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Teaching Reading Skills Having 6 children, it seems that I’ always teaching reading to someone! Either they’re just learning their letters or they’re improving their reading speed and comprehension. While, I generally teach them with the Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons book, I am always on the lookout for more free tools to make my teaching literacy easier. I think I’ve finally hit the jackpot
Today marks the beginning of week 5! Do you want to know how well I did in week 4? I kind of want to hide. 🙂 I won’t though! Tell me why I decided to share this journey with you all again? Oh yeah…….because I knew I’d stick with it if I did. It’s been a challenge, but I still feel like it’s been successful so far! Announcement: Next week
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What have you been doing this week? Have you gone anywhere exciting? Are you reading anything interesting? What are you cooking? I’d love to share with you my journey this week. You can read all about my week today on iHomeschool Network’s, The Homeschool Mother’s Journal. While you’re there, you can even link up your own Homeschool Mother’s Journal and of course read what a lot of other homeschool
When I was a child, we would go and stay 2 weeks in the summer with my grandparents who lived in Kansas City. We were always extremely excited to spend that 2 weeks there! They would plan plenty of exciting things for us to do. Some of the memories that we shared at my grandparents’ house include: going to World’s of Fun (the local amusement park); going out for a
In the mood for some pumpkin goodness? You’ll love these Pumpkin Pancakes! I’m not much of a hot breakfast person, so we decided to make these for supper! My kids had been begging for pancakes. Finally, I obliged. Even though I’m reducing calories on my diet, I managed to enjoy some of these, anyway. Moderation is the key! My 3 year old was adamant that we were not putting pumpkin
Welcome back to our 12 Weeks of Getting Healthy & Fit Series. Today marks the end of Week 3. Last week, I didn’t “officially” report any weight lost since I had the family emergency to deal with and didn’t get weighed at an appropriate time. This week, however, I did weigh in and I’m down 3 pounds from 2 weeks ago. It’s not quite as drastic as week one, but
Can you believe that little ‘ol me has had this blog for a year now? I started it because blogging intrigued me and I seemed to have nothing but time while I was sitting, nursing my baby for what felt like hours on end. Now, I have an active one year old and not quite as much time, but I am still loving it! I have had a lot of
What do you do when it’s time to eat but aren’t ready to quit chewing your gum yet? Why….put it in your pocket, of course! At least that’s what my 3 year old decided was the best thing to do. She said, “I didn’t know it would stick!!” and then proceeded to be very grumpy about the fact that her pocket was sticking together. I assured her that mommy would
Welcome back to my 12 weeks series. Each week, for 12 weeks, 18 other bloggers and I are telling our stories on how we are getting healthy & fit. My goal is to lose at least 20 pounds during this time period. Week 1, I gave up soda and lost 6 pounds. I just ended week 2 and it’s a bit of a different story. To read the previous posts
I am that person. I am naturally disorganized! I have a problem with clutter. Everything in my home is not in it’s place, nor does it all have it’s own place to go. This is something I’m desperately trying to improve on, so when we had our Mommy Time Facebook party last month, and a reader submitted the question, my ears perked up. Yes, I want to know that! Listed
Over the weekend, I talked with someone who believes that everyone thinks he is worthless. It is so sad to see people like that. They try and try to do the things that they think will please people. When they mess up, someone tells them about it and all of a sudden they start letting that moment define who they are. They don’t even consider that it does not matter
