Why I Won’t Recommend the Pearl’s Books

This is my first ever negative book review. I usually don’t waste my time telling you about books that I dislike. I’d rather emphasize the positive and move on to tell you about titles that I feel are edifying and helpful. But, after Tim Challais 

Our Favorite Homeschool Tools: {Pt. 2. History}

This is part two of our Favorite Curriculum series and today I am sharing what worked for us for History. If you missed part one, read here for our favorite Homeschool picks for Math and Language Arts. When our children were young, we used several 

Friday Five (on Saturday)

  So, I know it’s a day late, but here is our Friday Five. 🙂 But before we start with that, look who’s home: She got in during the wee hours of this morning. We slept in late, had a special breakfast, had friends and 

10 Books that Changed My Life

Today I am participating in a Modern Mrs. Darcy’s Book Carnival. We were asked to post about a book that changed our life. I have to say that I have been thinking about this for a week or so and was having a hard time 

A Wisdom Giveaway {and author Lydia Brownback joins us!}

I am cracking up at my title. Don’t you wish we could have a wisdom giveaway? If only it were that easy! lol But, we ARE giving away Lydia Brownback’s newest book, entitled    A Woman’s Wisdom: How the Book of Proverbs Speaks to Everything 

Weekend Dribble Drabble

  Some things that caught my attention this week: Amusing. An Amish gang? I was mildly amused by (okay, that’s a lie. I was cracking up)  this article about four Amish women gone “wild”…and taking to cutting off beards. Yup. Hair cutting. It’s the new 

Our Favorite Christmas Story Books

We have always read aloud to our kids. It is one of my favorite homeschool memories–sitting on the couch, wrapped in blankets and reading aloud. Sometimes the kids would play legos quietly while I read. Sometimes they used Stockmar modeling beeswax to keep their hands 

Revolutionary Parenting: What the Research Shows Really Works

One of the topics that I am passionate about is parenting. I love being a mom, and I have spent years reading, reading, reading about being the best wife and mother I could be. People seem to ask me their child raising questions, and have 

Generation ME

My husband and I were challenged at a youth workers conference to read a book entitled Generation Me: Why  Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled- and More Miserable Than Ever Before. Weird thing was, that I actually had checked that very book out of 

A Normal Homeschooling Magazine!

A few days ago, I was with my friend at our home schooling co-op and I mentioned to her that I had never found a home schooling magazine that I really  loved. I went down the laundry list of things that turned me off with