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May 12, 2013 | Published in Magic Marker Monday, Weekly Features

Magic Marker Monday — Goombas…

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“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

~Pablo Picasso

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Caught the 7-year-old doodling goombas from Super Mario instead of working on his handwriting assignment.

Would you be surprised to learn that the goomba doodles made it onto the refrigerator door this week… along with his finally completed handwriting homework?

Couldn’t be helped.

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Michelle is a stay-at-home mom, wife to her wonderful husband, and mother of their two adorable and much-loved children. Through her blog, In The Life of a Child, Michelle has grown a passion for supporting families who are parenting children through extreme medical challenges. Her oldest child was born with a rare birth defect known as a lymphatic malformation and was also diagnosed with cyclic vomiting syndrome. Michelle and her husband share a common goal as parents: To treasure every moment and raise their children to be extraordinary individuals.

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Fostering in Bradford can Answer a Call for Help

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May 7, 2013 | Published in Advocacy

A startling 7,500 children on any given day can be in foster care across Yorkshire and Humberside. Each year more and more children enter foster care or residential care facilities. At least 890 children are currently being looked after in Bradford, UK, with 627 of these children being fostered. The numbers are startling as are the costs it can take for children to be in residential care as opposed to foster care. Residential homes require a building and staff costs. Foster care allows a child to go to a home of the foster care families. It is still 2,000 pounds a week or 21,840 pounds a year to look after a child in foster care; however, this is significantly less than the 104,000 pounds spent on residential care facilities.

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Magic Marker Monday — Go Fly A Kite…

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May 5, 2013 | Published in Magic Marker Monday, Weekly Features

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“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

~Pablo Picasso

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The sun finally came out this past week so we decided that an out-doorsy craft was in order. After a somewhat lengthy debate, we finally settled on kites.

There are a ton of great kite tutorials out there but one entitled “Easiest Kite Ever” caught our attention. True to it’s title, the template and tutorial at Mother and Baby were beautifully simple.

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Magic Marker Monday — Violets…

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April 28, 2013 | Published in Magic Marker Monday, Weekly Features

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“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

~Pablo Picasso

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A lovely bouquet of spring violets adorns my refrigerator door at the moment…

An impromptu “Just Because I Love You” gift from the resident 10-year-old.

Any kid crafts brightening up your fridge these days?

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Magic Marker Monday — School Day Comics…

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April 21, 2013 | Published in Magic Marker Monday, Weekly Features

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“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

~Pablo Picasso

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The latest writing assignment for the resident 10-year old turned into a comic strip this past week.

She writes, “I had fun drawing this picture. The aliens were pretend and she was actually trying to miss the bus. She did, but got in a fight with her mom and threw snow balls at her, but her mom caught her and drove her to school in the car.”

I think someone has been reading a little too much Calvin and Hobbes lately.

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Magic Marker Monday — Mother Dove…

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April 14, 2013 | Published in Magic Marker Monday, Weekly Features

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“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

~Pablo Picasso

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The resident 10-year-old has been reading her way through all of the Disney Tales of Pixie Hollow books.

And she loves to sketch as she reads… above is her version of the Mother Dove character from one of the books.

Anything new at your place?

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Magic Marker Monday — All Things Mario…

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April 7, 2013 | Published in Magic Marker Monday, Weekly Features

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“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

~Pablo Picasso

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The newest resident 7-year-old has been enamored with all things Super Mario themed and has been avidly tracing everything he can get his hands on.

For a kid who doesn’t care for drawing, he’s been doing quite a bit of it lately…

And it’s been fun to see his enthusiasm grow!

What has your little artist been up to?

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Welcome to 5 Minutes for Special Needs #UBP13

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April 5, 2013 | Published in Admin

Welcome to 5 Minutes for Special Needs!

5 Minutes for Special Needs came to life as a Sister Site of 5 Minutes for Mom through Tammy from Praying for Parker.

Tammy did a fabulous job as the volunteer Managing Editor for a long time and grew the site wonderfully. But sadly she became too busy with all the overwhelming tasks in her life and had to step down.

Since then we’ve had a couple of wonderful editors and many fantastic writers share here at 5 Minutes for Special Needs.

But over the last several months we’ve been without a managing editor here and thus the site has trickled down to only Michelle’s weekly meme of Magic Marker Monday.

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Magic Marker Monday — Mermaids…

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March 31, 2013 | Published in Magic Marker Monday, Weekly Features

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“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

~Pablo Picasso

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The resident 10-year-old is still fascinated by the world of Peter Pan and recently decided to draw a picture of how she sees Mermaid Lagoon in her imagination.

Hope your week is filled with imagination and creativity as well!

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