Book review on "The door to time by Ulisses Moore"

This book gets a well earned five stars for lots of reasons but I will mention my favorite reason. the author, Ulisses Moore, is a character in the story line, and an important one too. The author in the story is talked about often but you never actually meet him which is pretty amazing considering the story line. (he is the previous owners of argo manor, the main setting of the story).this book is the first in a series so more book reviews are on the way.

I am a big fan of series books that have the first book ending on 1/100 of a foot. after you finish a book like that you not only have to stay away from people that have read the entire series, but you need to go to your local library and check out the next one ASAP! i just love that feeling.

A tip on reading this book is to be that kind of person that is not freaked out by creepyly big Mansions  that a family of four can't fit in comfortably ,(or at all) foot steps on the second floor when your the only one in the house, as far as you know, finding weird riddles that are written in a different language, scary rumors about the previous owner of the house, a well covered up, removed picture frame of the previous owner, getting stuck inside a hollow cliff ,

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ending up in/under EGYPT!!!!!!!!!!!







Not to mention seeing a shadowy figure outside the window in a lightning storm , ect ect.
Maybe being a twin will help. :)

A News Report by the NY Times (March 2014)

First the Weather:We are moving so Dad can teach at Sweet Briar Womans College. The weather there is month I an average high of 58 degrees and an average low of 34 degrees. In Denton the weather is an average high degrees and has an average low of 44 degrees.

Now the Little Big news: this month Emmeline is getting a palet study to see if she needs a paletal lift to help her say specific sounds.

Favorite songs for the family:

Mom: Come Thou Fount (heavy on the strings)

Em: We are Thankful

Isa: Only Human, Only miss your lover when you let her go & the Russian dance from the Nutcracker.

Dad: doesn’t have one. (not everythingNow the Interviews:

First we interview with Dan Perkins,

His favorite Shape is: Polytetrahedron

His favorite Color is: Double Rainbow

His favorite Word is: Isabella

His favorite Number is: 44 because it’s the sum of 13 and its inverse 31

His favorite Book is: A Marvelous work of Wonder

His favorite Game is: Playing with Grand Children

His favorite Food is: Seafood Gumbo

His favorite Toy growing up is: Baseball Glove

His favorite State is: North Carolina

His favorite Hobby is: Learning Spanish and Sign Language 

Our next interview is with  Mikayla Chadwick,

Her favorite Shape is: Circle

Her favorite Color is: Sky Blue

Her favorite Food is:  Lemon Basil Pasta

Her favorite Book is: Palace of Mirrors

Her favorite State is: South Carolina

Her favorite Number is: 16

Her favorite Word is: Glamour

Her favorite Toy is: Stuffed chew Toy

Roller Blades,

So since I got new roller blades I’ve started roller blading when we go to the local library about a mile down the road to do school work after we drop Em off at school. It’s really improved my skill in roller blading because there is construction on the road we walk/skate next to so there is lots of debris on the sidewalk to avoid and there is a huge hill right before you get to the library that I usually have Mom tow me up and down, leaving and coming. (only when she offers) J

The “Duck” Pond

In my most recent article, namely “Roller Blades”, I mentioned a library. Well, next to and around the local library, are four “Duck” ponds by some canals. It’s SUPER pretty. Quite Beautiful J. Anyway, there are lots of exotic looking animals that live in this “duck” pond network. There are two ponds in front of the library. In those two ponds there is a huge colony of you average male and female ducks, but as I said, there are plenty exotic animals too, such as this miniature colony of black and white ducks as well as a few weird looking ducks that look slightly like your average male green headed duck only these have a black heads and instead of white and brown tail feathers they have black and white tail feathers. Then my favorite part, there are at least two cranes.  One I like to call the Peace Crane because it is pearly white and has very long white feathers that wave next to it in the wind and then there is a brown crane with a spot of black on its head and the tips of its wings. Then there’s this really weird looking bird I like to call the “big bird”. It’s huge, like a crow 20x its size. Imagine big bird as a black, oversized crowcrane mix. There are at least two. I'll try and put some pictures in Aprils newspaper. There are also some geese we just noticed this last time.

other
i also learned some computer programing this week. Dad tought me some:)
at virginia i might be able to do part time school:)

Thanks for reading this months Newspaper. If you have any ideas or stories for our newspaper Please contact us.

Virginia at Last/ Sweet Briar Womans College AKA leaving Grace

     So incase some of you haven't heard granted you probably have because there was a total freak out about it, Dad got the job in Virginia! So everybody knows this is the longest we've ever, in my life, stayed in one state. 5 whole years! I'm super exited and super sad. As you may have been able to tell from my title, we're leaving Grace :(
  
  Incase some of you don't know(though i'd be surprised if you didn't) she's like, my favorite and my best bestest friend like, EVER! Mom asked Grace today when we took her to activity days if she had a cellphone and if she had text and unlimited text and minutes and so on and she said yes, so I suggested that i could get a cellphone for 911, mom, dad, and Grace and she said that's exactly what she was thinking and that she would talk to dad about maybe doing that so when we moved me and Grace could stay in contact:)

     Dad is teaching at Sweet Briar Womans College. We're going to be able to hunt on campus and mom is so exited! Dad says he wants to hunt birds and Mom wants to hunt deer.

   Mom is a little nervous though because we have to start a new homeschooling program were I think I'm going to take a test every year to check on my level( I hope i'll still be ahead:) ).

     

Doing the News New

      So i've been thinking, since i can't really keep up with doing the weekly news i thought i could start doing the monthly news. The newest news report will be released on my blog on March 1st 2014. Call it " The Monthly News With Me" (i'll probably change it) 2.0. It'll have tons of new updates such as not just interveiws and weather, it will have our main appointments, big things going on and much more.

    Please contact me via.  cellphone,(mom or dad)  facetime,  skype,   e-mail,   blog ,
ect cetera  if you have any ideas, comments, big news that you would like me to include in my newspaper. Please choose a specific date for the your article to appear. The newspaper should appear on the first of each month, if it does not or will appear late, I will post on my blog.

   I hope you all enjoy the New News, "The monthly News with Me"(may change) 2.0

Bad Boy Eeyore

At  Cowboy Camp I was helping put fly spray (sugar water)  on Eeyore cause he was covered in flies and fly bites in the morning of the second day.  I was putting him back in the pasture, but once we were in the pasture and his lead taken off he backed up to were just his head was in the pasture. the only control over him I had was his neck. I couldn't get him forwards into the pasture so we sat there a while while I pulled to get him in.

After a while he started to turn around so I pulled even harder but he just started walking away and if i let go of his neck he would have been free. I called to my friend Anslie to came and hold him so I could put on his lead. But she kept on trying to send one of the campers over to help but all of them were at least  eight or under and couldn't hold a horse still so eventually she came over and had to restrain him so i could put his lead on. 

I led him  farther into the pasture this time then ran to the gate to shut it. When i was leading him back to the pasture i realized that the gate was open and was so scared a horse would escape again but luckily all the horses were out farther in the pasture. 

 I also got to ride him BAREBACK  up the hill! My friend Anslie also got to. When I was leading Eeyore for her to ride he stepped on the rim of my shoe, not my shoe. it was scary.

Emmeline

Emmeline is doing much better. The only thing that hasn't is her hearing. We went to the audiolagist last week and she will have to have two hearing aids now because her hearing has decreased in both.
here she is when she was super little.  

                                              here is some more

 

                                                                  chubby face

                                     

moments of cuteness

 

 

this is emmeline's horse Eyore 

 

poolness 

she's doing a lot better. her toob hole is doing better too.

          

GirlScouts

GS is really fun. I think it is the funnest thing that I do other then piano. :) At this time we are selling GS cookies. I hope that everybody that bought some are enjoying them. This year I met my goal exactly. 175 boxes. I will get a participation patch, a set of t-shirt ties :(, a bandana, design your own sign, and a small stuffed Golden Retriver. I'll probably get a flip=flop bag as well through booth sales. I bet were going to go to a super cool camp this summer with all the money that we've raised so far. I LOVED the camp we went to last summer. It's called Sky Ranch. Some of the things we did included these: ~ horse back riding ~ water slides ~ Gaga ( it's sort of like soccer only you can't use you can't use you hands) ~ A maze with water sprays :) ~ tether ball ~ we made skits ~ we jumped in to the pool off a swinging trapeze ~ zipline ~ penjelum swing ~ swimming ~ put put ~ eating ~ making ornements. I feel bad for my friend Aubrey fell off her horse Gravy. My horses name was Fresco. He was really nice. PS: I'm feeling better and will be able to go to my booth sale in girlscouts.