tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30775825618021632442024-03-19T03:47:11.642+01:00Veelana's DesignVeelanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505238329294842928noreply@blogger.comBlogger275125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077582561802163244.post-28303501671908267662014-10-17T08:01:00.001+02:002014-10-30T10:58:44.899+01:00Week three - bee my baby sew along<div dir="ltr">
Late but not lost - here is what I did for week three of the sew along. Pattern was my own but then I found this pattern<a href="http://amliebstensorgenfrei.com/anleitungen-und-ideen/freebook-penti-ball-ein-fuhl-und-spielball-fur-die-kleinsten/" target="_blank"> here</a> for the same results :-) <br />
All pentagons are done in different fabric for a nice sensory experience. One of them was a gift for a friend's daughter who shares Arthur's birthday. She is 12 hours younger:-)</div>
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Veelanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505238329294842928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077582561802163244.post-50005498035320309352014-10-04T15:53:00.001+02:002014-10-04T22:09:22.029+02:00Week two - Bee my baby sew along<div dir="ltr">
This week was all about the cuddles. Blankets and sleeping bags, quilts or car seat covers . I went for a sleeping bag of my own design, because tiny loves his sleeping bag, but he has almost outgrown it. </div>
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Also, we usually sleep with the window open, even in winter, and little babies need warmth. I decided to forgo the zipper because I never use it and it ended up being a very quick project. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #351c75;">Diese Woche ging es bei Bee my Baby um's drauflegen und Zudecken. Ich hab' dem Winzling einen neuen Schlafsack genäht, denn aus seinem Alten ist er schon fast herausgewachsen. Ausserdem ist es bei uns im Schlafzimmer eher kühl, weil wir bei offenem Fenster schlafen. Aber kleine Babies brauchen nun mal Wärme :-)</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #351c75;">Ich habe mich entschlossen das ganze ohne Reißverschluss zu machen weil ich den so selten benutze - damit wurde es ein sehr schnelles Project.</span></i></div>
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Pattern: my own, I basically traced around the old sleeping bag and made it longer and wider</div>
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Fabric: grey fleece outside, Giraffes and clouds on blue jersey inside, both from a surprise bag at "<a href="http://www.michas-stoffecke.de/index.php/cPath/2410" target="_blank">Michas Stoffecke</a>" </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><i>Schnittmuster: Mein eigenes, Ich habe einfach um den alten Schlafsack herumgezeichnet und ihn verlängert/verbreitert</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><i>Stoff: Aussen ein grauer Fleece, innen ein Blauer Jersey mit Giraffen und Wölkchen, beides aus einem Überraschungspaket von <a href="http://www.michas-stoffecke.de/index.php/cPath/2410" target="_blank">Michas Stoffecke</a></i></span></div>
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It turned out super cuddly and he loves it! </div>
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I used CamSnaps to close it, all four in different colors. Mr. Smartypants told me so :-) And I posted this picture mostly because Tiny looks soooooo cute.</div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><i>Als Verschluss habe ich CamSnaps verwendet, in vier verschiedenen Faben. Mr Smartypants hat gesagt ich soll das so machen. Das Bild poste ich hauptsächlich, weil der Winzling so niedlich aussieht. </i></span></div>
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I tried my first Zumba workout today. Yes, I am bright red. Yes, I am going back :-)</div>
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Just the three of us yesterday afternoon - Smartie learned how to ride a bike and we made cupcakes :-)</div>
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So, since I can't slack off in the first week of my <a href="http://www.stereomintpoppy.com/2014/09/bee-baby-sew-along-woche-1.html" target="_blank">first sew along</a>, here is what I made. Tiny needs a couple of new, cute hats and I made an infinity scarf to go with them. Of course, I never stick to plans like this. Clever and Smart decided that they needed matching sets, too. Now my workspace is filled with children's hats. ..<br />
So far I finished <strike>five</strike> all seven hats and three scarves. <br />
Here's a crappy cellphone selfie of Tiny and me with one of the new hats :-)<br />
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Pattern: Farbenmix, Mini Basics for the hats, infinity scarves are patternless<br />
Fabric: Surprise bags from "<a href="http://www.michas-stoffecke.de/index.php/cPath/2410" target="_blank">Michas Stoffecke</a>"<br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><i>Viel ist geschehen in den letzten zwei jahren. Unser großer hat mit der Schule angefangen, für mich ging es zurück an die Uni und dann auch in den Job.</i></span><br />
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Anyway, <a href="http://www.stereomintpoppy.com/2014/09/bee-baby-sew-along.html">Stereomint and poppy</a> is hosting a baby sew along and i decided to try it - first sew along for me :-)<br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><i>Bei Stereomint and Poppy gibt es gerade ein sew along für Babykleidung und ich habe beschlossen, das mal auszuprobieren. Mein erstes sew along, ich bin ganz aufgeregt :-)</i></span><br />
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Veelanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505238329294842928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077582561802163244.post-29729594673812690102014-07-13T01:09:00.000+02:002014-07-13T01:09:50.695+02:00On the touchy subject of GMOs<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hi there.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">This will be a very long and somewhat dry post - not sure how it will go over with the usual readers of my blog. But then again I haven't posted in almost two years, there's probably no one left reading :-) </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If you know me personally, you know that I'm all kinds of passionate about science. And since Biotechnology is right up my alley I always get upset when people use pseudo science to besmirch it. Luckily, thanks to </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.pinterest.com/Godsucksdicks/">Ćĥ£œ Ķă¥ </a></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">on pinterest I found an article that debunks the top ten anti-GMO claims (you can read it <a href="http://www.popsci.com/article/science/core-truths-10-common-gmo-claims-debunked?src=SOC&dom=fb">HERE</a>). It's long but well worth the read. But after reading I felt somewhat irritated. It went too much in the other direction, painting GMOs in a positive light. I am perfectly willing to admit that there are problems with GMOs that should be addressed, not glossed over. I decided to use the same ten points that the article uses, summarize the articles point if I agree with it and add my own conclusions.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">1) Claim: Genetic engineering is a radical technology.</span></span></h3>
A wonderful summary on how genetic engineering works and how people have been doing it as crossbreeding or cross-pollinating for ages. I agree wholeheartedly; it is not a new idea, we just have the technology now that we can manipulate at a tinier level. <br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;">2) Claim: GMOs are too new for us to know if they are dangerous.</span></h3>
Yes, it depends on what you define as "new". Yes, GMOs have been around for 30 years or so, BUT even after Conner et al (<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.0960-7412.2003.01602.x/pdf">The release of genetically modified crops into theenvironment, Conner et al, the plant journal 2003</a>) asked for long term studies, the longest term we had so far was less than a year.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;">Conner et al estimate that, based on available data to date, it will take decades for current GM crops to have appreciable ecological consequences, if any, on a single agricultural site, and that it will take centuries for any appreciable ecological consequences, if they exist, to occur on a more global scale.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Quoted from: Cumulative long-term effects of genetically modified (GM) crops on human/animal health and the environment: risk assessment methodologies, Henry et al, 2006</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #073763;">3) Claim: Farmers can't replant genetically modified seeds.</span></h3>
And this is where I disagree. The author of the original article mentions terminator genes, but they are not the problem.Hybridization of seeds is used to make the harvest bigger, but that makes the sterile also. Non-GMO seeds can be sterile, too. Yes, it is true that " large-scale commercial growers typically don't save seeds", but they are not the problem. It gets problematic when the GMO corn is shipped to Africa to the poorest farmers on the planet that really can't afford to buy new seeds every year. GMO corn has been shipped to Africa as hunger relieve, but several countries have banned it (source: <a href="http://www.unep.org/dewa/Africa/publications/AEO-2/content/154.htm">unep.org</a>).<br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">4) Claim: We don't need GMOs—there are other ways to feed the world.</span></h3>
I wholeheartedly agree again - GMOs are not the only answer, but they can be part of the solution.<br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">5) Claim: GMOs cause allergies, cancer, and other health problems.</span></h3>
It may be true that so far no studies have shown any negative effects, but if you purchase GM seeds you sign an end user agreement that explicitly forbids the use of the seeds for any independent research. (source: <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-seed-companies-control-gm-crop-research/">Scientific American</a>)<br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">6) Claim: All research on GMOs has been funded by Big Ag.</span></h3>
Not all research, no - but all research on any seed from a "big Ag" corporation has to be approved by it. There is plenty of other research going on, but Research on GM seeds is severly restricted. (source: <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-seed-companies-control-gm-crop-research/">Scientific American</a>)<br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">7) Claim: Genetically modified crops cause farmers to overuse pesticides and herbicides.</span></h3>
While glyphosate may have only a toxicity 25 times less than caffeine (I found no study supporting that claim, btw), it is still mildly toxic and the sheer amount that is used now is problematic. It is toxic for fish and amphibians. Also, the other active ingredient of roundup,<span dir="auto"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Polyethoxylated tallow amine is more dangerous and the mixture could have a cumulative effect.(no study found, just wikipedia)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">8) Claim: GMOs create super-insects and super-weeds.</span></h3>
Yes, just like the over use of antibiotic. That's how evolution works.<br />
Totally agree with this one again :-)<br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;">9) Claim: GMOs harm beneficial insect species.</span></h3>
I agree with this part - but again, long term studies are missing.<br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">10) Claim: Modified genes spread to other crops and wild plants, upending the ecosystem [and hurting biodiversity]</span></h3>
While I agree with most of the technical aspects of this part, I don't like the conclusion. This is the most criticized part, and GM crop <u>will</u> outperform wild plants if it is resistant to insects.<br />
Problematic: While researching this, I only found ONE study about GMOs and plant diversity, sponsored by CropLife International. It was highly approving of GM seeds. This fits again with the release of only positive reasearche by "Big Ag"<br />
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So long and keep creating,<br />
VeeVeelanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505238329294842928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077582561802163244.post-45032080478148212532014-07-12T22:08:00.003+02:002014-07-12T22:08:39.917+02:00It's been a while...<br />
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the last two years where awesome and hectic and I'm going to write about some of the things at some point, but for now, this space is officially under construction. It's not that I stopped designing, I just keep having ideas for blog posts that don't fit my current blog and instead I post nothing. Again. And again. So, while I work on the new Design and title,<img height="236" id="irc_mi" src="http://www.etropolis.de/website_under_construction.png" style="margin-top: 161px;" width="654" /></div>
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Veelanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505238329294842928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077582561802163244.post-43926179119442910212012-10-10T15:34:00.001+02:002012-10-10T15:34:53.033+02:00wow, it's been a long time...My summer was very busy - there was a vacation, my son started first grade and I went back to university. Right now, I have some time between lectures and it feels like I can come up to breathe again. I'm very sorry for not being here - but if you want to get a hold of me, my facebook page is always open :-)<br />
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This beautiful little princess is going to australia - i took part in a dolly swap :-)<br />
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I will upload two new dolls today - a very cool and sporty boy and a sweet little berry of a girl :-D <br />
Also - something new is coming in a few days - be sure to come back here or to check my facebook page http://www.facebook.com/VeelanasDesign<br />
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Hugs,<br />
VeeVeelanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505238329294842928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077582561802163244.post-69138458238563428222012-06-26T14:14:00.000+02:002012-06-26T14:14:02.922+02:00Wonderful weekend<div>
We made s'mores :-) <br />
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We did this quite a while ago and the kids had so much fun! We got to stand on a working steam engine, play with model trains - and the severe lack of visitors was a big bonus - no lines anywhere :-)<br />
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Veelanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505238329294842928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077582561802163244.post-16118204581288783992012-06-07T22:11:00.000+02:002012-06-07T22:11:50.855+02:00Day nine - all our bags are packed, we're ready to go...<div>
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We enjoyed ur last day at the farm, said our goodbeyes, packed up all of our things and left the farm around noon. We added a visit to the MostBirnHaus to see the awesome playground tjaz friends had told us about. It ended up being a lot of fun and we spent a very hot afternoon sitting in the shade, watching the kids get muddy in the sand pit...<br />
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One of the highlights of this vacation for me is interacting (and see the kids) interact with animals. I think i mentioned that i'm super allergic to everything that is even remotely hairy, so none of us have a lot of contact with animals at home, but since i'm taking high doses of antihistamines, i might qs well reap the benefits...<br />
Katinka the horse is awesome - she's super patient :-) <br />
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Since this was a pretty typical day at the farm up until the point when we got a visitor, i thought I'd tell you how our days went by.<br />
The kids wake up around seven and get dressed for breakfast while my husband and i still sleep...no wait, that was a commercial... so, the kids wake up around seven and then shout at us until we get up, need help finding their socks etc.<br />
We have breakfast with veggies from the greenhouse, cheese and homemade jam and feed the leftover cucumber to Maxi the goat afterwards. We get some food for the animals (dandilion leaves, mostly) and feed the bunnies, guinea pigs, ponies and goats. We usually take some animals outside, a couple of baby bunnies and the goats, perhaps.<br />
The kids play at the playgroung while my husband and i laze around for a bit, maybe on one of the swings. At some point, one of us will go and get our guitars down so we can practise, Mr. Noodles will ride around on a bike for a while and both kids will help the farmer get the food for the cows.<br />
We spent most of the day like this - helping a little, playing more. I highly recommend it :-) <br />
A friend drove down from vienna today to play Dominion with us - we had a great time.<br />
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A very cold and rainy day led to us spending most of the day inside playing chess and boardgames, but we went to a different farm in the evening to see where the milk comes from - the kids were very excited, especially since they got to feed a tiny calf - it was less than 24 hours old :-) the kids got to hold the bottle...<br />
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Sunday as very, very hot. We spent the morning hanging around at the playground and rying out the pool - but the water was still super cold, so nobody spent a lot of time in the water.<br />
We headed to a public pool around noon and i swam over 1km at the pond. <br />
We had a bbq back at the farm in the evening and finished up just before it started raining - and inside Mr. Noodles asked me to teach him how to play chess. He picked up all the rules right away and we ended up playing for quite a while ...<br />
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The morning was very, very wet, but the rain didn't keep us away from the animals. We fed the cows and the chicken, played with Maxi the goat and discovered that some of the chilli plants in the greenhouse have small chillis on them already.<br />
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We wanted to look at some street parties by local volunteer fire departments, but they were not what we expected.<br />
We know them as teeny tiny parties that go on all day, have some stuff for kids to do, let you look inside a fire truck or handle the big hose... this wasn't anything like it - they only started in the evening with booze and music...<br />
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So we went to a huge bakery instead where they let you bake your own roll, let you look into the factory and give you some free samples. The kids whre at the kids bakery and got to bake some stuff, too. After the tour was finished, i went to the nearby strawberry field to pick our own strawberries. I picked almost 3kg - thats six pounds! <br />
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We had dinner at 'altes presshaus' where we where a bit surprised by the food - we expected rustic and got fine dining - but it was really, really good. <br />
See ya<br />
Vee<br />
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Mr. Noodles learned how to ride a bike today. He practised with his balancing bike, but he's never been on a 'real' bike before. It took him less than ten minutes...<br />
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We had some heavy rain this morning, but now the sun is out and everything is awesome :-) <br />
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The kids are really getting the<br />
free range treatment here - they run around as much as they want and basically come to us for food - this time there are more families here on vacaton and all the kids can play together.<br />
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We have arrived at the Kerndlerhof for our farm vacation. The kids felt at home right away - i don't think we'll see much of them for the next eight days...<br />
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I plan to keep you updated :-)<br />
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vee</div></div>Veelanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505238329294842928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077582561802163244.post-60320068621231123372012-04-20T21:20:00.000+02:002012-05-31T20:20:45.151+02:00Homeschooling? Me?<div>
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I contemplated homeschooling my son - in this post i'm exlporing my reasons for it and how everything happened differently than i planned it<br />
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Hello there,<br />
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It looks like i’m not going to homeschool my son next year.<br />
Let's step back and take a look at what happened and why I, who have NEVER considered homeschooling to be for anyone other than religious fundamentalists, seriously planned to do this in the first place.<br />
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1). The situation in viennese Schools isn’t the best overall, but our district is fairly catastrophic. I really don’t care where anyone comes from or where anyones parents come from, but i would like for all first graders to be able to speak the language that is used for teaching, thank you very much. If they don’t, they need to learn the language as quickly as possible to be able to understand their classmates and teachers. Yes, there should be a fund for that, that’s a good thing to spend tax money on. If there are a couple of kids that aren’t fluent in german, that’s no big deal. They will learn the language soon enough. But in the Schools that are closest to our home, there are perhaps two or three kids starting each year that ARE fluent in german, and no teacher in the world can teach 20+ kids in a language they don’t understand.<br />
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2). I know my kids need social contacts and the whole peer group thing is important, but i don’t like our district very much and i definetly don’t like its people. Is that really who i want my kids to hang out with and learn from?<br />
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3). I’ve seen with a couple of kids that the start of school stopped their fun they had with learning. My son is smart and interested in many things and i’m dreading the time where learning will become a chore for him. I would love for that point in time to be very, very far away. I have an examle of that – my friends daughter is very smart, but impatient and a bit of a wild child. She’s also very exact when it comes to coloring or glueing, so stuff like that takes a long time. The normal classroom situation is just not what she needs. She’s always behind and has to take work home that she didn’t finish in addition to her homework. She’s smart – it’s not like she can’t do the work, everything just takes soooo long because it has to be perfect and then she gets bored and distracted. It takes her two to three hours every day to get that stuff done. That girl is eight years old. She loves reading, but she doesn’t have the time to read much…<br />
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So, these were the main reasons for me to consider homeschooling, and i actually started preparing for it. I read so much, mostly things from mothers who homeschool, i had a couple of wonderful conversations with some fantastic people, and i was quite confident that i would be, in fact, able to pull this off. ’ So what changed?<br />
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1). I found a school that I actually like. It is fairly close and they have good tutoring programs for kids whose german isn’t too good, they start with english in first grade and they have a model class that i really, really liked. They teach the grades one through four in one classroom, with five to eight kids per grade. The kids have three to five years to finish the first four grades, and a lot of the work is Montessori based and the kids work things out for themselves.<br />
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2). My kids will have to learn to get along with all kinds of people, and while i would love to shelter them from all unleasant kids, i can not (and will not) do that. School is a somewhat controlled enviroment to meet these people and if things don’t work, there are grown ups to help.<br />
3). I applied to the school, and even though there are only seven spots this year, we got one of them. My sons best friend is in the same class, she started last fall and their experience has so far been really good. The homework load is minimal and she can work at her own speed. I know my son will be really fast in math and slow when it comes to coloring, cutting or even writing. I hope he will not be judged on his weaknesses but his strengths in this class.<br />
I am extremely happy we got in – but with a little bit of sadness mixed in. It would have been a great opportunity. I loved being there for my kids firsts – and now someone else gets to do this. We will continue our study time, i think – greatly reduced, maybe, but it’s not over completely.<br />
Vee</div>
</div>Veelanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505238329294842928noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077582561802163244.post-2775885019104718972012-04-18T22:22:00.001+02:002012-04-18T22:23:11.214+02:00wordless wednesday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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keep crafting,<br />
VeeVeelanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505238329294842928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077582561802163244.post-88426695719270719352012-04-17T01:18:00.000+02:002012-04-17T01:22:13.334+02:00Monday Meme<div>
hi there, i decided to start taking part in some memes so y'all get to know me a little better. Come on over and join me, these things are so much more fun with more people :<br />
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so, here we go:<br />
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1. Finish this sentence - I dream of....<br />
sleeping in on weekends :-) Seriously, sleeping in until 9 or so sounds amazing. Oh well, there's always mothers day :-)<br />
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2. If you could choose your last meal, what would it be?<br />
Something that will take a while to eat - i'd go with an all you can eat salad bar, garlic bread and fresh made lemonade. If my grandmothers potato salad would be available, that would be awesome!<br />
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3. What was your favorite toy as a child?<br />
I had a waldorf doll that my Mom made herself. she had blond braids and a pink dress and I called her Gretchen Margaretchen - and that name isn't much better in german, beleive me :-) I got that doll for christmas, and while I had other toys that I loved, this one is the one that comes to mind first. I always loved books and I had a telescope that I adored, but my dolls and stuffed animals are still "there" when i close my eyes. many of them had really, really weird names...<br />
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4. What color looks best on you?<br />
I know, I should probably say that earty colors look best on me, but I simply don't like wearing dark colors. I like bright colors and all shades of blue, too - the only thing i don't want to wear are pastels and yes, earthy tones...<br />
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And don't forget to add a 5th Question on your own blog so we can answer as we hop around!
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(5) If you had a time machine, where would you go? (yes, I'm a nerd)<br />
I would like to take several short jumps into the future to see what will happen to humanity and our planet...<br />
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keep creating,<br />
Vee</div>Veelanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505238329294842928noreply@blogger.com2