Stefan and I took a year long sabbatical of Blockbuster online to save the $18 a month and put it to some more worthy causes (i.e. paying off medical bills) and just recently have decided that this would be a monthly expense we could live with after recently getting out of our gym membership ($60/month). We chose netflix because Blockbuster's prices have skyrocketed, and we really don't watch more than 4 movies a week--that is stretching it! So we chose the Netflix "2 at a time" option and because they have a center in Omaha, we literally get it 'next day', which is great. Our movie list has gone down tremendously and we've seen some great ones like Across the Universe, Enchanted , Stardust (we both loved this one--very quirky), and now tonight, The December Boys. The entire cast was good, and one of the boys is played by Harry Potter himself (Daniel Radcliffe). Watch the trailor here and read the plot here.
My children have recently become enthralled in the world of board games. I was never a board game player. Sure, I remember long summer hours (days? it seemed like it..) spent around a Monopoly board, but I was never one to suggest to get out the cards, or a game. As my children have grown and they are now able to do activities with me, I started noticing that they really took to puzzles (when done all together) and the one or two board games I happened to have kept in the storage room. They were always asking to play Candy Land and so I figured I should branch off a bit. Over the course of the last year, I have found GREAT games, even ones that I love to play alongside them. The amount of 'teaching' they have gotten through games is jaw-dropping. Counting, team-playing, math related patterning, are just some of the skills I've watched develop. I asked before Christmas on facebook what my friends and their own kids loved and I was thrilled with the response. We have found ov...
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I can hopefully start living again once I'm done with student teaching!! How is the house/job/move situation going?
~Leslie