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Learning all the time

Art, Aristocats and Altos….

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The last 7 days has been days of busyness!  Friday Keilee went to a lock in with Maddie Grace where she slept NONE.  Sunday night her best friend from K-5th grade spent the night with her.  Keilee and Lyvvy are reconnecting after a couple of years of not talking.  It was so awesome to hear them talking and laughing all night.  Monday night Sophie spent the night with her and we went to Pt. Mallard on Tuesday.

Instagram fun with Lyv and Sophie.

2013 JUNE8

Keilee auditioned for Aristocats and got the role she wanted; the Duchess!  She is so excited to be back with her College Street Players doing a play.  Some of her best friends in the entire world are in the cast and she is geeked!

The is the first play she has ever been in that she was an ‘older kid’.  There are already several little girls who are enamored with her.  It is so sweet.

2013 JUNE5

Keilee continues to do A LOT of Art Journaling.  She loves quotes just like her Mama does. 🙂  I LOVE her fox!

2013 JUNE6

It has been beautiful and I took Kei outside for pictures.  She is at the age where she thinks every picture of her is ‘horrible’.  Why do girls do this?  Why do girls have such a negative image of themselves?  I wonder if it is things I have done or said.  I have always told her she was beautiful and wonderful so I am not sure if it is just an ‘age’ thing or what.  I always thought we would avoid that because we homeschooled but no such luck.

2013 JUNE9

I read a survey once that says teenage girls think they look worse than they do and teenage boys think they look better.  It is definitely a strange age and just because we homeschool doesn’t mean we don’t face some of the same issues.

2013 JUNE7

1.  Pt. Mallard Fun in the waves
2. Art Journaling on the floor!
3.  Voice lessons with her lovely teacher
4.  Kitty Kat love

This weeks theme on “7 Cool Homeschoolers” was What is on your iDevice.  Check out some of her favorite apps below.

This next week is going to be insane for us.  Keilee is looking so forward to it and I am dreading it.  It is strange how the same events can cause different responses.  Keilee is teaching at an Art/Drama/Music/Dance Camp and I am helping from 9-2 each day. Then Keilee is taking an After Hours Theater Camp from 3-6.  Then we have practice from 6:30-8:30.  Whew!

Stay cool everyone.  Summer is in full force here in Alabama, I don’t care what the calendar says!

Homeschooling Rocks!
Karen

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” ~Maya Angelou
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
Linking with Mary at “Collage Friday”

Learning all the time

Back and only a LITTLE Broken…

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4 weeks I have been blogless.  My friend who always hosted my server had to shut his down and suddenly I had to find a new server!  After researching I decided to use BlueHost.  It was a long process to move 5 years of posts and pictures to a new server.  Thankfully I have a great friend who did it for me.  There were some hiccups and days I prayed that it wasn’t all lost forever.  I started this blog in May 2008; the month my Mother died. Keilee had only been 8 a few months, and I have kept it up, for 5 years.  Everything isn’t perfect.  There are some weird little symbols thrown in, most of them look like little crosses which Keilee and I kinda like.  I can’t fix them all.  It would take forever.  So I am leaving them in.

I can’t cram 5 weeks into one post so I am just going to highlight. 🙂

Keilee had her performance of “Father of the Bride”.  It was wonderful.  Even though she didn’t have a HUGE role it was so funny.  Her “Brooklyn” accent was great and so many people asked her afterward if she was A( From Brooklyn or B( Took lessons!  I am putting her favorite scene on here.  She was in a couple more but they were less lines.  Back story; she is one of the Wedding consultants and has a very bad attitude toward the Banks.  She definitely thinks they are beneath her with her Paris fashions…but as much as you can ‘take the girl outta the Brooklyn, you can’t take the Brooklyn outta the girl’ 🙂 Plus she wore 5 1/2” heels!  I can’t walk in 2” heels!

 

Another exciting thing the last few weeks is Keilee is a part of a new YouTube channel called “7 Cool Homeschoolers”.  Theresa at Red Oak Lane’s daughter thought of the idea and the girls each day a day a week and post a ‘Themed’ video.  So far there has been “All About Me”, “A Day In the Life Of” [Keilee did The Wicked Witch!], a Freestyle [check this one out it is hysterical, she randomly danced all over our town!] and a “How Do”.  She is so enjoying coming up with ideas and filming these every week.  It is all her.  She comes up with the ideas and writes the script and films it all on her own.  I got her a  Tripod and it really makes things easier.  Please watch and support all these talented Homeschool Girls!

She has been keeping busy with her ‘Unschooling’ life.  She is constantly doing something.  More in depth on that later on.

Here are a few collages although I have taken very few pictures lately except with my iPhone.

Keilee got a Giga Ball for Christmas and we just got it inflated.  With an air pump it was still a bit of a PAIN!  She likes it though.  Storing it is a huge problem too.  It doesn’t fit through the door of any of our outside storage.

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She spent a couple of hours one night painting all over herself!  It actually looked pretty cool but she couldn’t sit down or anything because it was MESSY!

2013 April3

Gymnastics and more gymnastics.  She loves this. She is constantly flipping and flinging and throwing herself upside down.  She has bruises all over her legs.  She always says to me, “Mom why did you let me quit Gymnastic lessons???”  Yup…all my fault.

2013 April1

Spring has SPRUNG here!  Gorgeous days and nice nights.  I am sure we will have some cooler weather but WINTER is gone!  The squirrel was so funny. It was hanging upside down from VERY high in our tree.  We couldn’t figure out what he was doing!  And of course, all these pictures were taken by Keilee!

2013 April

Various pictures taken…

2013 April4

1.  Keilee with her cousin Seth.  He is 6’4″ and had to crouch down!  They were working in the yard.
2.  Hula Hooping in Wal-Mart!
3.  Trying to learn “Call Me Maybe” on the keyboard
4.  Working on her video for “7 Cool Homeschoolers”
5.  Keilee and I Easter morning before church.
6.  Silly Keilee at her Vet internship
7.  Easter basket cupcakes!

So…I feel like the Who’s screaming from their speck, “I AM HERE, I AM HERE!!”  I have missed everyone so and missed posting.

Happy weekend!
Homeschooling Rocks!
Karen

“There’s nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.”  ~ Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” ~William Shakespeare

Happily linking up with Mary at “Collage Friday“