Googling my Chef

So, what do you get when you google my husband’s name? I found out tonight. Pretty cool, I think!

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Living Math for Elementary Students

In the process of ordering upcoming curriculum for the year, Ive been thinking a lot about Luc and how we want to do kindergarten with him this fall.  I knew we were going to be using the free online Progressive Phonics and our Bob books and Leap Frog videos. I just wasn’t sure about math. [...]

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The Learning Room ~ Musical Schooling

Weeks Febraury  14 – 25 We’ve been musical schooling this week. A term I made up to go along with our car schooling! It’s been a light two weeks on my end, with planning anyway. We had the heart holiday off and two playdates and beautiful spring weather and my new camera to play with. [...]

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The Learning Room

Where we are today… Rapping away and having fun while making birthday cards for Pop. Hmmm….trying to figure out how to download. I hear a mixed car CD shaping up in my head! Their official site: Rhythm Rhymes Results at educationalrap.com

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Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival going on today!

Hey homeschooling moms…head on over to Fisher Academy International for some Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival hopping! Can’t wait to go poke around myself this afternoon.

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An Educational Treasure Chest (aka Charlotte Mason freebies)

Sometimes you stumble across a site that just makes your mouth water as a homeschooling momma! Today was such a day! I opened my email box and found my new Homeschool Freebie of the Day email and saw a link to this wonderful, hard-working mom’s site, We Don’t Need No Education (don’cha just love that [...]

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For Weekend Pondering…

As I was running late…again!!!…out the door trying my very hardest not to yell as seatbelts are flying and I am failing and praying, I hear this… Thank you, Lord, for new mercies every day!

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Field Guides as Living Books

A field guide ~ that handy little book (or big book, as the case may be) that tells you factually exactly what you need to know about what you wanted to know about. Not exactly what we think of when we think living books. Living books for me usually encompass thoughts about a really great [...]

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Taking a day off…

So check out all the fun things going on at the Hands-On Homeschooling Carnival today at Cultivated Lives! I am going to officially take the day off of school. It is 60 degrees out today, the sun is shining and my new Nikon d3100 is just begging me to take it for a spin! Happy(early) [...]

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Valentine’s Fun

Where we’ll be and what were up to today! Clay Conversation Hearts over at The Write Start

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Naming Love

I’m on chapter three of Ann’s new book and the thing that strikes me is the act of doing in naming. It is not that the doing is outrageous, extraordinary, magnificent. It is precisely that the doing is mundane. This naming of mundane is naming love…God’s love to us, our love to each other. Unconditional, sacrificial [...]

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Journaling…the easy way!

Just had to share this video with all today! I linked to it from Dawn’s site and just fell in love..again! Dawn really does journal this way and I tried it for a year. It was wonderful. The only reason I stopped was having more babies and running low on scrapbooking stuff. But now I am seriously considering [...]

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The Learning Room ~ More Project Work

We have continued on with project work this week. I feel our biggest accomplishment was sticking to the generic schedule ~ doing school work from 10-12 each day no matter if chores were done or not and using later free time to pick up the slack on chores kids were too lazy to get done [...]

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Knowing One Another

I wake up panicked, the images burned into my retina. I can’t take it back…this dream thing. Why? Why would I dream this? Why now? I have this urgency to see him. To wrap myself around him, clinging. I have this need…this deep-seeded need to be in union with him. To know him. To have [...]

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Simply Doing It

Small steps towards simplicity…this is the challenge of the week from Elizabeth Foss. Small is the key word for me this week. Last week I mentioned how easy it is for me, the lover of plans, to get caught up in the planning and never in the doing. So this week I just spent the [...]

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Vintage Valentine’s Free Clip Art!

What have we been doing today? Wish I had pictures to show you. Valentine’s will be here soon and it’s time to get ready. We are preparing our traditional banner and getting ready to make some cards. This year I am branching out into the world of free vintage digital clip art (as if I [...]

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Guided Project Work

January 31 – February 4 At the beginning of the week I mentioned that during my potty training time with Ivy I would have the two older kids working on guided project work. I was very excited about this concept and the kids were too. We’ve done project work in the past with trying to allow [...]

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I’m taking back my house…

After running my hand over a sticky, grubby table for the millionth time… After having little random who-knows-what-it-is-but-it-feels-gross-stuck-on-the-bottom-of-my-sock experiences walking through the kitchen… After sitting on chairs that have a layer of goo perpetually coating them… After finding too many dirty cups or silverware hiding under table legs… After getting so tired of nagging and [...]

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Punxsutawney Phil and The Best Coffee Cake Ever!

Happy Groundhog’s Day! Watch video  here for Punxsuatwney Phil’s official prediction. Happy Early Spring!!!  ~ What we’re reading today ~ Groundhog at Evergreen Road It’s Groundhog Day by Steven Kroll And, while reading, my hubby made this fantastic coffee cake called (very appropriately) The Best Coffee Cake Ever found over at Pioneer Woman. Oh how [...]

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HIS Timing

I wasn’t going to post today. I was planning on really digging in and having a filled, focused day like yesterday. But then I read Elizabeth’s post on simplicity. And then I read Jenny’s post on simplicity. And this is where I have been struggling lately. I was convicted. I want…crave…need simplicity in my life. [...]

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