Disclosure: Affiliate link When my husband and I recently took a short getaway we went book shopping - surprise, surprise. Anyway, I found about five books on the clearance table that were also 50% off the clearance price. I was like a kid in a candy shop. This week I'm only going to talk about …
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Planning My School Week
So, in keeping with all the school posts we've had this week, I thought I'd show you how I plan out our week. Every year I have to slightly alter the form I made so it fits the grades and subjects we're using. I use the course planning sheets that I showed you in this …
Homeschooling Planning Made Easy
For a variety of reasons which I won't get into here I chose Rod and Staff curriculum for most of our subjects when we started homeschooling twelve years ago. They take a little more planning because they are textbooks. I didn't want to spend my summer setting up school courses so I came up with …
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So I know it's been a week since I posted anything. I've been busy sewing this week. I've made three skirts - one for each of my daughters - as well as doing organizing and purging. I will try to get back on track with posts next week. I've also been doing some reading. Right …
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Disclosure: affiliate links This week I read a book that to me was bittersweet - Four by Veronica Roth. This is the fourth book in the Divergent series. It tells the backstory of "Four", the hero of the Divergent series. It was bitter to me because I am so upset with how Veronica Roth ended …
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Disclaimer: There are affiliate links in this post. I'm still working my way through The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor by Sally Armstrong. It really is amazing how this young girl raised to be a gentlewoman from a wealthy family in England became the first white woman to settle on the Miramichi River. The story …
God Makes No Mistakes
Our family was recently involved in a wedding. One of the duets was "God Makes No Mistakes". As I was the piano accompaniment for this I went through the song many times and the words are so good. (The other song was "To Have and To Hold". I was so glad I didn't have to …
Pickled Eggs
We love eggs in our home. They are a cheap and nutritious food. We buy about fifteen dozen eggs every week. We eat them scrambled for breakfast, egg salad in sandwiches for lunch and fried on rice and beans for supper - just not all in the same day. ~smile~ We also eat them pickled …
Shoe Storage Solution
Having a large family means we have LOTS of stuff. Think about it - if everyone in our family only has two pairs of shoes each that's twenty pairs of shoes! And you know that we don't just have two pairs each. Add to that the fact that some of us have very long feet and …
Intentional Simplicity 