Sher Birmingham

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Our School project

By Sher Birmingham at 6:13 am on March 22, 2008 | 1 Comment

 

After finishing first grade our daughter wanted to start her own business so that she could have money.  I had been hired to keep a set of 3 Chihuahua while the breeder was out of town.  While there my youngest daughter decided breeding is something she could do as her business.  I told her that if she could earn the money for her puppy.  I also would match every dollar she saved with a dollar, and she could pay me back when her dog started having puppies.  I also said I would get the male dog.  Well all summer long she worked.  She cleaned up dog poop during the week at the breeder’s home.  She feed, watered, and played with neighbor dogs when the owners were out of town.  She vacuumed her father’s office.  She saved her Birthday money.  She saved her allowance.  She asked her grandparents and businessmen for money.  Well, sure enough in 4 short months she had enough money to buy that puppy, Jasmin Flower.   She has been our second grade project and will be part of our school from now on. 


So I was on the look for a male.  I found one and his mate from another local breeder was getting out of the Chihuahua business and wanted these to go to a good home.  So they come home with us.  Their names are JoJo and Cocoa

Cocoa just had puppies February 15th

We only plan on having a few litters of Chihuahuas a year.  We are striving to breed high quality Chihuahuas.   Apple heads, small size, friendliness, and conformation are all important to us.

We predominantly breed short haired (smooth coated) Chihuahuas, but occasionally have long haired puppies, too.

learn more about this project http://www.freewebs.com/hapchihuahua/index.htm

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An Elegant Floral Alphabet

By Sher Birmingham at 7:58 pm on March 18, 2008 | No comments

An Elegant Floral Alphabet by Joy Maria & Jennaya Dunlap of LightHome Publication http://lighthome.net/chkm/index.html

You can purchase their book from them directly or an ebook from Currclick at http://www.currclick.com/index.php?affiliate_id=2642

This is a great practice handwriting workbook. My daughter is delighted by the beauty on every page. Each letter of the alphabet has its own in color gorgeous flower, beautiful butterfly, and fancy letter. There is a coloring sheet to accompany each letter, many with scripture on them.

If your daughters are first learning cursive, you might need to give more instructions on how to make each letter then in this book. But once they have the basic understanding of how to create the letter properly this will give the great practices on creating them accurately. The girl who is just learning cursive and the one that just needs to work on her penmanship skills will find this book helpful and enjoyable, as well as any child who likes flowers or butterflies. This would be a absolutely great copy work for a flower unit study.

In the back of the book are extra copy sheets, notebooking pages and a word find. Every page also had a scramble game. The only improvement that I could suggest is the answers to the unscramble games. I went to http://www.zachwordunscrambler.com for help.

I am looking forward to purchasing more from Lighthome Publications.

Thank you and God bless you, Sher Birmingham

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