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Grandma Got An iPad

By on April 17, 2011 in Family Memories, Technology

My mama has been asking questions about our iPad since we bought it. The kids have showed her how to use it and she has been quite intrigued by it. For her, it is the perfect size and fairly easy to use.

Buying the iPad

I was so shocked when we I was chatting with my mama on the phone recently and she told me that she had purchased an iPad. I felt all giddy inside. She went out and bought one all on her own. She was so excited to show it to us. She could hardly wait to get it all loaded up with movies, music, and apps. .

Loading the iPad

My mama came over and proudly handed me her iPad and case and screen protector that she had purchased. She made good choices too. Jonah helped her get it all set up. I sat with her and we started looking through the iTunes store for movies and the app store for things she might like. She was thrilled to discover all the fun things it can do

Bonding Time

Then my mama came by again and stayed for 3 hours while we looked through iTunes and the app store together. I helped her create a slide show of beautiful photos set to worship music (even I didn’t know the iPad could do that). I looked at her and joked that the iPad was giving us some quality bonding time. It was a joke when I said it, but it was true. I felt like she understood me just a little bit more.

Tech Grandma

My mama is getting tech savvy. Now we can call her the Tech Grandma. Wahoo! I have a tech grandma now.

If I could just get her on twitter. (ideas?)

 

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Date Afternoon

By on April 16, 2011 in Family Memories

On Sunday afternoon my wonderful husband (Jonah) took me out for dinner to Red Robins. The restaurant was loud, but we are used to that with five kids running a muck all the time. We had an amazing time.

The food was absolutely fabulous. We ordered that huge tower of onion rings to munch while we waited for our food. It was so good. Jonah ordered a chicken wrap and I had fish and chips. We didn’t even have room for the bottomless fries. And we certainly didn’t have room for dessert even though it looked mouth watering.

I have a little confession to make.

My husband and I have not been out to dinner ALONE since the twins were born. (They are turning 3 next month!)

It was so nice to have someone else cook the meal, plate the meal, serve the meal, and clean up after the meal.

And…

No one interrupted.

No one spilled their drink.

No one dumped their food on the floor because they were finished.

No one threw their food.

We didn’t have to get up and serve anyone else.

It was so amazing. We just sat there and starred into each other’s eyes and talked. We talked for 2 hours. How beautiful that was.

Okay, we have to do that again VERY SOON.

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Get Your Party Clothes On

By on April 4, 2011 in Everything Else

ubp 2011 558x150 300x80 Get Your Party Clothes OnWelcome to Sunflower Schoolhouse. I am so glad that you took a moment to stop by and visit our little place on the web. Let me take a moment to introduce myself, my family, and Sunflower Schoolhouse.

My name is Honey. I am the wife of Jonah and together we run Sunflower Schoolhouse. We are a Christian homeschooling family with five kidlets. We have four boys and one girl. Elisha (11), Moses (9), Malachi (7), Zion (2) and Hosanna (2). The youngest two are twins and the oldest has high functioning autism (aspergers). You can read more details on the ABOUT page.

Have a look around while you are here, there is more than meets the eye.

~Homeschooling~

Homeschool 4 Free is our collection of free resources all over the Internet. This is currently being updated so make sure you have a look at all the new resources.

KidLinks is our collection of direct links to educational activities on the Internet. It really is in need of an update, but there are tons of resources there.

Workbox Blogroll was recently updated and is full of new blogs. If you are a homeschooler and you use workboxes, you will want to check out this list as these bloggers have some amazing ideas.

A Trip Across Canada is our unit study about Canada. I (Honey) created it for use with our kidlets last year. We are working our way through it again and should finish it sometime in June. I have loads of extras additions and surprises in store this time around.

The Freebies section is full of great homeschooling resources that were created by us and are available as pdf downloads. Make sure you have a peek.

~Blogging and Other Great Stuff~

The Blogging Resource Directory is our little handy dandy go to place for all things blogging related. Have a look through all the awesome links.

Graphic Design is a new found love of mine. My husband taught me how to use his free graphics program (Inkscape) in 2009 and I have been pushing myself to try new things with it ever since. If you need anything designed for your blog, come see us.

Animation is in my future. Okay, well, my husband does the animating and I do the set design (graphics). My husband has had a concept for an animation for over 12 years and we are finally seeing it all come together these last few months. We are really excited about the project that we are working on. I can’t share too much more right now, but keep visiting because it won’t be long now before our project will be completed. Check out the two animations in the top right hand sidebar. One is a sneak peek teaser to our project.

There is so much more to this site than I could list here in a simple blog post. Please know that I am so happy you stopped in for a visit. We would love it if you would keep in touch. We love getting to know our readers and we have made many good friends that way.

~Connect With Us~

You can sign up for our newsletter which will be starting in May 2011 (loaded with all kindof extra fun stuff). Check the top right hand sidebar for the sign up box.

You can subscribe to the blog feed (like this post you are reading) by your favorite blog reader or via email.

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Thanks for stopping by. Now, it’s time to party!

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