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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …