How Brilliante!

Thanks, blue milk, for passing this award on to me. I’ve never gotten a blog award before, so you can imagine my delight. It only took just a little under an hour for me to figure out how to put it in my sidebar, but you can darn well bet that I wasn’t giving up [...]

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Buy Nothing Christmas

Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51% are corporations. The US has less than 4% of their original forest left. 40% of the fresh water in the US is undrinkable. The Amazon forest loses the equivalent of 7 football fields of trees to harvesting every minute.        The USA has 5% of the world’s population, [...]

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Pizza Fractions

Jay has been after me for some time to “teach her how to read recipes.” I didn’t quite understand what she meant, because she can read, so what’s to know? Then I thought she meant that wanted me to tell her what the tsp and Tbsp bits meant, but she finally explained that she wanted to know [...]

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Free Online Language Lessons

For anyone interested in learning another language, here’s a link to a couple of great free online language courses: click here. I tried the Coffee Break French (learning with your latte), and the big kids came right over to the computer to learn too. 15 minutes every day, and we’ll be parlez-vouing in no time! [...]

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Test Your Extrasensory Perception

I’m never sure exactly how much the kids learn from me, but I sure learn a lot from them. Big kid R showed me this diverting site The ESP game. You’re matched up with an unseen opponent, and you’re shown images. You try to guess the word that the other player used to describe the image. [...]

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Think You’re Clever?

Do you know a lot? Test yourself at Free Rice. For every word you get right, the United Nations World Food Program donates 10 grains of rice. There are 50 word levels, but almost nobody gets past level 48. Try as I might, I could only get to level 46. How far can you get?

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Links

Organically Inclined is a blog I’m adding to the ever-growing list of blogs I like to read. Mom of 6, homeschooling, gives tips on all things green, frugal, and kid-related. Also, Cheap Like Me (“where economy and ecology meet”). And here’s an enlightening link (don’t worry, it looks like an ad but it’s not). I’m the 106,869,566 [...]

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Loot

I don’t want to trump Jay’s entry, below, but I read a post about loot bags (remember my jaded little rant?) in a blog I stumbled across. It cracked me up. So I thought I’d share. Click here to read it.

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Hot Homeschool Tip

I recently stumbled over a fantastic site, called Librarian Chick. It’s got a detailed index of free educational resources. And it’s a wiki, which I think is cool.

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