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PHAT Mommy
After about a year of consideration, I've decided to move away from PHAT Mommy to a brand new blog. I explain all about over at Mom, Reinvented. PHAT Mommy will no longer be updated, so please click on over to my new blog and subscribe. To kick off my new...
Check out how we spent Halloween in my first successful Whrrl story....
We got to the gate at Providence airport and there were six or seven of them. All loud. All well-built and well-dressed. All wearing feather boas. I silently hoped I would not be seated near them, but they were right behind me when we boarded the plane. They started drinking...
Little Bird Tales: Scrapbook With A Voice
A couple months ago I heard about Little Bird Tales, a service that lets kids create and share personalized books online. Given my love of scrapbooking, I immediately started thinking of the many ways my family could use this service....
Defining Twilight is a nifty little workbook that uses the Twilight saga to teach vocabulary for standardized tests. I received a review copy from author Brian Leaf and was impressed with the fun, simplistic way the book is laid out....
Apparently I Blog More When I Have 1,452,779 Things To Do
So, yeah, I've been updating my blog an average of twice per month, but today you get two posts in one day! I have a lot of random thoughts to get down, so I am making a list......
My Home Sweet Home
Education: It’s Not Just for the Kids, Today at The Homeschool Post
Join me today at The Homeschool Post for an article entitled Education: It’s Not Just for the Kids. Pretty please? Summer toes. Just around the corner, right? Share this on del.icio.us Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Share this on Facebook Tweet This! Share this on FriendFeed Digg this! Subscribe to the comments...
Now You’re Speaking My {Love} Language Today at (in)Courage
Do you know your love language? Your spouse’s? Your children’s? Knowing a person’s love language enables you to communicate your love more effectively. Please join me today at (in)courage for Now You’re Speaking My {Love} Language! Share this on del.icio.us Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Share this on Facebook Tweet...
Share Compassion, Sponsor a Child
The bloggers from Compassion International’s March 4-10 trip to Kenya are preparing for the long trip home now. The experiences that have been shared have brought me both tears and smiles. Our family has sponsored Guadalupe (Lupita), a five year old girl living in Honduras, for the past two years. On...
Scott Kelby’s Photo Recipes Live: Behind the Scenes
Lighting is one of the most intimidating areas of photography for both new and often experienced shooters. Although natural light photography can be gorgeous, some photographers say they stick with this method alone because they just don’t “get” other lighting methods. For me, the two most powerful tools for demystifying photography...
Images from my girlfriends’ weekend in the mountains (and why I will never lose weight on one)
Bagel-fuls and cinnamon rolls for breakfast. Promise they weren’t this blurry in real life. I was dying for barbecue from this local dive. We didn’t eat there, not because our underwear was showing, but because it was carry-out only and too cold to eat outside. Tough decision: candied or caramel apples? Willie Wonka-style...
Thoughts on Sponsors, and a Thank You to Mine
As more blog conferences and other opportunities present themselves to bloggers, sponsorship has become one of the hottest trending topics in social media. Twitter parties with the #getasponsor hashtag and Get a Sponsor website have sprung up to help women discover how to approach and work with companies to the...
The Official HSB Community Blog - Homeschool Blogger
This week I'd like to introduce you to Mrs. H of Creekwood Chronicles. Her About Me information reads almost like my own blog, so I felt all kindred spirit like and wanted to spread the news. If you're a lapbook lover then you'll enjoy this post, but what I like about...
Special Words for Special Needs ~ Spring Means Change!
I am careful, considering the winter we just had, but I think it is official that spring is here! With spring has come longer, warmer days and changing clothes. My mother would use the daylight savings weekend to go through the season's clothes and prep for the...
Communication Corner ~ Be Clear About Your Time Zones
Daylight Savings Time is a great time for us to be reminded of a communication issue facing us today as never before. As we spend more and more time communicating to the world on the internet, it is increasingly important that we make reference to more than just the time...
Homeschooling Through High School ~ Got Girls?
This week's entry honoring National Women's History Month is a bit of an extension of my last month's writings. We've been talking about developing our emerging adults' (our high schoolers') "saltiness." I began to think of the many wonderful young ladies in our circle of family friends whom I've come to know and...
Kitchen Moments ~ Cookbook for Quick Breakfast Ideas
With Daylight Saving Time just days away, I thought you might like a book recommendation for some quick family friendly breakfast ideas; especially since breakfast time will be coming even earlier next week! The Vegetarian Family Cookbook by Nava Atlas has excellent ideas for making breakfast not only fast but healthy. Even...
The History of the (Whole) World
I’m at the William and Mary library this afternoon, researching and writing for the middle-grade writing curriculum which will follow Writing With Ease. I’m working, simultaneously, on writing exercises based on models, and on outlining the grammatical skills middle-grade students will need to write well. In my reading...
The medieval world runs smack into the 2012 Olympics
Hey, I wrote about these guys! From CNN: They were 51 young men who met a grisly death far from home, their heads chopped off and their bodies thrown into a mass grave. Their resting place was unknown until last year, when workmen excavating for a road near the London 2012...
After giving my faithful readers a chance to point out any blog reviews that I might have missed, I summoned my lovely assistants to help me carry out the drawing for the winner. Ben cut apart the list of blog names, put them in a bowl, and shook them up. And then Dan drew...
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07
Watching closing ceremonies; glad that corruption and tyranny didn't permanently deprive Russia of that heartbreaking national anthem. # Er. Well, closing ceremonies demonstrate that Canadians are just as good at tackiness as we Americans are. # Maybe even better. # Planning family day: horseback riding, cookie-eating, game-playing, room-cleaning. One of these things is...
Thanks to all of you who responded to my blog review offer! Here’s a list of the blog reviews that we know of. Enjoy reading, if you feel so inclined. And if you reviewed the book and DON’T see your blog here, post a comment for me. What Came...
The last couple of (scattered) weeks
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been turning in circles, which is why I haven’t done a long post. It hasn’t been an ineffective sort of circling–I feel more like I’m cooking and I have four or five hot pans in front of me, and a couple more...
S/V Mari Hal-O-Jen: SailBlogs
Wounded Warrior Project - Soldier Ride
This past weekend we spent time with the Wounded Warrior Project - Soldier Ride meeting some wonderful heroes. The men were fitted for bicycles up on the mainland and then rode the Overseas Highway to Key West! We met up with them at the Chief's Mess on Boca Chica...
A new challenge for the New Year! (Continued...)...
Even the Holiday Spirit arrives here on Keys Time
Ooooh it is chilly today! I don't think we'll hit 60 degrees... (Continued...)...
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Beach days. (Continued...)...
Camp Creek Blog
One of the most remarkable things about American classrooms is how little real teaching goes on there. Over the past five years or so, I have spent at least three or four days a month in schools studying the relationship between classroom practice and school organization. I observe classrooms at...
Developing an enthusiasm for learning is especially important in the primary grades. Even students who have excelled in preK or kindergarten can find first or second grade so trying that they turn off to learning. Such disengagement has become so widespread that Sharon Ritchie, a senior scientist at FPG Child...
skills are nice, but give them time to develop creativity
Most adults, with our increasingly hectic schedules, assume that at least creativity is alive in our children when we send them off to drawing class or bassoon lessons. Yet most children’s time in the arts is spent either appreciating someone else’s art or learning the skill required to make the...
If things need to change, it means that what we do becomes incredibly more important. Do. Action suddenly becomes more valuable. It means that there is opportunity, if one can perceive everyone else’s blind spot and find some white space for themselves. If everyone is getting together and complaining, it...
The whole problem with people is … they know what matters, but they don’t choose it … The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters. — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees...
If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are. — T.S. ElliotAnyone around this weekend want to chat about this or that? I’m here…...
Life Of A Music Luver - Homeschool Blogger
I have officially moved my blog over to blogger (blogspot). I will still be checking in on homeschooblogger every now and then- but if you would like to keep in touch- you can check out my new blog- http://www.ashleystrawser1993.blogspot.com ~Ashley...
I hope that everyone had a great Christmas! It was great for us, and I hope that all was well for you! :) Here are pictures of some of my favorite gifts! :) From my grandparents- we got a Wii. From my parents...."fake" Uggs from Old Navy: And Warnings at Waverly...
Hey everyone- Last Friday, I went to see "The Blind Side" in theaters. I thought, that since I can't find much else to post about anymore- that I would post a review of this movie. Cast: Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy Tim McGraw as Sean Tuohy Kathy Bates as Miss Sue Quinton Aaron...
Today, I'm going to see the Blind Side- in theaters. It looks so good- it looks like a movie that I'll really enjoy. I''ll be sure to tell you all what I think of it, once I've seen it. ...
I've been trying to post an entry for the last two days, but each day, I've lost a really long post- and it's beginning to aggravate me. Gr. Today- instead of doing it on my laptop- I'm doing it on a desktop, so hopefully, I won't lose this long post!...
We are painting and cleaning our house today! My party is tomorrow, and we're painting TWO rooms before that. We're done with one of them~ and the first coat of the second one. We're just about done with the painting. You should see our living room. It officially turned into a...
Melissa Wiley
• Rose has taken a shine to the Handbook of Nature Study. Mind you, this is a book I have lunged for on a regular basis throughout her entire life, but this week after we read about crows in it, it was like she discovered it for the first time....
From the Archives: A Child’s Delight
(Originally posted in September, 2007) I first heard about this delightful-indeed book from the Deputy Headmistress at The Common Room. A Child’s Delight, by Noel Perrin, is a collection of essays about children’s books that ought not to be missed. The DHM’s review suggested that Perrin’s book ought not to be...
Fascinating Live and Dead Things
OK, I am really enchanted by these crows. We had such fun today, watching them at work on a nest in the top of an enormous tree just the other side of our back fence. Our house backs up to an elementary school (I know, ironic) and in the schoolyard...
“The crow when he sings is nothing short of a clown; he ruffles his feathers, stretches his neck, like a cat with a fish bone in her throat, and with a most tremendous effort delivers a series of hen-like squawks.” This quote, attributed simply to a “Mr. Mathews” in the Anna...
Since I seem to be writing a lot about iPod Touch apps and social media lately, here’s a roundup page for easy reference. A day in the life of my iPod Touch (my favorite apps) A couple more apps Streamlining the way I use social media Social networks for book lovers Facebook—why I love it;...
We’re heading into wildflower season here in San Diego. (I hardly dare admit this you you northeastern folks.) Admiring the orange and yellow roadsides from the backseat of the minivan, Rose says, “Mom, I want to know more about plants and birds.” Me: “OK, we can start doing more nature walks...
The Simple Blog
Feb 10, Free President's Day Unit Study
The Simple-Zine Freebie newsletter is going out in - Oh, about 30 minutes - and I just wanted to put the freebie up for you Googlers! The President's Day Unit Study is the very first interactive/printable from Simple Schooling and is a glimpse of what is to come for many...
Feb 10, Homeschool Done the Simple Way!
A great place to learn about homeschooling, purchase EASY to USE science and history curriculum, learn online, and get FREE Simple Days Unit Studies Every MONTH!...
Jan 31, Simple Schooling Science
Simple Schooling Science Curriculum will Change your Life!...
Jan 31, Homeschool Done the Simple Way!
A great place to learn about homeschooling, purchase EASY to USE science and history curriculum, learn online, and get FREE Simple Days Unit Studies Every MONTH!...
Simple Schooling homeschool science and history curriculums will make your day SIMPLE!...
Jan 31, The Simple Zine Freebies!
The Simple Zine Freebies - Keeping Fun Affordable!...