Archive for April, 2009

Last Few Days….

The last few days have been just crazy around here…LOL  Thursday afternoon the Profession Bull Riders Association finally offered my husband, Bill, a job! We are ecstatic! The Lord is sooo awesome! (For those of you who don’t already know, he had been unemployed for about 7 months but God has been taking good care [...]

Christian, Home School, Social Media

Kids Say the Darnedest Things

A couple of weeks ago on Facebook I was tagged in a note about things kids say about thier parents, so I thought I would share here with everyone what my two littlest ones said about me:
1. What is something mom always says to you?
Joey: That you love me
Sammy: Brush your teeth
2. What makes mom happy?
Joey: [...]

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Our Field Trip

A couple of weeks ago we took a little field trip to my oldest daughter Nichole’s EMT class.  They were needing volunteers to come in so they could work on taking vitals from children and infants.  We had a really great time! Joseph was even brave enough to let them strap him to the back board [...]

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A Long Week

This has definitely been a long week! It has been fun, but tiring. We had gotten a bit behind on our science and art lessons due to the fact that my DH was originally working with them on those lessons, but since some of his freelance work has picked up lately, he hasn’t had as [...]

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“Millions of years ago……”

Yesterday, while teaching science, we ran across this statement in a book we were reading about the earth’s 3 layers. At first I was a little frustrated….I really dislike those words, but then I realized it was a great “teachable moment.”  So we talked about what the Bible says about the age of the earth, versus what [...]

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Happy Easter!

Just wanted to tell everyone that I hope you all have a wonderful Easter tomorrow! We have an awesome day planned with family and friends. But first we will be going to church because the most important reason for the day is remembering that Christ died for us on the cross and then rose again on the [...]

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Location Isn’t Everything

I have been asked if it matters where we do “school” and if it makes a difference. I believe it is what ever works best for you and your children.  I have tried several different ways over the past few of years.
When we first started school, we had a bar in our family room that we [...]

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K12 Online School

As I mentioned in my last post, currently the curriculum we are using is K12/COVA. We just started this program last fall and so far I really have enjoyed using it.
At first I was a not sure if I wanted to use it because it was basically doing public school at home. One of my [...]

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Hello world!

Welcome to my FIRST blog.  My husband set this up for me as a way to help connect to other home school parents.  I hope to share tips and tricks I’ve learned, share about curriculums and creative ideas.
I have 5 children ages 7-19, but am currently only homeschooling my two youngest ones.  I really  didn’t [...]

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