We have started the animal kingdom. We learned about the Cnidaria family. The boys made jelly fish models and learn about their life cycle. We are now learning about worms so we did a worm hunt and caught some worms to keep in a jar for a few days. We are also going to make worm composte.
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BK’s First Pony Ride
The kids had the opportunity to ride a horse. BK was in heaven. I think she would have stayed up there all day.
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Comments and Trackbacks
Due to the abuse of comments and trackbacks, comments will need to be approved and I have turned off the ability of people to use trackbacks. Sorry about the inconvenience but I have been getting spammed a lot lately and have decided it takes less time to approve comments than to spend time deleting …
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BK’s Enjoying her New Bed
BK has started taking her naps in her own bed. Gradually she will start sleep there at night too.
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More R.E.A.L. Science
We are now starting our study of the five animal kingdoms. We started by doing a little classification exercise to learn a bout how scientist organize animals to better understand how they are related. The boys had fun classifying there creatures from Blobonia. We are enjoying our R.E.A.L. science f …
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Happy Birthday David!
Happy Birthday Sweety. Yesterday was my hubby’s birthday. The kids got him a large Blue Sigg water bottle. I made him a three layer death by chocolate cake with raspberry filling. BK helped him blow out the candles. Of course the kid’s favorite part was eating the ice cream and cake. Wow that cake w …
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Santa Fe Raidyard Grand Opening
We spent Saturday at the Railyard Grand Opening in Santa Fe. The kids loved the play area. They had ropes to climb on a artificial rock climbing wall, a fenced in toddler area and a fountain. There were also some other areas and unfinished things like some slides and stuff. All in all it is very nic …
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New Beds
The boys got a new bed! A friend of theirs was moving and the bed wouldn’t fit in his new room so… they gave it to us. Thanks guys! It’s so much fun. It’s in the shape of an English double decker bus. The boys are liking it and I am liking the stairs. They are much safer for the kids especially BK. …
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Making Clay Tablets for Ancient History
We made some clay letters and a seal for the letters out of wax and fimo clay. They boys loved the clay. I got out my old clay tools from college and they went to town. Luckily I bought the big box of clay so we can do more projects with clay. Now I just have to find somewhere we can have things fir …
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Site Word Bingo
We have been working on key words for reading and have started planing word bingo. I got a list of words out of our “Games for Reading” book, as well as the idea. I made the cards and we use our jar or buttons for the markers. The boys love it.
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B’s New Glasses
B and C had there eyes checked last week and B ended up getting glasses for up close. The eye Dr. said that he has some problems up close and that the glasses should help with school work like reading or anything up close. He also said that it is possible he could out grow them and maybe not need th …
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Wrapping Birthday Presents
The boys frequently get invited to birthday parties. I am finding that it can get somewhat expensive to buy presents. First, the prices of everything are going up and our already tight budget only is getting tighter. Add to that we are always buying two gifts one from each of the boys. Why not just …
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Mia Got Sprayed by a Skunk
Skunk nose Originally uploaded by fieldsbhYUCK! I went to let Mia out to go the bathroom before bed and there was a juvenile skunk in the back yard. I think it was after the compost. No we don’t live in the country. There is a family of skunks in our neighborhood. They have never gotten into our bac …
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