If your children are like mine, they hate the boring writing books that are widely available to homeschools. It seems homeschool children are a bit umm… spoiled? Spoiled by parents who are creative teachers. It isn’t a bad thing, but, it makes things difficult when parents are in a super busy season and have to […]
Holiday eBook Bundle to Help Your Family Stay Focused
October 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Thanksgiving, Christmas and all are just around the corner. It is time to get organized and focused on the true reasons for these special holidays. This bundle of 25 books for JUST $25 will be sure to help you. There are planning pages, homeschooling helps, pages to help your children record their memories, crafts to […]
Homeschool on the Snowy Prairie
February 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Over the last week, we have had snow, as in a lot of snow for our area. I have heard for our community anywhere from 22-30 inches. There were two rounds of snow, the first was pretty even and with everyone saying about 16 inches. However, the second round drifted a lot, and is drifting […]
Homeschool Moms’ Winter Summit and GIVEAWAY
January 7, 2013 by 30 Comments
Are you ready for some encouragement? How about some refreshment? Would you like to gather with a whole room full of moms that are on the same journey as you? Well, have I got some news for you!! January 25-26, I will be gathering with moms from all over the central part of the U.S. […]
Snowy Fun Farm Style
January 1, 2013 by 1 Comment
Well, I said yesterday we didn’t get enough snow to go sledding, well…God must have known we were all just a bit disappointed, because He more, and we all just had a HUGE old Farm Style Snowy Fun Blast!! We do this Farm Style or maybe y’all call it Red Neck style…whatever it is, it […]
Christmas Craft: Sun Catcher Nativity Scene
December 5, 2012 by 7 Comments
I have spent the last few weeks looking for some fun Christ centered Christmas Crafts to work on with my children. I have always wanted to do a craft with a Nativity Scene as the focal point, but had never come across one that would be simple enough to do with my children’s wide age […]
Celebrating the Advent with Christ at the Center~Truth in the Tinsel
November 25, 2012 by 1 Comment
This year we are doing a new Advent study. Though it is said this is geared for younger children, as I have looked through it, and started planning, I have found that it can easily be adapted for use with the WHOLE family. We are using Truth in the Tinsel this year. Spend December impressing […]
Tri-cross Board Game Review
September 20, 2011 by 1 Comment
My older two children ages 9 and almost 12 love board games. We don’t get to play challenging games often when littles are around, but they found quite a bit of time to play Tri-cross ($24.95) a game by Games for Competitors. Tri-cross is a board game that seems to be a cross of checkers, […]
Nature Study Tuesday~March 1
February 28, 2011 by 2 Comments
Welcome back to Nature Study Tuesday. We took a break over the coldest months of the winter, but now it is warming up and time to get back outside and enjoy God’s creation. Over the winter our oldest Philip, AKA Nature Boy, fed an opossum in our garage. This opossum has been lose and able […]
A Family, Fun, Christ-centered Christmas-Simplify
December 14, 2010 by 5 Comments
We have all heard it, seen it and even some have done it. That ______mas that left Christ in the church on Sunday morning. It is sad, so many have forgotten why we celebrate Christmas. In our family, we do give gifts, but our focus is on the giving. Christ gave his life for us, […]
Our First Week Back to School-Our First Injury of 2010
January 11, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Well, we got through that first week, and we thrived-except for an accident our 4 year old Heidi had at Grandma’s-more on that later in this post. I did a ton of planning during Christmas break, lots of copies, and lots of reading schedules. It was worth every minute. We are really digging into our […]
As a Homeschooler, Do YOU have Snow Days?
December 8, 2009 by 1 Comment
I ask this question, as I hear many different thoughts on this. I never have actually said much to anyone, but I know when I was in public school, it was always exciting to see if we had school or not. In many ways, I don’t want to take that away from my children, so […]
mother, christian, wife, woman, child of God. It is about my life as a farmer’s wife, as a cook, a baker, a nurse, a teacher, a woodworker, a housekeeper, a farmer (yep, I drive tractors, pick up hay bales, and other farm duties), a gardener. So, what you read here, is me, as a transparent sometimes hot headed, passionate, and opinionated person.
