Teaching Middle School History Through Literature
I hated history in school. It felt dry and boring, and I couldn’t relate or connect with it. One of my goals as a homeschooling mom is to help ensure my children will feel differently about their history studies, even if just a little bit. Middle school history builds on the blocks you stacked in […]
True to You Book Review
True to You is the first book in Becky Wade’s new Bradford Sisters Romance Series. I was so excited to get my hands on this one as I LOVED her Porter series so much! About True to You After a devastating heartbreak three years ago, genealogist and historical village owner Nora Bradford has decided that […]
Flashback Friday-New Year’s Edition
For New Year’s Eve 2008 we were given the opportunity to do something different. Rochester was celebrating it’s 175th Anniversary with a big kickoff bash on New Year’s Eve. The Bach Children’s Chorus was going to be singing downtown and a special ball full of wishes was to be set on fire downtown. The chorus […]
The Schwa Sound
Apparently I am NOT smarter than a third grader! Today I stumbled upon something that not only had I not heard of it before, but I thought it must have been a typo by the program creator. Jayden has been doing a grade 2 spelling program, but the words are too easy. I did not […]
New but “Destructed” Clothing
So my friend Shana and I were doing our Wednesday mall walk and we stumbled upon something that I just knew would drive my dad nuts! Since we did not have the kids with us this time, we wandered into Old Navy. Our intention was to check out the $7 Jingle Jammies. Due to the […]
Flashback Friday-Jayden’s Birthday
In honor of having just celebrated Jayden’s 7th birthday this past weekend (even though his birthday is closer to Christmas) I decided to dig back to his past, for a trip down memory lane. Seven parties have of gone by already. This year was his first “kid only” party. We will get to that one […]
Wordless (almost) Wednesday
This is Jayden, age 2 in the bathtub!
Flashback Friday-Weddings
For this Flashback Friday I decided to do a “Wedding Post”. As Thanksgiving has passed, and Christmas is near, so many of us are counting our blessings. I think our marriages should be right up there on that list! So in honor of all of our marriages, her are the photos that show […]
Computer Fest & What it Means to Me
There is this lovely, (not really) little, (not really) event that Joey has to deal with at work every year called “Computer Fest”. Like Joey’s job itself, I don’t know too many details about the whole thing, just that he is a “computer geek”! I do know that it comes every year at holiday time […]