And now I'm full of it!!!! (snicker)As a thank you gift, my sister sent me Crapola granola from Ely. Its so good!!! I have to discipline myself from eating the entire bag. My sister had a milestone birthday and celebrated in Ely, MN getting fitted for Mukluks. While there, she discovered Crapola.
Yesterday we gathered with our home schooling posse and made Valentines for veterans. For a group of pre & young teen boys, it went amazingly well. (I found ideas that weren't too girly.) We made paper airplane Valentines that said, "You're Plane Awesome", and we used old heart playing cards to make Valentine buddies, ATC's with pipe cleaner arms and legs. I'm kicking myself for not bringing the camera.
I found out that I'll probably be hosting not one, not two, but three workshops at the Wisconsin Parent's Association's home schooling conference! I'm stoked!! Every year, the first weekend in May ends up being a fantastic family weekend away while we get pumped back up for home schooling. We've been attending for years now, and although I no longer need workshops like, "How to start homeschooling","Great math ideas", "How to prevent home schooling burnout" etc., I am finding its a great opportunity to give back.
My family will be hosting, once again the Letterboxing event, and two new workshops, Flat Travelers and Apples to Apples. I'm a bit sorry to see they passed on my offer to host another ATC workshop, but I understand why. They don't want to keep offering the same workshops, year after year, because people will stop attending. You have to mix it up to create interest. I do think I will sneak in a few LTCs, (Letterbox Trading Cards), during the Letterboxing workshop.
I'm thinking long and hard about making a huge lent sacrifice. Last year I gave up carbonated drinks, which turned out to be easy after the first few weeks. This year I'm considering giving up sugar.
This presents a huge challenge for me. Sugar is everywhere! I'm referring to the entire catalog of sweeteners, although I think I may decide to cut myself a break and still use honey. If I can pull this off, I know I'll feel better, but its the detox that has me a little scared. I'll keep praying about it.
An herbalist once told me to try dried fruits when giving up sugar. I'm discovering dried cranberries usually contain sugar. Same goes for dried blueberries. I'll have to hit the co-op and see what my options may be.
I better get cruising. I'm taking my Crapola on a photo walk. I'm hoping to win the photo contest and win a case of Crapola!
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If you find any good sources of sugar free dried fruit, let me know! I've wanted to get some dried fruit snacks for work but all the stores stock stuff loaded with extra sweetener.
You are such an interesting person! I enjoy learning about you (being a newer friend). I am blown away by your awesome commitment to home schooling. We know several families who are home schooling, and can see the difference in their kids, compared to those in public (even private) school. It is definitely something I would consider in a do-over of my life!!
Love the Crapola!! :)
That would be somthing to try. I don't have to much sugar in my diet but it is all bad and I love fruit so I would never give that up. Salty things I love as well and need to work on cutting down.
Funny name but the granola sounds good. I know what letter boxing is, flat travelers and atc's but what is apples to apples that you will be teaching? Just a little curious. We are going to try and start letterboxing in the summer again. We had fun doing it last year.
Sounds like a great valentines day project. I wanted to do a project like this with our local homeschoolers for our vets hospital in Iron Mountain Mi but no one was interested. We sent some valentines on our own though, we can't forget our heroes
A game published by Out Of The Box. We have Apples to Apples and Apples to Apples Jr. I'm borrowing a few extra sets of cards too, and we plan on hosting a workshop where home schooling families can come and enjoy playing this game together. Its one of our family's favorites.
Basically you are dealt a hand of descriptive words and you have to chose one that you feel matches the subject card best. One person is the judge and he or she chooses which word he likes best. (You take turns being the judge.) For example, the subject word is "China". DS once chose the word "Fat" to describe it, which if you look at a map, China is sort of fat. LOL! He won that round!
I've never done Letterboxing but it looks like fun. We did Flat Travelers for a few years. They were fun. Crapola sounds yummy. Hope you had a good walk.
I have seen apples to apples will have to check that out!
I went to the letterboxing site last night and couldn't get the....okay, I'm going blank here...the pages with the clues/areas?...anyway, nothing would open. : ( Emma is asking about going again.......I did find some geocaches close by, though, we haven't been to yet, so I think that will do for now. I'd love to letterbox again, though, the girls enjoyed the stamps. ; )
OMG SHE SENT THAT TO US TOO!!!!!!!!!! I haven't tasted it yet.
I could never do the sugar thing. Though I should. Good luck if you decide to go for it!
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