First, let me say thanks to everyone for praying for my husband (and for the award, Camille). We continue with tests this week for blood pressure and so forth. We hope to rule out all the terrible stuff and be left with something simple. Deo Volente!! He is back to running, at least, for short bits [...]
We just lost a friend on Saturday. Mr. Jimmy was in his early 60's and he had been hoping to put off going to the doctor for back pain until he reached medicare age. He waited too long but he touched many people in his last days with his strength [...]
We just lost a friend on Saturday. Mr. Jimmy was in his early 60's and he had been hoping to put off going to the doctor for back pain until he reached medicare age. He waited too long but he touched many people in his last days with his strength [...]
I just checked my email after I posted my product review for All About Homophones and guess what??!!??
There was a coupon for YOU in my inbox!!!
You can get $10 off any order at www.all-about-homophones.com! To receive the discount, visitors to the site need to enter "FUN" in the customer [...]
I just checked my email after I posted my product review for All About Homophones and guess what??!!??
There was a coupon for YOU in my inbox!!!
You can get $10 off any order at www.all-about-homophones.com! To receive the discount, visitors to the site need to enter "FUN" in the customer [...]
"All About Homophones: Your Complete Toolkit" by Marie Ripple, a well known name in the homeschool world, is an all in one resource to be used with grades 1-8.
Homophones are words that have the same sound but are spelled differently and have different meanings. For instance, piece and peace [...]
"All About Homophones: Your Complete Toolkit" by Marie Ripple, a well known name in the homeschool world, is an all in one resource to be used with grades 1-8.
Homophones are words that have the same sound but are spelled differently and have different meanings. For instance, piece and peace [...]
I recently caught a news blurb somewhere (don't ask me where... I can't remember) that said President Obama has the best security lineup of any president. EVER.
Mr. President, may I ask, if you are so happy to enjoy the protection of your secret service, and whatever other means of security [...]
I recently caught a news blurb somewhere (don't ask me where... I can't remember) that said President Obama has the best security lineup of any president. EVER.
Mr. President, may I ask, if you are so happy to enjoy the protection of your secret service, and whatever other means of security [...]
Please bear with me this week as I won't be posting much. A much loved elderly gentleman from our church is in his final stages of cancer and not expected to make it many days longer. My family will be away from the computer much of the time as we try to [...]
Please bear with me this week as I won't be posting much. A much loved elderly gentleman from our church is in his final stages of cancer and not expected to make it many days longer. My family will be away from the computer much of the time as we try to [...]
In December of 2007 my blog won the Best Encourager category for the Homeschool Blog Awards. I won several prizes with the awards and was introduced to many new great companies that I had not even known existed prior to that. One such company was Math Mammoth . Marie [...]
In December of 2007 my blog won the Best Encourager category for the Homeschool Blog Awards. I won several prizes with the awards and was introduced to many new great companies that I had not even known existed prior to that. One such company was Math Mammoth . Marie [...]
WE HAD SNOW!!!!!
When our daughter was very young, and I was active duty Air Force, we lived in Omaha (actually Bellvue) Nebraska, and we had lots of snow. Since then, however, the Marine Corps has moved us all around and to places that only got snow once in a [...]
WE HAD SNOW!!!!!
When our daughter was very young, and I was active duty Air Force, we lived in Omaha (actually Bellvue) Nebraska, and we had lots of snow. Since then, however, the Marine Corps has moved us all around and to places that only got snow once in a [...]
WOW, Brrr... it was cold this morning! The thermometer read 9 as Mike was filling up the gas tank. That is frigid for where we are. I keep wishing and praying for snow but I have to be content with what we have, too, I know. Yesterday, I was at [...]
WOW, Brrr... it was cold this morning! The thermometer read 9 as Mike was filling up the gas tank. That is frigid for where we are. I keep wishing and praying for snow but I have to be content with what we have, too, I know. Yesterday, I was at [...]
Our daughter is almost finished with high school. We are starting to really look at colleges -- we even took a swing by and visited the campus of one in Kentucky on our way back home from the holidays. Now, the big question is do we just do college entrance [...]
I find lately that I have less and less time to be on my blog, and on the computer in general. I used to miss it and go into withdrawal if I didn't check my email at least 20 times a day -- about as often as I would walk by [...]
Attention writers!
Grab your pencils and get those creative juices flowing!
The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine is hosting our second Storytime Writing Contest! We have two creative fiction categories: adults (16 and up 2,500 words or less) and children (15 and below 1,500 words [...]
I have two children in our family who do not write well, and have always had problems with writing. They have both undergone occupational therapy when they were enrolled in charter schools to try and help with this problem. If anything, their writing got worse, and has continued to get [...]
My husband has recently been visiting the chiropracter on base twice a week for what he has been told will probably be a regular thing until he retires from the Marine Corps. He has now been told he needs a new MRI to be done on his back. We are waiting for [...]
Nothing much going on today except laundry... I thought I'd add this in just for fun.. let me know if you play along :-)
1. Two Names You Go By: Honey-wa and Mama
2. Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now: jeans and a sweater with an argyle pattern on it
3. [...]
Our daughter, Victoria, turned 17 on Saturday -- the day we drove home to North Carolina from spending the holidays in Kentucky. This is a picture of her a few days after Christmas sitting on the swing in one of papaw's old trees. She made the dress herself and [...]
We've had a good visit at home with family and friends. We've enjoyed the holidays in Kentucky, the antique shop visiting, the driving around and seeing the sites, the house magazine looking, the country cooking, the mom and dad teasing, and everything else in between. Today we are washing the laundry [...]
Both my dad and my niece are sick and could use your prayers. My great niece has a really nasty cough and congestion (my mom and niece are at the hospital right now because she was having such hard time with breathing) and my dad was feeling faint and sick to his stomach [...]
My husband and I were laughing yesterday over a "baby" moment when everyone swore my neice (actually, she's my great niece but I guess you don't say that in everyday speak) hated gravy but she ate mine. She kept dumping everything off her baby spoon to get more of my homemade gravy. [...]
We have many experiences with many churches because we are a military family. We always seem to find the good in every church we attend though and seek to find God in the church whether it is a church we are used to or not. When you [...]
It is our golden boy's 13th birthday!! He was born at Fort Knox (thus the nickname) and is our only Kentucky baby :-) We aren't doing a party or cake until we get back to North Carolina because he'd really like to celebrate with some of his good friends but [...]
My husband and I were driving with our family to church last Sunday morning when we heard the song "I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day". After the song was finished they gave a brief history of the story and my husband and I both commented that we would never [...]
We are not at our own house this year for Christmas but we always host parties and such at our house so it was nice to decorate and make everything festive whether we were going to be at home or not. The children were very excited to have the decorations up, [...]
Hello, Everyone!! I pray that you are having a safe and wonderful Christmas season! We have traveled to Kentucky and are spending this beautiful time of the year with my family. The last time we had Christmas in Kentucky was 13 years ago...right before our 3rd child was born. We [...]
It has been really wet around here where we live but I love the weather. Our temps go between really REALLY cold, to just mildly cold, to pretty warm. The nights are really chilly, with rumors of snow following people whereever you go. I like that :-)
We are doing some [...]
One of the products I received in the mail recently was a Money Kit to help my children learn to save money. My husband and I have been teaching our children this concept for a long time and were pleased that each of the 5 plastic "envelopes" taught [...]
I wanted to leave the giveaway open for any late-comers but I think with the holiday, it just wasn't gonna happen but it does make it nice for all 4 entrants as there were 4 prizes :-)
So, the winners of each item are:
Valerie wins the bookmarks from Geneva Bible Pages
Jenny wins [...]
I'm sorry I missed posting last weeks giveaway. Things just didn't work out very well for us throughout the week, with having to spend several hundred dollars at the garage for maintenance on our van that we didn't expect, but we are back on track now I pray :-) To [...]
Most of our family loves history books, and mystery books (probably one reason why Noah liked Missing Link that I talked about last week so much) best of all. For our homeschool we read many OLD books that we find on Gutenberg Press website or other old book websites. We have a nice collection [...]
I had a new article up at HOTM this week:
Reading the history of this nation is always a good reminder for me and for my family of what we have to be thankful for. Experiencing history is even better! This week we will be in our nations capital, Washington D.C., [...]
It has been like Christmas around here since late September/early October as I am doing a lot of product reviews for homeschool companies through the TOS Crew. Nearly everyday finds a new box, or two being delivered by the postman. There are no strings attached and the companies truly do want honest [...]
I have four children who have differing love/hate relationships with books. The two oldest can not get enough of books and would stay in a nice comfy chair or propped up with pillows in their beds all day long while they read. The middle child hates books and will read [...]
We have some ice storms(??) and snow going on right now and REALLY unusual weather (or so I'm told) for this time of year in this region of North Carolina. I will probably not get a post for the next contest up until Monday but will plan to leave it up for [...]
Mama-lu who signed the comments on 11.13.08 @ 12:15 pm wins the cleopatra bracelet from Asil Designs!!!
Nikowa who signed the comments on 11.13.08 @ 5:04 pm wins the sunshiney happy earrings from JoBead!!
H.S. who signed the comments on 11.14.08 @ 3:18 am wins her choice of two of the three fabric covered bangle bracelets from Darcus Does It!!
And, Crystal who signed the comments [...]
First, if you are looking for the winners, come back in the morning and I'll post the winners of last weeks contest, along with the new shops for this weeks contest :-)
OK, now on to my post... Part of me (the lazy part) thinks I am married and I don't need to [...]
