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Free Meal Planning Printables
Planning to Stock Up Your Kitchen Meal planning is an area of homemaking where many women struggle. We know it’s a daily necessity. Yet it meal time often seems to sneak up on us. As a wife, mom, and homeschooler we generally have to plan 21 meals every week, plus snacks, and desserts. Then there are times we even entertain guests. To help you in your planning efforts I’m sharing some free meal planning printables. If you’ve been following this meal planning series you have come to learn that my method of meal planning consists of keeping a well stocked kitchen. Then I make daily choices based upon what I have…
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How I Stock Up with Canning
Extending Good Deals Throughout the Year Home canning is a good way to extend your purchased groceries for a longer period of time. Since I love canning and think that it’s easy and anyone can do it, I want to share with you some of my recommendations for canning products. You can find them at the bottom of this post. This post contains affiliate advertisement links to 3rd party sites. For hundreds of years homemakers have used the process of canning to preserve food. For many canning is as much a part of life as is eating. Especially if they also garden. Canning allows cooks to extend foods that are…
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“A Quiet Place” Scrapped
From Picture Book to Scrapbook This post contains affiliate links. If you would like to know more about the book, “A Quiet Place” check it out at amazon.com. For more information visit my disclosure policy. Thank you for supporting Great Peace Academy. I’m Participating in A Book and a Big Idea Link Up with iHomeschool Network. I love books. A book that is well written becomes a part of your history. You remember it and in your mind you refer back to it often and you connect with the characters and they become like family. Often because we each imagine differently the characters take on different meanings to each of the readers. But…
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I’m the Newest Team Member for iHN
Oh The Places I Will Go and The Things I Will Do This post contains affiliate links which may result in paid compensation for purchases made. Thank you for supporting Great Peace Academy. See my full disclosure policy for further details. Affiliate Link One of my favorite books growing up and even still to this day is “Oh, The Places You’ll Go” by Dr. Seuss. It is one of the most encouraging children’s books that exists. When I received a message this week from the founders of iHomeschool Network asking me if I’d like to join their fantastic team of bloggers, the first thought that popped into my head was…
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Joining “The Homeschool Post” Team
I’m thrilled to share with you some news that I’ve been keeping under my hat for a while now. I’ve been invited to join the teach at “The Homeschool Post.” The Homeschool Post is a website dedicated to bringing encouragement and inspiration to homeschool families in an online community. I am so thankful to have been asked to join the team. Additionally, The Homeschool Post is the host of “Homeschool Blog Awards.” Wanting to recognize and encourage those who not only strive to homeschool their children, but also blog about it so others can be encouraged as well. Are you a blogger? Stop over and check out the Awards page.…
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Unexpected Travel Plans Being Made!
I woke up this morning without much in the way of plans. We have had a whirlwind few weeks, with me travelling to visit with my mom who isn’t feeling well. This next week will be spent focusing on our homeschool co-op and the end of year activities for that. This weekend I am hosting a wedding shower. But for today, other than the few things that Little Man needed to do for his school day, we had nothing on our agenda.I should have been doing laundry and getting caught up on that. But as I sat in the family room, I found that relaxing feeling washing over me and…
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The Only Potentate
Perhaps it is difficult for some to understand. I believe that the Bible is the perfect and inerrant word of God. That’s not to say every translation is inerrant, for translations are made by men who are in fact imperfect. Yet the Word of God endures forever. His teachings are pure and holy and He set about all things to bring forth the word in it’s entirety in His time. What other document has withstood the test of time like it has? Recently there have been many people around the globe who have been shocked by the announcement that the Catholic pope is resigning. I’m sure there are questions surrounding…
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Blogger Tip: Turning Your Homepage into a Preview Page
For a little over a year I have been blogging. Whenever I wanted to learn “how do you do that?” I would do a Google search until I found the answer.I was thrilled when I discovered The Cutest Blog on the Block, they have FREE templates, backgrounds, blinkies and more, which I totally love and have used for 2 different backgrounds. love the one that I am currently using. When I wanted to know how to build my own blogger buttons, again I turned to google and finally found the “Grab My Button Code Generator” website which again, is totally FREE. Did I mention that I love FREE. I have…
