School is out!

The kids are delighted and I am over the moon!
We were going to finish the school year this Friday, but we have been doing revision for the past 2 weeks and I just felt to wrap it up today.

This school year we completed :
Sonlight Core 3&4 Condensed American History
Sonlight Science 4
Sonlight Bible 4

WizzKid completed:
Sonlight Grade 6 Language Arts
Wordly Wise 3000 (Book2)
Winston Grammar ( Basic Level)
Keys to Good Language 5
In addition to his assigned readers, he read another 24 books.
Maths- Singapore 5B,6A , Horizons 6(Book1)

CoolDude completed:
Sonlight Grade 3 Language Arts
Wordly Wize C
Modern Curriculum Press Word Study (Level D)
In addition to the assigned readers he read another 19 books
Maths- Singapore 3A, Horizons 3(Book 1&2)

We have had a great year, and now we can enjoy 2 months of fun in the sun!
Hugs Fee

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8 Things I often say!

My dear friend Beth from Part of the Miracles tagged me! Now Beth, this was one haul of a tag...... as I sat trying to add to each categorie I realised I was going to be up till the cows came home!!! And these cows were s-l-o-w plodders!

Here were the questions I was supposed to answer.............

8 Things I'm passionate about
8 Things I Want To Do Before I Die
8 Things I Say Often
8 Books I've read
8 Songs I Could Listen To Over and Over
8 Things That Attract Me To My Best Friend
8 Things I've Learned This Year
8 People To Tag

Okay so I cheated.... The question in bold is the only one I answered. To make things easier I asked my boys to answer the question for me.

So here goes.............

8 Things I Say Often.(according to my boys)

1. The S- word! (yes,I admit I do say sh-t ..... a bit!)
2. Wash your w-llys boys! My eldest came to me the other day and asked politely if I could please call that body part "his private". He also suggested that it would be nicer if I didn't scream this for all the neighbours to hear!
3. Come on....... quick sticks!I'm usually packing them into the car.
4. Stop being a stinky bum!.... If the kids or the cat are not doing what I want them to do, I will refer to them as being one of these. It's said affectionately though!
5. What a wonderful day! WizzKid reminded me that on opening the curtains, in the morning, I always exclaim this!
6. Tanzi's too quiet, boys go find her! At least twice a day I ask the boys to seek out the whereabouts of TanziPanzi, and invariably she is caught in the act!
7. WizzKid, I have a problem! WizzKid immediately knows that I have a computer issue! Poor kid I bug him alot!
8. Oh my hat! CoolDude said whenever I was surprised I would say this...... so true!

Forgive me Beth....... I just didn't have the energy to complete the whole task!

But to you out there, the questions are available for you to copy,and to continue the life of this meme!

Hugs Fee

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Brighter is better!

With MrGee being away I find I have a lot more time on my hands. Mmmmm...... so I decided to make some Summer place mats for our new home! I am a lover of bright and bold colour just like my blogger friend Sara. Go and check out her creative ideas at Sara's Art House. I love her use of colour(btw .....South Africans spell colour this way!) and her very clever ideas!

So Sara's bright and bold colours inspired these placements...............

As I was taking pics of the place mats, Tanzi decided to become a fashion model extraordinaire!

She needed to be the center of attention it seems!

And there was no stopping her!

Lots of love!

Fee

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It's my special day today!

Yes,it's my birthday, so CoolDude decided he would make me scrambled egg on toast for breakfast. It was delicious.
Hubby is still in USA, and with no family around, I had wondered what sort of day I was going to have! But so far it's been pretty darn fine!
After breakfast I let the boys have their computer time and settled Tanzi in front of my notebook with yet another Barbie movie.
I had plans you see................. and they were to watch "Amazing Grace". My-o-my......I went through the full range of emotions from deep sorrow at how wicked the heart of man can be, to unbelievable joy of seeing one man's beliefs impact the people around him! It is a beautiful story...... you must see it!
So now I'm sitting chatting to you...... but I'm about to hop into the shower, do my hair and then mozee on over(South African slang for "go") to a friends house for lunch and some girly chit chat! (Her hubby's in Mauritius!)

So, let me be off
Hugs Fee

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I'm on my ownsome!

I am without MrGee, and it feels strange. Of course MrGee has been away before, but he has never been 13 000kms(8 000miles) away ! He flew to New York and then took a train to a town in Connecticut. There's more...... he will be gone for 10 nights! Oh my greatness! The longest he has been away from me is 2 nights! Buzzing around in my head is that song by Fergie "Big girls dont cry."

Do you think I'm gonna make it ?..... he only left yesterday afternoon!

What made it even more emotional is that MrGee organised a beautiful bouquet of red roses to be delivered this morning. He instructed the boys to play my favourite romantic song by Savage Garden called "I knew I loved you before I met you."

Then the boys called me to come and have a look!

I was overwhelmed by such an awesome surprise of love! Thank you babes...... I know you're reading this....... cause you're missing us just as much as we are missing you............... Hey?

Kisses for MrGee
Hugs for the rest of you!

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There's nothing new under the sun!

Have a pearler of a weekend!

Hugs Fee

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Wedding Memories!

Today I created an album on my FaceBook account. I uploaded some wedding pics from the year 1994! Yes-sirree-bob...... That beautiful day when MrGee and I exchanged our wedding vows! I wanted to cry when I saw how thin and wrinkle free I was!

I thought I'd share them with you...............................SOOOOO here's proof that I was once thin!!!!

















...................... And that MrGee had a head full of hair! teehee
It is SO therapeutic to revisit good times in ones life!

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Hugs 0000000 Fee

Just for fun!

Oh my.... I'm not American but I think us SOuth Africans call a College...... a Technikon. At our Technikons you don't get a degree, you get a diploma.

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mmmmmmm...... well this sounds right, I always did battle a little with languages! If I could have done Maths all day long, school would have been a much happier place!

Love Fee

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Nomination time.

Yip...... it seemed like only yesterday, we had these awards......... but they're here again! You have till Sat 17 Nov to nominate your favourite Homeschool Blog. There are quite a few categories............So click on the pic above, and have your say!.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Gold Reef City Fun!

Hubby arrived home from work on Saturday afternoon, and decided to take us away for the night! He let me decide where we should go.

I knew exactly where we would all have a blast! Gold Reef City, an historical amusement/theme park in the heart of Johannesburg.

The boys were totally impressed.... they got there own room and watched cartoons till 11pm and ordered room service!

Johannesburg is the source of a large-scale gold and diamond trade.European settlement happened in the 1880s, when gold was discovered in the region, triggering a gold rush. So all around Johannesburg you see these huge mine dumps. They are yellow-ish in colour, because they have small traces of gold in the sand. Due to better methods of mining, these mounds are now being re-sifted.

Gold Reef City is a replica of a Johannesburg Gold mining town from the 1880's. It is so pretty! The buildings reflect Late Victorian Architecture, and look very authentic.

I found the scenery very romantic. In fact as we dined, a horse and cart drove past carrying newly weds!

The boys enjoyed the rides! WizzKid is definitely NOT a lover of heights and speed, BUT, he forced himself to go on this ride.....

You did well my son!

CoolDude is a maniac when it comes to rides! He would have gone on everything! Unfortunately they had height restrictions!But he did go on a VERY wild rollercoaster ride with Dad.......

TanziPanzi and I made candles............................

and looked at all the quaint little shops. We kept our feet firmly on the ground, and didn't attempt any of the rides!

We're such ninnys!

Hugs Fee

ooooo

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