Journal of a Busy Mom

living one day at a time

Gluten Free Mission Tortillas?

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Wow!I found these great Gluten Free Mission Tortillas! They are amazing! They taste so good!

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IMG_4706I made my son a burrito with cheese, guacamole, black beans and ground beef. He loved it. I was so happy. He has never tried a “real” burrito since he was diagnosed with Celiac Disease at age 3.

Other things we have tried:

A quesadilla (s0 delicious)

Flour tortilla tacos.

Breakfast burritos

I have bought them at Raley’s, Foodmaxx, and Safeway so I know they are around. Prices range from $5-$6. I did get a Personalized Deal coupon at Safeway for a lower price.

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Planning My Homeschool Year: Goals & Priorities

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Every year, at the end of the school year I take time to start planning my homeschool year for the following school year. This step-goals and priorities- is part of that planning session. Unfortunately, I don’t always go back to review. I need to be better about revisiting these goals and priorities I have set for my kids. It is fun to look back at the list and see how much they have grown.

For example, one of the goals for my son for 2014-15 was for him to become more independent in his daily schoolwork. This year he truly has! We took baby steps, but slowly I removed myself from everything except Language Arts and some History.  However, some of the other goals I set didn’t happen like doing computer programming.

So some of our goals for 2015-16 have remained on the list and new ones add. I use Edsnapshots.com Plan Your Year’s Goal Sheet (link below) but you don’t need anything fancy.

Step 1: I write Strengths and Things to Improve. These are usually a little of each of these categories: academics, character, and spiritual.  Then our Goals are based on these and also things that we might need to tackle the upcoming year.

For this year, he will need to work on improving his reading and writing skills. We have a couple years before high school, but with his dyslexia he has a bit more work to do. Also on his list will be doing more projects with Dad and doing computer programming.

As for my daughter, we are working on doing a few CLEP tests. So that means working on test taking skills, study skills, and time management. She is also doing a Novel in a Year class so I really want her to focus on Time Management when it comes to her writing and school day.

Along with goals for the kids, I also make a list of family priorities. These are things that we need to work on as a family.  Some of the priorities I wrote down for this year include: a family game night, mom and dad date night, and being more physically active as a family.

Here are some links for some great planning pages:

Edsnapshots 

Donna Young

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Flat Stanley Visits!

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We had some visitors come last week from Texas! Two Flat Stanley’s joined us for an adventure in the Black Diamond Hills of California. My kids lugged the Flat Stanleys on a two hour hike in our local hills. We were on a Biology Fieldtrip looking at wildflowers and vegetation, so it lended itself for a fun trip for the Stanleys.  It was fun to take pictures of the Stanleys enjoying the view.

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IMG_4633What’s doubly nice is we happen to be working on letter writing with my 6th grader. Part of the honor of hosting the Flat Stanleys is you have to write back and tell the recipient about where his Flat Stanley went. So we not only got a hike out of it but we also reinforced letter writing.

It can’t get better than that!

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