Spiritual Gifts Inventory

Earlier today, I was listening to Cindy Rushton and Kathy Butryn at the Ultimate Homeschool Expo 2008 (yes, it is over now, but you can still buy a ticket and get in on the fun and goodies). The teaching was on helping your child discover their life purpose. Cindy certainly has a heart [...]

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New Blog For Homeschooling Stuff

I’ve created a new blog. Mostly because I’m silly. But also so that I can keep my homeschooling/kid stuff separate from my emotional rantings. If you scroll down the side…keep scrolling…past the pictures…keep going…stop! Right there. Two rss feeds. One is for Simple Letters to Great Minds, my classics [...]

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Thankful Thursday…hee hee, a day late

1. A garage. I’m thankful for my garage, because even during a thunderstorm, the fruit are able to play out there and have a blast. They have currently developed a game called “The United Kids of the Garage”. They have stores, charities, money, services to render (such as bike repair), and homes [...]

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Thankful Thursday

1. We have moved back into the new house! Mom decided that she can handle the stairs until her room is finished. She told me Tuesday that she wanted to, and I had us packed and ready to go within three hours.
2. My garden is growing! My broccoli has recovered [...]

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Giveaways, Meme’s, and Other Web Stuff

Here is this very cool giveaway to win a set of Biology 101 dvds at Heart of the Matter. Three ways to enter and if you do all three, you get three entries! Yippee!
The Homeschool Lounge. I have to be very careful here. I found the too cool Homeschool Toolbar at [...]

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Habits Update

So Barbie, you ask, how is that walking going? Have you been keeping up on your habit-forming? Have you, indeed, stayed away from your beloved message board???? The answers are: okay, sorta, and YES.
I didn’t walk for awhile, because of one useless excuse after another, but I’m back on board [...]

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Huh?

The Parade magazine has an online poll about homeschooling. Go vote. But I just wanted to point out this little tidbit from the accompanying article.
“If upheld, the California ruling will send shock waves nationwide,” says Richard Kahlenberg, the author of a number of books on education. He says the case “pits those [...]

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Why I homeschool

I usually don’t post these, mostly because there are so many of them, and I try to concentrate on the positive aspects of life. But this, well, I just had to. Fox News Article: Autistic boy voted out of class
And people say that my children would be better off in school?!? That [...]

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Bird Notebook

I spent some time last night while nursing F7 making notebook pages to go with our current unit on birds. I had planned to use Apologia’s elementary science curriculum: Zoology 1, Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day, but Mr. Nutt’s unemployment put a screeching halt to buying any new curriculum. So, I [...]

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F3’s Paragraph on the Maoi of Easter Island

Why do the Moai of Easter Island wear pukao? Moai were believed to have powers, but no one believed them to be gods. Sometimes Moai were known as “Aringa Ora”, meaning “Living Faces”. Pukao were cylindrical red stone that the Moai wore on their heads. Many experts believe that pukao were [...]

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