I don’t know if you’ve seen her site, but Lisa at Lil Duck Duck designs gorgeous holiday cards. If you haven’t visited her before, I encourage you to check it out. She’s a generous blogger and has a darling little boy.

And she’s offering free shipping through November 30!

Christine at Are we there yet? wrote another excellent post for Pass the Torch Tuesday, and is my spotlight post for the week.

Also, the Carnival of Homeschooling is up at the Common Room. It’s a well organized list of diverse posts. I submitted my post, Great spiral Mom.

As I’ve mentioned before, decorating isn’t my forte.

So the members of our family with the boundless energy, are the only reasons our home gets into the holiday spirit.

And as they get older, they get more useful talented.
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If you get my feed, you know that this post originally had a very different title and significantly more content. I modified all of it shortly after posting, because I got the information I was looking for, and didn’t want any of it to be searchable to freak-cases.

If you have any interest in whatever on earth I’m talking about, and would like to investigate, we’ve had a bit of a conversation in comments there.

Now just think of all the drama you’re missing out on, if you’re NOT subscribing to my feed!

Not to mention whim-changes and typos galore;)

Remember to join us tomorrow for Pass the Torch Tuesday! And I’m hosting a contest next month, so if you haven’t, you may want to subscribe to Pass the Torch

This week we’re back on the human body for science, and I’ve planned several experiments related to the digestive system, to keep the kids engaged. Since C already finished the unit on animals, he’ll help with the experiments, even though he won’t be doing the science reading with D. We’d planned a trip to the science museum this week, but I think we’ll postpone it for a few weeks. We just have so much to do!
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Is my feed working for you?? I’ve been able to see the Pass the Torch feed in Bloglines, but I’ve been told it stopped working in Yahoo. Could you tell me if you’ve had any trouble reading my feed?

I know other bloggers have complained their own feeds have been goofed up lately. So I just want to make sure there isn’t a problem on my end. When I click the little orange gizmo, it shows all the posts up to the current one, so I think it’s sending the feed correctly.

Anyway, thanks for your help!

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