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This post, titled Your Children Want YOU!, has gone viral, but am I the only one that looks at these pins on Pinterest and DOES NOT feel the way the author does?  I don't look at all these pins and think badly of myself.  I KNOW I'm not superwoman and don't intend to be.  I post things I like, not because I feel like I need to do them all to have a sense of worth, but because I just like them.

ATTENTION: Tomorrow, Friday Feb 3rd, I am conducting a little experiment called "Your Homeschool Photo of the Day." 

It's SUPER easy to participate.  Simply take a photo (just one) of something that happens tomorrow.  Could be the kids doing school, you making lunch, dance class, sitting in the car, snuggling on the sofa, anything "G" rated. 

Then, upload it here on this Facebook page (or your own and link to the Mrs Homeschool Facebook page) or send it to my email (support-at-mrshomeschool-dot-com).  I'll compile all the pics into a neat blog post for all to see.  And if you have a website, I'll even post a link to it…and you can link back to mine, if you like.  Get your cameras ready!

"It's going to be DIFFERENT this year!"

It's something I often muttered or even shouted to myself every year.  I want the focus of the holidays to be Christ-centered, not gift-centered.  But the days and weeks leading up to December 25th all pretty much looked the same.

Rushing through stores crowded with holiday shoppers filling their carts with toys their kids don't really want and REALLY don't need.  (I know kids don't need much because we have 3 children – 8, 6 and 3 yrs old – and ALL of their toys combined fit into a 20" suitcase.)  I scramble to try to get some Christmas cards sent out, but end up just doing some at the last minute.

A few days back, I posed a simple question on Facebook wanting to know what others do for simple fun activities with their children.  Little did I know that the first time I tried to type it out, I'd hit some funny button and delete the whole post.  Grrr…

It was all in God's plan because our family has had to figure out MORE ways to have fun inside this week.  We're at the tail end of the wet season here in Costa Rica and it has literally been raining about 95% of the time since last Sunday.  Talk about SERIOUS cabin fever! 

I have to confess that I've been quite envious of all these posts I've seen by other moms who've made "Family Rules" canvases.  (Here are some to whet your appetite: The Pleated Poppy, Fingerprints on the Fridge, Tater Tots and Jello)

But, being who I am, I had to do things a bit differently.  It doesn't help that I have NO scrapbook supplies left since I sold them all for too little $$ at a yard sale before our big move south.  No, I don't regret getting rid of that stuff, but I have mourned the loss of not being able to get creative with my hands in all that paper.