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    Small Successes (3)

    Small successes in our days can add up to one big triumph. 1. Shared poetry with the children.So happy, we finally managed to start up reading poetry again. Australian poetry at this stage, and the children are memorising a poem a week:) 2. Exercised the majority of mornings this week.I’ve been walking around the property before breakfast, the 4km walk puts me in a great mood. 3.Mail posted.I finally posted the snail mail that has been sitting here for months! Visit Faith and Family to share in other families’ small successes.

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    Small Successes

    Danielle Bean writes It’s important for moms to recognize that all the small successes in our days can add up to one big triumph. So let’s do that. Sharing a few of my ‘small successes’ this week. 1. Koala and I had a mother/daughter morning out, shopping and sharing donuts and hot chocolate. 2. Played a couple of games of T-ball with the children. 3. Unpacked a couple of boxes of stored kitchenware and set it up in my new kitchen cupboard. Faith and Family are hosting small successes every Thursday.

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    Small Success (Vol 16)

    It’s important for moms to recognize that all the small successes in our days can add up to one big triumph. 1Have maintained our Read Aloud most days.We’re nearly finished actually:) 2Have worked my way through a fair amount on my ‘list’. This list consists of cleaning projects, email/phone reminders, and learning related tasks. 3Have been very consistent with the children in relation to learning expectations.They are attempting heroic efforts to complete their work by Friday afternoon.Friday afternoons they have ‘screen time’. Computer, DVDs and playstation. One big blast once a week then off it goes. Visit Faith and Family for more Small Successes.

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    Small Success (2)

    It’s important for moms to recognize that all the small successes in our days can add up to one big triumph. I agree 100% so once again I am participating in Small Successes My Successes for this week. 1. I kept Jem free from sunburn at our local homeschool Not Back To School pool party. 2. First week back to lessons for us and we have accomplished all on the list. 3. Have started a family read aloud and have read daily.

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    Homeschool Burnout & Recovery

    Nearly twelve years ago we achieved our dream, one we’d been working towards for years. We finally purchased our rural property! It was the best of both worlds, 147 acres/49 ha only 15 minutes from town. The property was everything we had looked for with the variety we wanted. It was; cleared, semi-cleared and bush, there were flats and hills, a creek and dams. Plenty of land for the children to explore and enjoy, a dam to swim in complete with a flying fox and canoes, space for a dune buggy to roar around in and trees to build a tree house in, places to go camping, freedom to be…

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    My Daybook: 15th January, 2019

    Outside my window… the children are playing in the pool. We put up a small, only 84cm/33in tall, above ground pool for Christmas and it has been immensely popular, hours and hours of waterplay I am thankful… that we had all our children home for Christmas, it’s always a blessing when we have a full house. It was Carpenter and Rose’s first, and last Christmas as an engaged couple, next Christmas they’ll be married! I am thinking… it’s not long until we ‘launch’ Princess (17) into the world. It’s her last academic year at home and part of her transition will include Tafe, contemplating my tick boxes, all the skills…