You may have seen my Wordless Wednesday pic yesterday of our Snowman Fridge. With the whole point of a Wordless Wednesday being….well…wordless, I didn’t mention that I saw the idea a few months back on the Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett Facebook page. I also didn’t mention that we’ve had said snowman on our fridge [...]
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“The Day the World Went Wacky” by Janine Suter is a new book by Master Books publishing that teaches kids about the Fall of Man. The books starts out from a child’s perspective. He is in the dentist chair with a cavity, and he questions why God made pain. If God made the world, and [...]
We recently reviewed Math Rider, a computerized math game for kids as part of the TOS homeschool Crew. Math Rider was created by Thomas Brand, a software architect, when his two elementary aged girls were struggling with their math at school. Math Rider is an intelligent computer game that allows kids to practice math drills [...]
I started playing piano in the 1st grade, and basically played it right up until I graduated from high school. After that, I would play every time I went home to my parent’s house, but I wasn’t actively taking lessons anymore. I now have a piano of my own, but don’t find too much time [...]
My 3-year-old must qualify for the world’s pickiest eater. She has a handful of foods that she will eat. Anything that falls outside of that spectrum is met with a giant tantrum. You can probably guess that just about every vegetable and fruit falls outside of the handful of approved foods. I swear, this kid [...]
I love homemade Valentine’s day gifts! A couple of years back my son (who was probably 4 or 5 at the time) and I made a sweet gift for my husband that he LOVED receiving from us. We wrapped a tissue box with regular printer paper and wrote “How much do I love you? Let [...]
One thing that we’ve been striving to improve on in our family is Virtues….kindness, gentleness, self-control….some days I feel like I’m CONSTANTLY reminding them to be kind to one another (and noticing that my tone and my words aren’t really modeling the virtues that I’m trying to instill…). We recently had the opportunity to review [...]
I read this great post today from Crystal at Money Saving Mom about comparing ourselves to others. It reminded me of this fantastic quote that I found on Pinterest: * Source: ohmystars.me via Stephanie on Pinterest It’s so easy to do this with other homeschool bloggers, for example. They seem to have it ALL together. [...]
I’ll be honest with you. I balked at joining Pinterest for a long time (I did the same thing with Facebook). After all, I saw a lot of people saying how addictive Pinterest was…..and, quite frankly, I didn’t need something else that would suck my time away. Then, one day, I gave in. I don’t [...]
