Top 10 Reasons My Kids Like Being Homeschooled
Homeschooling is a choice, one parents often make for their children. While I know that not all children enjoy being homeschooled, my kids like being homeschooled. While their reasons may be different than mine, they demonstrate some of the wonderful benefits of homeschooling. I decided that instead of making a list of reasons why we […]
Top 10 Favorite Homeschooling Sites {Resources, Printables, Support & More}
When I started blogging in 2009 I had know idea what I would soon find on the Internet! I couldn’t believe the wealth of homeschool knowledge, connection, and support I would find! I originally wrote this Top 10 Favorite Homeschooling Sites list in 2012. Wow! How the time flies! So much has grown and changed in […]
Stuffed Peppers
Stuffed Peppers Ingredients: 1 pound ground beef (or turkey which is significantly less calories) 1/2 cup uncooked long grain white rice 1 cup water 6 Green or Red bell peppers 2 (8 ounce) cans tomato sauce 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder 1/4 teaspoon onion powder ½ Cup Shredded Mozzarella salt and pepper […]
High School Electives ~ A More In-depth Look at Our Choices
In continuing with my informal theme of preparing for the high school years, today I want to share our list of high school electives we are compiling to consider for Chloe’s high school years. In my last post I covered high school electives in general and included a long list of possibilities. Now that my brain has […]
Art With Canvas & Painters Tape
This art project is one that I not only found, but bought the supplies for last year! I got the inspiration from a post I saw over at The Homeschool Classroom. The problem is that we never got around to doing it then so I finally dug it out for our November art project. One […]
Weekly Wrap-Up ~ Week 18 ~ Fact Families & The Pulmonary System
Quote For The Week: Monday: With all the holidays beyond us and the New Year being barely begun, we are digging deep and really kicking it into high gear here in our homeschool. We have completed one full successful week of our new schedule. We are packing in a lot of science and history […]
What’s Right For You May Not be Right For Me
Parental Judgement…….this is on my heart and in my mind. It is so easy to look across the street, next to you in the dance studio waiting room, down the sideline at a youth soccer game, and make a judgement about what some other parent is doing with their child. This is something I have […]
Rouladen ~ A German Meat Dish
Ingredients: beef top round sliced thin (then cut in half) mustard bacon dill relish Nature’s Seasoning bay leaves garlic powder olive oil flour water toothpicks Directions: On each piece of meat, spread a thin layer of mustard, sprinkle Nature’s Seasoning and place half a strip of uncooked bacon on it. Next, place one teaspoon of dill […]
Exploring Possible Elective Courses for High School
Last month I wrote a post pertaining to the anxiety surrounding the act of Homeschooling High School. I spoke of my anxiety level being unusually low, due in part to my due diligence in completing research on the subject. One of the topics I spent time researching is the possible elective courses for high school. […]
Weekly Wrap-Up ~ Week 17 ~ 1/4/13
Quote For The Week: “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” ~Helen Keller I can’t believe it has been 7 weeks since I posted a Weekly Wrap-Up and that in 3 weeks we will hit the mid point of […]
Starts At Eight: Top Ten Most Popular Posts of 2012
Last year was the first year I posted a Top Ten Most Popular Posts. I don’t often look in the analytics part of my blog, so it was fun to see where people were visiting. Since I really enjoyed it last year, I decided to do it again this year. I am including the Top […]
New Year’s Resolutions ~ 2012
As I sit here wondering what to write about I am struck by my increasingly large case of writer’s block. A kind of block that is case specific to this time honored tradition we call, “New Year’s Resolutions”. Resolution by definition means, “A course of action determined or decided on.” A New Year’s Resolution according […]
How to Eat When You’re NOT Working Out ~ My Weight Loss Struggles
A few of years ago I had hit my highest weight ever, even heavier than when I was nine months pregnant, pre-eclamtic and swollen to the hilt! So I set out to drop the weight. It helped that I had just had braces put on my teeth and thus my mouth was often to sore […]
Wordless (almost) Wednesday ~ Christmas Memories 2012
Last year after Christmas I posted a Wordless (almost) Wednesday about Christmas Emotions. One of the stories there was about Joey and his innovative wrapping techniques. This year I have another story to tell pertaining to a new method of wrapping Joey came up with this year! For whatever reason each one of our children […]