Julie Lyles Carr

~6 of 8~ ~Math Whiz~ ~her favorite number is 25~ ~…for now…~ Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:59:00 +0000julielylescarr

We do a lot of math drills around here. A. Lot. I’m sure there are more creative, cute, artistic ways to get basic math facts into the general traffic of the mind. But math drills it is in this homeschool. 6 of 8 was working on a page yesterday and kept popping her head around the corner of my office….
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So you’re thinking to yourself, “That Octa. I emailed/called/texted/Facebooked/im’d/commented her and haven’t heard back yet!” Just know that it’s not because I don’t love ya. I’ve just been solving some housekeeping mysteries, one two-year-old at a time. 8 of 8 has created a new faux wall treatment…I’m calling it ‘Plaster of TP.’ The procedure is this; you very, very, very…
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My first love was a Pentax 35mm. And my deep obsession was my Mamiya 645AF. Medium format film. Ridiculously expensive. I loved, loved, loved it. That shot above? It’s of 6 of 8. Back when she was 6 of 6. And I took it with my Mamiya. Oh, sure, it was a fickle, finicky rig. I spent untold dollars (no,…
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I actually calculated it at one point. From the time that I was about 6 months pregnant with the twins until they were 15 months old, I only slept in hour-and-a-half stretches. Just 90 minutes at a time, here and there. There is a lot about those months that is lost to me. It was during those months that I…
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