Julie Lyles Carr

~7 of 8 and her grandma~ ~Eskimo kisses~ (and don’t forget to enter the latest GIVEAWAY! Click here for details!) Sat, 02 Apr 2011 09:59:00 +0000julielylescarr

We LOVE our youth group. Amazing leaders, amazing kids. An amazing experience. Part of what I love about our youth leaders is the way they continue to push the kids to get outside of the me-me-me perspective and to understand more about the world. My foyer has been filled with huge cardboard boxes as my kids have been preparing for…
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They’ve done it again! No, not the twins and the bathtub laundry adventures. The good folks at JumpStart. They’ve come up with another great educational online game. And this one has made a subject very fun that some of my students often think is un-fun. Un-fun. You heard it here first. Vocabulary invention and prefix mangling aside, JumpStart invited us…
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There are a couple of dark secrets when it comes to homeschooling. Which I don’t mind sharing. I have no pride. Much. Ya know. Anyway. So here are the couple of dark secrets. Number 1. Homeschooling is heck on your house. Think through it. People eating, grazing, studying, doing science experiments, grazing, tearing the little paper tabs of their notebook…
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A few weeks ago I was contacted by a freelance writer who was hoping to get my thoughts on weaning babies from breastfeeding. I was happy to help and sent her some thoughts and ideas. And she let me know it would be included on a baby product site that I know very well. And lo and behold, there are…
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