tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48071027028686919662024-03-13T15:03:21.740-07:00NightBlooming 'OhanaHollyElisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262141907304468611noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807102702868691966.post-86644251848076577372016-11-07T00:01:00.004-08:002016-11-07T00:01:53.649-08:00Let The Keiki Play<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"The Joyful, Illiterate Kindergarteners of Finland"</center>
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You can read the article <span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://taughtbyfinland.com/the-joyful-illiterate-kindergartners-of-finland/">here</a></i></span>.</center>
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Written by an American who has lived and taught in Finland, who heard of changes to the American preschool/kindergarten system and decided to visit a Finnish kindie to see how it worked.</center>
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Quite honestly, the article underlines a lot of the reasons <a href="http://nightbloomingohana.blogspot.com/2016/09/preschool-at-home.html"><i>I want to homeschool or non-traditionally-school my keiki</i></a>.</center>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px;"><b style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;">“There’s an old Finnish saying,” Holappa said. “Those things you learn without joy you will forget easily.” </b></span>- from the article</center>
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Sharing the joy of learning is exactly what I want to do.</center>
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HollyElisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262141907304468611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807102702868691966.post-91507681549480603592016-11-01T00:07:00.000-07:002016-11-01T00:07:02.671-07:00Halloween 2016!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy Halloween!!<br />
We had a lovely laid-back Halloween today.<br />
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Molly and I got her costume all together in the morning and after lunch (and after I made the soup we would later have for dinner), we got her makeup done. It turned out SO cute.<br />
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I definitely thought that Zion wasn't going to wear his costume at all today. And after I'd spent a good hour hand-sewing it this morning, too! He was adamant that he would NOT be wearing it when we went with Daddy to his STEM class to check out the students' costumes (Daddy repeated his Luke Skywalker costume).<br />
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Molly was such a cute kitty-cat at the park!</center>
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We picked the Daddy-man up from his school and came home to eat dinner - delicious turkey veggie soup with noodles added in for the kiddos - and made some costume adjustments before heading out to trick or treat!</center>
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Even the Bug got his costume on! Just as we were getting shoes on to head out, he said "Mama! I gotta wear my ghost shirt!" </center>
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And great, great rejoicing was heard in the land... :D</center>
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We had a blast wandering around trick or treating, the kids got lots of compliments on their makeup and costumes. I love that the neighborhood we trick or treat in is a quiet one, with lots of friendly people, and that it's just the right size for our little ones to walk around without being carried!<br />Just as we were turning the corner near where we'd parked the car, Molly told me "Okay Mama, I think I'm done trick or treating now." Perfect timing and perfect neighborhood!</center>
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Happy, happy Halloween!</center>
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HollyElisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262141907304468611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807102702868691966.post-61212165134686785332016-10-22T22:51:00.001-07:002016-10-22T22:51:35.654-07:00Pumpkin Carving <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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And I'll pop a photo of myself in the car here because... there are no other photos of me in the rest of the post, haha.<br />
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The kids were so excited to pick their pumpkin out, and finding our assigned table in the crowded mall was a little adventure. </div>
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And then we sat down and Daddy got carving!<br />
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He had very willing helpers :)</div>
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Molly and Zion were very good while he carved, they chatted with other kids around us, trick-or-treated a little as costumed festival volunteers walked through the crowds...</div>
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I think our pumpkin turned out great! We ended up putting a face on each side of it, just for fun :)<br />
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Isn't it cute?<br />
It's fun to have a jack o'lantern around.<br />
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Some days...</center>
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Molly helps with dishes...<br />
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and we build block towers at program...<br />
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We do chores together...<br />
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We hit the park.<br />
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We play and learn...<br />
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We look adorable...<br />
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So adorable! ;)<br />
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We take the recycling in...<br />
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We play with play-doh...<br />
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We paint...<br />
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Molly loves to help her kumu lead circle at program...<br />
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(Zion's favorite stations at program are the sand table and water table)<br />
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We bake cookies together (math!)...<br />
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We make beautiful art.<br />
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And then other days...<br />
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We watch a Leapfrog video together cuddled up on the bed.</center>
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And they build a pillow nest to read in together.</center>
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And that's okay.</center>
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Because it's preschool.</center>
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And it's fun.</center>
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And mama has food poisoning so easy is good.</center>
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HollyElisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262141907304468611noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807102702868691966.post-91213099551595830102016-10-01T22:30:00.001-07:002016-10-01T22:32:27.144-07:00A Homegrown Harvest on October First<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's the first of October!</center>
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I decorated a little bit! </center>
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Just a little bit, because we're not buying anything new this year decoration-wise (what with the downsizing in preparation for our move - which is a move via plane and we are bringing as little on the plane with us as we can!). But I'm happy with it.</center>
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After the little bit of decorating, we headed outside to see what we could harvest.</center>
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It's avocado season and my in-laws have three (THREE!) avocado trees right outside their house, so we hit those up first.<br />We got five big avocados.</center>
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And then we picked <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psidium_cattleyanum">strawberry guavas</a>!</center>
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It was so fun to pick pretty red berry-like fruits off the trees along the driveway.</center>
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It reminded me of picking berries (huckleberries and blueberries mostly) with my brothers and sisters in Northern BC...</center>
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We got about two pounds of fruit and it was a great time. </center>
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After taking recycling to the depot and taking the kids to a park for a while, we came home and while the kids watched a cartoon I did some experimenting in the kitchen...</center>
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And I think my experiment turned out pretty delicious!</center>
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I will be trying proper jam and/or jelly soon but today I didn't have pectin or gelatin so, sauce it was.</center>
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I also made homemade pancakes (which were DELICIOUS with the sauce) for dinner that the kids devoured.</center>
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Five giant avocados, a jar of fruit sauce, and did I mention seven dollars from our recycling trip? </center>
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Not a bad harvest for the first of October!</center>
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Until next time,</center>
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We don't only do <a href="http://nightbloomingohana.blogspot.com/2016/09/preschool-at-home.html">school at the kitchen table</a>. </center>
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Sometimes, we go to class!</center>
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And our wonderful programs have started up again! We're so excited!</center>
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We had orientation on Tuesday, just an hour of meeting the teachers, seeing the space again, meeting classmates.</center>
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And then <i>Thursday</i> - Thursday the fun began.</center>
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Miss BooBoo is the oldest child in the program this time around, as I expected, but she's so sweet and funny and loving with younger kiddos! And she had a great time playing with the other two older girls (i.e., they're four-turning-five) and will have a great time while we're in the program this year.</center>
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And just look at the adorableness of her dress-up fun!</div>
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I loved watching her sit with her classmates, the three of them drawing together and chattering like little magpies <3 <3</div>
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This guy had a BLAST going from center to center and just as I thought, he was allll about the water table, the play-dough table, and....</div>
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The sand table :)</div>
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Remind me, please, to keep an extra clean dry shirt in my bag for him on class days... ;)</div>
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Next week, we're fully into the new routine with two class days and three home days :)</div>
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HollyElisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262141907304468611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807102702868691966.post-661457518204392592016-09-21T12:50:00.001-07:002016-09-21T12:50:26.754-07:00Island Hopping and Home-hunting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was our first trip without kiddos... since the first kiddo was born!</div>
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But it wasn't just a second honeymoon to the Hilo side of the Big Island...</div>
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It was also a reconnaissance mission, scouting towns and locations and properties to find out some things.</center>
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Namely - do we want to move to the Big Island?</center>
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The short answer is a resounding YES.</center>
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We spent two glorious days driving around the east side of the island, exploring, checking out properties and houses, trying restaurants, and meeting people.</center>
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We're in love.</center>
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Are we moving?</center>
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Again - short answer is YES.</center>
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Long answer - we have financial logistics to work out, and we don't have a specific time frame (beyond ASAP, haha) but... yes. Whether we purchase a home that is already built, or try our hands at homesteading (raw land, tiny house) we're moving.</center>
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I'm so excited, and I can't wait :)</center>
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The kids are excited too - they had a fun weekend with their grandparents and they know we were "finding a new house". Molly has a list of requests for when we move (bunk beds, a kitten, and her own clock top her list) already. </center>
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HollyElisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262141907304468611noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807102702868691966.post-53232143114469261352016-09-16T01:01:00.004-07:002016-09-16T01:01:55.573-07:00Just One of My Favorite Photos...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Riikka and Tuija photographed by Juha-Pekka Inkinen, 1985<br />(<a href="http://halvtrak.tumblr.com/post/141097312116/riikka-and-tuija-photographed-by-juha-pekka">source</a>)<br /><br />Tomorrow my Beloved and I leave for the Big Island... see you in this space next week!!</td></tr>
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HollyElisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262141907304468611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807102702868691966.post-89113251381463762862016-09-15T00:53:00.002-07:002016-09-15T00:53:53.575-07:00✏️ Preschool at Home ✏️<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Recently my Beloved and I have made some pretty big decisions for our family's future. And one of the things we've decided is that, unless something changes, we'll be home educating our keiki.</center>
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In case you didn't know - I was actually homeschooled by my mom from preschool all the way up to when I graduated from high school (and then I proceeded to create my own post-secondary education program focusing on vocal music but... we'll stop there). </center>
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I loved being homeschooled. I love that I was homeschooled. I love talking with my mom about how she is homeschooling my youngest brothers! </center>
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So for me, it's not a big jump to decide to homeschool my own children.</center>
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(also, my Beloved <i>is</i> a teacher, so)</center>
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Obviously, since M is just barely 5 years old and Z is just two, we're in preschool mode anyway around here and "school" mostly consists of directed play, learning opportunities, and a little bit of workbook-style stuff. Even in the preschool program that Molly and I did last year (and really enjoyed!), that's what it was.</center>
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Wherever we end up (did I mention that one of the big decisions has to do with not living in Honolulu anymore? It does, and we're excited), I definitely want to be involved in programs like the one we did last year - community classes, etc. Because they are <i>fun</i> and because everyone needs a social circle and community.</center>
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I'm so happy with this decision we've made, and I'm loving having "school time" with my babies.</center>
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Reading stories, drawing pictures and painting, talking about things in the world around us...</center>
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Today was the first time someone has asked Molly, "so when does your school start?" </center>
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And she said "Um.. hmm... um... Mama? *whispered - what is my school called*?" </center>
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I replied quietly, "You can say you are <i>home schooled</i>" and she lit up and called out "I am HOME SCHOOLED!"</center>
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And then she talked about how she practiced writing today and about the seed pods we're watching when we go for walks and it was adorable.</center>
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So yeah... raising another generation of weird wonderful home-educated keiki!</center>
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HollyElisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262141907304468611noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807102702868691966.post-33189518691998082432016-09-13T22:04:00.000-07:002016-09-13T22:04:33.196-07:00Free Range (ish)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm that mom. </center>
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The one who watches her kids roll around with the dog on the floor and laughs, because they're having a great time. </center>
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The one who, when she sees what a great time her toddler is having playing in the drips from the roof as it's raining...</center>
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finds him a cup to make the play even better!</center>
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And the one who, after making sure the kids are playing nicely at the playground...</center>
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goes and sits at the picnic table and watches from there.</center>
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We were the only people at the park today, and it was AWESOME to watch my kids play. Sometimes they played together, sometimes they each had a little world in their heads, but it was great.</center>
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I love watching their imaginations let loose.</center>
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I'm proud to be That Mom.</center>
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<i>And excited for the possibility of letting their imaginations loose on our own property in the near future... more on that soon.</i><br />Until next time,</center>
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HollyElisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262141907304468611noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807102702868691966.post-9485795547342335452016-09-12T20:01:00.001-07:002016-09-12T20:02:17.004-07:00For Sylvie<center>
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The Blog Comes Off Of Hiatus Randomly For a Questionnaire</center>
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8. Do you still have your tonsils? Never had them removed, so yep.</center>
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17. What colour pants and shoes are you wearing right now? I'm barefoot and wearing grey and black leggings.</center>
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21. Favourite smell? Vanilla and nag champa.</center>
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24. Hair colour that's real? My natural hair is light brown with blonde high lights. I have it at my roots right now, it's okay (the rest of my hair is purple. Or shaved off.)</center>
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Her first year of school is officially finished!</center>
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The last day of class started off pretty much the same as every day this year - we came in, washed hands, she found her photo and checked in while I signed in, and then I asked what she'd like to do first:</center>
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So she built a castle with her friend until her teacher gave the signal for Circle Time.</center>
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We sang and did action songs and had story time...</center>
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And then... it was time for the ending ceremony!</center>
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Teacher called each kiddo's name and they came up to get their certificate and a lei (made of Otter Pops, haha), and there were leis for the parents as well.</center>
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Not a graduation ceremony - except for those keiki that will be going to kindergarten next year of course - but a nice little end-of-the-year celebration.</center>
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I'm so proud of my girl - she rocked her first year of school and I know this is just the beginning!</center>
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I've lost 35 pounds since February! And I'm losing inches from my waist and hips, I've had to adjust the waist strap on our Ergo carrier for the first time ever, I'm wearing the smallest size I have since before I got pregnant with Molly, I weigh less than I did when I graduated high school, and I'm so proud of myself and excited.</center>
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2015 was my year of Loving Me. I didn't look at a scale hardly ever, I FINALLY cut a mohawk, I got my septum pierced, I stretched my ears, I tried not having eyebrows, I ate what I wanted and I loved my body for all the things it HAS done. </center>
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Fallen in love. Moved to another country. Carried, birthed, and breastfed two lives other than my own. Worn and cuddled and snuggled my babies. </center>
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My body has done great things and deserves love and respect.</center>
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Now, 2016 is my year of Loving Me More. Giving myself the chance to get into the BEST shape of my life so that my body can CONTINUE to do great things.</center>
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And it's going better than I ever dreamed.</center>
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<b>So here's to Bat Fit 2016!!!</b></center>
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HollyElisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262141907304468611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807102702868691966.post-38590281674494509982016-05-03T00:38:00.001-07:002016-05-03T00:43:20.812-07:00Typical Mom?<center>
My dear Internet friend <a href="http://littlecorpgothgirl.blogspot.com/">Sylvie D</a> wrote a post called "<i>Not your typical Mom</i>" today and while reading it, I was inspired to write a bit about my own experience as a mom who is...</center>
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Well...</center>
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Visibly not what people think of when they think "Mom"? Shall we say.</center>
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I've never been an entirely normal, typical person.</center>
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I get weird looks.</center>
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I get raised eyebrows.</center>
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For most of last year I didn't have natural eyebrows - I got even more looks then.</center>
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I have a mohawk.. and when I haven't had a mohawk, I've had hair all colors of the rainbow and all kinds of styles.</center>
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I have 7 tattoos (right and left inner forearms, right wrist, behind left ear, back of my neck, and the top of my left foot) so far, and while ear piercings are pretty accepted (I have 4) I also have <i>both</i> nostrils and my septum pierced.</center>
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My septum piercing was actually my Mother's Day present last year... yep, I got stabbed with a needle to celebrate my "mom-ness" :)</center>
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Despite being pretty far from most people's mental image of a stay-at-home mom... </center>
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I'm also pretty typical as a mom.</center>
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I change my kid's diaper and drink my caffeine in the morning in my comfy pajamas while my preschooler colors and my toddler drives trucks across my legs.</center>
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I take my daughter to preschool and get paint on my hands while we do crafts together and watch her playing with her friends.</center>
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I try to feed my kids a balance of the foods they like and foods that are good for them - I am seriously good at hiding vegetables in my picky kid's favorite food ;)</center>
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I revel in the quiet when they are both asleep and then write blog posts about being their mom...</center>
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- <a href="http://quotesgram.com/lily-munster-quotes/#kfMGdIUWRY">Lily Munster</a></center>
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So what I'm saying is...</center>
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Just because someone doesn't look like a "typical parent", doesn't mean they are less of a parent than someone who fits the stereotype! Don't judge a book by it's cover, and all that. </center>
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And now I'm off to figure out what I want for my Mother's Day present this year...</center>
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<i>tattoo #8, perhaps?</i></center>
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Until next time...</center>
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HollyElisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262141907304468611noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807102702868691966.post-71404419578821625982016-02-18T14:21:00.002-08:002016-09-08T17:41:30.529-07:00Let's Talk About Deadpool<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Merc with a Mouth got his own movie and comic fans rejoiced in the land.</center>
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Myself included. I mean, come on - Ryan Reynolds playing the comic-book-anti-hero that he was basically <i>vat-grown</i> to play?</center>
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I'm so there.</center>
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But here's the thing.</center>
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See that little angel, super thrilled to be posing with Deadpool at last year's Amazing Hawaii Comic Con?</center>
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That little angel, who freaking loves when Deadpool shows up in <i>Ultimate Spider-Man</i> and pointed out all the Deadpool posters at the movie theater recently?</center>
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Yeah, we did NOT take her to see Deadpool.</center>
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You know why?</center>
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Ahem. </center>
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<a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Why-Deadpool-Rated-R-105727.html">Here's an article talking about it.</a></center>
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Some items should jump out at you:</center>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">all innuendo filled campaign.</span></center>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">an obscenity heavy final trailer.</span></center>
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The posters have gotten more and more innuendo-laden as the release date approached.</center>
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from this...</div>
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To this.</center>
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To parents still debating whether their Deadpool-loving little one should see this movie, and the parents who say "I want to see it and we don't have a babysitter" -</center>
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I say this.</center>
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If you really must share it with your kid, or you can't see it without them because you can't get a babysitter, </center>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">WAIT FOR IT TO COME OUT ON DVD.</span> </center>
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Watch it at home where you can turn it off it it's too much. </center>
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I mean really. Would you take your little kids to see "<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=rambo+first+blood&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjenY7Vq4LLAhVEz2MKHZVGBlcQ_AUICCgC&biw=1920&bih=840#imgrc=j2j3dRcPdgIYEM%3A">First Blood</a>" or "<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=reservoir+dogs&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjR6bPlq4LLAhVJ32MKHeWfA9sQ_AUIBygB&biw=1920&bih=840#imgrc=4k6OD-ClqPQlEM%3A">Reservoir Dogs</a>"? </center>
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No? </center>
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That would be bad? Too violent? </center>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Then <a href="http://www.cities97.com/onair/paul-fletcher-48746/ryan-reynolds-letter-to-parents-dont-14382277/">DON'T TAKE YOUR KIDS TO SEE DEADPOOL</a>.</span></center>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Seriously.</span></center>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/heraldbulletin.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/2/26/226f4ac2-d194-11e5-bde7-5b84117ed4e1/56bdeaf0add40.image.jpg">Just Don't.</a></span></center>
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Thus endeth my PSA.</center>
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Don't take your kids to Suicide Squad when it comes out, either.</center>
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