<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301</id><updated>2011-08-14T09:36:38.457-07:00</updated><category term='gold rush country'/><category term='Halloween Party'/><category term='castles'/><category term='Lemonade'/><category term='Potluck'/><category term='seasonal tree felting'/><category term='October'/><category term='Geography Club-Italy Day'/><category term='camping'/><category term='castle project'/><category term='Felting eggs'/><category term='May Day'/><category term='water play'/><category term='Feild Trip'/><category term='End of year'/><category term='Teens'/><category term='Medieval Games'/><category term='Bows and Arrows'/><category term='clapping games'/><category term='Geo Club'/><category term='not-back-to-school'/><category term='Haunted House'/><category term='clay'/><category term='Celebration'/><category term='Spring'/><category term='wet felting'/><title type='text'>Lupine Family Homeschoolers</title><subtitle type='html'>A group of homeschoolers who come together once a week (and often more) to learn, play and grow together. We hope you enjoy our blog as much as we like sharing it; a way for us to keep a journal of our adventures together, as well as to help others to see the possibilities in homeschooling.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>22</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-5254689898758935730</id><published>2010-11-05T07:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-05T07:52:29.646-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thank you for visiting. &amp;nbsp;We have a new home! Please come visit us at &lt;a href="http://www.lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.org/"&gt;www.lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;See you there!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-5254689898758935730?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/5254689898758935730/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2010/11/thank-you-for-visiting.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/5254689898758935730'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/5254689898758935730'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2010/11/thank-you-for-visiting.html' title=''/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-2255542563464220471</id><published>2010-11-03T22:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-03T22:04:57.148-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lupine Summer Camp</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-large;"&gt;During the summer months we don't meet every Monday as we do through the year. This gives us a chance to refresh and have a change of pace. As much as we like the break from our regular routine, we miss being together! So, twice over the summer we have summer camp days!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out some of our silly summer fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TNHOl_qbyWI/AAAAAAAAAcE/MnaSSURTxhg/s1600/P8250740.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TNHOl_qbyWI/AAAAAAAAAcE/MnaSSURTxhg/s320/P8250740.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Pie Eating Contests&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TNHO_ulQL_I/AAAAAAAAAcQ/vQmHhgyYEsQ/s1600/P8250753.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TNHO_ulQL_I/AAAAAAAAAcQ/vQmHhgyYEsQ/s320/P8250753.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Thank goodness for the tarp on the lawn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TNHPU1cyTyI/AAAAAAAAAcg/Zxx73-zHjBI/s1600/P8250757.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TNHPU1cyTyI/AAAAAAAAAcg/Zxx73-zHjBI/s320/P8250757.jpeg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TNHL-0mSZaI/AAAAAAAAAbg/i72XOEx9NWo/s1600/Maria+090.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TNHL-0mSZaI/AAAAAAAAAbg/i72XOEx9NWo/s320/Maria+090.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Making seed balls with clay and wildflower seeds&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TNHMGShv80I/AAAAAAAAAbk/7zYa8M4JO0c/s1600/Maria+091.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TNHMGShv80I/AAAAAAAAAbk/7zYa8M4JO0c/s320/Maria+091.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Making ice cream in baggies and shake, shake, shaking them up.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TNHMQqsklCI/AAAAAAAAAbo/6SRMH3kQosc/s1600/Maria+092.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TNHMQqsklCI/AAAAAAAAAbo/6SRMH3kQosc/s320/Maria+092.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Loose, less structured lazy summer days&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TNHMjM4ef4I/AAAAAAAAAbw/sRhdOd2beuE/s1600/P8250730.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TNHMjM4ef4I/AAAAAAAAAbw/sRhdOd2beuE/s320/P8250730.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Scrap creations: We all brought various odds and ends from our homes, you know the kind...buttons, bottle caps, fabric scraps, acorns...and then we just...created!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TNHNd0NXbZI/AAAAAAAAAb0/hKcyzdy_gco/s1600/P8250732.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TNHNd0NXbZI/AAAAAAAAAb0/hKcyzdy_gco/s320/P8250732.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And when it got too hot...we hit the pool!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-2255542563464220471?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/2255542563464220471/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2010/11/lupine-summer-camp.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/2255542563464220471'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/2255542563464220471'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2010/11/lupine-summer-camp.html' title='Lupine Summer Camp'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TNHOl_qbyWI/AAAAAAAAAcE/MnaSSURTxhg/s72-c/P8250740.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-7227247061944732953</id><published>2010-10-29T14:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-29T14:32:42.703-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold rush country'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='camping'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='not-back-to-school'/><title type='text'>Not-Back-To-School-But-Back-To-Lupines Gold Rush Camping Trip</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;September, 2010&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;For our annual Lupines not-back-to-school-but back-to-Lupines camping trip, we set off for the Gold Rush Country.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TMs2ZtleUqI/AAAAAAAAAa4/7oKSg5Orz_4/s1600/P9110804.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TMs2ZtleUqI/AAAAAAAAAa4/7oKSg5Orz_4/s320/P9110804.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Last years camping trip was at Memorial Park and was such fun. This year a few of us decided to head for the hills. The Gold Rush hills.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For our Gold Rush experience we choose &lt;a href="http://www.coloma.com/gold/marshall-park.php"&gt;Marshall's State Park in Coloma&lt;/a&gt;. This was not the rustic camping experience we were expecting, but it was literally right across the street, walking distance from all the history of the time frame we are planning to study this year for 4th grade history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Jeremy was in 4th grade, I never did manage to get him to the Gold Rush Country. I know we did many other rich and valuable activities, but I still feel a bit guilty around that. Sigh. &amp;nbsp;Do you ever experience parental guilt?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, Kasey gets it right on time, and Jeremy, in the 8th grade gets to soak it up as well. Better late than never, as they say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TMseCM0B6WI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/olvRzvOOQVU/s1600/P9110776.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TMseCM0B6WI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/olvRzvOOQVU/s320/P9110776.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Kasey and Anna step back in time. Love the expression on their faces!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;We had some great adventures on the water of the American River. At one point, all six of us were in an inflatable boat made for four, floating down the river shooting the rapids (we had assessed the severity of the rapids before we made this attempt) but it did get a bit rougher, than at least I imagined! We got very wet, had to bail water out of the bottom of our boat with our gold pan saucers (those pans are so useful!) on more than one occasion and were hoarse from screaming, yelling and laughing. At one point, when we were stuck on a group of rocks and were bailing water furiously, I looked up to see several kayaks going by us with looks of....surprise (horror?) on their faces. Ha! At least I knew they were keeping an eye on us. Wink, wink. When we finally paddled to shore to play on the beach for a bit and have a lunch of everything left over from our camp...there were cries form all of us..."Let's do that again!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TMseEJfb0tI/AAAAAAAAAaI/FG0M_jf2utQ/s1600/P9110788.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TMseEJfb0tI/AAAAAAAAAaI/FG0M_jf2utQ/s320/P9110788.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Kasey and Anna soaking up the sun&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TMsijszPSuI/AAAAAAAAAag/e2chECb3Jr8/s1600/P9110792.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TMsijszPSuI/AAAAAAAAAag/e2chECb3Jr8/s320/P9110792.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Jeremy and J.D. rigging up some contraption&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Gold Panning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TMs2rdyiqyI/AAAAAAAAAa8/ZYLiHO1SiPQ/s1600/P9110799.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TMs2rdyiqyI/AAAAAAAAAa8/ZYLiHO1SiPQ/s320/P9110799.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Learning to pan for Gold (and Garnets too!)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Oh boy, did it feel good to have our hands in the cool water. It was hot, hot, hot!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TMs2sMZewKI/AAAAAAAAAbE/d50JJz0r1nQ/s1600/P9110801.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TMs2sMZewKI/AAAAAAAAAbE/d50JJz0r1nQ/s320/P9110801.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TMs2tUu7J-I/AAAAAAAAAbM/UROznhSdtTU/s1600/P9110797.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TMs2tUu7J-I/AAAAAAAAAbM/UROznhSdtTU/s320/P9110797.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder what our camping trip will be next year?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next up: Our first day as a group back to Lupines!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you homeschool in the San Francisco Bay Area? Would you like information about &lt;a href="mailto:lisa@ihot.com"&gt;Lupine Family Homeschoolers? Ask away!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-7227247061944732953?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/7227247061944732953/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2010/10/not-back-to-school-but-back-to-lupines.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/7227247061944732953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/7227247061944732953'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2010/10/not-back-to-school-but-back-to-lupines.html' title='Not-Back-To-School-But-Back-To-Lupines Gold Rush Camping Trip'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/TMs2ZtleUqI/AAAAAAAAAa4/7oKSg5Orz_4/s72-c/P9110804.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-816228026623061372</id><published>2010-09-02T08:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-02T08:57:13.948-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Teens'/><title type='text'>Homeschool Mamas Planning Meeting -Update</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;he mamas of our teen kids (our 'seniors') met yesterday to plan out our year a bit more. It was a great meeting with lots of ideas and sharing of skills. We now have September through December mostly planned out with a few spots to fill in with detail, as well as the rest of the year roughly sketched out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The seniors will have a teacher to work with half day for the rest of the year. Starting with film making for the months of September through November, they will make a film from start to finish. Come January they move into a movement class with a trained Waldorf teacher for a six week block of games and movement. Next, I am going to look into a drama teacher with the idea of &amp;nbsp;putting on a Shakespeare play come spring. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the seniors afternoon block, the parents jump in. They will prepare for our annual Halloween Haunted House in the months of September and October with the help of Lupine Dad extraordinaire David. December will bring us just a couple of weeks of holiday fun and then &amp;nbsp;moving into January we have sketched out some classes such as : Poetry, Shakespeare exploration, entrepreneurial-ship and moving out into the community more. (We are not sure what that&amp;nbsp;is going to look like yet but it is a seed we are planting to see what grows)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay with us to see what develops as we grow along with our teens and strive to create a learning environment which meets their needs, and ours too!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will continue to post not only records of our days, but updates to our planning and community happenings. We are currently looking for teen boys to join us on our adventure so if you are interested contact me &lt;a href="mailto:lisa@ihot.com"&gt;HERE.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lisa&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-816228026623061372?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/816228026623061372/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2010/09/homeschool-mamas-planning-meeting.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/816228026623061372'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/816228026623061372'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2010/09/homeschool-mamas-planning-meeting.html' title='Homeschool Mamas Planning Meeting -Update'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-949580107530369713</id><published>2010-08-25T15:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-25T15:55:19.151-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Getting Ready For A New Lupine Year: 2010 &amp; 2011</title><content type='html'>We have had a couple of great Lupine Camp Days this summer, and we just closed up our last one today. I am feeling so great about this upcoming year. Friends for my kids, for myself, lots of learning and lots of just plain fun!&lt;br /&gt;I hope to post some photos of our summer camps soon and let you know what is on the agenda for fall 2010...check back, and do consider joining us!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-949580107530369713?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/949580107530369713/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2010/08/getting-ready-for-new-lupine-year-2010.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/949580107530369713'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/949580107530369713'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2010/08/getting-ready-for-new-lupine-year-2010.html' title='Getting Ready For A New Lupine Year: 2010 &amp; 2011'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-4457796914771057907</id><published>2010-05-25T22:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-25T23:13:18.845-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The May Pole High!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;What a Fun May Day!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-zg-81nPKI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/NVqygC9_Sa0/s1600/SANY0152.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-zg-81nPKI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/NVqygC9_Sa0/s400/SANY0152.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the families arrived, each with a bounty of cut flowers, the teens prepared for chemistry class and the flowers were loaded onto the picnic table. Nasturtiums, lavender, daisies, lilies, more than I can recall. It was so beautiful and brought such a festive feeling to the morning! A few of the teens stole over to make a few bouquets of their own, they just couldn't resist...until they were called over to class. Then the junior gang all set to work. This year the kids made not only the baskets of flowers but really cute little button flowers to add to the bouquets. We found this cute addition to our craft at &lt;a href="http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/bloomin-buttons-673899/"&gt;Family Fun.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-zhHiQv0VI/AAAAAAAAAXY/CihtxlgbTTs/s1600/SANY0156.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-zhHiQv0VI/AAAAAAAAAXY/CihtxlgbTTs/s400/SANY0156.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Here are the girls, busy at creating. So many flowers to choose from. How do you decide?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-zhSnlgdxI/AAAAAAAAAXg/qvdZv39oUxY/s1600/SANY0157.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-zhSnlgdxI/AAAAAAAAAXg/qvdZv39oUxY/s400/SANY0157.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Making the baskets....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-zhcBgafZI/AAAAAAAAAXo/8A5PG6V8fQY/s1600/SANY0160.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-zhcBgafZI/AAAAAAAAAXo/8A5PG6V8fQY/s400/SANY0160.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Choosing the flowers.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S_NkbPKcq8I/AAAAAAAAAXw/Q9YLLzGtOsw/s1600/SANY0161.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S_NkbPKcq8I/AAAAAAAAAXw/Q9YLLzGtOsw/s400/SANY0161.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And the main event! We had a rousing time of May Pole dancing. Can you hear the flute?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Here we go round the May Pole high, the May Pole high, the May Pole high,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Here we go round the May Pole high&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;On a Monday afternoon!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S_Nkp27Sx7I/AAAAAAAAAX4/ZCrF1QMhPeg/s1600/SANY0163.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S_Nkp27Sx7I/AAAAAAAAAX4/ZCrF1QMhPeg/s400/SANY0163.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Look how well we are doing with weaving the ribbons round the pole. We were so proud.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S_Nk9Qls-HI/AAAAAAAAAYA/0f0S5jA5-UQ/s1600/SANY0166.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S_Nk9Qls-HI/AAAAAAAAAYA/0f0S5jA5-UQ/s400/SANY0166.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After our May Pole fun, we had another yummy potluck. I shared a yummy and healthful strawberry shortcake. Here it is:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul id="ingredients" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="ingredient" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;8 C organic&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://cookeatshare.com/ingredients/strawberry" style="color: #4f504f; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: medium !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;strawberries&lt;/a&gt;, sliced&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="ingredient" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;1/4 C&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://cookeatshare.com/ingredients/honey" style="color: #4f504f; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: medium !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;honey&lt;/a&gt;, agave, maple syrup or sucanat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="ingredient" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;2 C whole wheat, spelt or oat flour&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="ingredient" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;1 T&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://cookeatshare.com/ingredients/baking-powder" style="color: #4f504f; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: medium !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;baking powder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="ingredient" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;1/2 t&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://cookeatshare.com/ingredients/salt" style="color: #4f504f; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: medium !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;sea salt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="ingredient" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;1/4 C&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://cookeatshare.com/ingredients/butter" style="color: #4f504f; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: medium !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;butter&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;or&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://cookeatshare.com/ingredients/coconut-oil" style="color: #4f504f; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: medium !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;coconut oil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="ingredient" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;2 T of above sweetener of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="ingredient" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;1&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://cookeatshare.com/ingredients/egg" style="color: #4f504f; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: medium !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;egg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="ingredient" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;3/4 C&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://cookeatshare.com/ingredients/milk" style="color: #4f504f; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: medium !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;milk&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(soy, hemp, rice, almond etc)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="ingredient" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://cookeatshare.com/ingredients/top-blade-pot-roast" style="color: #4f504f; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: medium !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Topping&lt;/a&gt;: Vanilla yogurt or fresh whipped creme&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="ingredient" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Can be egg free - Use 1/4 C milk to replace egg or 1 T flax oil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="ingredient" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Can be vegan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="ingredient" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Can be wheat free&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;h2 class="directions" style="color: #da6106; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Directions&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="instructions" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;ol class="kosmix-enabled" id="directions" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="instruction" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Preheat oven to 450 F&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="instruction" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Stir together strawberries &amp;amp; 1/4 sweetener (can be dry or wet)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="instruction" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Set aside&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="instruction" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;For Biscuits: Stir together flour, baking powder &amp;amp; salt in a large mixing bowl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="instruction" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="instruction" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;In a small bowl combine egg, liquid sweetener and milk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="instruction" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Add to dry ingredients &amp;amp; stir to moisten&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="instruction" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Drop by heaping spoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheet and bake 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="instruction" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Split biscuits, fill &amp;amp; top with fruit &amp;amp; topping.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Enjoy!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-4457796914771057907?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/4457796914771057907/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2010/05/may-day-2010.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/4457796914771057907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/4457796914771057907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2010/05/may-day-2010.html' title='The May Pole High!'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-zg-81nPKI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/NVqygC9_Sa0/s72-c/SANY0152.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-6527286282584301755</id><published>2010-05-05T22:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-05T22:25:25.429-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Homeschoolers Celebrate Spring in Style!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;We had our annual Lupine Family Homeschoolers Spring Celebration on March 29th and I bring you our photo journal of the day. The weather was a bit iffy, but luckily we did not have to have our egg hunt indoors with 17 kids!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I just enjoy this process so much, even though we have done it for what? Nine, ten years in a row? It just makes for such a lovely afternoon, and we all end the day with a bounty of beautiful and unique eggs to take home; every year they are different. I save some eggs for eating, and put several in a bowl for my spring alter. Oddly enough, they never go bad!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Each family arrived with at least one dozen raw eggs. Each mom was in charge of bringing supplies for &amp;nbsp;one of the dye baths. Karen brought red cabbage (which did not work this year, last year it was the beets that did not work?), Stephanie yellow onion skins, Lily brought &amp;nbsp;coffee, Carol turmeric and I provided blueberries. As everyone arrived, we set the pots up and threw the produce, spices and plants into them, added the water and vinegar and then invited the kids to come in help add their eggs. The eggs bubbled in the pots while we then worked on setting up the egg crafting project and the egg hunts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-IkHTmW4LI/AAAAAAAAAWI/vO3NKJnkqCk/s1600/SANY0091.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-IkHTmW4LI/AAAAAAAAAWI/vO3NKJnkqCk/s400/SANY0091.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The senior gang after hiding the eggs for the juniors. (The gal in the middle is NOT one of the seniors, she just likes to hang out with them ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S86WZoJfjxI/AAAAAAAAAU4/9yTRdm1ZVtk/s1600/IMGP1285.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S86WZoJfjxI/AAAAAAAAAU4/9yTRdm1ZVtk/s400/IMGP1285.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The moms prep the dye baths.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S86W7YVsY7I/AAAAAAAAAVI/IEJcDLDZm78/s1600/IMGP1282.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S86W7YVsY7I/AAAAAAAAAVI/IEJcDLDZm78/s400/IMGP1282.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S86XlJm_FBI/AAAAAAAAAVY/CHkgVEylZnA/s1600/Lupines+Spring+Day+3-29-10+044.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S86XlJm_FBI/AAAAAAAAAVY/CHkgVEylZnA/s400/Lupines+Spring+Day+3-29-10+044.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Blueberries, cabbage, onions and turmeric.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S86YGFD7VJI/AAAAAAAAAVo/laGTuvI56YM/s1600/Lupines+Spring+Day+3-29-10+091.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S86YGFD7VJI/AAAAAAAAAVo/laGTuvI56YM/s400/Lupines+Spring+Day+3-29-10+091.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This is the first year we tried coffee. It worked really well, and we got a fantastic orange by double dipping it into turmeric afterwards.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;The Eggs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S86X3voxS_I/AAAAAAAAAVg/KNgK7mr8WWM/s1600/Lupines+Spring+Day+3-29-10+087.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S86X3voxS_I/AAAAAAAAAVg/KNgK7mr8WWM/s400/Lupines+Spring+Day+3-29-10+087.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The finished eggs. We divvied them all up to take home and enjoy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;The Egg Decorating&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;At the very same time as all the commotion was taking place in the kitchen, outside in the courtyard, was another project going forward. Wendy and Maria were in charge of Ukrainian egg dyeing for all the kids.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-IjoHgLCqI/AAAAAAAAAV4/b_9YT3E2GB4/s1600/Lupines+Spring+Day+3-29-10+037.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-IjoHgLCqI/AAAAAAAAAV4/b_9YT3E2GB4/s400/Lupines+Spring+Day+3-29-10+037.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The seniors at work creating.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-Ij2Fj8O9I/AAAAAAAAAWA/i6WDJoUIxPU/s1600/Lupines+Spring+Day+3-29-10+069.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-Ij2Fj8O9I/AAAAAAAAAWA/i6WDJoUIxPU/s640/Lupines+Spring+Day+3-29-10+069.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Mackenzie shows off her egg at the orange stage.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-IkTu-oSII/AAAAAAAAAWQ/cMmRVRpoi-w/s1600/Lupines+Spring+Day+3-29-10+098.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-IkTu-oSII/AAAAAAAAAWQ/cMmRVRpoi-w/s400/Lupines+Spring+Day+3-29-10+098.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Wiping the beeswax off the egg.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-ImMZeDHEI/AAAAAAAAAWg/cESmk5z3Ok8/s1600/SANY0107.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-ImMZeDHEI/AAAAAAAAAWg/cESmk5z3Ok8/s400/SANY0107.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The juniors take a turn too!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-ImByhNqkI/AAAAAAAAAWY/cuMkSf42Gg4/s1600/IMGP1310.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-ImByhNqkI/AAAAAAAAAWY/cuMkSf42Gg4/s400/IMGP1310.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ben, thinking about his design.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;The Egg Hunt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-IoMy7cl1I/AAAAAAAAAWw/dpygVx0Poxc/s1600/Spring+at+Lupines+2010+(1).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-IoMy7cl1I/AAAAAAAAAWw/dpygVx0Poxc/s400/Spring+at+Lupines+2010+(1).JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Oh, the booty!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-InptcwqtI/AAAAAAAAAWo/cLGpmkTKXJQ/s1600/Lupines+Spring+Day+3-29-10+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-InptcwqtI/AAAAAAAAAWo/cLGpmkTKXJQ/s400/Lupines+Spring+Day+3-29-10+003.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Annalie and Kasey basking in the glory of their egg finds.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-IoaKs9cNI/AAAAAAAAAW4/7mzHQaJgXTE/s1600/IMGP1252.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-IoaKs9cNI/AAAAAAAAAW4/7mzHQaJgXTE/s400/IMGP1252.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Those seniors did a pretty good job at hiding those eggs!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-IogFrtFdI/AAAAAAAAAXA/VOYquhC5suI/s1600/IMGP1208.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-IogFrtFdI/AAAAAAAAAXA/VOYquhC5suI/s400/IMGP1208.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Anna helping Malik find his eggs at the littles egg hunt.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;The Potluck&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-Io0aCX0mI/AAAAAAAAAXI/iURJE3lJ4cw/s1600/Spring+at+Lupines+2010+(12).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-Io0aCX0mI/AAAAAAAAAXI/iURJE3lJ4cw/s640/Spring+at+Lupines+2010+(12).JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;In between activities we all share in a fabulous potluck. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Hot Cross Bun Recipe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;2 C spelt flour&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;2 C unbleached white flour&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;1 T salt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;1/2 T allspice&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;1/2 T nutmeg&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;1/2 T cinnamon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;1/4 C sucanat&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;1 oz yeast&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;1 C warm hemp milk&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;1/4 C butter&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;1 egg, beaten&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;2 T orange peel&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Glaze: 2 T sugar &amp;amp; 2 T water&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;In a large bowl, thoroughly combine flour, salt, and spices. In a separate bowl, dissolve sugar and yeast in warm milk and let proof. Cut butter into dry ingredients; add yeast mixture, egg, and peel. Knead well. Cover and put dough in warm place to rise to double it's size. Divide dough into 12 to 16 parts. Shape into buns. Place buns on greased baking sheets. Let rise until &amp;nbsp;doubled. With knife, slash on top of each bun before baking in preheated 450 degree oven for 15 to 20 minutes. To make the glaze, combine sugar and water. Bring to a boil, stirring to prevent burning; let cool. Glaze buns when buns and glaze are cool.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I feel it is such an honor to work with all these great kids and their moms. Each week, I look forward to my friends, young and 'older' walking through the door and wonder what our day will bring us. Thank you all for sharing your Mondays with me!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A note of sadness as we say farewell to Bonnie and Mackenzie who are moving on to other adventures, school being one of them. We will miss them at Lupines each week, but we KNOW we will be seeing them &amp;nbsp;on other fun outings! We love you Bonnie and Mackenzie!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-6527286282584301755?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/6527286282584301755/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2010/05/homeschoolers-celebrate-spring-in-style.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/6527286282584301755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/6527286282584301755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2010/05/homeschoolers-celebrate-spring-in-style.html' title='Homeschoolers Celebrate Spring in Style!'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S-IkHTmW4LI/AAAAAAAAAWI/vO3NKJnkqCk/s72-c/SANY0091.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-8376169637806003723</id><published>2010-02-26T21:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-26T21:46:57.288-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Winter Projects</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S4ioG8BbpgI/AAAAAAAAATw/NwIKWYA0UVY/s1600-h/SANY0071.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S4ioG8BbpgI/AAAAAAAAATw/NwIKWYA0UVY/s320/SANY0071.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Continuing to look back, we go to early January. We all had several weeks off for the holidays and now we look to gather together again and work on some rainy day, winter projects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S4ioTj-l66I/AAAAAAAAAT4/B963oaHaErs/s1600-h/SANY0073.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S4ioTj-l66I/AAAAAAAAAT4/B963oaHaErs/s320/SANY0073.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;The seniors &lt;/span&gt;enjoy several weeks of chess. Learning new skills, and competing a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;The juniors&lt;/span&gt; pick up on their Native American Peoples study from last fall with the people of the ice and snow. Ah, now we get to build snow houses out of sugar cubes! They loved this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S4iotKGTa1I/AAAAAAAAAUA/bJRrYDJZ8dM/s1600-h/SANY0150.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S4iotKGTa1I/AAAAAAAAAUA/bJRrYDJZ8dM/s320/SANY0150.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Here is Claire just beginning to create her perfect ice house.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S4ipAS4rThI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/c0W3w1klF20/s1600-h/SANY0144.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S4ipAS4rThI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/c0W3w1klF20/s400/SANY0144.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S4ipJTo6gUI/AAAAAAAAAUY/EOvcrxsdR5I/s1600-h/SANY0146.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S4ipJTo6gUI/AAAAAAAAAUY/EOvcrxsdR5I/s400/SANY0146.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Maia goes right to it. (Love those Elton John glasses, Maia!)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Ben wants to make a very small ice house.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S4ipR5smxwI/AAAAAAAAAUg/-2vzNKyYyb8/s1600-h/SANY0142.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S4ipR5smxwI/AAAAAAAAAUg/-2vzNKyYyb8/s400/SANY0142.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S4ipZTxD3EI/AAAAAAAAAUo/E357d31ssa8/s1600-h/SANY0141.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S4ipZTxD3EI/AAAAAAAAAUo/E357d31ssa8/s400/SANY0141.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here is Kasey with her ice house almost complete. We never did get the roof on, come to think of it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"&gt;It can be a challenge to find projects for a group of kids to do on rainy days, when it is so blustery that no one (including us moms!) want to go outside. How to keep us all from running into each other? from chaos taking over? It is also different now that we have a gang of teens. It is not so easy to say, "come along, on with your rain boots. Lets go splash in some puddles."&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"&gt;As they say, just as you figure out one phase of parenting/group dynamics, on comes another.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-8376169637806003723?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/8376169637806003723/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2010/02/winter-projects.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/8376169637806003723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/8376169637806003723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2010/02/winter-projects.html' title='Winter Projects'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S4ioG8BbpgI/AAAAAAAAATw/NwIKWYA0UVY/s72-c/SANY0071.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-8972935532935473648</id><published>2010-02-17T21:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-17T21:02:44.668-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Valentines Fun</title><content type='html'>Well, I have sure been remiss in posting here lately! So to make up for lost time, I am going to do a collage of our weeks together to get caught up. Then I wont have this hanging over my head anymore, yeesh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Working backwards, let's start with our &lt;b&gt;VALENTINES Party&lt;/b&gt;. Our annual party is always a smash. I love planning it and I love hosting it. One thing though, that is clear to me this year...my almost 14 year old son is done with Valentines Parties. You know, he is good with a family Valentines dinner and will even make his sister a homemade card, but he has had his fill. And really, I feel good that I have given him so much of it that he is complete. So for next &amp;nbsp;year, I will focus on the junior group of kids and of course, who ever else wants to join in. My daughter is still BIG on Valentines day and wants nothing to change for our parties. Phew.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here we have..THE QUEEN of HEARTS! What a trooper, eh? Bonnie, you make me laugh, thank you~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S3y9wYOPsZI/AAAAAAAAATQ/ZDuiXE_lQX4/s1600-h/SANY0013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S3y9wYOPsZI/AAAAAAAAATQ/ZDuiXE_lQX4/s640/SANY0013.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S3y9oSc2lEI/AAAAAAAAATI/M8aQwqLcEA8/s1600-h/SANY0012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S3y9oSc2lEI/AAAAAAAAATI/M8aQwqLcEA8/s640/SANY0012.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S3y9gjIDrmI/AAAAAAAAATA/F2mj0TG_Aq0/s1600-h/SANY0007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S3y9gjIDrmI/AAAAAAAAATA/F2mj0TG_Aq0/s640/SANY0007.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Above, you have the gang working on Valentines cards. Who you dont see in this photo, is the group of boys who are playing chess on the floor. They are having their very own party ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Woodworking for the Juniors&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The juniors have been working on woodworking skills all this year. They started out pounding nails into a block of wood (&lt;i&gt;a lot &lt;/i&gt;of nails, and you know, they had fun with that), then they did some sawing of wood, and some sanding and some polishing of wood with beeswax. After some good solid skills were laid down, we set them up with a project. Each child got to make a bird house. Here is their progression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S3zAWG20HGI/AAAAAAAAATY/x5QSkQSSELw/s1600-h/SANY0230.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S3zAWG20HGI/AAAAAAAAATY/x5QSkQSSELw/s640/SANY0230.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S3zAj4eRynI/AAAAAAAAATg/NHMTT307B4w/s1600-h/SANY0232.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S3zAj4eRynI/AAAAAAAAATg/NHMTT307B4w/s640/SANY0232.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Papa Liguori helps Anna with her birdhouse...and Maia with hers...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S3zA1RFHnuI/AAAAAAAAATo/7dwS7TrDd9M/s1600-h/SANY0272.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S3zA1RFHnuI/AAAAAAAAATo/7dwS7TrDd9M/s640/SANY0272.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;and kasey concentrates on hers. They are all very proud of their work, as they should be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sad bit about this otherwise joyful day, is the departure of one of our beloved families. Esther and her clan moved to Boston just a few days after this party. They were such a huge part of our group and made such a positive impact on all of us. We will miss seeing you every week our dear friends, but know that we will always be friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope to show you the finished projects next post (which hopefully will be soon!). Come March, they are to begin a new BIG project. The big daddy around here is going to help them to build a small hut or structure of which they can play inside of. Now, wouldn't it be great to add our gardening block to that by planting bean seeds around it to grow up and around the little house? Good plan...stay tuned.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-8972935532935473648?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/8972935532935473648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2010/02/well-i-have-sure-been-remiss-in-posting.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/8972935532935473648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/8972935532935473648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2010/02/well-i-have-sure-been-remiss-in-posting.html' title='Valentines Fun'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/S3y9wYOPsZI/AAAAAAAAATQ/ZDuiXE_lQX4/s72-c/SANY0013.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-891395242308655889</id><published>2009-11-07T06:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-07T06:45:12.799-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Halloween Party'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haunted House'/><title type='text'>Halloween Party Homeschool Style!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Our annual Homeschool Lupine Halloween Party was as grand a success as ever! My family has so much fun planning and sharing this event. Thanks to all the Lupine mamas and senior kids who helped pull it off!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SvWHWc3DgSI/AAAAAAAAASQ/6eDH93way9Q/s1600-h/SANY0002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SvWHWc3DgSI/AAAAAAAAASQ/6eDH93way9Q/s400/SANY0002.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SvWB5Q1B4qI/AAAAAAAAARo/kiv37hyuQIM/s1600-h/SANY0011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SvWB5Q1B4qI/AAAAAAAAARo/kiv37hyuQIM/s400/SANY0011.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;While the seniors are in the Haunted Dungeon preparing for the haunt,&amp;nbsp;the moms are helping the junior kids with a couple of fun Halloween crafts. This year, we made beaded saftey pins in Halloween styles; a goofy frankenstien and jack o lanterns. Also, on the table for the kids to create were glitter skulls. They are gorgeous (for skulls that is ;)! Thank you Martha Stewart for that craft idea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Our Halloween helper moms you see here are the pumpkin witch and cupid. Otherwise known as Wendy and Bonnie. (And Karen too!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SvWCB21BLPI/AAAAAAAAARw/x58QM2DWd74/s1600-h/SANY0016.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SvWCB21BLPI/AAAAAAAAARw/x58QM2DWd74/s1600-h/SANY0016.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SvWCB21BLPI/AAAAAAAAARw/x58QM2DWd74/s400/SANY0016.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The spider web maze&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Each child follows their colored yarn through the maze the giant spider spun - up, down, around, in and out they go to find the prize at the end of the web.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SvWCM6IN7RI/AAAAAAAAAR4/UAVStOmUDpo/s1600-h/SANY0017.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SvWCM6IN7RI/AAAAAAAAAR4/UAVStOmUDpo/s400/SANY0017.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;A princess pirate follows her spder web yarn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SvWCXT8K0LI/AAAAAAAAASA/_jrt1KW18jI/s1600-h/SANY0027.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SvWCXT8K0LI/AAAAAAAAASA/_jrt1KW18jI/s400/SANY0027.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;After a Halloween potluck lunch complete with eyeballs, fingers, dragons blood punch (deviled eggs and carrot sticks and cranberry juice) it is finally time to go into the Haunted Dungeon! Here Vida helps the kids into the tunnel that will lead them &amp;nbsp;down, down, down into the dark dungeon where fiends (I mean friends) await them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Screams of "Can we go in again?" are what we were met with when they were done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SvWCjEPlH8I/AAAAAAAAASI/mveuzTyEFFI/s1600-h/SANY0037.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SvWCjEPlH8I/AAAAAAAAASI/mveuzTyEFFI/s400/SANY0037.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;At the end of the day the seniors come out of the dungeon to see the light of day. (Too bad some of them removed their costumes before we got the photo). What a great day!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1257058266552"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1257058266553"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-891395242308655889?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/891395242308655889/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/11/halloween-party-homeschool-style.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/891395242308655889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/891395242308655889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/11/halloween-party-homeschool-style.html' title='Halloween Party Homeschool Style!'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SvWHWc3DgSI/AAAAAAAAASQ/6eDH93way9Q/s72-c/SANY0002.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-3936590388444691423</id><published>2009-10-26T07:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-27T15:30:13.811-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='October'/><title type='text'>Fall Fun</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;We continue into the month of October with our wonderful kids. The weather is lovely, so we enjoy the warmth as we know it is on it's way out. Here Esther leads circle with the juniors as they choose their knitting projects for the beginning of the year, or finish up their current ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Kasey is finishing her crochet purse, Ben wants to start a ball, Maia..what are you working on?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/St1QUBCA6XI/AAAAAAAAAPg/qVwhgOYQDc4/s1600-h/SANY0320.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/St1QUBCA6XI/AAAAAAAAAPg/qVwhgOYQDc4/s400/SANY0320.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/St1Qh3rPojI/AAAAAAAAAPo/esjmY3OuxoA/s1600-h/SANY0331.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/St1Qh3rPojI/AAAAAAAAAPo/esjmY3OuxoA/s400/SANY0331.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The woodworking continues as well..the kids learn to use a cross cut saw. They were very pleased when they made their last cut and that block of wood fell to the ground. Ku-chunk!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/St1QpUKZxdI/AAAAAAAAAP4/OM1Nvq4srTM/s1600-h/SANY0030.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/St1QpUKZxdI/AAAAAAAAAP4/OM1Nvq4srTM/s400/SANY0030.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The juniors are doing a short weather block and are decorating their wind vanes. We just got through a rather large storm so we had a good time talking about the wind and rain we all just experienced. Too bad we didn't have those wind vanes finished last week to enjoy in the storm!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/St1QlawFONI/AAAAAAAAAPw/LYAQ3Vkg_jw/s1600-h/SANY0016.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/St1QlawFONI/AAAAAAAAAPw/LYAQ3Vkg_jw/s400/SANY0016.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The seniors continued on their Renaissance art history, and are seen here working with David on a solar water heater. I love to see the great master minds at work. We can all enjoy the heater with our pool next year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;As this is going on, we are working on the Lupine Haunted House and Halloween Party at the end of October. Stay tuned...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/St1QsIW2oqI/AAAAAAAAAQA/gLXyUrbXbbo/s1600-h/SANY0032.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/St1QsIW2oqI/AAAAAAAAAQA/gLXyUrbXbbo/s400/SANY0032.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-3936590388444691423?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/3936590388444691423/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/10/fall-fun.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/3936590388444691423'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/3936590388444691423'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/10/fall-fun.html' title='Fall Fun'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/St1QUBCA6XI/AAAAAAAAAPg/qVwhgOYQDc4/s72-c/SANY0320.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-8214752725650456727</id><published>2009-10-19T23:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T23:13:33.680-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A New Year Together</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The Lupines year began mid September after a refreshing summer break.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The fall season has many challenging and interesting projects planned; Renaissance art history, solar water heaters, haunted houses, wind vanes, clay wonder houses..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Here is our first day back....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The juniors came back with some finger knitting, and those kids didnt stop for days. They each made a finger knitting rope that wound all through the house! I know this, because I kept tripping on ours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/St1SLBOtskI/AAAAAAAAAQI/kZPJXwbF5h4/s1600-h/SANY0004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/St1SLBOtskI/AAAAAAAAAQI/kZPJXwbF5h4/s400/SANY0004.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;It will be a year of woodworking for the juniors, starting with the most important (and fun!) skill of hammering nails into wood. Next week, sawing....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/St1STNwhNDI/AAAAAAAAAQY/AHR_jYiWJaY/s1600-h/SANY0010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/St1STNwhNDI/AAAAAAAAAQY/AHR_jYiWJaY/s400/SANY0010.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The seniors played a good game of basketball and here you see them working on our group project: A sit upon that each child, teen and mama will leave her mark upon. Bonnie has graciously offered to sew this quilt all together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/St1SQER7U5I/AAAAAAAAAQQ/kMOXGBPvte0/s1600-h/SANY0006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/St1SQER7U5I/AAAAAAAAAQQ/kMOXGBPvte0/s400/SANY0006.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/St1SWArGT7I/AAAAAAAAAQg/fMj4-xtH_2A/s1600-h/SANY0011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/St1SWArGT7I/AAAAAAAAAQg/fMj4-xtH_2A/s400/SANY0011.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;It is looking beautiful! (And so are our girls ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-8214752725650456727?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/8214752725650456727/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-year-together.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/8214752725650456727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/8214752725650456727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-year-together.html' title='A New Year Together'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/St1SLBOtskI/AAAAAAAAAQI/kZPJXwbF5h4/s72-c/SANY0004.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-435376742843155724</id><published>2009-06-24T07:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T20:25:27.094-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Potluck'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Celebration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='End of year'/><title type='text'>End of Year Celebration~ Friends</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;When the Lupine mamas got together to plan our mid-June end of year celebration for our kids, our goal was to provide a feeling of completion for the year we had together, and a celebration of friendships made. Here is what we came up with...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The kids all painted tiles, and are to sign them as well. These then will be taken to the local ceramics shop to be fired. They will all be displayed in a mural somewhere in our garden, so each child that was here at Lupines for this year will have a spot on our Lupine Wall of Fame ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SkMJ0RsUWAI/AAAAAAAAAK8/UNEptH79Dj8/s1600-h/SANY0020.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SkMJ0RsUWAI/AAAAAAAAAK8/UNEptH79Dj8/s400/SANY0020.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351131575953414146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The unfired artwork&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SkMJo8z92vI/AAAAAAAAAK0/6mXSOk0GNmI/s1600-h/SANY0009.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SkMJo8z92vI/AAAAAAAAAK0/6mXSOk0GNmI/s400/SANY0009.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351131381369789170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Friends painting &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; tiles in the warm sunshine&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SkMJXuZhfYI/AAAAAAAAAKs/OZ_29-gjIS4/s1600-h/SANY0012.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SkMJXuZhfYI/AAAAAAAAAKs/OZ_29-gjIS4/s400/SANY0012.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351131085443005826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Another painting corner and more friends&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SkMJJrUdX2I/AAAAAAAAAKk/xornRBa47ws/s1600-h/SANY0014.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SkMJJrUdX2I/AAAAAAAAAKk/xornRBa47ws/s400/SANY0014.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351130844098289506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Creating great art work&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SkMI5GeNxbI/AAAAAAAAAKc/ZwUhBTYAvnw/s1600-h/SANY0013.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SkMI5GeNxbI/AAAAAAAAAKc/ZwUhBTYAvnw/s400/SANY0013.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351130559329191346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Friends~ Mackenzie and Kasey&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SkMIgzB0xOI/AAAAAAAAAKU/zqVOKRNKGbo/s1600-h/SANY0016.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SkMIgzB0xOI/AAAAAAAAAKU/zqVOKRNKGbo/s400/SANY0016.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351130141792978146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Friends~ Lisa and Alison&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Lupines is not just for the kids!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SkMIK3no-7I/AAAAAAAAAKM/OWxrPCa1-bs/s1600-h/SANY0017.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SkMIK3no-7I/AAAAAAAAAKM/OWxrPCa1-bs/s400/SANY0017.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351129765068209074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A grand summer time potluck &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Lupine moms, send in those recipes....let's see, we had the Bowl of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Yuminess&lt;/span&gt; for the kids, (and a few moms) the raw peach pie for the moms (and one dad), and since we were so full of dessert, we tabled the ice cream &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;making&lt;/span&gt; for our first summer camp day. There was much more &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;yumminess&lt;/span&gt; as well. We did have a good lunch before all the desserts came out !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SkMGaUilZOI/AAAAAAAAAJk/MOtf6fL7p1U/s1600-h/SANY0026.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SkMGaUilZOI/AAAAAAAAAJk/MOtf6fL7p1U/s400/SANY0026.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351127831506412770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Friends~ A year together complete...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;(this photo to go into a frame that each child and teen decorated in addition to the tiles)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A very full and satisfying day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Now, for summer fun!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-435376742843155724?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/435376742843155724/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/06/end-of-year-celebration-friends.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/435376742843155724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/435376742843155724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/06/end-of-year-celebration-friends.html' title='End of Year Celebration~ Friends'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SkMJ0RsUWAI/AAAAAAAAAK8/UNEptH79Dj8/s72-c/SANY0020.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-8114400361861016844</id><published>2009-05-30T14:42:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-11T20:15:15.766-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Medieval Games'/><title type='text'>Medieval Games Tournament, May29th 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SjG-uZOaEwI/AAAAAAAAAJE/bIYxYlYxkAQ/s1600-h/SANY0278.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SjG-uZOaEwI/AAAAAAAAAJE/bIYxYlYxkAQ/s400/SANY0278.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346263936920064770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Here it is, the big day the the kids have been training for with John since March. Shields in hand, the kids arrive. Each contestant made thier own shield in order to get into the mood of it all (and they do make great decorations).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Here we have Mackenzie and Julie in the rod fencing &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;competition;&lt;/span&gt; looks as if they are &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;listening&lt;/span&gt; to John's instruction for the event. Who got the point?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SjGPBgyJ2EI/AAAAAAAAAI8/FnLkpSHLp2Y/s1600-h/SANY0302.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SjGPBgyJ2EI/AAAAAAAAAI8/FnLkpSHLp2Y/s400/SANY0302.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346211488808425538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Can you see the javelin that Andrea just threw at the target? The camera caught it in mid air! The target by the way, was a watermelon on a hay stack. Julie nailed it first try!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SjGOwgHYF2I/AAAAAAAAAI0/n7lPMKdAJoA/s1600-h/SANY0314.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SjGOwgHYF2I/AAAAAAAAAI0/n7lPMKdAJoA/s400/SANY0314.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346211196571228002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Jeremy is posed to hit the target....will he hit it?........Oh! so close.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SjGNoRyu_dI/AAAAAAAAAIs/qjvK-GM4suA/s1600-h/SANY0318.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SjGNoRyu_dI/AAAAAAAAAIs/qjvK-GM4suA/s400/SANY0318.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346209955775970770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Katelyn, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Sarai&lt;/span&gt;, Olivia and Andrea during rod fencing warm ups.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SjGNXV42qAI/AAAAAAAAAIk/iBlodPXBH6o/s1600-h/SANY0290.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SjGNXV42qAI/AAAAAAAAAIk/iBlodPXBH6o/s400/SANY0290.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346209664817604610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Onlookers, Kasey and Elena. Kasey had a grand time building fairy houses during the quiet moments of the game.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SjGNKTPOxrI/AAAAAAAAAIc/Ayy7qtTlipI/s1600-h/SANY0326.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SjGNKTPOxrI/AAAAAAAAAIc/Ayy7qtTlipI/s400/SANY0326.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346209440767854258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The final ceremony.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; Everyone &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;received&lt;/span&gt; a metal, as all participated in each event. Good show squires and knights!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SjGM4-d1SbI/AAAAAAAAAIU/Jb0gDGdZJO0/s1600-h/SANY0348.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SjGM4-d1SbI/AAAAAAAAAIU/Jb0gDGdZJO0/s400/SANY0348.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346209143134177714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-8114400361861016844?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/8114400361861016844/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/05/medieval-games-tournament-may-7th-2009.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/8114400361861016844'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/8114400361861016844'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/05/medieval-games-tournament-may-7th-2009.html' title='Medieval Games Tournament, May29th 2009'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SjG-uZOaEwI/AAAAAAAAAJE/bIYxYlYxkAQ/s72-c/SANY0278.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-6351942003294744148</id><published>2009-05-09T07:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-30T14:15:23.793-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='seasonal tree felting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='castles'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clay'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wet felting'/><title type='text'>Completed Projects: Castle and seasonal trees</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:arial;color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:arial;color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:6;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;I am behind on my posts, life being so full of events and vacations. Here are the fabulous projects the kids have recently finished.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;The Castle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Here it is, the seniors finished medieval castle. Isn't it a beauty?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;It took four Monday mornings to complete it. They became so engaged with it, we couldn't stop them. Literally. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SiGJAMehm4I/AAAAAAAAAH8/dfXzRrIrvUI/s1600-h/SANY0090.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SiGJAMehm4I/AAAAAAAAAH8/dfXzRrIrvUI/s400/SANY0090.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341701269480381314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And here we have the finished seasonal trees made by the juniors. And the lucky seniors, several, who have said "The juniors get to do such fun projects" get to make their own trees this week. By the way, I have heard the juniors say the same thing about the senior projects. Oh, the grass on the other side....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SgtfQaMfjXI/AAAAAAAAAH0/rIsSafAj_HA/s1600-h/SANY0021_2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SgtfQaMfjXI/AAAAAAAAAH0/rIsSafAj_HA/s400/SANY0021_2.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335462919064751474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It will soon be time to change these spring trees to summer trees, with fruit bearing heavy on the tree branches.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Soon to come, photos of our Pine Wood Derby and Medieval Games Tournament&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-6351942003294744148?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/6351942003294744148/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/05/completed-projects-castle-and-seasonal.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/6351942003294744148'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/6351942003294744148'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/05/completed-projects-castle-and-seasonal.html' title='Completed Projects: Castle and seasonal trees'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SiGJAMehm4I/AAAAAAAAAH8/dfXzRrIrvUI/s72-c/SANY0090.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-7277794106248030570</id><published>2009-05-08T22:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-09T07:51:45.991-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='May Day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='castle project'/><title type='text'>May Day!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; "&gt;Impromptu May Day Celebration&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I have lead a May Day celebration for 8 years in a row and honestly, I was feeling complete. I knew my son was ready to move on as well. Now, having said that, I still like honoring May Day in our own private family way...taking joy in the full blossoming of the earth with simple activities such as going out in the morning and collecting flowers from our garden to bring spring inside, adding nasturtium petals to our salad for lunch and lavender petals to our biscuits with tea in the afternoon. But, I didn't have it in me to do a full on May Day party....again. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Or, so I thought.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; When I mentioned May Day to my daughter, she brightened up and said, with an excited blissful look on her face "Oh, May Day? When do we get the May pole out?" Uh Oh. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Needless to say, we had a May Day celebration....again. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SgUaX4yb52I/AAAAAAAAAHc/d2QwEtdyQF4/s1600-h/IMG_7522.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SgUaX4yb52I/AAAAAAAAAHc/d2QwEtdyQF4/s400/IMG_7522.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333698331373463394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The girls making May Day baskets. Thank you everyone for the beautiful flowers from your gardens.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SgUZ2PLCliI/AAAAAAAAAHU/5a-EOi7-mo8/s1600-h/IMG_7578.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SgUZ2PLCliI/AAAAAAAAAHU/5a-EOi7-mo8/s400/IMG_7578.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333697753266689570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Our May Pole dance&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SgUZPbfI25I/AAAAAAAAAHM/zu5BfW8Uks4/s1600-h/IMG_7523.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SgUZPbfI25I/AAAAAAAAAHM/zu5BfW8Uks4/s400/IMG_7523.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333697086557313938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;More May Day baskets being made&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SgUYnhim1PI/AAAAAAAAAHE/PDuazjfE5aY/s1600-h/IMG_7557.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SgUYnhim1PI/AAAAAAAAAHE/PDuazjfE5aY/s400/IMG_7557.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333696400987706610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Calendula Dye Bath&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;We made dye baths with calendula petals. The dye will sit in the sun all week collecting the suns energy to make a beautiful sun-yellow-orangey color with which we will dye our clothing blanks next week with. Thank you Mary for organizing the Dharma Trading order and leading the dyeing project! That was a huge job.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Medieval History Continues&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Castle Making Project is a hit with our seniors&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SgUblruix7I/AAAAAAAAAHs/V0bmfsQSbDA/s1600-h/IMG_7552.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SgUblruix7I/AAAAAAAAAHs/V0bmfsQSbDA/s400/IMG_7552.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333699667897272242" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This is their third week in working on their castles. I initially gave them two weeks to work on it, but they were getting deeply into the project and were working so well as a group, that we just couldn't stop them! Luckily we had some wiggle room in the calendar, so us moms quickly got together to arrange another couple of weeks to give them completion. There is much talk of castle life and how to represent it, helping their medieval studies come to life! Thank you Karen and Bonnie for leading this project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SgUa2k2QeNI/AAAAAAAAAHk/wjRe1PlHH_U/s1600-h/IMG_7582.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SgUa2k2QeNI/AAAAAAAAAHk/wjRe1PlHH_U/s400/IMG_7582.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333698858596726994" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Soon to come, photos of the masterpiece.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-7277794106248030570?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/7277794106248030570/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/05/may-day.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/7277794106248030570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/7277794106248030570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/05/may-day.html' title='May Day!'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SgUaX4yb52I/AAAAAAAAAHc/d2QwEtdyQF4/s72-c/IMG_7522.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-7374938599626169385</id><published>2009-04-25T22:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-13T16:58:12.041-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Feild Trip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Geo Club'/><title type='text'>Pizza and Chicks</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Another field trip to enhance our Italy Day was to Buca Di Beppo for a tour of the kitchen, followed by lunch, and a visit to Bonnie's house to see her baby chicks. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;It is such a pleasure to know you are meeting up with friends for an adventure. All of us, the kids and the adults enjoy it so much. Homeschooling friends make it all worth while. Thank you my dear friends.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Next up....moms night out!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SgUP4M3iHhI/AAAAAAAAAG8/q77G3dwr7pA/s1600-h/IMG_7451.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SgUP4M3iHhI/AAAAAAAAAG8/q77G3dwr7pA/s400/IMG_7451.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333686791891459602"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;First, the pizza; the gang in front of Bucca di Beppo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000EE"&gt;&lt;font class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SgUPCIY5hFI/AAAAAAAAAGs/Ie7yPWp4BhM/s1600-h/119.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SgUPCIY5hFI/AAAAAAAAAGs/Ie7yPWp4BhM/s400/119.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333685862976291922"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and then the chicks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Talk to Bonnie about the name of this field trip...I take no responsibility. ;0)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-7374938599626169385?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/7374938599626169385/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/04/pizza-and-chicks.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/7374938599626169385'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/7374938599626169385'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/04/pizza-and-chicks.html' title='Pizza and Chicks'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SgUP4M3iHhI/AAAAAAAAAG8/q77G3dwr7pA/s72-c/IMG_7451.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-4559043407269216184</id><published>2009-04-22T21:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-25T17:17:45.212-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='water play'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clapping games'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='seasonal tree felting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lemonade'/><title type='text'>April Heat Wave!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;It was hot, hot, hot last Monday at Lupines. So, what better way to start the day than to make fresh lemonade. Alison brought &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;boxes&lt;/span&gt; of lemons for us to share. Thanks Alison! As everyone arrived those lemons were cut and juiced. Many hands went into the making our yummy lemonade. But...we cant drink it yet...it must go into the fridge to get nice and coooold. We got to enjoy it at the end of the day with snack. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/Se_tQozPnbI/AAAAAAAAAGM/05mSw3Vaz6A/s1600-h/SANY0014.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/Se_tQozPnbI/AAAAAAAAAGM/05mSw3Vaz6A/s400/SANY0014.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327737754288627122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The seniors making lemonade and laughing ALOT. What did they put IN that lemonade?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/Se_tFdB3YWI/AAAAAAAAAGE/oYcTyQ3hv_w/s1600-h/SANY0020.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/Se_tFdB3YWI/AAAAAAAAAGE/oYcTyQ3hv_w/s400/SANY0020.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327737562150166882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Surprise heat waves call for the slip and slide to be brought out of hiding from the attic. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;While the seniors made lemonade, the juniors had a blast getting good and wet before circle and game time. Towels please!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/Se_swKSN2zI/AAAAAAAAAF0/sjBLSTNey7E/s1600-h/SANY0023.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/Se_swKSN2zI/AAAAAAAAAF0/sjBLSTNey7E/s400/SANY0023.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327737196341222194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Esther has been leading junior circle and game time in the mornings this month. She is a natural! Here, they are playing clapping games to the count of threes; a great way to learn your multiplication tables, and fun too. You should hear these kids giggle. Great work Esther!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;After lunch, the juniors worked on another felting project. Hot days are good for wet felting, as we got to sit under a shady tree and dip our hands in soapy, splashy water. This project is from the book &lt;a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/More-Magic-Wool/Angelika-Wolk-Gerch/e/9780863153518/?itm=2"&gt;"More Magic Wool" by Angelika Wolk-Gerche.&lt;/a&gt; So many terrific projects in there!  This is a seasonal tree which can be decorated with colored tufts of wool each season. Today, they made the bare tree with branches. Next week they will decorate it for spring. When summer comes along they can remove the felt in which they used to make their spring tree and make it a summer tree, and so on.....a family heirloom! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SfOmCx538VI/AAAAAAAAAGk/1glITmrKCzs/s1600-h/SANY0001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SfOmCx538VI/AAAAAAAAAGk/1glITmrKCzs/s400/SANY0001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328785350795456850" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The first part of the seasonal trees&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The seniors project was to make a castle out of clay. They each first drew a castle on paper to get their creative juices flowing. Then they broke up into two groups and worked together to begin. I hope to have photos to share next week of their (hopefully finished) medieval castles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The seniors also continued to work on their pine derby cars, the homeschool pinewood derby race is coming up May 7th.  And John was here as well to work with the kids more on archery (still no arrows), rod fencing, and this week, they added rope climbing. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-4559043407269216184?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/4559043407269216184/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/04/april-heat-wave.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/4559043407269216184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/4559043407269216184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/04/april-heat-wave.html' title='April Heat Wave!'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/Se_tQozPnbI/AAAAAAAAAGM/05mSw3Vaz6A/s72-c/SANY0014.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-3845053051419575121</id><published>2009-04-14T09:01:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-15T17:40:25.258-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Geography Club-Italy Day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bows and Arrows'/><title type='text'>Italy Day!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Geography Club - Italy Day&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This week was our celebration of Italy. The kids all made pasta and gnocchi from scratch. It was a very full morning as the kids gathered in groups to make their pastas. Stephanie supplied us with some fabulous italian music to cook by and there was flour ALL over the floor. Thank goodness for brooms, is all I can say. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;We love our potlucks, and lunch always takes ALOT longer on celebration days. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Bon Appetit!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SeS7OLQH3BI/AAAAAAAAAFU/-FCC04BCmFg/s1600-h/SANY0070.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SeS7OLQH3BI/AAAAAAAAAFU/-FCC04BCmFg/s400/SANY0070.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324586511671745554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This batch of grated potatoes was to be our gnocchi. Thanks to my friend Rupal for bringing over the food mill at the last minute! A cheese grater just would not have cut it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SeS7HLo5R0I/AAAAAAAAAFM/Ojer6A6OGxQ/s1600-h/SANY0075.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SeS7HLo5R0I/AAAAAAAAAFM/Ojer6A6OGxQ/s400/SANY0075.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324586391516563266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The uncooked pasta&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SeS69dUPGzI/AAAAAAAAAFE/WefaiSEzpjc/s1600-h/SANY0076.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SeS69dUPGzI/AAAAAAAAAFE/WefaiSEzpjc/s400/SANY0076.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324586224463059762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The chefs at work, cooking their pasta creations&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bows and Arrows&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;After a very big meal, the afternoon activities take place. Here are the senior kids working out and getting ready for their Medieval Games Event in May. I was happy to see that they did not have the actual arrows yet, since they were in the middle of my playroom. Yikes! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SeS6xSbtSkI/AAAAAAAAAE8/hYancAkYmU8/s1600-h/SANY0089.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SeS6xSbtSkI/AAAAAAAAAE8/hYancAkYmU8/s400/SANY0089.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324586015383177794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Can you see the Robin Hood expression on Jeremy above?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-3845053051419575121?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/3845053051419575121/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/04/italy-day.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/3845053051419575121'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/3845053051419575121'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/04/italy-day.html' title='Italy Day!'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SeS7OLQH3BI/AAAAAAAAAFU/-FCC04BCmFg/s72-c/SANY0070.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-2334688164335226127</id><published>2009-04-11T16:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-11T18:21:31.830-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Medieval History</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SeFB8BbYv_I/AAAAAAAAADM/9Nm7H2uzHJg/s1600-h/SANY0056.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SeFB8BbYv_I/AAAAAAAAADM/9Nm7H2uzHJg/s320/SANY0056.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323608733959897074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SeFB08ryjBI/AAAAAAAAADE/onBEaS5IKTE/s1600-h/SANY0055.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SeFB08ryjBI/AAAAAAAAADE/onBEaS5IKTE/s320/SANY0055.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323608612427435026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SeFBtPgCu3I/AAAAAAAAAC8/-wMZcYfPyTE/s1600-h/SANY0054.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SeFBtPgCu3I/AAAAAAAAAC8/-wMZcYfPyTE/s320/SANY0054.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323608480039484274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SeFAmPxaeUI/AAAAAAAAAC0/XZPA6HxWcn8/s1600-h/SANY0053.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SeFAmPxaeUI/AAAAAAAAAC0/XZPA6HxWcn8/s320/SANY0053.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323607260341631298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SeEwAxUmOVI/AAAAAAAAACU/mAUOyA3tMJ0/s1600-h/SANY0068.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SeEwAxUmOVI/AAAAAAAAACU/mAUOyA3tMJ0/s320/SANY0068.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323589024326498642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;At the Legion of Honor&lt;/div&gt;For the past several months the senior kids have been working on Medieval History projects. Karen led a two month art history session in which they did mosaics, frescos, made gargoyles and grotesques from clay (did you know that gargoyles spout water, and "grotesques" dont? So, when you see a building with a gargoyle on the front, is it really a gargoyle or a grotesque?) illuminations, rose windows, asian brush painting and much  more. We ended the study by going to The Legion of Honor in San Francisco to view the medieval art live and in person. Last week the kids made maps by hand of Medieval Europe. I liked that this project was drawing, art, geography and history all in one. I think they did a pretty good job! Don't you?&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-2334688164335226127?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/2334688164335226127/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/04/medieval-history.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/2334688164335226127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/2334688164335226127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/04/medieval-history.html' title='Medieval History'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SeFB8BbYv_I/AAAAAAAAADM/9Nm7H2uzHJg/s72-c/SANY0056.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-6844968168697356349</id><published>2009-04-07T11:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-25T17:22:23.976-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Felting eggs'/><title type='text'>Spring!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SduW9xqY80I/AAAAAAAAACM/WVVkewJBBqY/s1600-h/P4060561.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SduW9xqY80I/AAAAAAAAACM/WVVkewJBBqY/s320/P4060561.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322013372715692866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The junior kids felted eggs today, in the warm sunny garden. How pleasant it was! I did this with the kids years ago, when Kasey was...oh...about 6, and she couldn't quite manage the process yet. This time around the kids made fabulous eggs. All the years of felting with the kids have really paid off. Such crafters they are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-6844968168697356349?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/6844968168697356349/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/04/junior-kids-felted-eggs-today-in-warm.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/6844968168697356349'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/6844968168697356349'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/04/junior-kids-felted-eggs-today-in-warm.html' title='Spring!'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SduW9xqY80I/AAAAAAAAACM/WVVkewJBBqY/s72-c/P4060561.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660044286784460301.post-5149661961919163347</id><published>2009-04-06T17:13:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-06T17:33:28.575-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Under Construction</title><content type='html'>Hang in there....we have work to do here ;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8660044286784460301-5149661961919163347?l=lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/feeds/5149661961919163347/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/04/under-construction.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/5149661961919163347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8660044286784460301/posts/default/5149661961919163347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lupinefamilyhomeschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/04/under-construction.html' title='Under Construction'/><author><name>Lisa D"Ettorre-Liguori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17084681982678484391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DdwXgfvZKj8/SaB_MKRIOhI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MVrJ8BiD2kI/S220/SANY0001.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
