ARKive Videos…the new way to view nature

We were sent this amazing link through our homeschooling group. ARKive What is it you say? It is an archive of thousands of videos of animals in thier natural habitat. Get it ARKive!  Not only do you get the video, you get all the classification and habitat information right to the side of your screen. [...]

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Our snowy neck of the woods…

Mmmpphhh….sorry, my mouth was full of a warm, wonderfully delicious buttery chocolate croissant that my dear hubby just dropped off in the middle of the morning. The perks of being married to a chef. The perks of living at the place you work! And our other perk…. Waking up to the most beautiful frosted forest. [...]

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The Learning Room ~ of Mice and Men

This week was a productive school week despite our whole crew getting reinfected and having another sick week! Daddy had to go in early all this week and that always allows us to get more schooling done. (Daddy is very distracting for momma in the best sort of ways!) Between bleaching everything, boiling toothbrushes, cleaning [...]

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Letting Go of Supermom: the good, the bad, and the ugly!

Yes, it’s true. I’m sorry to report that they found her, unconscious in the middle of her pristine living room floor. The emergency crew said they’d never seen a house so clean or kids so sad. It was a terrible thing to have happen during the week before Christmas. Maybe it was the elaborate Christmas [...]

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Needing to Count

I need to count today. I come to this day depleted and tired, cranky with only words that tear down instead of lift up. My children feel it. I feel it. It is like a snowball rolling through my days picking up negativity along the way. Two weeks of sick kids. Kids who were healed [...]

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The Learning Room – School Shenanigans

Spring is upon us and it is bearing green. I will admit it is making me not want to work. I open the windows and smell the breeze, listen to the sound of the birds and it all makes me want to sit outside with a good book and a hot cup of coffee. And [...]

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Seeing Green

~ Breakfast ~ Buttermilk Coffeecake with Green Buttercream Frosting (in the shape of a shamrock, of course!) Green Milk (drunk in our cool new St. Patty’s shirts) ~ Lunch ~ Green Mac N Cheese Grahams with Green Buttermilk Frosting and Gold Sprinkles ~ Dinner ~ Slow Roasted Corn Beef Roasted Cabbage, Potatoes, and Carrots Irish [...]

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Top ‘O the Morning to ya!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you, my friends! May your day be filled with fun and your belly filled with green. And, may your day be blessed by God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!!!

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The New Love Dare…sacrificial love

I stare out the window and watch them burn down the grass. Beautiful auburn Little Bluestem natural prairie grass. Lush tall, dried ornamental Pampas grass. This golden color has been the landscape of my days. Whenever I walk by the big picture window I say a little prayer of thanks and revel in the beauty [...]

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There was a little girl who had a little curl…

…and her name was Lily who sparkled like a new spring flower. There is a certain glow about a girl who is growing up and gets to experience that first salon visit. She sees herself as a canvas for the first time and the potential is limitless. Isn’t she divine in her new 50′s style [...]

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A Fun New Crafting Site & Free Resources

My sister shared with me a wonderful link to this blog dedicated to making crafts out of toilet paper tubes. It is called tpcraft.com. How cute is that? Adding it to my resource page right now! The ultimate in upcycling! By the way, don’t forget to check out all the fun free resource links I’ve collected. Click [...]

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The Learning Room – Versatility

Versatility is my word of the week. That is how I’ve had to be with all my plans whether they be for school or our homelife or community. We’ve been out house hunting this week on a serendipitous spotting of an open acreage in our area. That has meant rearranging Adam’s days off, getting paperwork [...]

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Baby Bjorn and the Spewing Adventure

Have you ever tried to nurse a baby while simultaneously making sure a 3 year old’s stomach contents land in the bowl? It is a superwomen-like ability and I am pleased to say I had the pleasure of fielding that hurdle today. I also had the pleasure of nursing the baby and NOT catching it [...]

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The Learning Room ~ Working the Workboxes

This week saw a new change for us. I’ve been thinking about implementing workboxes for a while now. I especially started thinking about it when I serendipitously discovered that two of the boxes I had been holding toys in actually fit hanging file folders. I knew I couldn’t use the traditional method…not with six+ kids eventually all [...]

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Nikon D3100 Review and Picture Samples

As some of you may know, my trusty olympus point and shoot finally gave out. And I was having photo withdrawals as I waited patiently for tax refund money to come in to buy a new one. I’ve always dreamed of owning an SLR ever since I was a little girl. Well, my darling husband [...]

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