Maybe You Know Her....

Lisa over at Life In the Grateful House is looking for a young lady by the name of Elisabeth (Liz) that may live in the Kansas area.

Lisa writes:

"Wondering does anyone read my blog from Kansas? In 2007 I made several inquiries about a girl named Elizabeth (Liz). She was almost 16 then and she wanted a family. I sent my study several times, filled out paperwork that was sent to me and never heard anything back. I assumed that we were not chosen for her and they had found her a family. Friday night I found out that she aged out of the system without ever having have someone claim her. It just about broke my heart. I would really like to find her. If nothing else to let her know that there was a family that wanted her and that tried their very best to be her family. To show up, to be a touch stone, to have someone to count on. I tried sending an email to her worker and leaving a message on her voicemail. Email was returned and the voicemail didn't work.If anyone has any connections in DCFS in Kansas please email me. lisaamos@payco.org Please. I'm begging shamelessly. If anyone would link this or put out requests on their blogs I would be so eternally grateful. The more people that read about her the greater the chance that I may find her or someone to talk to in Kansas. Praying so anyway...."

Lisa is a wonderful mother that has a big heart for children. If you don't live or know anyone from the Kansas area, would be willing to link her post to your blog. Working together...

Peace

Chugging Along...

It was a good day. It got really quiet for a minute and I looked up to see everyone working really hard and being very focused.

So we finished what we were working on and ended early.

The Three R's

Relaxing while Reading his 'Rithmatic.

Okay... I guess the last R was stretching it. ~Smile~

Google Earth

I have always liked to "travel" using Google maps. Last week, Corey (A very inspiring woman with a HUGE heart) over at Watching The Waters ran a marathon at Disney and I was on the site to see the route of the marathon and they used Google Earth to show a 3-D view of the route. Well I got hooked. I downloaded the program from Google and the kids and I have virtually traveled all over the world. It's use of 3-D models is very fascinating and the ability to see mountains and valleys has been very cool, especially since 6th grade has been studying the mountains of North America. I recommend it.

Reflections...

With thoughts and prayers for the people of Haiti...

We had a pretty good week. This was the last week of our first semester so we did some make-up work and just a little testing.

Pre-K

• can read and write color words
• knows 24 high frequency or sight words
• can spell first and last name
• still working of recognizing lower case letters

2nd Grade

• completed unit 4 of Lifepacs
• learned to count quarters and dollars
• can add and subtract 3 digit numbers
• still working on capitalizing

6th Grade

• did 2 lapbooks this week: one on cats, the other on The Ten Commandments
• completed a huge project on the countries, mountains, and major rivers of North America
• moved to the section of Home Economics that teaches house cleaning (not thrilled LOL)
• still working on changing decimals to fractions

We really like to travel so it always seems like we are planning our next family vacation. For spring break this year we are planning a trip to either London, Ontario or to Niagara Falls. While I am not sure about driving what would be 10 -12 hours to Buffalo, NY, we are leaning towards Niagara Falls.

We have Monday off from school. Have a great weekend everyone.

6th Grade Language Arts & Blogging

This week for Language Arts 6th grade has been doing Mad Libs. We have had some very funny stories.

Also, check out the new post at Princess Puppy.

TTT #12: Get Your Cheap On!

Essie over at The Accidental Mommy has given us another Too True Tuesday assignment: Tell us how "cheaptastic" you can be.

I was happy that many of the things on my list matched other people's list, so I will admit and add on...

1. I too use rags for my Swiffer mop (I still have the old original one that screws together and does not use the bottled cleaner)
2. 98% of my kids clothes come from E-bay and 100% of those gets passed down until they are rags
3. Old clothes become cleaning rags and Swiffer mops. LOL!
4. If the boys get holes in their jeans/pants, I will use duct tape to slow the growth of the hole (just put a piece of tape on the inside and on the outside of the knee)
5. I use the envelopes from daily mail to make grocery and other list on the back instead of regular paper.
6. Also, since I pay most of my bills on-line, the bills that come in the mail and have return envelopes with them... I use those envelopes by using label paper or black marker to cover up the company's return address and just add my address.
7. When we go to hotels, we bring home all of the little bars of soap, shampoo and lotion that they will leave in the room.
8. I never purchase Christmas, birthday or other holiday cards. I use e-mail. If you don't have e-mail or are not a reader of my blog, ya don't get nothin'. ~smile~ And the one I was ashamed to share....
9. If the kids have non-messy lunches of sandwiches, chips and carrots, I make them reuse the paper plate for snack or tomorrow's simple lunch.

Okay...that's all I'm tellin'.