{"id":1710,"date":"2010-08-07T10:21:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T16:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2010-08-07T13:19:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T19:19:13","slug":"pink-moths-monastaries-notebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/?p=1710","title":{"rendered":"Pink Moths, Monastaries & Notebooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hot Hot Hot<\/span><\/span><\/strong>! <\/span><\/p>\n

We live near the high school and we can hear the football team practicing.\u2020 How do they do it?\u2020 In pads?\u2020 and helmets?\u2020 When it is 100\u221e!\u2020 I would be surprised if they aren’t dropping like flies.\u2020 <insert lyrics to “Drop it Like Its Hot” here><\/span><\/p>\n

Kei has gotten her notebooks ready for school.\u2020 She needed 13!\u2020 We are both so ready for school to ‘start’ back.\u2020 We are starting Monday the 9th.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Notebooks Galore!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I found this beautiful moth in our yard.\u2020 I have never seen anything like it.\u2020 After some research we found out it is a <\/span>Pink Spotted Hawk Moth<\/a>.\u2020 Lovely…<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pink Spotted Hawk Moth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We went swimming at Cathy’s.\u2020 It was great to see our friends.\u2020 I hate going more than a few days without getting together!<\/p>\n

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Roamie Kids<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Livvy spent the night with Kei.\u2020 They have made the decision for her to go to PS.\u2020 It makes Kei very sad but I know she will shine there.\u2020 And the girls will still hang out.\u2020 We can’t go long without seeing Livvy.\u2020 They played and swam and stayed up until the wee hours of the morning.<\/p>\n

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Night Time Swimming<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The next morning they were telling me something that happened and Nomad came up and joined them in a line.\u2020 I told them they reminded me of the scene in “The Sound of Music” where all the kids lined up.<\/p>\n

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Lined Up!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kei and I went to Our Lady of the Angels Monastery.<\/a> It was so beautiful.\u2020 Breathtakingly beautiful.\u2020 From the minute we stepped foot on the grounds there was a feeling of peace.\u2020 I would love to go back when it wasn’t 103\u221e in the shade.<\/p>\n

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Kei at the Map<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ka Entrance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kei reading about Francis of Assisi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We didn’t know we couldn’t wear shorts and sleeveless shirts.\u2020 They provide clothes for you to wear in the Church.\u2020 We tried to get a picture of us in the bathroom.<\/p>\n

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You couldn’t take pictures in the Church.\u2020 It was AMAZING.\u2020 BEAUTIFUL.\u2020 All the gold, and there was a lot of gold, is REAL!\u2020 Here is a picture I found online<\/p>\n

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Church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is also a picture of the Shroud of Turin<\/a>.\u2020 Whether or not you believe it is the real deal, it was amazing to see.\u2020 I just sat and cried.<\/p>\n

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Jesus?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Crown of Thorns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The grounds were beautiful also.\u2020 We saw the gardener and I told him that I didn’t see how he stood it in this heat.\u2020 His response, “I am just so thankful that I have a job”.\u2020 I love optimistic people!<\/p>\n

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Arch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There was this little chapel with the Manger scene.\u2020 Kei wanted to light a candle for my Mother.\u2020 I told her I didn’t think God would mind that we weren’t Catholic.\u2020 When she lit it I said, “Momma I hope you are dancing and running and singing and laughing”.\u2020 I still miss her everyday.<\/p>\n

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Kei lighting Candle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The gift shop was in this awesome castle.\u2020 It was huge and Kei saw a statue of Mary.\u2020 She could not believe it was $3100.<\/p>\n

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Kei at the Gift Shop door<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Awesome Door Handles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kei at the Main Church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We brought a picnic lunch but there was nowhere to eat unless you were in the blazing sun.\u2020 We decided to try to find somewhere else to eat.<\/p>\n

On the way out we saw a house consumed by kudzu!\u2020 It was so cool looking.\u2020 We hoped that a family wasn’t trapped inside!\u2020 If you aren’t from the South and don’t know about kudzu<\/a><\/strong>, legend is that if you leave a baby in the yard, the kudzu will grow around it.<\/p>\n

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Eep! Kudzu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We finally decided to go to Hurricane Creek to eat.\u2020 It was too hot to actually go hiking but they let us sit at a picnic table and eat.\u2020 Then Kei had to play on the rock climbing wall.<\/p>\n

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The guy showed us a hornet’s nest that he found.\u2020 It was HUGE.\u2020 I still shiver thinking about the hornets in that sucker!<\/p>\n

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Hornet's Nest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After we got home we decided to take Nomad on a ride.\u2020 He he loves riding in the car now.\u2020 Thank goodness because his psycho barking was driving me crazy every time we took him to the vet!<\/p>\n

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a girl and her dog...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had a wonderful day.<\/p>\n

Hope you did too!
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\u00ecSoutherners must close their windows at night to keep the kudzu out\u00d6\u00ee<\/em><\/p>\n

Quote from The Amazing Story of Kudzu<\/em><\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hot Hot Hot! We live near the high school and we can hear the football team practicing.\u2020 How do they do it?\u2020 In pads?\u2020 and helmets?\u2020 When it is 100\u221e!\u2020 I would be surprised if they aren’t dropping like flies.\u2020 <insert lyrics to “Drop it Like Its Hot” here> Kei has gotten her notebooks ready … Continue reading Pink Moths, Monastaries & Notebooks<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,76,169,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-trip","category-friends","category-learning","category-learning-all-the-time"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ico2-rA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1737,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions\/1737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}