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Monthly Archives: May 2011

PTSD, Relaxation & Happiness

Monday, May 30, 2011

“Relaxation is the prerequisite for that inner expansion that allows a person to express the source of inspiration and joy within”
-Deepak Chopra
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How does this have anything to do with Memorial Day?
We have a neighbor who is a veteran of the Iraq war.  Upon his return home he found that he has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder [...]

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Learning Outside The Classroom

Friday, May 27, 2011

Art by Niki de Saint Phalle
If I had to look back on our past month or so, I would say learning outside the classroom has been our focus.  Learning about the world around us and learning about ourselves.  I mean, yes, we have been doing daily math lessons, we have been watching educational movies involving [...]

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Lazy Cakes, Mary J’s: Chilaxing On Melatonin

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

I’m not sure what to say…lol…they’re legal.  Are they groovy? Don’t know.  Never tried them.  But thousands upon thousands of elementary school kids take melatonin every night these days for sleep so…

I’m just surprised I found out about them before Rye did.  I’m sure it’s only a matter of time.
What do you think about them?
Anyone [...]

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Well…

Monday, May 23, 2011

we’re back from the beach.
Bummer.
And as soon as we get back, the temperatures here fire up to about 10,000 degrees and the humidity goes to 1,000,000 %.  Yay. It’s like a rain forest in our backyard.  And to make things a little more interesting, the cicadas are in town making the whole town hum and [...]

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A Shine Of Rainbows: Movie Review

Thursday, May 19, 2011

If you are looking for a family-friendly movie that will make you feel great, this is it.
We rented this movie from Redbox last week not knowing a thing about it and I can’t tell you how pleased we were with our purchase.  The scenery in the movie is beautiful, the acting is great, and the [...]

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Teaching Textbooks Love

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

I cannot begin to tell you how much I love Teaching Textbooks.
When we started this year [Grade 7], Rye would not use this program.  We tried a few sample problems from their website
http://www.teachingtextbooks.com/
and I loved it but because he is learning disabled and was used to having a live person teach him, he wanted [...]

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home by the sea

Monday, May 16, 2011
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A Natural Life

Saturday, May 14, 2011

We are having such a great time here at the beach, I feel like I’m in a dream.  An idyllic world where God is near and life is slow and simple, serene and sublime.
We have been swimming a lot and surf fishing the last couple of days.  Last night we had a fish fry with [...]

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Fin!

Thursday, May 12, 2011

While we have been here at the beach it has become our daily routine to eat breakfast, clean and do laundry, do some schoolwork and then swim in the ocean every morning.  Some days we swim for a little while, some days we swim for hours.
A few days back when Gam and Rye’s friend were [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Sunday, May 8, 2011

We had a wonderful Mother’s Day.
Don, Gam, Rye, Rye’s friend and I all swam in the ocean for hours, played board games, went out to eat, got ice cream, and then went and visited this cemetery.  Honestly, this cemetery is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time.  Rye and his friend [...]

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Serene

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Serene.  This is our vocabulary word for the day and you can see why from the picture above.
This was our view last night.
We are having such a good time here at the beach.  We did up Rye’s Seroquel a bit more with his pdoc’s approval and he is doing really well now.  We had a [...]

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