{"id":812,"date":"2010-08-17T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2010\/08\/homeschooling-with-dad-the-train-museum.html"},"modified":"2014-08-22T16:03:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T21:03:04","slug":"homeschooling-with-dad-the-train-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2010\/08\/homeschooling-with-dad-the-train-museum.html","title":{"rendered":"Homeschooling with Dad — The Train Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The Computer Guy and I recently took the three youngest children to the Oklahoma City Train Museum.\u00a0 We tried to bring the older children too, but I don\u2019t have the kind of money it would have taken to bribe them into being pleasant while climbing through old train cars on in extreme summer heat.\u00a0 #5 is three and loves trains more than anything.\u00a0\u00a0 It was more my husband\u2019s outing with the children.\u00a0 I just came along for the ride.<\/p>\n

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and all about that little doo-hicky thing that connects the wheels.\u00a0 (See how well I listen?)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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He put pennies on the tracks which the trains ran over and flattened.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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I said stupid things like \u201cHey.\u00a0 There\u2019s a wagon.\u201d and then took a picture of it with the color setting all wrong.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Oh, and I carried the baby around in his sling.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Then the baby got hot and I said it was time to go.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Which made everybody happy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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At last I could help.\u00a0 Bribery with a giant lemonade.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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and there was peace in the car.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Oh, there was one other person at the train museum.\u00a0 The Computer Guy brought her<\/i><\/a> along.\u00a0 Have I mentioned that I hate her?\u00a0 I have?\u00a0 Good.<\/p>\n

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