6 Ways to Get Your Kids to Visit (& LOVE) the Library
You’ll never be too old to learn new and exciting things, and while there is a plethora of ways to do that on the Internet, reading books are still the best among the rest! Apart from being a good source of useful information, reading also provides for a pleasurable pastime. One way to help encourage […]
Teaching History Through Movies: Helen Keller
While I have always enjoyed supplementing our history studies with the use of historical fiction. I have recently decided to trying enhancing our studies with movies too. Teaching History Through Movies is another great way to bring a time period, historical moment, place or person to life. While most movies aren’t totally historically accurate, they […]
Simple Woman’s Daybook….February 8th 2010
The Simple Woman’s Daybook FOR TODAY: February 08, 2010… Outside my window…the footprints in the sand are silent clues to the fun of another day that has past in our childrens’ lives. I am thinking…how wonderful it is that my parents’ have been married for 46 years today. I am thankful for…the science center we […]
Happy 46th Anniversary Mom & Dad
Tomorrow is my parents’ wedding anniversary. They will have been married for 46 years! I know for me, that seems like a lifetime. They are in the minority of people who can truly say they have spent their lives together. So in honor of their wedding anniversary, and in keeping with the NaBloPoMo theme of […]
Reasons Why We Home School
When people ask our children where they go to school, and get the response back from them, “We are home schooled”, we often get that questioning look. The look that says, “What planet are you from?”. Believe it or not we consider ourselves to be pretty mainstream. We did not choose to home school for […]
Flashback Friday – “Project Day”
We have been in our new house almost 2 years now. One of the things we love most is that there has been a minuscule amount of home improvement jobs to be done here. At our old house not only were there always projects to be done, but they were always big ones! From sanding […]
Ice Skating
With winter in full swing it can sometimes be hard to find places for the kids to get their energy out without breaking the “piggy” bank. Last year someone in our home school community started ice skating at a local arena. She posted the “event” to a couple of online home school groups that I […]
NaBloPoMo Day 2 – February 2nd -“Neck Tie” Edition #1
I have been doing a lot of thinking about creative ways to include the NaBloPoMo websites theme of “Ties” during my month of blogging. Today I would like to start with an obvious one, but one that has meaning in our house. Actual neck ties are worn by Joey for work on a daily basis. […]
Simple Woman’s Daybook…..February 1st, 2010
This is from Peggy at The Simple Woman’s Daybook. It is a list of questions to answer each Monday – a simple journal of sorts. FOR TODAY: February 1st, 2010… Outside my window…the sun is shining! I am thinking…where did January go? I am thankful for…having winter and thus snow as a part of our […]
Book Review-Certain Girls
I enjoy reading in my spare time….not that I have much spare time! I often find myself forgetting the books I have read, or knowing that I read it but don’t really remember what it was about. Since I have this lovely blog, I deicded that I could use this as a forum to keep […]
Flashback Friday-Jayden Edition
Spending scheduled time with my “Walk and Talk” buddy Shana and her boys has been such a joy over the past months. I look forward to getting out and sharing a piece of me with her, and getting to accept all the wonderful pieces of her she has to offer me. Shana, I know you […]
Simple Woman’s Daybook…January 25th 2010
I am following Shana’s lead, even though it seems she has finked out and only done this once! We will see how many times I can manage to complete and post one of these on Monday’s! This is from Peggy at The Simple Woman’s Daybook. It is a list of questions to answer each Monday […]