tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882731846401349262024-03-23T12:07:18.851-07:00The House of Happily Organized ChAoSm0mmy0fmanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17323327717481190732noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188273184640134926.post-23741905343197927822012-11-10T12:05:00.000-08:002012-11-10T12:39:06.634-08:00Adding on to our house.... A CHICKEN COOP<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Join us on our newest journey... raising and caring for Free-range, inner-city chickens ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">All in the past 24 hours. I can't see what the future holds for this adventure! :) </span><br />
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Another simple, and virtually cost free, homeschooling manipulative. Saw this idea floating around in the Pintrest world, but couldn't track down it's original source. Still, I put it to use with my own little twist...</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">First - Collect water bottle caps </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Second - Write Numbers and Math symbols on them with permanent marker (I recommend AT LEAST 3 of each number 0-9 and 2 of each symbol </span><span style="font-size: small;">- </span><span style="font-size: small;">X </span><span style="font-size: small;">=</span><span style="font-size: small;"> /and +)</span></div>
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We are using them for simple math (addition, subtraction, multiplication) with my 1st and 2nd graders. They even did some more complicated, multi-step problems. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another benefit to homeschooling... no shoes, no shirt.. NO PROBLEM! :-D</td></tr>
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For my K4 daughter (Princess Serenity) I was having her count objects (cheerios) to add up to the # presented to her. Quickly realized that this skill was beneath her level, so we started learning to ADD! :-D She did GREAT! Used a silicone muffin pan to keep things neat-n-tidy for her. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This new manipulative even traveled with us to the Dr's office, and the church this week. The little container I have them stored in drops nicely in our cinch-sack (Little educational bag we haul around) or diaper bag to take on-the-go! PLUS if they git lost/ruined... NO WORRIES. I can just make more for FREE!!! LOVE <3 <3 <3 This!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Working on a series of making Homeschool manipulatives on a very small or ZERO budget. Still to come...<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://houseofhappilyorganizedchaos.blogspot.com/2012/03/one-of-my-new-favorite-preschool.html" target="_blank">Colored Rice</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://houseofhappilyorganizedchaos.blogspot.com/2012/03/eye-spy-bottles-for-phonics-and.html" target="_blank">Eye Spy Bottles</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Domino Math </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">CandyLand Counting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Morning Board (for the basics)<br />Story prompt sticks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Home made Fingerpaints</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and MORE!</span>m0mmy0fmanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17323327717481190732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188273184640134926.post-30985825031984574422012-08-04T09:21:00.003-07:002012-08-06T20:36:06.997-07:00How do you help your wee-ones understand what's going on?Everyone needs to be able to relate... even if that someone is only two.<br />
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My sweet little girl (River, age 2) fell from the pew during worship service this past Sunday. She's not usually much of a complainer so when she threw such a fuss, I knew something was wrong. Now, to figure out what... Everyone that had witnessed the fall said that she hit her head. Naturally, that's where I focused my attention. She was crying so hard that she couldn't tell me what was wrong. Was she just shook up, or hurt? I wasn't sure. Eventually she let me know that her 'foot' hurt. Come to find out [after a couple hours, and a trip to the ER] she had broken her little leg. <br />
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The tears that came when the pain set in, broke my heart. She would be herself. Then, as the ibuprofen wore off, she would change. She'd cry, and whine, and kick and squirm. She was so uncomfortable. All I could do is comfort her and treat her with the pain relievers to try and dull the pain.<br />
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On top of the pain, I could tell that she was scared. What IS this thing on my leg, mom? "Take It OFF, Mommy. I don't want it! I want it OFF" she kept saying. How do you comfort someone so little through something like that? Here's how I helped my 2 year old feel more secure about the cast on her leg. . .<br />
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Her grandma had sent her a new baby doll to help busy her as she recouped. The day after it came in the mail, River was having a hard time coping when her medicine would wear off. Each time, I would sit with her and play, talk, or sing to her to keep her mind off of the pain. Mid morning, she and I sat down and 'doctored' her baby. We gave it a 'band-aid' just like she has. First the 'sock'... then the padding... finally the colorful [coban] outside. (I wish I had though to do this BEFORE we went to the Orthopedic doctor. She would have better understood what was going to happen to her.) She stopped pulling at her cast. Stopped asking to have it taken off. Now, every-time she starts to be bothered by it, she just asks for her baby, and comforts her the way that she wants comforted. She is turning into such an caring little momma and doing a great job of teaching mommy just what she needs in order to feel better. For now she still hasn't stopped crying out in pain every few hours, but she is coping with the discomfort and unfamiliarity <span id="hotword"></span>of having her leg casted much better.<br />
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I love when I have the opportunity to allow my blessings to take the lead and show me what they desire from me. I take comfort when they are able to 'show' me what they need, when they might now know the words to tell me. I pray that you will never have to see your little one through a painful time, but if you do... I HIGHLY recommend giving them a way to relate to what's going on, and if they are too little to communicate effectively, give them an outlet to show you what they're feeling.<br />
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We decided to change up our Friday Family Fun days. (This means we ALL spend our entire Fridays with EACH OTHER... doing something "Fun" together.) To keep with the spirit of 'un-schooling' our way through the summer, we decided to give each Friday a letter theme. Friday numero uno was a '<b>P</b>' themed day. We thought of a couple of '<b>P</b>' things to do & eat for our Family Fun Friday....</div>
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Our day started with our Breakfast: <b>PoPtarts, Pitted Prunes, </b>and<b> Pink milk.</b></div>
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and have a <b>Picnic </b>of <b>Pretzels, PePPeroni, Pickles, PePPer jack, Provolone, Peaches</b>, and <b>Peanut butter oreos</b>.</div>
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Then on to the <b>ool</b> we went! (notice, no '<b>P</b>' in that <b>Pool</b>... we told the kids to keep it that way ;o)</div>
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For Dinner: <b> Pizza. . . </b> </div>
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<br />m0mmy0fmanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17323327717481190732noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188273184640134926.post-61208776953135889662012-07-21T17:49:00.003-07:002012-07-23T17:17:43.772-07:00My life, UN-EDITED... Cranky mornings (problem solved!)<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What do you do when your day starts out like this...</b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CRANKY Kiddos! I took these pictures all within an hour of each other one morning! O.o </td></tr>
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<br />m0mmy0fmanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17323327717481190732noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188273184640134926.post-79216543458177571112012-06-11T18:38:00.000-07:002012-06-11T19:11:56.491-07:00Sunday's 10 minute Children's Church Lesson.<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I only had 10 minutes left before service was over. There goes my plans for the morning. I had a lesson with coordinating craft, snack and game planned, but plans changed. We spent some time performing our VBS songs for the church, then watching a slideshow from the fun-filled week. Now we only had 10 minutes to fit in a lesson and make it something worth coming back to. I had an idea. Got out the Parachute and chose a story. NOAH's ARK! I had each of my 11 kids that morning grab a handle of our parachute. And gave them these simple instructions:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">When I say the word 'boat', you raise the parachute as high as you can. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">When I say the word 'Flood', you flap the parachute as fast as you can.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">When I say the word 'Rainbow', we're all going to walk in a big circle with the parachute</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">When I say the word 'Noah', lower the parachute as low as you can</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then we gave it a little practice run."NOAH" "FLOOD" "RAINBOW" "BOAT" And threw in a beach ball just for fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then the story continued. I wish I had gotten video of it, but I
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<br />m0mmy0fmanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17323327717481190732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188273184640134926.post-51624965113142886322012-04-09T18:51:00.001-07:002012-04-09T18:51:57.310-07:00One Blessed Momma<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">GOD has blessed me greatly!</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHaM8Ot7hzhPaisa-L9VQJAJHAPgn1PbYxrDbePegJ-2WE9T6wFoi-YumhRgExXJwUcSdSokL6D5FMeXrXOGjlCWEp406zjUtK8zJQitY0ORDHMlvQF2yMZ7BNT4qlm0OqkhsSI6pF600/s1600/DSC_0472.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHaM8Ot7hzhPaisa-L9VQJAJHAPgn1PbYxrDbePegJ-2WE9T6wFoi-YumhRgExXJwUcSdSokL6D5FMeXrXOGjlCWEp406zjUtK8zJQitY0ORDHMlvQF2yMZ7BNT4qlm0OqkhsSI6pF600/s640/DSC_0472.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I <3 being a MOMMY! </span> </div>m0mmy0fmanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17323327717481190732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188273184640134926.post-16876270871921034002012-03-27T07:51:00.000-07:002012-03-27T07:51:20.129-07:00Experimenting with Naked Eggs - Osmosis<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>O</b>kay, we made <a href="http://houseofhappilyorganizedchaos.blogspot.com/2012/03/naked-eggs.html" target="_blank">naked eggs</a>.... now what???</span></div>
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We did a few different things with our (4) <a href="http://houseofhappilyorganizedchaos.blogspot.com/2012/03/naked-eggs.html" target="_blank">naked eggs</a>. Observed osmosis, reverse osmosis, and durability of the egg membrane. How, you ask... Let me talk you through these experiments one at a time.</div>
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We measured our first egg (call it our BLUE egg), height and girth using a measuring tape</div>
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Next, we weighed it, using our primary balance and our cm gram cubes. </div>
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Then we place it in water that we had tented blue with 5 drops of food coloring (again in our <strike>ghetto</strike> up-cycled containers) </div>
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What did we observe? Well, the egg not only grew in size and weight (due to the process of osmosis) but also absorbed the blue coloring of the water turning our egg blue. </div>
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We used this lesson to do MANY subjects for our day. We learned about the process of osmosis for <b>Science</b>. We looked up, and defined, the <b>Vocabulary</b> words: Osmosis, membrane, absorb, Primary Balance, girth, height, process, observe, and experiment. We measured and weighed the egg for <b>Math</b> (recording our facts) We began an outline for our up-coming science essays (<b>Science</b> AND <b>Language Arts</b>). We even drew pictures of the process for <b>Art</b> class. </div>
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If you think this was cool, JUST WAIT! In my next blog post, I will talk you through the "How To"s of reverse osmosis! SUPER BIZARRE and COOL!</div>m0mmy0fmanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17323327717481190732noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188273184640134926.post-49734824384137784992012-03-23T05:25:00.000-07:002012-03-27T07:53:35.526-07:00NAKED eggs!<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<b>NAKED??? You read that right! Our week-long science lesson was the making of/experimenting on Naked Eggs. What IS a naked egg, you ask. Well... a naked egg is an egg (in it's raw form) where the shell has been removed leaving only the membrane holding in the contents of the egg (whites and yolk). Very cool? I think YES! You have GOT to try this at least once. Here's your how-to...</b></div>
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<b>Let's get started. Stay with me through the whole 5 steps that follow ;-) ...</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wipe the white "slime" <b><span style="font-size: small;">(yes, that IS the technical name)</span> </b>off of the egg</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Soak in fresh vinegar for another 24 hours. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">TA DA! You have a NAKED EGG!</span></div>
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<b>We took our naked eggs and turned them into a whole week worth of experimenting (see next posts on Naked Egg FuN <a href="http://houseofhappilyorganizedchaos.blogspot.com/2012/03/experimenting-with-naked-eggs-osmosis.html" target="_blank">1</a>, 2 & 3)</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shrink it (see next post), bounce it, roll it, squish it. But keep in mind it WILL be messy and it WILL break! </span></b>m0mmy0fmanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17323327717481190732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188273184640134926.post-33155026663157801812012-03-22T06:45:00.000-07:002012-03-22T14:20:49.983-07:00"Eye Spy" Bottles for Phonics and Preschool FuN!!!<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
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Now, let's put some of that <a href="http://houseofhappilyorganizedchaos.blogspot.com/2012/03/one-of-my-new-favorite-preschool.html" target="_blank">Colored Rice</a> to good use. The first thing I did with mine was make a couple of "Eye Spy" bottles. These can make for great activities for busying you littler munchkins. They're even great for on-the-go schooling. Make them in any theme you'd like. I went with a "phonics" theme for my 1st two so that we could work on beginning sounds with my Pre-K and Kinder-aged kiddos. <br />
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What You'll Need:</div>
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<b>Here's where to start...</b> <i>Gather</i> up as many small objects as you'd like to use in you "Eye Spy" bottle. My bigger kids LOVED helping with this part.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Having trouble coming up with Ideas to fill you "Eye Spy" bottles? This list is just a FEW of the MANY themes you could do...</span><br />
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<li style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Beginning sounds (like my example)</li>
<li style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Holiday (CHRISTmas, Easter, Fourth of July...)</li>
<li style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Color (all green objects...)</li>
<li style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Pirates</li>
<li style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Shapes</li>
<li style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ocean</li>
<li style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Animals</li>
<li style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Seasons</li>
<li style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Bugs</li>
<li style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Building (nail, nut, bolt, screw, etc)</li>
<li style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Candy</li>
<li style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Money</li>
<li style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Shells</li>
<li style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Rocks (different types or colors/shape/sizes)</li>
<li style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Game pieces</li>
<li style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Numbers</li>
<li style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Randomness</li>
<li style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Kitchen items</li>
<li style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jewelry</li>
<li style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Food (Barbie, doll house, or littlest petshop style)</li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Have LOTS of FuN with these!!!</b></span></div>m0mmy0fmanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17323327717481190732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188273184640134926.post-53426231759516030822012-03-20T08:20:00.001-07:002012-03-20T18:58:40.436-07:00One of my **NEW** favorite preschool manipulatives... COLORED RICE!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let me talk you through the "how to"s of coloring rice. It's simple, it's fun, and it really doesn't have to be (</span><span style="font-size: large;"><u><i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">very</i></u><i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">)</i> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">messy. Here's what you'll need</span><span style="font-size: large;">...</span><br />
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<li>Rubbing Alcohol</li>
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<li>Food Coloring (liquid or gel)</li>
<li>News Paper</li>
<li><strike>Ghetto</strike> Up-Cycled containers with lids </li>
<li>Bottles/containers for storing colored rice in</li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u>First:</u> Gather all your supplies. <u>Next:</u> Cover your workspace with a layer of newspaper (just in case). <u>Then:</u> you'll want to make sure your little helpers are settled and ready to have some (calm-ish) FuN! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Add</i> 5-8 drops of food coloring (I used liquid, but gel produces a more vibrant color). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It really only takes about 30minutes to an hour to dry. Then it's ready to be played with or stored for the fun things ahead. (refer to upcoming posts about eye-spy bottles, sensory boxes, and other FuN) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There you have it, Science, Math, and Art class all wrapped up in a 15 minute lesson. & now you have a staple to more FuN!</span>m0mmy0fmanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17323327717481190732noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188273184640134926.post-75983066392546258322012-03-20T06:25:00.000-07:002012-03-20T06:25:11.306-07:00Never to soon to try something new...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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