tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89870811982558175912012-02-16T00:53:04.758-06:00<u>L.O.V.E. with UnSchooling</u><br> Es·sence –noun <br> *Philosophy - the inward nature, true substance, or constitution of anything, as opposed to what is accidental, phenomenal, illusory, etc.<br> *something that exists, esp. a spiritual or immaterial entity.<br><br> <i>Welcome to the chronology (sort of) of our lifeology!</i>Stacinoreply@blogger.comBlogger361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987081198255817591.post-47997109656127299592008-06-03T07:15:00.002-06:002008-06-06T07:34:14.560-06:00

No, this chocolate is not bitter. It has been made into several products without high heat, thus keeping it raw. Plus all raw ingredients. Yes, nibs would be more bitter definitely.My husband, Stan, and I just signed up to sell these products and we are so excited to begin to help people regain their health and/or become even healthier. We haven't ever done anything like this but have experienced

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My friend Patricia is passionate about community building and has set up a gathering this spring to get the networking starting so people can have more avenues to get their needs met. I really like the idea and envision so many ways to connect with people through this. Last night, we went to the 3rd gathering so far and had such a great time. Benfits from going - kids playing with friends, being

Stacinoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987081198255817591.post-10932626297498290312008-05-01T14:48:00.000-06:002008-11-13T14:52:29.259-06:00

This is Sally, our little kitty! We are enjoying her so much, she has a great personality :)

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Dayna Martin, who was a guest on the Dr. Phil show last year along with her husband, Joe, is the founder. I have been a member of her radicalschoolingLOA group since she started it. That group has provided much support for me just by reading the posts. For many reasons, participating in online support groups has not been very efficient for meeting my needs. I dreamed of starting some kind of

Stacinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987081198255817591.post-90662792093111955012008-04-28T05:29:00.006-06:002008-04-28T05:48:31.052-06:00

Sebastian asked me to help with Club Penguin a couple of days ago. I said yes, of course. And then I found myself having so much fun figuring out the clues for the missions that I found myself playing alone at times.......we were a team. When he would loose focus and need to be active, I would continue playing to find another piece of the puzzle.Last night, Stan and I were chatting when Sebastian

Stacinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987081198255817591.post-24191918263996341232008-04-21T18:53:00.002-06:002008-11-13T14:52:29.423-06:00

Another lost tooth!

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Circumstances have again steered us back to where we are. Perhaps some day we will move......the potentials are many. It would be fun to live somewhere else just for the experience. But for now, the more we started seeing how things we our families were playing out, and the more recognized how we felt about it all......it just felt "right" to stay here. It Stan is offered a job elsewhere we will

Stacinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987081198255817591.post-24539013709352207442008-04-19T07:02:00.007-06:002008-11-13T14:52:29.988-06:00

Our friends, the Orr girls came over to join us for the celebration. First we had cake and ice cream. Then we took off to go ice skating at the Jones Center. The kids are fearless learning something new I've noticed. They have ice skated maybe 5 times but they were cruising along with determination, enjoying the challenge. For Stan and I, we had more fun watching the kids....those skates hurt

Stacinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987081198255817591.post-27011631808844551542008-03-12T09:43:00.004-06:002008-03-19T20:40:37.398-06:00

Well, we have decided to move! My dad, brother, and grandma are going also, so the family is migrating. So much to do! We are going to the Greenville area - Stan and I are taking a trip there soon to check it out since we've never been. I'm so excited to discover that there is an unschooling group there. Yippeee! The kids are all for it too :) More later........

Stacinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987081198255817591.post-29017753302377996532008-03-12T07:56:00.006-06:002008-11-13T14:52:30.123-06:00

Sebastian truly enjoys being online. And I have no idea exactly how much or what all he is learning but I know and trust he is! Some things I can "see" like he has learned to spell his name and then there are other things like all the questions he asks that are prompted by being exposed to new concepts. He is so curious, of course, but he asks questions like there is no tomorrow! The past few

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My grandmother (GG) won the beauty contest at her living facility so she got to go to the regional one a couple of hours away. Well, she won that one too! Sadie and Papa went to that one in Little Rock. She didn't win and she was relieved - she was tired of traveling! My dad went with us, which I really enjoyed, and and on the way home we stopped for pizza and then he took us to one of his

Stacinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987081198255817591.post-84572053536008136412008-03-04T08:09:00.005-06:002008-11-13T14:52:31.387-06:00

Stan took the kids (ours and our friend Olivia) to Devil's Den while I stayed home and cleaned....last October ...so it's out of order. Many will be because I am playing the make-up posting game :)

Stacinoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987081198255817591.post-52588768006522761142008-03-01T21:10:00.007-06:002008-11-13T14:52:31.816-06:00

Last summer I decided to try raw foods and see what happened. We saw so many benefits for each of us. Some of the things we ate have become part of our regular menu but we slowly went back to what was easiest. Now that we haven't been doing it pretty much full throttle, Stan and I are wanting to get back to it! Even Sadie is wanting to eat mostly salads. Here are some pics of that glorious time

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With only...Mom will you type in my name?...Let me write it down so you can do it. :)...Will you copy your name on this thank you note?...What's that letter again?Then one day he yelled, "Mom come look!" And he had typed the whole thing in correctly. Yahoo! I totally trust the process (ok, I do have my moments!) but it sure is nice to see something tangible, or uh, virtual?

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AKA....NVC (nonviolent communication) is a subject receiving a lot of my attention lately. It fits so well with unschooling/consensual living/connection parenting/marriage. My guy is interested it in also which is so HUGE to me and we both have experienced its wonderful effects. At first, I dove into it thinking I was going to master it in a short time...HAHA...old habits die hard, huh? I have

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Sadie...acting. At the local kids theatre and preparing for a national competition that showcases people who want to enter the industry. Sebastian....gymnastics. Here is Bub listening to one of the instructors explain about what to do on the rings.Shelbie....ballet/tap. Here is a video of her in the first class.

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On the 30th of November, Stan was asked to resign or get fired. He resigned, a bit nervous about what was next, but very relieved. His job had become very tense and he worried about it for many reasons for over a year prior to that day. I had suggested many times that he look for another job....it was stressful for me also. He manifested his own way out - his last month with pay and only on a

Stacinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987081198255817591.post-2809270010861735532008-02-27T12:09:00.002-06:002008-02-27T12:20:27.214-06:00

I've been wanting to blog more and realized I had started my blog last year, in February. Then I get on here and see that it was exactly a year ago today. Freaky! My intention was to do this regularly, however, the way it turned out was I would think of a subject to write about and then get swept away in the winds of our busy, fun life and thus forget! I did manage to create some drafts along the

Stacinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987081198255817591.post-14192363483014161702007-11-13T13:49:00.001-06:002008-03-01T08:13:51.704-06:00

My friend Denise and I decided to start an unschooling group in our area. There are five moms that meet regularly...including us. More have signed up on the yahoo group (about 18 total I think) but haven't participated yet. It would be nice if the group grew big enough for more variety of interaction yet still small enough for intimate relationships. I am thinking about ways to spread the word

Stacinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987081198255817591.post-51312785163547674802007-10-13T08:04:00.001-06:002008-03-01T21:09:08.346-06:00

Sometimes I think to myself, I would like to talk to my kids aboutLaw of Attraction (LOA) so they know how things work. Then we could learn together. How great that would be. And I haven't changed my mind about that but I think I'm going to wait, sit back a bit and enjoy watching them to see what they do with what they already know.Sadie is in her second year of deschooling and so many times I

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A snap shot of the 3 generations at 6 am before we hit the road to the RE in Dallas!We saw a rainbow on the way :)A cool cardboard yurt!A girl playing in the lego pile.Mom took a shot of me at dinner. Cheese!Sadie with her new friends.Sadie chilling in the back jamming to music.Wow, I'm beening meaning to write about this and other topics for some time now. I think I am going to post what I

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Sebastian wanted to give school and try and see what it is all about. It didn't take too long for him to mention homeschooling. We talked though and I encouraged him to continue a little longer to be sure, he was willing. On the 9th day of school Sadie and I left for the Rethinking Education conference. Almost all of us were having sinus issues so he just stayed home with Dad and Sister for the

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Sadie got an Angel Doo! Shelbie decided she needed to rest and say "Hi" to passerbys. Sebastian showed off his pop gun to passerbys. Dad helps Shelbie race Sebastian in a game! Jannie and Sadie about is scramble.

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Here is our western pic and me and Sadie, then mom and Sadie in the big chair. That was so fun :)

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We went to Celebration City and totally over did it! Our planned one day trip turned into two and almost tow weeks later, we are still trying to get back into the swing of things. I'm going to upload some pics and attempt embedding videos.

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The kids painted the floor.Dad cut the floor to fit (with mom's measurements :)Spontaneous session of Shana Banana Yoga! Uh, guess we need a new hammer! So, like how are we gonna do this?(Excuse the out-of-order pictures!)After several unexpected runs to Lowe's and three days later, the fort is complete. We didn't think it would take that long, but hey, we did it from scratch and we are amateurs.

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I can hardly believe it has been 2 months since I've paid attention to our blog. Whew! Then again we have been busy. I'll regress later. For now, Stan is home on vacation and we are building a playhouse for the kids. He and Sadie just got back from getting another hammer since ours broke...can you believe that! So I am excited to go join the fun....until later :)

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Sebastian just informed me that I am a "sperment Mom." He and Shelbie are playing the 'sperment game. We just came in from the back yard and 'spermenting with cornstarch and water. How cool to play with, even for a 30 year old mom :) Sebastian showed an interest in mixing things recently when he mixed...I...uh....mean.. spermentedwith dish soap and water to make magic cleaning stuff, whick

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I missed a few days. Since I'm creating this to be a regular part of my routine, I'll recap the last few days.Things have been eventful since my last post. Thursday we met with our group and a mom and kids we had met showed up. Along with them was another set of kids (mother working). Sadie made two new friends that day. They hit it right off. They all ended up going to one girl's house for the

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Wow, how refreshing to get out of the house, mingle with 2 other moms (of course there is talk about the kids!) and feel some freedom to just be. I have been meeting with this small unschooling group since summer '06, although winter was a little slow for get-togethers. Hibernation happens. After a bite to eat, one mom returned home to be there for a sick teenager and the other mom and I headed

Stacinoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987081198255817591.post-77352152883057777832007-02-27T09:02:00.000-06:002007-02-27T09:12:34.586-06:00

This is rather neat. I love to write and read. Finding my way in home learning has, of course, led me to read. And lately, thanks to a fellow unschooler, I have been gorging on Home Learning Magazines. Also lately I have been journaling here and there, literally. So when I read an article about blogging, I looked at it in a new light. Previously, my thinking was that it would just be one more

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Doing a test run here to see how this will turn out, etc. Will the date be auto added? Hmmmm.....let's see.

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