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Name: Kimberly
Country: Nepal
Metro: Kathmandu
Gender: Female
Interests: My beautiful children and all that that contains, homeschool is quickly becoming an interest out of necessity, serving Jesus among the poor, and loving people no matter what.
Expertise: chaning a diaper in 5 seconds, cooking dinner while washing dishes, helping a kids with school work, playing polly pockets and nursing a baby:-), cleaning up toddler messes, getting marker out of clothes, finding creative ways to cover up baby spit-up, and setting up wooden train layouts while being directed by a five year old:-)
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Member Since:
4/16/2006
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| Okay background info. The kids know the truth about Santa well all the kids but Priya who just thinks Santa is scary because he watches her sleep Also Jedi having Asperger's Syndrome takes things very literal. He doesn't lie and believes whatever he is told. Which can be great but can be a dissapointment for him at times.
Well, taking about Christmas he said the other day, "At least I know I am getting an electric train." Then yesterday was all happy that he was getting some Lego Technic thing. Silas and I were confused as to why he was so sure he was getting these things which he never had told us he wanted. Well, I finally said, "Jedi you know you have to tell us what you are wanting you can't just tell Santa what you want and hope you get it." He looked at me with this dejected look and said, "Mom I know that isn't Santa but that man said he would try, so he will get it for me. He isn't the real Santa but he is a nice man who said he would try." Then latter when we were talking he said, "I know you can't get that lego thing it is over $100 so I told that man and he said he would try. I can't believe he won't try." So sweet. He had a rough night after learning that truth. Oh yeah the train thing he had told the man that was dressed as Santa at Home Depot. Guess we need to avoid Santa next year for him.
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| Okay, this may be a little known fact about me, but I love puppets. I always have, even as a kid I remember really liking puppet shows. Now that I have kids I want them to love puppets. I have bought some fun puppets, and even a curtain that we can hang up to have a puppet stage thing. Okay they have all gotten puppets in their stockings for Christmases, but not a one has really liked puppets. They humor me for a few minutes here and there but have not really just wanted to put on a show. I was actually thinking to give away or sell the puppets, after tripping over the puppet basket a million times. Then P found the puppets. She has put on at least one show for me everyday this past week. Her shows are a little slow, but hey at least one will play puppets with me. It is wonderful. I love puppets and now have at least one child who likes them. Go P play puppets.
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| The past few months I have been thinking more and more about how to live simply and sustainably in America. Some things are easy and some hard. Some I think I just need to be more intentional about. Anyway I thought I would just write out what we are trying to do. We have a huge old garden that has been great for vegetables. So we have been canning and freezing away. We love zucchini bread and thanks to my mom's suggestion have a lot of bags of grated zucchini frozen so anytime this winter we can make some. We also have been hanging our laundry out to dry which smells so good. We have a push mower that is powered only by the pushing so no gas there, plus great exercise. We also try to be secondary consumers. That means shopping Craigslist, Once Upon a Child, consignment, or Goodwill stores. When we plant flowers in our yard we try to only use wildflowers that won't consume much water so we don't have to use a sprinkler on them. Also we always use shopping bags and when grocery shopping try to buy things only in recyclable materials. I have made some produce bags that are reusable so we don't even have to use those nasty plastic produce bags. Plus we have been able to get some free fruit and have been canning jam for the winter. We have several composting drums in the back yard which are great. It is amazing on wed morning as we take out the trash. We have one can of trash while so many people on our street seem to have so much more than that. We do however have a lot of recyclables. Our kids now check everything they pick up to see if it is recyclable. If you are wondering the wagon is recyclable Not that hard but I think it will make a difference.
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| Lately my mind has been all caught up in what to do with the kids next year with regard to education. I have seriously been considering sending the middle two to parochial school just down the street. It is very integrated and the principal has adopted children from foster care and has a great heart for the kids in the school. He felt that it would not be the best option for Jedi as the third grade class is rather large and thinks homeschooling is teh best option for Asperger's kids. Adia would enjoy the school but has been excited about taking an art class at the art museum next year. Plus she is ahead in reading and behind in math. Math has been hard for her and it is worse with her competitive spirit to see Jedi breezing ahead in math while she struggles and struggles. It is great that I am able to give her a lot of time and encouragement as she plods ahead. Elijah could go either way. He enjoys company and has stated that he would like to do school at home but only if he can have friends over a lot to play with. He has several friends his age that he has met at various homeschool things so that is a possibility.
It looks like I will home educate the bunch again next year but it is a hard decision. I enjoy educating the kids, I seriously love the time curled up on the couch reading, exploring science in the yard. I especially love hearing Adia or Jedi read knowing I taught them that. Elijah is ready to learn to read so that is exciting. But it is hard as running errands involves four kids, all talking at the same time. There is no quick run to the store or quiet drives anywhere. I so much wish I could just go out for the afternoon without some of them for a bit. A trip to Target without four kids in tow would be delightful. does the bad outweight the good no, but somedays it seems reason enough to send them all to school and just have sweet p to spend the day with. It would be so nice to drive to the grocery store without four kids complaining about the trip, and the kids reviewing each purchase as to weather of not they like the food I will make. Anyway I am not sure why I am writing this I think I talk alot about how much I enjoy the time with my kids teaching them and people think it is all sweet, it isn't. It is hard and a struggle. One moment I love and wouldn't trade for the world. The next I am going crazy.
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| Last night driving home from Awanas the kids were talking about wishes. Adia had seen something on TV about bracelets that you make a wish on and she was convinced that if she saved her money and bought one than anything she wished would happen. So the kids were busy discussing what they would wish for. Adia wish was to be the best babysitter and best tennis player in the world. Elijah would wish for a Lightening McQueen car that could drive him all around. Priya, who was hungry, said she would wish for popcicles. Jedi though made me laugh so hard. He said with great determonation that he would wish for earplugs becasue Elijah talks so much at bedtime. I know he finds that annoying but didn't know how much until last night. Funny he didn't say he would wish that Elijah wouldn't talk at night. I guess he knows that is impossible Later he said he would also wish for a starwars fighter gun ship as well. I was feeling so tired when I took them to Awanas then all the laughing made me wake up a bit. I love those kids. Who wouldn't really?
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