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Daniel Boone! What a man! I do not think I could do half of what he did or expected his family to do! This week learning about how this Frontiers-man crossed over form Pennsylvania to North Carolina to Tennessee then on to Kentucky was amazing. We even mapped it for Geography. See the picture below! Our Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 17 Update  February 3rd, 2012 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Home School, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Parents, Reviews, School, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | Leave a comment /ˌlærənˈdʒaɪtɪs/ [lar-uhn-jahy-tis]
It is always amazing to me the grace of God. Every year, right around the begining of December or so, I have gotten laryngitis, ever since I was in Continue reading QUIET MOM! We had an exceptionally fantastic week this week. You see my daughter took a huge step in school this week. Usually she can sometimes be disruptive during the readings and when I ask her to retell, of course after I Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 15 January 13th, 2012 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Heart of Dakota, History/Geography, HOD, Science, timeline | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | Leave a comment This year I was not sure exactly how Christmas was going to turn out, but God is always good and gave us a spectacular Christmas. I was smart and did the majority of my Christmas shopping for the children months and months before Christmas! So they had a perfect Christmas. Even the adults had an Continue reading Christmas at Our Home This was a lazy week for us. We did not do much of the academic things, but we kept up on our history, science, Bible study and math. We enjoyed the Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 13 update December 23rd, 2011 | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | Leave a comment It was interesting on Day one of Unit 11 how it talked about finding out where we came from. My son went right to the map and touch Poland, Austria, Czech and Germany. We really did not get a chance to call anyone, but we talked to Grandma for a few minutes about her parents Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 11 update December 9th, 2011 | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | Leave a comment Well, we are back from vacation and we had such a great time. We went to Lego Land. I think this was my children's favorite place of all. I think this was my favorite too. We saved about $175.00 on entrance fees. For all of you who may want to go but can not afford Continue reading Darn, Vacation is Over! Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I wanted to take a very quick moment before we leave to visit with family and wish all my readers, family and friends a FULLfilling day today! With that said I have two holiday videos to share with you today. The first one is of my friend singing the Fat Turkey song and Continue reading Happy Thanksgiving So I know most of you who may have gotten this post a few days ago are saying where is the actual blog post? Well, I am on vacation and so far until this very moment I have not had a chance to sit down and write. So I thought I will just post the Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger, Week 9 Update November 13th, 2011 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Homeschool Curriculum, Reviews, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | Leave a comment OMGosh, we forgot to play Jeopardy this week. Our week started out pretty slow. This week with HOD I felt was a little slower and not quite as much to do as normal, but let me make darn sure you realize that this is NOT a complaint. It was actually nice, since towards the end Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger, Week 7 Update October 28th, 2011 | Tags: Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Local Mom Review, Personal Life, Reviews, Unit Studies | One comment We have a very unusual schedule. We typically do school for 5 weeks and then take a week off of course during the holiday season it gets a bit tricky. Well, for those of you who follow my blog closely, Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger, Week 6 Update October 21st, 2011 | Tags: Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Personal Life, Reviews, Unit Studies | 3 comments Most of you are probably saying where is NutBugs Heart of Dakota Weekly Update this week. Well, Our schedule is that we school for 5 weeks on and then we take a week off. This allows us MANY breaks through Continue reading How to Keep a Strong Voice for Homeschooling in Sacramento October 14th, 2011 | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, In the News, Local Mom Review, Personal Life, Politics, Sales | Leave a comment Ok, I realized I need to purchase a thesaurus for the phrase" We had a great week" I keep saying that each week and I am sure my readers are getting tired of that same line. Anyway, I have realized that the Early American Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 5 update October 8th, 2011 | Tags: Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Unit Studies | Category: Curriculum Reviews, HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | 2 comments Most of you who know me personally know that my husband has been in the real estate industry for over 20 years and has been our sole source of income. However, as we all know the real estate market busted a few years back Continue reading Multiple Streams of Homeschooling Income October 3rd, 2011 | Category: Economy, FREE, Homeschooling: All Things, Local Mom Review, Personal Life, Sales | Leave a comment Ok, so how many of you like to go see a musical or a play or some sort of concert, raise your hand. Yea, me too. But how many of you do not go at all or as often as you like because of the price? My hand is up too! I was told about this Continue reading Cheap Theater Tickets October 2nd, 2011 | Category: In the News, Local Mom Review, Personal Life, Reviews | Leave a comment Ok, so this week was not as exciting and good as last week, BUT, it had nothing to do with our curriculum. We were just having an off week. Everyday seemed to start later then we wanted. I was having Continue reading Heart of Dakota Week 4 update September 29th, 2011 | Tags: Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Unit Studies | Category: Art, Biblical, Curriculum Reviews, HOD Week in Review, History/Geography, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Reviews, Science, Unit Studies | 4 comments Hey all you Southern California residents, Fall is here and the pumpkins are flourishing at Tanaka Farms! Opening weekend is here for the Tanaka Farms Pumpkin Patch. Yes, that is this weekend Oct 1 and 2nd. For their opening weekend they are giving us a treat. FREE Petting Zoo with a purchase of a wagon ride Continue reading Tanaka Farms has Free Petting Zoo! September 29th, 2011 | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, Local Mom Review, Personal Life | Leave a comment Rustin in Tustin is a great blog for all the happenings here in the Tustin, California area as well as just outside of Tustin. I go to them alot for things to do here in my home town. Plus they have some great things you can buy that have TUSTIN on it. As Continue reading 50 Years for Tustin Tillers Days Well, this week was pretty good. Our hick up was Math for my son. You see my son hates math. Probably somehow my fault in the earlier years, but none the less, he hates it and therefore is about 6 months behind his "grade" or "age". (Just FYI, I figured out how to do a gallery Continue reading Heart of Dakota Week 3 Update September 23rd, 2011 | Tags: Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Unit Studies | Category: Biblical, Curriculum Reviews, HOD Week in Review, History/Geography, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Reviews, Science, Unit Studies | One comment As suspected, we had another wonderful week. Currently we are learning about things on the sea shores and I finally thought to myself on Monday after school. "Self,' I said, "You live in Sunny Southern California, why the heck are Continue reading Heart Of Dakota Week 2 Update September 16th, 2011 | Tags: Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Unit Studies | Category: Curriculum Reviews, HOD Week in Review, History/Geography, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Reviews, Science, Unit Studies | 5 comments I wanted to repost this letter here and share my answer to this common homeschooling problem with first timers as well as veteran homeschoolers. If you have ideas to share, please post your answers too.
Hi, This is our 1st yr. home schooling after 3 years of Public Help Me I am Failing at Homeschooling September 14th, 2011 | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Personal Life | Leave a comment This year I am trying a whole new curriculum for History, Geography, Timeline, Notebooking, Poetry, Bible and Science etc. Heart of Dakota. A Continue reading Trying a New Curriculum: Heart of Dakota Week 1 September 9th, 2011 | Tags: Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Unit Studies | Category: Curriculum Reviews, HOD Week in Review, History/Geography, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Reviews, Science, Unit Studies | Leave a comment You know a while back I use to be in a group called Heartfelt. It was originally a quartet then we made it into 5 girls then 6 and went back to 5 and finally back to 4. Anyway, we recorded a CD just for fun and to be able to give other churches a look at Continue reading Heartfelt Music September 5th, 2011 | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, Local Mom Review, Parenting, Personal Life | Leave a comment Did you all see the article by Gena Suarez that Old School House sent out a few weeks ago. I loved it and thought I would post it here for those who did not get it. Do you "shelter" your children? Continue reading Am I Sheltering My Child Too Much? August 28th, 2011 | Category: Articles, Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Personal Life | Leave a comment Well it is that time of year once more. Are you all diving into purchasing your new school year curriculum and A New School Year July 29th, 2011 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, School, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Personal Life | 2 comments Have you always wanted to go to the county fairs for educating your children more then the rides and food, but never do because it is so blasted busy? Well, LA County fair has been giving away free tickets to the fair for years. Oh, and it is open early in the morning to Continue reading The L.A. County Fair June 20th, 2011 | Category: FREE, Homeschooling: All Things, Local Mom Review, Parenting, Personal Life | Leave a comment I won a $50.00 gift certificate about a year ago from FISH FM and I have never used it. Tells you I need to take more time for me now and then. Well, with my birthday coming up on May 9th and a few re-vamps of my mind about so much needed Mommy time, I decided Continue reading Lux Salon Ok, so if you all live in the Orange County area of Southern California, then I have an opportunity for you and your family. Tanka Farms, down here by me, is making available gleaning opportunities for you and your family. This is a great way to teach our kids about doing for others as well Continue reading Gleaning Opportunity May 27th, 2011 | Category: Articles, Biblical, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News, Parenting, Personal Life | Leave a comment Look for Calvary Church of Santa Ana, CA in this video. Yes, that is my church. The video is from the DOVE awards and church choirs from all over were asked to participate in the making of this video. So Celebration Choir did and I wanted to share it with everyone! http://www.ccli.com/CCLITV/Default.aspx?v=1faba14b-6efe-477b-ad67-df5edf29bb80 Ok, I think most of you have heard of Rebecca Black and her Friday video. Personally, I think for such a young teen, she did a pretty darn good job. After all her parents spent a pretty penny for that video. But that is neither here nor there. My church, Calvary Church of Santa Ana, Ca, Continue reading Happy Easter April 22nd, 2011 | Category: Biblical, Holidays, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | Leave a comment On Easter Sunday, most Christians celebrate the resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Did you know that this is typically the most well-attended Sunday service of the year next to Christmas. Sorry to say, but that is sad. What happens the rest of the year to those Christians that do not attend? Notice I said Continue reading What is Easter? April 20th, 2011 | Category: Biblical, Holidays, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | Leave a comment
Did you know? Since 1980, the childhood obesity rate has more than doubled for children ages 2 – 5 and more than tripled for children ages 6 – 11. Continue reading Project Play March 16th, 2011 | Category: Articles, Blogs, Book/E-Book, Computer, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News, Local Mom Review, Parenting, Personal Life, Reviews | Leave a comment For those of you who live in Southern California like myself, you are probably very aware of CHEA and may even be a member. I get regular newsletter from them and I enjoy the articles. Sometimes that will even spur me to start a topic on my blog. However, yesterday at my homeschool park day one Continue reading CHEA Newsletter & Free Devotional January 21st, 2011 | Category: Articles, FREE, Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Personal Life | Leave a comment I teach the children's choir at Calvary Church of Santa Ana, and we had our final concert of 2010 on Saturday, December 19th. My dear hubby recorded the whole thing for us. I still am not sure what went wrong with Hark the Hearld Angels Sing, but the rest of the concert was a hit! Some how Continue reading Children’s Concert So last night (Sat 18th) I went to my church choir party. We played this very fun game. Now I have to say that no one wanted to really play this game when we were told what it was, but the end result was absolutely hilarious. The game was to take a traditional Christmas song Continue reading Choir Christmas Party Fun Crazy Christmas Light Displays In Tustin By Admin, on December 17th, 2010 How many Christmas movies have you seen where one neighbor is determined to have the best light display this year and as a result they either take down the entire western electrical grid or they fall off a ladder on top of Santa Claus and Continue reading Crazy Christmas Lights Twas the month before Christmas The children were told by their schools not to sing, Continue reading Twas the Month Before Christmas… OK, so I usually don't do this but I did come across this deal and I know Red Box is everywhere. I know me and my family use it often and we definitely are always looking to save a buck. I know for time off during Christmas, we will very likely be renting Continue reading Redbox $1 for 3 movie rentals December 13th, 2010 | Category: FREE, Holidays, Local Mom Review, Personal Life | FREE, Holidays, Local Mom Review, Personal Life | for 3 movie rentals">Leave a comment Christmas will be here sooner than you think but even St. Nick can spare a few minutes for the awesome kids in Tustin. Every year Santa stops by for a visit with the help of Tustin's finest, the Tustin PD. I especially enjoyed a few years ago when my son was able to Continue reading Santa’s Sleigh Ride in Tustin So it's been quite a while since I've visited the Tustin Area Historical Society but just like any place that houses and displays history, I find it fascinating. It is surprising when you start to dig into the Continue reading Tustin Area Historical Society My choir director directed me to this wonderful YouTube video. I would have just loved to be there when then did this, or better yet bring it to Orange County California!!!! Enjoy watching and listening! I read this article from All About God about how to have a more Christian Halloween. Thought you might enjoy it too!
Are you looking for some fun Christian Halloween ideas this year? Many parents don’t like Continue reading Halloween Fun October 29th, 2010 | Category: Biblical, Holidays, Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Personal Life | Leave a comment When is this wonderful holiday. Well it is always on November 3rd. Housewife Day recognizes the importance of stay at home wives and moms. Also referred to as "Retro" Housewife Day. These wonderful, caring creatures, build and enrich strong family environments. They help to instill family values and good character. Housewife is an old term. It hails back Continue reading National Housewife Day Did you know? Since 1980, the childhood obesity rate has more than doubled for children ages 2 – 5 and more than tripled for children ages 6 – 11. Continue reading Project Play August 24th, 2010 | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, Local Mom Review, Parenting, Personal Life | Leave a comment
Homeschool Fun Day Pump It Up Continue reading Homeschool Day at Pump it Up August 11th, 2010 | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, Local Mom Review, Parenting, Personal Life | Leave a comment Every year I participate in VBS at my church. And every year I LOVE IT! It is the best week out of the year. This year was no different. Well…maybe. I think after singing for VBS for 8 years now I have seen the best stage set up we have ever had. Our staff built Continue reading VBS 2010 at Calvary Church So this summer has been very busy for me so far. Besides doing summer school 2-3 days a week, going on several field trips so far, play dates at the park a couple times a week, I decided to start Continue reading All Work & No Play Makes For Really Cute Bedrooms Oh say can you see….the bombs bursting in the air….for the land of the FREE and the home of the brave! Today we thank God for the freedom we have here…I mean really thank God! We live in a country that is like no other. For all the good and even some Continue reading Happy Independance Day July 4th, 2010 | Category: Biblical, Holidays, Local Mom Review, Parenting, Personal Life, Politics | Leave a comment AMERICA\'S RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS Video With July 4th coming up I wanted to really impact you all with some to think about. Our friends, our family, people we know or even you may have been involved in taking away the one freedom our country was founded on. As we come up the this holiday, I want you to Continue reading AMERICA’S RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS? July 3rd, 2010 | Category: Biblical, Holidays, Local Mom Review, Personal Life, Politics | Leave a comment I am not go to write anything here…just watch the video and tell me is Your Jesus Real? Click here: Plastic Jesus You know when your parents get to be in their 80's you treasure every moment you have with them. And unlike with my moms parents I have the wonderful invention of the video camera phone. I was able to capture a moment in time with my Mom and my aspiring singer daughter, Raquel that is really Continue reading Raquel and Grandma Sing Ok, This is probably really, really wrong to post this on a homeschooling web site, but I am going to anyway because I think it is too funny not too! besides we are all woman and we can all relate to this in one way or another. Right?
With time, women Continue reading Weight Gain Joke Ok, so this is one of those pass it along emails you get, but I thought it was very interesting, enough so I wanted to post it here. I was very amazed at how I was able to pick out the letters and actually A Short Neurological Test This video is from my church, Calvary Church of Santa Ana service on April 25th. I felt very privileged to be able to sing with our worship pastor, Victor, on this song. This was a very risky visual arts thing to do in a church, but it really worked and it was extremely moving. Continue reading New Creation A dear friend of mine passed away on Saturday. I got the call from his sister today. She had been trying to contact me for a few days to let me know. It was a devastating call and a heartbreaking story. You see Robert had diabetes and did not take care of himself. He thought Continue reading A Time to Say Goodbye My church, Calvary Church of Santa Ana, is well known for their technology and their ability to use the arts, wether it be music or, painting or computer or film. For Easter they took many of the members of Calvary and video taped them of why they were lost and now they are found. I Continue reading Easter 2010 “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:19 “And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon Continue reading Encouragement Along the Way March 24th, 2010 | Category: Articles, Biblical, Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Personal Life | Leave a comment Every week our head pastor sends out a letter to us all writing of what is going on and what is coming up for the following week at our church. There are many letters I have Serving Christ No Matter Where You Are March 12th, 2010 | Category: FORUM, Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Personal Life | Leave a comment I have the best place for the best price in a family night out. Ok, it may not be a huge movie screen of SOME of the AMC type theaters, but it is clean, the popcorn tastes the same, the soda is bubbly, the movie sounds and looks the same and you get to see it for Continue reading Picture Show Theater February 9th, 2010 | Category: Articles, Local Mom Review, Parenting, Personal Life, Reviews | Leave a comment The History of 'APRONS' Continue reading The History of APRONS We all need to laugh once in a while. Got 1 minute? I got a great little laugh for you. Do you all remember Abbot and Costello? They were so greatin thier day! This is a really cute video that is pure and clean. Now I have never heard of the car they refer to, Continue reading Laugh For the Day I read this article on portfolios by Homeschool inc. and I thought I would post what they said and add a few of my ideas to it. Need a creative way to describe your student's year? Try creating a Continue reading Portfolios Tell Your Child’s School History I have had so many of my friends that do not go to my church ask me to sing for them. Just this morning one of my friends told me she wanted to hear me sing and that I have not broken into song as of yet for our park day group. Well, like a comedian, I cannot Continue reading A Song of Love to God: Sung by Yours Truly Ahh, it is that time of year once more. VBS time. My kids have already been to one VBS this year at another church. VBS is not about getting rid of the kids for a half of a day, but about reaching out to your kids un-churched friends and the un-churched community around us. VBS Continue reading VBS July 31st, 2009 | Category: Articles, Bible, Biblical, Homeschooling: All Things, Local Mom Review, Parenting, Personal Life, Reviews | Leave a comment She jumped up as soon as she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room. She said: ‘How is my little boy? Is he going to be all right? When can I see him?’ Continue reading Where Was God? I had the opportunity to go on a hike with my home school group this past week. We decided to try a different park and so we decided on Oak Canyon Nature Center. It is locate at 6700 Walnut Canyon Continue reading Oak Canyon Nature Center You know I use to color my hair and have highlights put in. Yea, that was well over $125 every 6 weeks. Yes, you guessed it, I am back to my natural color. I was always jealous that my husband could go and get a hair cut for $20.00.. Well, now I am even more Continue reading Hair Cut and a Shave June 2nd, 2009 | Tags: barber shop, haircut | Category: Local Mom Review, Parenting, Personal Life, Reviews | Leave a comment I find it interesting that a high school principal can see the problem, but not our society. This is a statement that was Do Not Be Ashamed May 31st, 2009 | Category: Articles, Biblical, In the News, Parenting, Personal Life, Politics | 2 comments You know as a mom who is on the go a lot, I am always looking for a place where I can have a good lunch that is somewhat affordable and that is better for the kids then a hamburger and french fries. One of my favorite places is Ikea. OK so now you say…What? Ikea? Continue reading Ikea, The Lunch Spot? You know, now a days when we hear people say that they shelter their children it is not intended to be a compliment. Why is that? Why is sheltering such a bad thing to do? So I was asking myself what exactly does it mean to shelter my kids? Do I shelter my kids? Is Continue reading Sheltering our Children May 23rd, 2009 | Category: Articles, Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Personal Life | Leave a comment It comes around one time a year. The day I can do absolutely nothing and have my family do it all for me. The day I do not have to be active in the taking care of the family and the house and have the family be actively taking care of the house and me. Continue reading Mothers Day It’s that time of year again. Yes it is Easter Time! the aisle at the my grocery store have all those cute little Marshmallow Peeps. And now not are they only in the shape of a chick but bunnies and flowers and they come in pink, blue, green and more. So I decided to find out Continue reading Peep, Peep! A friend of mine sent this to me. I am not sure if she came up with this or if she got it from somewhere else, but I thought it was a great and I wanted to post here in my blog. The bible verses were taken from Psalm 4. “Answer me when I call to Continue reading A Homeschool Moms Psalm I do not know who this picture is of but I do know this is circulating through emails like mad. So i just had to post it here. I thought this was just one of the cutest pictures I have seen in a long time. Hope it gives you a little inspiration and a smile.Continue reading Inspirational Prayers Sung to the song ‘My Favourite Things’ from the Sound of Music. Have a laugh on me! Botox and nose drops and needles for knitting,Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings,Bundles of magazines tied up in string,These are a few of my favourite things. Cadillacs and cataracts, hearing aids and glasses,Polident and Fixodent and false teeth in Continue reading The Old Age version of "’My Favourite Things" Everyone who knows my family and me knows we were very opposed to Obama. Not because of his skin color, but because of his policies on several issues like abortion, homeschooling etc. Things that were close and dear to my heart and to families around the USA. One of the things that really bothered me about Continue reading Thoughts on Inauguration Day & President This is how a homeschooler spends all that extra time they have when they take time off from school for the holidays. They plan a Family Video OK, today I finally can answer the question of how we got along with beasts and why they never ate us. How we were able to walk hand and paw with dinosaurs, tiger, bears and never die because of their carnivorous temperament. If you are curious, go to http://mybiblestudy-kristin.blogspot.com/ and Continue reading Bible Study Ding Dong the chocolates gone, the chocolates gone, the chocolates gone. Ding Dong the chocolates gone for good! Oh my gosh. All the chocolate we got for Christmas and petite-fores (spell?). They were all so very yummy, but oh my goodness I could not control the glutton in me! I was having dreams of being attacked Continue reading Chocolates The start of a new year. Can you believe it is 2009. Well, my 1 and only resolution for 2009 was to start that Bible study I wrote about a few days ago. Which then gave me the idea to make a new blog for my study notes. So for any of you who would Continue reading The Bible in One Year…Join Me Every year we get a picture with Santa or a professional picture of our family. This year we just were not able to do that. So instead we took a family portrait here at home. I also figured it was time to change the picture on my blog. Raquel is a little under 2 there Continue reading Christmas Family Portrait I have never been one for trying to make a huge list of New Year Resolutions. However, I do have lots of things I would like to accomplish during 2009 (most in regards to homeschooling and the Children’s Choir I teach at church) but I am not sure if those are really considered New Years Continue reading New Year Resolutions? Well, the time has finally come. It is Christmas Eve and all the work and shopping and wrapping and baking we have done is all about to be demolished. Sometimes I look back at Christmas and ask myself was it all worth it. The answer…Yes! For me, the month of December is all about learning Continue reading My Christmas Wish to You Joy. What is joy? Is it happiness, fun, kindness, love? I think it is so many things to so many people. Now the question is when you know what joy is to you, how do you find it? Especially during the bustle and hurriedness of the Holiday season. Notice I said holiday not Christmas. When Continue reading Finding Joy We made the cutest tacktile ABC and 123 Lapbook. You just have to check out the pictures. Click here to see it. http://raquelshomeschooldays.blogspot.com/2008/12/abc-and-123-lapbook.html December 21st, 2008 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Reviews | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | One comment This has got to be the cutest thing. On 4th of July my family and I went to Tustin High School to watch the firework show as well as the entertainment. My daughter brought with her a set of pom Continue reading Raquel The Cheerleading Captain Now I think most people would agree that when a certain gene in an animal is not used over an extremely long period of time that the gene goes dormant. Would you say that in the animal kingdom most male animals find a female animal to procreate so that their species can live on and Continue reading Hot Topic for Discussion I am so proud of myself. After weeks of searching site after site I never found a theme study on clocks. No not one on time, but one on clocks. I ended up spending 4 days researching different sites on the subject. I found a couple great sites that gave me most of the information Continue reading I Made My Own Theme Study November 6th, 2008 | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | Leave a comment I was so excited the other day to get a big box on my front door and in this box was a beautiful nativity set just right for children to play and learn with. My kids tore through the box and started playing with it right away. I was going to put it back in Continue reading One 2 Believe In, Nativity Set Real Mothers don’t eat quiche; they don’t have time to make it. Real Mothers know that their kitchen utensils are probably in the sandbox. Real Mothers often have sticky floors, filthy ovens and happy kids. Real Mothers know that dried play dough doesn’t come out of carpets. Real Mothers don’t want to know what the Continue reading MOTHERS October 14th, 2008 | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Personal Life | Leave a comment Yea, I was excepted to the focus group. I am so excited. I can not wait to start giving my opinion on homeschooling products. I can make a difference in the homeschool community! YEA! I am so looking forward to The Old School House Focus Group You know what bothers me the most about homeschooling? The I can’t Attitude my son has sometimes. I think if he were in public school he would be in so much trouble all the time, teased, in the principles office Continue reading I can’t Attitude Well, its that time of year again. School is starting for us on the 15th. I have to admit this year I am a little scared. Sounds funny coming from me. Well, even though Vincent is in 2nd grade because Continue reading School starting Well, this past couple of weeks has been so busy for me. But last night was the topper. Got a real scare. My Mother-in-laws boss called us and told us that Maggie was in the hospital. That she could not talk and was un-able to stand. We went right off to Upland. 1 1/2 hour Continue reading Where have I been This new day and age we are all so darn busy with our lives, we don’t even have time to sit down to a magazine and read it cover to cover. We have gone digital. Even Continue reading Books, Digital or not Digital You know creating a balance throughout the day in chores, homeschooling, mommy duties, cooking, cleaning, wife duties, taking care of Mom can be challenging. I do a pretty good job of it, but I still struggle with my never ending to do list I have going on not only in my head, but also on Continue reading Letting the kids help with housework I have told so many of my home school friends about the Heart of the Matter Home school Convention going on at the end of Continue reading I Won tickets to the HOTM Convention You know homeschooling is a huge responsibility! I think allot of people out there think us homeschoolers are crazy for doing what we do. That we will ruin our children and make them social outcasts in our community, !!!LOL!!!. I really wish those who say these type of things would do thier research. One of the Continue reading What has not worked for me My son seems to amaze me every day. Today we went to a friends house and Vincent and Raquel went swimming. Now my son finally has gotten up the guts to swim in the deep end. YEA!!! I knew it would happen sooner or later. Today he actually dived into the deep end and I Continue reading Swimming day |
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