Yesterday was my birthday. My husband gave me my first gift on Thursday evening which was this coffee maker. Then yesterday morning I didn’t get up at 5:20 to work out at the Y. In fact, I didn’t get out of bed until 7:30 and I stayed in my pajamas until 10:30 (that is not something …
I have let more time go by without posting than I meant to. We have been fairly busy lately. DH had the day off today for Veteran’s Day so we did a very light school day. He (with my assistance ) put 3 new bathroom faucets in this morning. I made this little centerpiece for …
Slow water leak…..$50/month and growing New water line …..$695 Watching children watch the backhoe ………Priceless My 5 year old has a cute way about him. If he’s watching a video about a fire truck, he has to go get his fire truck. If we read a book about a train, then he has to …
The following is a quote from the book Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen, copyright 1923. This section is from page 176 and it is a summary of the things that needed to happen to fix the trend toward liberalism in the church. In the fourth place – the most important thing of all- …
We went on a field trip Monday to Mrs. Hanes Moravian Cookie Company. There were several homeschool families from our church that went together. It was very interesting and we got to sample all 6 flavors of cookies. The cookies are all still hand rolled and cut. This is the mixer that they use to …
This is a page from my daughter’s botany notebook on roots. It’s kind of hard to read because she writes in pencil, but I was really pleased with her work.
We just completed our study of the Civil War. We used all the following books and websites to study the Civil War and create our lap books. Across Five Aprils This was a read-aloud. It provided a good overview of the war from a child’s perspective. It gave some detail about various battles (as much …
Here are our Civil War lapbook pictures. The first set is my 9-1/2 year old son’s. The second set is my 7-1/2 year old daughter.
I sometimes tell people that I used to be smart. I guess that deep down I still consider myself fairly smart, but my opinion of myself is much less than what it once was. The Lord uses all sorts of things to humble us. I think that I am definitely losing brain cells with each child! …
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We have concluded our Civil War study. The kids will be assembling their lapbooks on Friday. I’ll try to post pictures soon. I have been looking at lots of other lapbooks on blogs and there are some really super ones out there. It is very inspiring. I have noticed that a lot of people who …
