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Reading Kingdom

I am very happy to review the Reading Kingdom.   This is an online program that uses a variety of methods to teach reading.   I decided to share this product with my adopted granddaughter Ruth.   Reading kingdom uses a six skills integrative method Ruth only just began to use the program. She is only 3 years old and cannot use the program without help.   But her mom says that she can already recognize words like girl and kids when they are shown on the screen.   Sylvia wrote that she loves the repetition of the words in the program .   That Ruth is memorizing the words she sees.     She will be able to use it for an entire year.   But I expect her to become a very good reader.   And what a great gift to give to any child!   She will have a lifetime love for books.     Sylvia also works with teenage mothers in Uganda.   And many of these women have never attended school.   So she plans to use these ideas to h...
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Taking at look at Hotels select

I have the chance to review Hotels select.   https://www.hotelsetc.com/ This is a really interesting travel club.   You pay a fee of about 200 dollars a year to use their very extensive site.   I got this membership free.   It has many deals of mostly hotels, but also rental cars, flights, restaurants and events around the world.   I have been spending days looking at what they offer.   So far what I’ve found is amazing deals on the places many people go.   For example, hotels in Orlando are 50% less than deals you find at booking.com.   Rental cars are often 25% cheaper than Rental cars.com.   And they have a search where you can book a condo for as little as 250 dollars a week just 1 mile from Disney world.   That is 7 nights for 250 dollars for up to 4 people.   The exact location on Airbnb cost 650 dollars a week. If you travel to places like San Diego, New York City and Las Vegas this site will save you a great deal...

what photos would you use

I took mom out to breakfast today. I got up to get some milk for her coffee. When I returned to the table there was an old gentleman talking to mom. He was speaking in German and she did not understand him. Then he began speaking with me. He had 3 photos in his hands. One was his wedding picture. He mentioned that one of the groom’s men had died from cancer. He smoked too much. There was a photo of his daughter. She was beautiful but had no kids and has been divorced 3 times. And a photo of his coworkers at an Engineering firm in Heidelberg. He was on the board and retired with 10 million Euro. I would have asked him to sit down and join us for breakfast. Clearly, he had dementia and just wanted to talk. But mom has jet lag, and this was our first meal together. So the man went to another table and shared with them. It made me wonder 2 things. First, if he really has millions of Euros, and how money still could not save him from dementia. But also what photos would I share with people ...

De Slufter - Texel

The beautiful Wadden island of Texel - Holland Holiday

at the edge of a sea

I'm thinking today about how Moses felt to stand at the edge of a sea. How he felt to see no way of deliverance but to know that it was God who had led him to this place. But he stood there and saw the sea part. And sometimes the hardest places are the locations you get to witness the greatest stuff. Today I stand knowing my God is the same yesterday, today and forever. I stand and I wait to see what will happen. There is a sea that stands before me, but a God that stands with me. And I wait to see what will happen. I know that God is good, so I am sure I will see wonders.

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How to sow a mixed Annual Flowerbed

In memory of my dad, I'm planting 4 beds of cutting flowers.