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2024 Homeschool Prep and Plan With Me: Getting Ready For The Upcoming School Year
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Feb 28, 2025
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ooh oh
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[Music]
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hello and welcome back to my channel if
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you're new here my name is heaven I am a
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homeschool Mama to a 5-year-old boy
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named Noah and if you hear a little bit
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of grunting in the background just like
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that right there that is my 7 week old
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baby girl she's kind of sitting here
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with me while I record this video but we
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are getting ready for our 2024 2025
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homeschool year and I wanted to take you
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guys along with me and just kind of see
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some of the light prep work that I do
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just a couple of days before we begin a
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new semester of school if you are new
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here I want to go ahead and just invite
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you to join the family again my name is
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heaven and I'm a motherhood and
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homemaking vlogger as well as a
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homeschool mama so here you will find
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cleaning videos every Sunday as well as
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another another type of homemaking
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motherhood or homeschool video every
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Thursday of the week so if you're
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looking for another Mama to connect with
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I try to keep it very realistic and
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relatable and fun and helpful around
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here go ahead and hit the subscription
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button to join the family we're getting
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ready to dive into our good in the
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beautiful first grade curriculum with my
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5-year-old son we were doing some
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Horizons kindergarten review over the
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summer but we finished up our
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kindergarten preschool curriculum with
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the good and the Beautiful sometime
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around April of this year so now we are
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getting started with the get in the
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beautiful first grade curriculum and I'm
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really excited the curriculum looks
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great and I went ahead and did a review
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on it if you miss it out go ahead and
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Link it in the top corner for you guys
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and down below as well to kind of just
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get a feel for what the next coming
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weeks are going to look like I'm jotting
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a few things down inside of my planner
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I'm just going day by day for the next
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two weeks but as far as the full hom
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school year I did just just jot down a
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few goals that I have for the home
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school year as well as a few themes I
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want to cover outside of the curriculum
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just kind of like broadly what I want
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the school semester to look like but day
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by day I'm kind of just going through
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and seeing what books we're going to be
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reading for the next two weeks we have a
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apple theme that we're going to be
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covering for the month of the end of
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August and the month of September so
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here are just some of the books that I
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took out that I wanted to go ahead and
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add into our hom school planner so that
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we can be sure to incorporate that into
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our curriculum so I'm kind of just
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looking through them and seeing you know
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what's inside of it all the seeds you
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can sew I picked this one up from Amazon
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and it pretty much just talks about how
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you can sew seeds like around the
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community by like doing something kind
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or helpful and then you can see how it
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grows just like how you plant an apple
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seed and then it grows into a big tree
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with more apples and then one seed from
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that Apple can be planted for another
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tree with more apples and how you can
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pretty much just spread the kindness
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this book requires like that we do like
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a little bit of an activity so I want to
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make sure that I have things on hand
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when we do that one and then for the tin
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Apples Up on Top Dr su's book this is
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actually going to be added to his
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independent reading Library I ended up
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choosing how do apples grow to start of
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the semester you can learn about like
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how the apples grow from the seeds to a
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flower to an apple and then how you can
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use like the seeds from that apple and
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grow new apples basically but it really
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does dive fully and in depth of how the
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flowers grow into the apples and I love
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this book it's actually a little bit
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probably like more advanced for a
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preschool or kindergarten or even a
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first grader but I'm pretty sure like
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it's very easy to follow along with and
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it just goes beyond just saying plant
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the seed and grow the tree you know so I
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really love those type of learning books
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and that's the one I decided to start
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the semester with so I'm just
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transferring those ideas and what we're
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going to be doing the books we're going
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to be reading and what we're going to be
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reading it into the planner and then
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doing the exact same thing with our
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devotional because it's something else
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that we do in addition to the curriculum
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so anything that I have to do in
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addition to our curriculum those are
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things that I kind of want to look
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through and make sure like I pre-plan it
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because it's not already planned out
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inside of a course book for me Adam and
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Eve is what we're going to be starting
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this semester with he knows the story
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but I thought it would be good for us to
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revisit it because again we're doing
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that Apple theme so we're going to be
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talking about that and then we also have
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the matching activity booklet to go
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along with this devotional so that is
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one thing I truly love about this
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specific Bible reader is that it comes
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with like coloring pages activities
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cross word puzzles all types of fun
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things that you can pair with it we're
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going to be doing Moses which is called
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a baby in the basket we're going to be
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doing Joseph in the colorful robe Adam
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and Eve just a few different ones that
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I'm going to add to the planner and then
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in addition to that we have just daily
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devotionals that we can do that
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basically is a dated devotional book
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where you just go to whatever date it is
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and then you read the devotional for
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that day just a story that we would read
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and then sometimes we would do an
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activity or a song or a video to
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coincide with it and again I'm only
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doing day byday planning for the next
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two weeks only because I like to revisit
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and just check to see and make sure that
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we are up to date on like what I said we
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were going to be learning cuz you never
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know when things are going to come up
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and you have setbacks I am using the
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homeschool planner by Jennifer P Edo I
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believe is how you pronounce it on
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Amazon I'm going to link it below it's
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really beautiful it's undated it has
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monthly types a to-do list goals meal
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planning academic tools it also has like
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a home area of planning a work area of
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planning it has a lot of things you can
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put like the word of the day in there
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and I just really love that it's not
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dated because you pretty much just put
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wherever you are currently in the season
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or in the year and just go from there so
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this is a really good homeschool planner
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and I'm going to link it below for you
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guys just in case you all are interested
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another thing I like to add to my daily
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planner is the lessons that we're going
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to be doing for the week including the
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ones that's inside of our curriculum
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this just helps us to kind of stay on
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track to meet those goals we only do
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science once per week so right now I'm
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trying to pick a science lesson for us
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to do for the next two weeks so I'm
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using the DK Science work which has a
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lot of Hands-On science activities as
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well as the good and the Beautiful
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little hearts and hands we've been using
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this science curriculum for a while now
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I'm so sorry for baby girl she's like
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using her paci and I can understand how
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loud that may be but you know this is
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just Mom life very realistic so again
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I'm here inside the good and the
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Beautiful science curriculum that goes
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up to third grade and I'm pulling out a
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lesson that we haven't done yet I
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decided to go with the edible plants
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lesson because we haven't done it yet
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and I I think it ties right into our
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Apple theme because we're going to be
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talking about like planting apples
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growing apples and all the things apples
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so this was a perfect one where we just
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learn about it we read about it and then
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we watch the corresponding movie to go
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with it on the good and the beautiful's
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YouTube channel now I am just going
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through the rest of the curriculum the
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booster cards the booster books to see
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what we're going to be covering that
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week as well as which lessons and what
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the lessons are going to be about and
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just in case I want to add anything to
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go along with it for instance if we're
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going to be doing time for math we can
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use our wooden clock and we're going to
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be doing spelling wordss we can use our
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spelling paddle anything that we might
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have like any type of Hands-On
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manipulatives for I would have know what
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it has so that I can go ahead and
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prepare it I also do this to make sure
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we have everything on hand which we
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didn't so I did have to take a trip to
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the dollar store to get the things we
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didn't have I also wanted to see if they
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had any window decor like fall themed
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window decals like the ones that you
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just stick on there because he typically
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likes to do that and it's a good and fun
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way for us to decorate our homeschool
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window while I was there I was just
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seeing with other little fun learning
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manipulatives activities and decorative
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things they had in stock it wasn't a lot
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I don't know if you guys can tell but
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this store was messy I guess I just
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waited too late to check and see what
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they had in stock and that was okay
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because we already pretty much had
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everything we needed except the
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curriculum said we were going to be
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needing some cotton balls and some
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cotton swabs which we do have but not
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specifically for school so I don't
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really like to mix like home things with
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school things I like to keep them
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separate and organized with everything
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in its own place now I know that being a
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homeschooled parent isn't the easiest
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job in the world but it's definitely
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very rewarding and there are some things
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that we can do to make it a little bit
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easier so now that we have a newborn in
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the house cooking is very challenging
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some sometimes it takes up a lot of time
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if I have to stop and attend to her if
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she begins to cry so I decided to go
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ahead and make six of these waffles that
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I can slice into Forest where he can
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have two slices with a side of fruit and
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yogurt in the morning and I just put
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them in the freezer so here are some
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apple themed pillow cases that I found
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on Amazon I thought this would be
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perfect for our theme this semester and
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because they were so inexpensive like $5
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or less I can switch them out every time
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we have a new theme I also picked up
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this alphabet rug from Home Depot and
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this one was $50 but it's washable goes
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perfectly with like the decor inside of
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this room so I thought that it would be
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the perfect addition to make our
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Homeschool Room just a little bit more
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comfy so what you guys did not see is
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that we're going to be Transforming Our
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front room which considering we never go
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in there instead we're always in our
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family room we decided to go ahead and
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convert it into a learning space so I'm
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going to be putting out a video on
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Sunday just showing you guys how I
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converted that room we're still working
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on it this is kind of just you know
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where we are right now so I'm just
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adding a few things on the bulletin
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board I'm just adding a fun and colorful
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alphabet poster that we already had on
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hand as well as some positive
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affirmations and a time telling poster
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that we also already had kind of just
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brighten up the space and serve as
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reference for him during the school
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semester and I'll be able to Interchange
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these you know whenever I need to so so
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from the dollar star I picked up a dry
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erase paddle I thought it would be a fun
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way to learn his spelling words where he
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can spell them out on the paddle and
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wave it in the air I also found some
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wooden apples that he can paint it comes
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with eight in the pack so he can either
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string them and turn them into a banner
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or just separately pin them onto the
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bulletin board here are the Autumn
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window clings I decided to go with and
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then of course we got the cotton swaps
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and the cotton balls that they said we
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were going to be needing I thought the
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red cotton swaps would be kind of
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I also found this paint tray it's
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plastic where you kind of just store
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whatever you're going to be painting you
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put it right in the middle and then on
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the side you put your paint colors and
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your paint brush and it kind of just
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contains the mess so I thought that that
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would come in handy soon so I went ahead
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and grab that as well one fun way to
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encourage handwriting and practice
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manuscript as well as get to know the
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little guy is by putting like a phrase
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or a question up on the whiteboard in
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the morning so I like like to put the
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date up top so that he can become
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familiar with what the date is or
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looking you know at the Whiteboard to
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know what day it is but I also like to
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like ask a question for instance after
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of course putting like the welcome to
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first grade Noah to kind of just you
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know make it really fun for him at the
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end of the Whiteboard I went ahead and
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put my favorite toy is blank and then
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another day it's going to say my
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favorite color my favorite superhero I
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am such and such years old I love to
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play blank you know things like that it
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just you know it's something that he
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looks forward to it also helps him to
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learn more about themselves and help me
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to learn more about him so that I can
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continue to make homeschool more and
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more fun for him the more I know about
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him the more I'm able to work with when
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it comes to know what his interests are
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in making the school year fun for him so
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that's one way to not only practice
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handwriting but also learn things and
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make the You Know The Homeschool day a
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little bit more interesting these are
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all questions that I probably already
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know the answer to but he loves telling
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me about himself I just have him go
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ahead and copy what he sees on the
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Whiteboard onto paper so that he
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practices writing and because it's like
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three sentences when it's time for him
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to write like a five sentence paragraph
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he will have already had like a little
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bit of practice with that so here I have
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some manuscript paper as well as a lined
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dry erase board and a blank one all what
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you can use to write with so now I'm
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just stocking our little bookshelf with
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the books that we're going to be using
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for the next two weeks and then I'll
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Revisited and interchange them you know
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as necessary depending on what we're
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going to be doing for the school
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semester so up top I have our science
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books and I'm also going to add the DK
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Science workbook and then on the next
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shelf I have all of our Apple themed
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books the third shelf is going to have
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like all of our readers so the Africa
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reader the nature reader from the good
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and the Beautiful the like Dr Seuss
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books and then I'll probably add a few
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more to that shelf as well and then on
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the very bottom we have his devotionals
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his Bible readers and his Proverbs but
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basically all I'm doing at this point is
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just getting everything already ready
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and set out this little book holder is
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going to contain everything we will use
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in one day so his devotion activity book
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his curriculum books his handwriting
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book all are going to go inside of here
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so that all I got to do is just grab
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them
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without looking through like a pile of
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books everything else that we might need
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manipulative wise like the learning
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tablet the booster cards the booster
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book the math manipulatives are also
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going to go on the Shelf but I realize
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that I'm also probably going to go ahead
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and get like some baskets or storage
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cubes to make organization a little bit
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better but for now you know I'm okay
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with what things are looking like there
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are a few more things that I'm going to
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need to do to transform this space and
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get ready but for now I'm pretty much
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satisfied with this so I hope that you
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guys enjoyed this video and found it to
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be helpful please don't forget to give
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subscrib to join the family but that's
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going to be all for today thank you so
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much for watching and I'll see you guys
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in the next one bye
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