Your Photos Are Ready (Rose is One!!)

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If you would like to order prints, please let me know. They are being offered to me at 1/2 price.


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Brightest Blessings,
Yvonne Ames

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil." -C. S. Lewis

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From: Michele Driscoll

 

Dear Ames Family ,       Your photo's are ready for on-line viewing!  Please go to my website at www.micheledphoto.com, click on the CLIENTS link, then click where it tells you "To view your gallery please click HERE". (Please disable pop-up blocker for this to work)  The website will bring you to a different page with a drop-down menu for the galleries available; find your baby's name (RoseWEB) and click on ENTER GALLERY.  Then on the new page enter your password.  Your password is:    QWERTY  This password is case-sensitive, so please type this exactly. Then click the SUBMIT TAB.  Your photo's will be available for viewing and purchase for 3 weeks.  Until:   8-28-10   If you dont understand how to order please contact me and I will be happy to walk you through it or schedule an appt. to show you.   Due to past copy right infringement's, any person ONLY order proofs, which are 4x6's or 5x7's,  there will be a small logo on the bottom of your print order.  Also I do stamp every photo with my copy right information on the back to try and prevent any future copy right infringement's.  Please remember that it is a violation against Federal Copyright Laws to scan, or reproduce professional photos. You are purchasing a print not the rights to the print.   COLLAGES:  If there was a collage made for your gallery, to order these you would have to use the collage drop down menu.  Collages can NOT be added to the Hi Resolution Photo CD.  It would have to be purchased separately.  If a collage was not created for your gallery, and you would like to purchase one, click on any photo and use the collage drop down menu, then click on what size you would like and add it to your cart when placing an order.  Then email me with what photos you would like included.  An 8x10 collage comes with 2-3 photos is $30.00, an 11x14 comes with 4-5 is $50.00, a 10x20 comes with 2-4 photos is $60.00, and a 16x20 comes with 6-7 photos is $70.00.   CARDS:  Cards also can NOT be added to the Hi Resolution Photo CD.  After placing an order for a card please email me with the type of card you would like.   HI RESOLUTION PHOTO CD:  To purchase a Hi Resolution Photo CD, click on any photo and then click which CD you want and add to basket when making a purchase.  Then email me with what photos you would like included on that CD.  (1-15 photos for $250.00, 16-35 photos for $300.00)   Thank You, Michele Driscoll

Pics June 12th

facebook Yvonne Marie Ames 16 August 22:38 Pics June 12th To cyndi_lauper69.ames-baby@blogger.com   Pictures taken June 12, 2010. This link is through my MIL's facebook. Just sharing the wealth so that you make look at pictures of my awesome children. :D (If no link is shown, you can view the original post at http://www.facebook.com/l/4e459xQRmYTYQ6H0_h1lYrslsEw;ames-baby.blogspot.com/) To reply to this message, follow this link: http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=502292446&k=56G5P3S6ST6G6BDAUKZ6TTPRS6BAW66FWPCY&oid=1484839555879 If you do not wish to receive this type of email from Facebook in the future, please click here to unsubscribe. Facebook, Inc. P.O. Box 10005, Palo Alto, CA 94303

Picture Wednesday: I'm Busy!

Benign neglect at it's finest. They entertain themselves while I go do stuff with things. Update to come soon.

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Secular Thursday: How We Do It All...

or, in reality, how we don't. :)

I'm going to burst into song right now: "Time, time, time, see what's become of me!! While I looked around/For my possibilities !!!!" And you're probably thinking 'why is this crazy woman singing Simon & Garfunkle's A Hazy Shade of Winter?" And I respond with, "but it's covered by the Bangles!" Also. that bit of lyric is suitable for today's post.

Now, a lot of my friends wonder how I have time to do all that I do. I homeschool my girls, I go to school online, I try and make sure the house stays in one piece... Usually my default answer is "MAGIC!" But that's just my catch-all response for anything I don't really have an answer to. In all honesty, I DON'T do it all. Ninety-eight point twenty-three percent of the time, my house is in total chaos. My cats have gotten into something, my children are running rampant through the house, and my dog is old and hiding upstairs from all of the crazy. Most days I have a headache, I keep tripping on my animals/children/toys, I haven't washed my dishes in the past week or two, I don't know where I put something vitally important, I have misplaced my glasses, and I have forgotten to do my homework that is due that very night. By 3pm *I* want to take a nap. My husband is a blessing. If it weren't for him I would have already done murders and arson. On Fridays, he's in charge, and in the evenings he's the one who cooks dinner. He works nights, so we don't get to be with him often, but when we do, I can take a break. I love my kids, I love being with them, and I love teaching them, but sometimes I need a vacation.

So you see, I don't actually do it all. I just try and get SOMETHING done. My goal for every day is to have my daughters learn something new or acquire a new skill. Everything else can just wait. And that's guaranteed to work most of the time, every time.

I was actually going to add to this, but I can't see straight. It's been "one of those days" where you do wish you had magic.

Wordless Wednesday: Desks

built the girls' school desks.

Unit Ideas for April

• Amphibians
• frogs
• Reptiles
• snakes
• Insects
• butterflies and moths
• bees
• ladybugs
• Farm
• farm animals
• dairy farms and cows
• chickens and eggs
• Earth Day
• Arbor Day

The History of Easter

Most people today believe that the practices of Easter *begin* with the story of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the son of Jehovah God, but are incorrect in thinking so. The word Easter is derived from the name of the Anglo-Saxon goddess of fertility and Spring, Eostre, whose symbol was the hare (fertility). Eggs were exchanged at this time to symbolize rebirth and were painted to show the coming of the sun and the growth of a new and fertile land. There are several different variations of this goddess such as Ostra (Scandinavian), Ostara (Celtic), Ostern, and Eastre (Teutonic). Her festival was celebrated on the vernal (spring) equinox, or what we now know as the first day of Spring.

Early Christian missionaries wishing to convert the pagan tribes adopted the festival as their own. Since it fell around the time of the memorial of Jesus Christ's death (Passover), the church simply replaced one celebration with another, changing the meaning of the festival and making an easier transition into Christianity for the pagan tribes.

Have a very blessed day today, whether you celebrate Easter for its religious aspects, both Pagan and Christian, or are secular and just love getting chocolate in your plastic egg ;) Today we are dressed in pretty spring-colored dresses, watching secularly-easter-themed movies, going to play outside in the dirt and eating eggs and pancakes for breakfast. How do you celebrate Easter?