Elena 
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It’s hard to believe, but in just a few weeks, we will be entering the season of Advent!
A Gentle Advent is an online course with PDFs and videos to keep your children focused on Advent and prepare for Christmas. I am happy to be one of their new affiliates.
Do you want to make Advent a truly lovely experience this year?
Let A Gentle Advent guide your family on a beautiful exploration of the season.
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Izzy’s job encouraged their associates to decorate a pumpkin for the Halloween Season. This was Izzy’s contribution. I didn’t get a chance to get a picture of it when it was completely finished, but she spent a lot of time on it and her managers seemed to like it!
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This hoodie was Rosie’s reward for diligently getting through the cross country season. It’s apparently a big hit because she has not taken it off since Sunday!! I’m glad she loves it.
Her name is on the back too!
Had a chance to ask the high school coach how much she should be running this offseason – he said 5 miles a day 6 days a week should just about do it!
Gulp…
We’ll have to ease into that. She’s doing about 20 miles right five days a week right now.
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I used cake to help illustrate my General Science lesson on geology this week. I posted pictures of my face on Instagram and had this charming exchange with one of Rosie’s running friends.
5. Rosie is going to be Audrey Hepburn for Halloween this year. We watched Breakfast at Tiffany’s together a few weeks ago and hated it! But she still loved Miss Hepburn. So today we went out and found a black dress and some black gloves. She and Izzy practiced putting on eye liner. I’m sure I’ll have plenty of pictures!
6. One of the things I am loving about this time in my life is watching romantic t.v. shows with my two daughters. We are currently working our way through Victoria. We just got through the episodes were Victoria and Albert finally got together and it pleases me so much to watch the girls swooning with the romance of it all. This has sparked their interest so much that I had to pick up a book on Queen Victoria to fill in some of the backstory for them. When we’re done with this series, maybe we’ll start The Crown?
7. Friday Freebie! Why Homeschooling High School Works!
You may have stuggled trying to reconcile that with the almost non-stop flood of negative stereotypes of homeschoolers as anti-social, brainwashed, fundamentalist freaks that the media so happily delivers to your TV each week.
But between the headlines and the “spin” lies one inescapable truth…
> Homeschooling works…amazingly well.
> Homeschooling works regardless of your race or religion
> Homeschooling works regardless of your level of education or level of income
> Homeschooling works regardless of whether or not your state has “homeschool friendly” policies
> Homeschooling even works regardless of whether you are a Gun-Totin’, Bible-Believing Christian or a Birkenstock’s Wearin’, Organic Farmin’ Environmentalist… or anyone else in this wonderfully diverse country of ours.
Homeschooling just plain works! And now researchers can tell you exactly HOW and WHY!
If you’re thinking of homeschooling through high school, or wondering whether to even start, click on the link above for Lee Binz’s free presentation on why homeschooling high school works!
