Valentine’s Day is a great opportunity to share God’s love with children! We’ve got some fantastic Preschool resources for you to use this year, and now we’ve got a few activities for you your older kiddos as well. Today I wanted to highlight how to use one of our new …Read the Rest
Someone very special is turning 1 this month! Someone cute, and adorable, and someone who’s diaper I don’t have to change! Someone who made me an Aunt for the very first time! Someone who deserves an AMAZING 1st birthday gift, (you know…..to remind him who his favorite Aunt is) I found (via Pinterest of course) this wonderfully simple tutorial for …Read the Rest
Ever since the kiddos saw my new watercolor set, they’ve been dying to dig into the bright colors and try them out! And since the weather has been dreary all week, I decided that it would be a great time to really bring out the color. (Inspiration via: this great lesson in our Artistic Pursuits curriculum,) We practiced blending across …Read the Rest
Over the weekend I picked up a few shabby touches to spread around the house: a plant stand. a little bird. a little nest. some weeping. some willow. I love having new treasures to look at! Get Shareaholic
We recently had the opportunity to review Kinderbach! Kinderbach is an early education piano curriculum for home or classroom use. The target age for this program is 3-7 years old. There are 6 curriculum levels to Kinderbach, each with a very detailed syllabus of what skills are being addressed. Each level is scheduled to last 10 weeks (with 4 lessons/week) …Read the Rest
Yes, I realize that were in the middle of Winter. But all the more reason, I say! Sometimes we can go a bit stir crazy spending so much time indoors, playing the same games, finishing up the same puzzles, and coloring the same coloring books. Sometimes it’s fun just to have a completely NEW activity to keep us busy. During …Read the Rest
Don’t you just LOVE Pinterest? I love that you can follow people and see THEIR pins, and then “repin” it to your own boards. A virtual “To-Do” cork board of that never runs out of space! Anyway, this week I saw these adorable Secret Valentines, and I was inspired to make our own version: These would be super simple for …Read the Rest
The story of my first canvas experience: What Fun! Get Shareaholic
Update: This Giveaway is now Closed! We have Two Winners: Comment #128 was Marcie who said, “I really like that primary, manuscript, and wide ruled are offered. As a parent of a 2nd grade reluctant writer (who is also still learning to form letters), I like that I have options for him as well as my 4th grader.” Comment # …Read the Rest
It’s been a long time, but I finally have another TOT in the house. Monkey is 2 1/2 and in full on TOT mode. Which means he wants to do “school” like his older siblings, but he has the attention span of a… Well……. of a Monkey But he absolutely MUST be keep busy. As we all know That if …Read the Rest
Today I just wanted to take a quick second to share something that has been working for us. If you follow me on facebook you saw I posted these Parts of Speech printables last week. Well, here is just a QUICK little tip for how to use them. First I simply put them back to back in a page protector, …Read the Rest
This week we’re studying the life of Moses. Using The Mystery of History as our guide, and reading directly from our family bible, we have spent our afternoons immersed in the life of this interesting, and very human man named Moses. My children (and I) have been enraptured by the way God revealed himself to Moses, and the amazing miracles …Read the Rest
This year one of our homeschool goals has been to lay a good foundation for learning Spanish. It’s been one of my more challenging goals, because (let me fill you in on a little secret here…..) I don’t know Spanish. Interesting little situation isn’t it? And let me just say here, that when I started homeschooling this was one of …Read the Rest
This morning I had so much fun going through SpellOutloud’s Top 10 list, that I decided to post one too! Here were the Top 10 visited blog posts for the year! 1. Free Nursing Cover Pattern 2. Multiplication Pocket Folder 3. We Choose Virtues Review 4. Free Birthday Bash File Folder Game 5. Pioneer Crafts 6. Our Homeschool 7. Scientific …Read the Rest
Can I tell you something about our family? We own WAY, WAY, WAY to many bibles. I know that sounds like a backwards statement, But it’s true. I think if I stacked up all the bibles in one pile it would tower over my two year old. It’s almost as if we keep purchasing them in HOPES that they will …Read the Rest
Recently I decided that I needed to make my little nephew something for Christmas. I found these adorable baby boot patterns from a website called I Think Sew. I’m in love. It was hard to decide between all the adorable little booties they had, but I finally settled on the “Charlie” pattern. The Charlie patterns is usually $4.00, but they …Read the Rest
Do you have a “Crafty” To-do list? There are so many amazing projects out there, that sometimes I get overwhelmed with all the inspiration. Sometimes I’ll bookmark and idea, sometimes I’ll pin it on pinterest, and other times I’ll just quitely mull over it in my head until the perfect moment. For Years Lately, I’ve been mulling over two different …Read the Rest
We LOVE Art. Have you noticed. We do TONS of hands on learning around here, coordinating our projects with our daily lessons. But sometimes I forget to schedule actual ART. It’s one of those subjects that is on the last of the daily schedule, and because of that;sometimes often gets overlooked. And there are different reasons why Art gets the …Read the Rest
Hey. Look closely for a moment. See that little red book in the back of my newly sewn purse? Ha! Tricked Ya. That’s not really a book at all. Oh wait….actually it is a book! It’s thousands of books….and so much more! It’s the Kindle Fire, And let me tell ya, This thing is HOT! Not “Hot” as in stolen, …Read the Rest
Can I show you something? It’s kinda pitiful. The sort of thing that… IF we weren’t in Bloggyworld and IF we were…..say best friends YOU probably would have already sat me down and had a serious conversation with me. About THIS: YOU would tell me that a dried up grapevine wreath isn’t decoration. That I’ve forgotten the CHIC and all …Read the Rest
I did it! I made a purse. WITH a zipper. This is my first Official Purse. Actually….. I did make this handbag a couple of years ago, but there was no zipper so I’m pretty sure that it doesn’t count. This time there IS a zipper, and let me tell ya, there were a few times I almost threw this …Read the Rest
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