http://christiejarvis.com/blog Your Discovery Toys Lady Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:12:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week in history, we have been studying Charles "Martel" and one of the projects suggested in the Mystery of History is to hammer nails into a board in the shape of Martel.  Martel means hammer in French and he was called the hammer because he drove the Muslims out ... http://christiejarvis.com/blog/2008/08/28/our-charles-martel-project/ Well, the Olympics are over so we are back to working on our regular school subjects. We had a great time studying the Olympics! The kids will finish their lapbooks this week and then I will post the pictures. They have to finalize their medal charts and the closing ... http://christiejarvis.com/blog/2008/08/25/school-stuff/ Alex and Andrew had belt testing in Taekwondo on Tuesday & Wednesday.  Alex was testing for low green belt and Andrew was testing for his yellow belt.  They take taekwondo through Christ First Ministries at our church.  Both of them did very well and were able to earn their next ... http://christiejarvis.com/blog/2008/08/16/taekwondo-testing/ Is that the question really??? I really do want to keep my blog up to date but never really seem to find the time to do it. I feel like the only "down" time I get is when I am sick.... Am I complaining? No....just making a statement. ... http://christiejarvis.com/blog/2008/08/06/to-blog-or-not-to-blog/ Today was our first official day of the new school year. If all of the days are like today was then we are gonna have a great year! We started our study of the Olympics and will continue throughout the ... http://christiejarvis.com/blog/2008/08/04/day-1-was-great/ Let's play a memory game.  I got this from my friend's blog....for some reason I am unable to add links tonight so if you wanna visit her blog, click on the Keeping Up with the J's link to the side.  Here are the directions: 1. As you comment on my blog, leave one ... http://christiejarvis.com/blog/2008/07/20/memoriesall-alone-on-my-blog/ She went from blonde to brown....not too drastic.  She is like her momma...we like changing our hair styles and hair color!   http://christiejarvis.com/blog/2008/07/20/christie-jarvis%e2%80%99-blog-%e2%80%ba-create-new-post-%e2%80%94-wordpress/ I have a teenager.....yes, I do. I have seen her grow up fast before my eyes. All of a sudden, the phone has become attatched to her ear. I remember when I was a teenager, I was not allowed to call anyone 9 and God forbid if my ... http://christiejarvis.com/blog/2008/07/17/teenagers-telephones-and-texting/ We are on our way home from church now. I worked in the Rangers office doing record keeping while William worked with the Discovery Rangers which is the class Andrew is in. Alex was in his class (Adventure Rangers) and Amy was in youth. William and the ... http://christiejarvis.com/blog/2008/07/16/wednesdayjust-wednesday/ Do you have a Myspace or a Facebook? I have both and love keeping up with my friends & family through them. I have reconnected with friends from school which is pretty cool! I would love to have you become my friend on myspace & facebook so ... http://christiejarvis.com/blog/2008/07/16/myspace-facebook/