. (Excerpt Taken From Today’s Guest Post written by Heidi Ciravola for Hip Homeschool Moms) . It is that time of year where everyone is looking ahead to next year. Yes, I said next year! We are all looking forward to nicer weather and winding down with school for the year, but our thoughts are […]
So often I find myself looking at my children and thinking to myself, “Really, why don’t they get it?” or “How many times must I say the same thing?” or “Where on earth could they have possibly gotten that idea, and what made them think it was a good one?” This is when I have […]
1. The Mason Dixon Line runs between Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware -This is an interesting history article from National Geographic about Saving the Mason Dixon Line . . 2. The Carolina Panthers play in Charlotte, North Carolina at the Bank of America stadium . . 3. Charles Bolden Jr. is a NASA Administrator […]
[image width=”177″ height=”250″ frame=”simple” align=”left”]http://www.startsateight.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/The_Power_of_a_Positive_Mom_Jacket_Cover.jpg[/image] Wednesday over at The Homeschool Village the 8 week group discussion about the book, The Power of a Positive Mom by Karol Ladd is in it’s third week! Below you can find the reading schedule from Jenn over at Daze of Adventure who is leading the discussion. . ** Reading […]
[image width=”177″ height=”250″ frame=”simple” align=”left”]http://www.startsateight.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/The_Power_of_a_Positive_Mom_Jacket_Cover.jpg[/image] Wednesday over at The Homeschool Village the 8 week group discussion about the book, The Power of a Positive Mom by Karol Ladd is in it’s second week! Below you can find the reading schedule from Jenn over at Daze of Adventure who is leading the discussion. . ** Reading […]
This post was actually first written in my “old school”, handwritten journal that I still keep on my nightstand, and not as a post for my blog. It was written on a night, in the not so distant past, when I could not fall asleep from the speed at which my mind was racing. (In […]
Over at Making the Moments Count, Amber recently posted about Competitive Parenting. Which led her to starting a notion called “Non-Judgmental Parenting”. I would not have known about this except for that fact that it struck a cord with my friend Shana and she posted about it at her blog, A Queen Among Kings. A […]
A Straight from Shana’s blog, I have swiped this idea about “My 5 Favorite Things About 2010“. So thanks to Shana and her love of the blog/page called Operation Nice, I have an interesting way to reflect back on 2010 and pick out some highlights. The only problem is… where to start? A 1. My […]
This past January I posted about New Year’s Resolutions. I had pretty much forgotten about the post until I started searching my blog for all the things I had posted about Gone With the Wind. In January of this year I made it my one mission for the year to read Gone With the Wind. […]
The kids and I were at the zoo for a class on amphibians. It is for kids ages 4-6, but I sit in because Ava wants me there, Chloe wants to sit it because she likes it, and Jayden sits because he has to! Some other adults stay and some don’t. This time there was […]
Operation Christmas Child (OCC) is an initiative of Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian relief and development charity working amongst communities in need in 18 countries across Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Operation Christmas Child is a project that Chloe looks forward to each year. I remember last year she was bummed because we missed […]
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” -Buddha Today I am tired. […]