Two of my sons and I went to watch the Miss Yuma County pageant for the very first time. What made it exciting and fulfilling is that we’ve been training the girls for 8 weeks for their public speaking skills, and tonight we got to see them use some of the skills we’d taught them. I was mostly impressed with the girls who got 2nd and 3rd. What alot they’ve improved in speaking skills since we first met them.
lob's Life List
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1. encourage and support my son in reaching Eagle Scout
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2. joyfully help my son produce a play for our homeschool group
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3. joyfully organize our annual homeschool talent show
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4. start and enjoy a puppetry small group with my youngest son
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5. enjoy my role as advisor to a JOOI club
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6. joyfully host a Toastmasters table at the annual AWC Family Fun Night
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7. joyfully serve as VPE for our Toastmasters club
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8. joyfully earn my Toastmasters ALB award
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9. joyfully help start a new Toastmasters club
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10. Make 2009 the Best Year of my Life
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11. joyfully clear out the clutter from our home
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12. Be healthy, be fit
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13. on my road to better health... try reflexology
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14. on my road to better health...get a professional massage
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15. complete Denise Linn's Soul Coaching 28 day program
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16. feel beautiful from the inside out
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17. help rebuild the fort for my youngest son
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18. easily cancel 2 organizations that I'm in charge of but have outlived their usefulness
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19. hide a geocache
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20. Find 200 geocaches
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21. clean and organize our back patio
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22. joyfully become a great storyteller
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23. sew my Swedish folk costume
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24. make a medieval dress
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25. fill in my PAF with the info I have
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26. joyfully make 43 art or craft projects in 2009
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27. joyfully watch all 3 seasons of Wonder Woman
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28. joyfully watch all 7 seasons of Star Trek Voyager
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29. watch season 4 of 3rd Rock from the Sun on DVD
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30. joyfully watch 15 movies in 2009
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31. joyfully read 85 books in 2009
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32. Do a 2009 holiday card exchange with my 43Things friends
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34. Celebrate Flirt's birthday with chocolate, flirtinis and anything purple on Nov 11th
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35. joyfully list 3 things I am grateful for today
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36. reflect daily in a 'one sentence' journal
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37. Participate in NaBloPoMo 2009
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How I did it: We followed the lead of the coordinator. She made an agenda and planned each session. We started out with just ice breaker speeches and Tabletopics for them, but the last half was almost entirely their mock interiew questions (almost Tabletopics) and their 45 second wrap-up. We had to be much harder on evaluating them than we usually are at a regular Toastmasters meeting. I did feel a bit picky, but then I saw the improvement the followin… Read how I did it…
How I did it: We flew to St Petersburg and stayed at the St Petersburg Hotel. We walked alot around the city, as well as spending 2 days at the Hermitage museum and going to 2 performnces at the Mariinsky Theater. Read how I did it…
How I did it: First we had to decide which area to purchase a map/kit for. This was the first time we bought this one from Hörby, but it was for the forest near our home where we love to walk.It took us 5 outings to find all 30 markers. Each outing was about 3-5 hours. We took time to enjoy each outing by taking photos, picking flowers, talking and eating wild berries. Read how I did it…
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Today I am grateful for:
+going to the pageant
+making it to the TM club officers meeting
+watching my son shoot at 4H
It was so fun to see the results of our Toastmasters training for the Miss Yuma County contestants.

