• Blog

    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…

  • Homeschool

    Motivation for the New Year

    It’s a new calendar year. But it’s only the middle of the academic one. This is the time of year when I get a renewed energy for homeschooling. That most likely is because I start to feel that we are behind. My friends remind me that “behind” is relative.Personally, I feel that I am behind in the goals I set…

  • Homeschool

    Five Minute Friday: Opportunity Knocking

    Hi all. Linking up today with Lisa-Jo for a Five Minute Friday Writing Party. Where hundreds of bloggers are given a topic and then take just five minutes to write about it. The goal is to get back to the basics of writing without worry or fear of all the editing that it takes to publish something.Today’s Topic: Opportunity Go:As…

  • Homemaking

    New Goals for the New Year

    Saying goodbye to 2012 was easy for me. While I am truly thankful that God blessed me and my family with another year of life, last year was a difficult one for my family as well as for some of our closest friends and I am hoping and praying that God will lead us into a better one in 2013.…

  • Marriage Moments

    Marriage Moment: Contentious Women

    Honor Him with Your Mouth Did you know that men are different than women? That’s just logical right? Well yes, but we forget this when it comes to how we process information. As women we want to examine things, turn them over in our minds and look at them from every angle. Then, once we do that we want to…

  • Marriage Moments

    Marriage Moment: THE ONE

    Do you remember pulling petals off of daisies and counting out the ‘he loves me’ and ‘he loves me not’s?’ Remember how your heart pounded with excitement when it landed on “he loves me?” If only love could be that simple right? But when you find THE ONE, the ONE who calls you his lady, the ONE who loves you…

  • Curriculum

    This Week… Winter Recital

    This was a good week. Little Man spent the week back at it in the books department.Bible:  In Bible he learned about the water from the rock and the war with the Amalekites. Both he found to be fascinating, and truth be told… So do I. (Exodus 17) Literature:Finished chapter 6 of “The Golden Goblet.” Ranofer discovers just how much he…

  • Homeschool

    Today is the first day of winter. Here in Ohio the winter snow is flying. I decided to share with you today some of the beauty that I have the honor of seeing today. Have a safe and happy WINTER everyone. View from the school room window. A Bird Sanctuary Finding Food