My husband loves to do the Jumble in the daily paper. He is amazingly fast too. Me….not so much. I have noticed that over the years I have gotten better, and I can usually figure out most of the words. I’m just not very fast. Apparently my brain doesn’t work in the same way. Honestly,…
My Top 10 Creative and Affordable Vacation Ideas
Vacations are expensive. Does it have to be true? I don’t know any way to get a totally free vacation, but we’ve managed to vacation on a budget for years now. Twittermoms wants to hear our affordable vacation ideas. Here are 10 ways to save money on a vacation: 1. Drive – To making driving…
Beeyoutiful Laveshmint
I’ve received a lot of fun curriculum products as a member of the Homeschool Crew. And I really like curriculum, but I have to share the curriculum with my children. Beeyoutiful sent us some products just for us, the homeschool moms. (Or any woman, of course.) I know that I spend very little time on…
The Money Answer Book by Dave Ramsey
Dave Ramsey’s latest book, The Money Answer Book, is a short, easily readable book written in a question and answer format. Topics include Debt, Credit, & Bankruptcy, Relationships & Money, Budgeting, Stewardship, Insurance, and more. Dave provides his simple, no-nonsense advice in much the same way as he does on the radio. This book is…
100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know
Recently I posted a list of which of 100 Top Children’s Novels I had read. It had a great response, so when I saw this list of 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know posted by the New York Public Library, I knew I was going to have to see how many of these I’d read.…
Weekly Wrap Up (5/1/10)
Is it really May already? I must be getting old, talking about how quick the time goes 😉 But things have been moving at warp speed around here. I never found the time to post a wrap-up of last week, so I’ll make this a 2 week summary. We got started back on Tapestry of…
Not A Sparrow Falls by Linda Nichols
Not a Sparrow Falls is the story of Mary Bridget Washburn, a young woman from the mountains of Virginia, who has fled her Christian upbringing and has been living and assisting at a meth lab. Seizing an opportunity to escape, she eventually meets a widowed minister with three children. She is determined to keep her…
Wonder Hanger Review and Giveaway
The Wonder Hanger® is an affordable tool that’s great for any Spring Cleaning features. This cascading clothes organizer increases closet space by enabling you to stack clothes vertically. Each Wonder Hanger holds 5 wood, metal or plastic hangers. There are 8 hangers to a package – enough to hang 40 garments. The open-mouth design allows…
Homeschooling in the Summer
One of the advantages to homeschooling is you can make your own schedule. You don’t have to go on vacation in the middle of the summer. You can go when it’s less crowded and the rates are lower. If the summer is too hot to be outside, you can have school then and allow more…
Lesson Planet
The world-wide web is a big place… A really big place… Just about anything you want to know, you can find on-line. If you know how to search for it. And if you can trust the information. The last thing you want to do is plan a homeschool lesson using faulty facts and outdated information.…