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Happy Thanksgiving to You!
Posted 11:47 AM, Nov. 23, 2009
 Happy Thanksgiving!
Last week the Porch Team had some great posts for you on the subject of Thanksgiving. If you haven't read any of those yet, look in the archives and check them out! A few of them may have more to offer for this week. Since November 1st I've seen a lot of posts about being thankful. Several bloggers have taken up a be thankful challenge where they have to list each day, the things they are thankful for. Here is a short list of my thankful fors:
I pray that each of you will have safe travels this Thanksgiving weekend, that you will be a witness to all you spend time with, and that your hearts are full of the blessings that the Lord has given to you. I can't wait to read your posts about how you spent the Thanksgiving weekend! Tia Linschied Senior Editor of HSB Homeschool Travel Accomodations Contest
Posted 11:57 AM, Nov. 5, 2009
Live the Adventure is a blog about a homeschooling family that travels. Recently they found out about a different kind of program where homeschoolers offer their homes to other traveling homeschoolers. Right now you can win a free membership! Find out all the details at Live the Adventure.
Contests Around the Blogosphere!
Posted 9:56 AM, Nov. 3, 2009
Homestead Originals has three contests running at the moment.
A Journey Home Giveaway at Homestead Originals!
Posted 10:05 AM, Oct. 6, 2009
 If you ever get a chance to see this movie, don't miss it! It was fascinating and beautiful. You may get that opportunity if you enter this DVD giveaway over at Hometead Originals. Be sure to enter before October 15!
Tia Linschied Senior Editor of HSB Homestead Blessings Contest!
Posted 11:21 AM, Sep. 10, 2009
Lisa is hosting a Homestead Blessings contest over on her Homestead Originals blog. The prize is a 3 DVD set of the new Homestead Blessings series, canning, gardening, and herbs. If you enjoy the West ladies and their down to earth homesteading tutorials then you'll want to win these DVDs! Hurry, contest ends September 25.
Tia Linschied Senior Editor of HSB This Week on the Porch ~ Getting Organized
Posted 12:06 PM, Aug. 24, 2009
Organization is required, to some degree, for a homeschool to be successful. Otherwise we would spend the entire day looking for a pencil (oh, wait, we've done that), or a curriculum book (oh, wait, we've done that, too). Sometimes the day just slips away and you wonder where all that time went and you didn't get any school done at all. Yup, been there, done that, as well.
This week the Porch Team is going to share their organization tips, just in time for the new school year. Will it solve all of your organizational problems? Probably not as we don't know all of your organizational needs, but what we do have to offer you are simple solutions. In the past, here on the Porch, we had some Tip of the Day writers. You can find their past tips here, some of these posts will definitely help you with organization, all over the home, for all kinds of seasons. Right now, we need a new Tip of the Day writer. If you are interested, let me know by sending me an email. I'll need a link to your blog or website, or a sample of your writing. Let me know why you'd be interested in writing the Tip of the Day as well. What's the commitment? For one month you would write 5 tips a week (M-F). So I can line up several writers. If you have a specific month you'd like to write tips for, let me know. I hope your school year gets off to a great start! Tia Linschied Senior Editor of HSB This Week on the Porch ~ Favorite Book on Homeschooling
Posted 8:39 AM, Aug. 17, 2009
This week the Porch Team is going to be talking about their favorite books on homeschooling, or in their topic area. Some may just talk about books in general.
One thing I do when I go to someone's house for the first time is look at the books on their bookshelves. You never know what treasure you may find--from something new you've never heard of before to something you have heard of and have always wanted to take a closer look. Many of the books I own now are books that I discovered on a friends bookshelf. That includes my favorite books on Homeschooling, and what made my favorite books on homeschooling list are those that offered a list of homeschooling resources--it was like looking at someone's bookshelf!
Tia Linschied Senior Editor of HSB This Week on the Porch ~ Heat!
Posted 3:01 PM, Aug. 10, 2009
Hot enough for you yet? My family moved from Oregon, where it gets hot but it's a dry heat, to Kentucky, where even when it's not super hot you think it's that hot because of the humidity. However, during most of our travel, we didn't make it into the 90's, until yesterday. Back home it's been over 100 degrees several days in a row, I'm sure glad we weren't there for that!
So when it's hot, what does my family do? We sit around gasping for air like a fish out of water! Oh right, air conditioner, may want to turn that puppy on. If you don't have one though, and we didn't for awhile, try some of my favorite tips:
They've invented the heated blanket, why not a cooling blanket? I hope you enjoy what the rest of the Porch Team has to share with you this week. I know I will. Tia Linschied Senior Editor of HSB Summer this Week on the Porch
Posted 12:33 AM, Jun. 22, 2009
June 21st is the official first day of summer, and for that reason this week's Porch team will be talking about summer. That's a pretty broad topic but then so are summer activities.
I like summer well enough, but it's not my favorite season. What I do like about it is the blue sky, more opportunities to go camping, and a good reason to eat lots of ice cream. Actually, there's always a good reason to eat ice cream, but it just feels and tastes so much better, to me, in the summer. It's also a family tradition of ours to go to a local state park where huckleberry ice cream is sold. We do this every year, and we like to take guests there as well. Have you ever had a chance to make home-made ice cream? There are several ways to do it, even if you don't have an ice cream maker, so take a look at these recipes, choose the one that will work for your family and situation and sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labor. Eagle Brand® has several ice cream recipes, just type in ice cream in their search engine. Here's the recipe for Almond Toffee Ice Cream Loaf. Try making ice cream in a bag! This is a great recipe to try while camping, or with several children who prefer different flavors. There's a whole website dedicated to just ice cream recipes, check it out! Why not read a little ice cream history while you savor your tasty home concoction? Enjoy your ice cream! Tia Linschied Senior Editor of HSB Father's Day this Week on the Porch
Posted 11:22 PM, Jun. 15, 2009
Father's Day is this coming Sunday so get your families ready to cheer on dear dad and let him know that, yes, you do love him. Not that he should be in any doubt, but just in case.
It's been 20 years since I've been able to tell my Papafather that I love him. Oh yes, there are days when it feels like it was only yesterday that I caught him spitting over the side of the ferris wheel while we were stopped at the very top. I was, of course, appalled. He was slightly embarrassed. How could my most looked-up to person on the face of this earth, do something so crude and inappropriate? Yet, what I remember about that moment was the look on his face, he gave me a sheepish smile. He was after all human, he was after all a boy at heart. Why guys would want to spit over the side of a ferris wheel I have no idea but for some odd reason, they do. Still, despite all their idiosyncracies they also want to protect, build, and love their wives, children, and families. The Bible tells us that man can't live by bread alone (Luke 4:4). Absolutely this means the Word of God, but we can't just plop three square meals down a day and expect a man to continue to love us. I don't care if there is a saying that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Plenty of men are fed, but are not loved. Your husband and/or your father, wants to know that he is loved, just as our Heavenly Father wants to know that we love Him. So this Father's Day, make sure your father knows how much you love him. Personally, I wouldn't wait. My Papafather died a couple of weeks before Father's Day. I'd give almost anything to see him spit over the side of a ferris wheel now. Tia Linschied Senior Editor of HSB What Not to Keep this Week on the Porch
Posted 10:47 AM, Jun. 8, 2009
Last week the Porch team shared which kinds of schoolwork, supplies, and other items you should keep while cleaning up your end of the year shelves and drawers. This week the team will be talking about what you should NOT keep.
My tips from last week's post included what books I keep, and Julia also had some excellent ideas about books that she keeps. You'd think it would stand to reason that if a person followed those tips then what was left would be the books you get rid of. Not necessarily. While my family may enjoy certain books, I don't keep them on my shelves if they are easily borrowed from the public library. As I said last week, I only have so much shelf space, even if I do have two rows deep of books per shelf! What else do you get rid of? Sometimes it would seem obvious that you toss out hardened clay and dried up markers. Still, I have found myself keeping some of these things over the years thinking that I could do something with them. What I don't know! I also get rid of the things that irritated me over the last year. If not removed from my house all together, then removed out of easy reach for my children. For instance, beads drive me crazy. They are all over the place, even when the children try to be careful with them. Due to my bead phobia, we tend not to use to many of them so I'll pare down the beads to a small container and get rid of the rest. This way we still have some if we need them. I hope you'll enjoy what the Porch team has to share with you this week! Tia Linschied Senior Editor of HSB What to Keep, This Week on the Porch
Posted 12:06 AM, Jun. 1, 2009
As the end of the school year is drawing to a close you are probably starting to consider what homeschool items you should get rid of and what you should keep. We'll talk next week about what you should get rid of; this week we'll talk about what to keep. Wouldn't you just keep what you don't plan to get rid of? Well, hopefully we'll be able to help you decide what to keep and what to get rid of.
When it comes to the paper work, obviously if you live in a state where you are required to turn more paper work in than another state, you have some different things to consider. That's something you'll need to decide for yourself. I don't live in a very regulated state, so what I keep are those papers that show me marked improvement, say the first spelling test and the last. (I don't save any spelling papers at all actually, but I was just trying to show you what might be important to keep.) For my youngest son, who is special needs, I'll also save papers that show something out of the ordinary to show his therapists. For instance, just a week ago, he wrote his name in mirror image, something he has never done before, or since. It was odd, and so perfectly done that you might think he planned to do it that way, unless you understood that it's not something he would think to do and accomplish so easily. Save all the award certificates that your child has earned for the year. Go over all the past years certificates and determine if you still want to keep them. Over time, the certificates are not that important anymore, but those fresh ones, especially to younger children, are a source of accomplishment. Put the paperwork you want to save in a dedicated binder for each child. I have binders just for drawings and stories. My children love to go through these from time to time and remember what they did and laugh at how they did it. They see how they've improved. I don't save everything they have drawn or written, just those that I especially liked or they themselves asked me to put into their binder. Curriculum and reading books are something I go through pretty regularly, mainly because I don't have unlimited shelf space. I've learned a few lessons over the years and after several moves. Keep curriculum you like. You may not use it next year, but in another year or two you may want to pull it back off the shelf for an emergency ,or times of financial difficulties. Even if I think I'll never use it again, I keep it because I got rid of it once and then wound up buying it again. As for any reading books, I keep the favorites, the hard to find, and I keep excellent, uplifting, and morally encouraging books on my shelves. I'll mention next week what I get rid of and why. Then of course there's all the extra tidbits of games, craft supplies, science supplies, notebooks, binders, pencils, and pens. Keep the markers that work, keep the supplies that are hard to find or expensive and can be used for other experiments. Decide just how many notebooks and binders you need to have on hand. (Currently I have a whole shelf dedicated to empty binders that are near to toppling over. While I'm a binder freak, that's even too many for my liking. They've been sitting there for over a year and haven't been touched yet!) Keep what you use, but don't become paranoid that you'll never be able to afford another binder again and must save every one that you come across. Buying a new binder is one thing, buying the same curriculum twice is another. Think of all the binders I could have bought if I'd of just saved the curriculum in the first place and kept it on the ridiculous binder shelf! I hope these tips and the ones from the rest of the team will be helpful to you! Keep reading throughout the week to find out what they have to share. Tia Linschied Senior Editor of HSB End of the School Year on the Porch
Posted 1:27 AM, May. 25, 2009
If school isn't over in your house, it probably will be soon--unless you are like me and school year round. Now, just this last week the weekly e-Newsletter, The Homeschool Minute, talked about "The Importance of Downtime." Great thoughts and ideas as always!
So if downtime is so important, why does my family school year round? We take our breaks when our Daddy is home, when our Grammy needs us to take her out for the day, or we want to go visit friends and relatives. Traveling is a lot easier during school days then during the hectic weekends and summer vacations. I've also found that the longer a child remains idle, the more likely they are going to get into trouble. As I'm not a crafty kind of person, and I'm hardly any better of a sporty kind of person, we don't have those types of activities to keep us occupied. We no longer have "farm" chores to tend to, and it doesn't take a lot to keep our house clean (okay, tidy), so school for a few hours helps make sure that what time is left in the day is spent productively. Now, that's how our family operates, it's not for everyone! Even in the summer we take more days off, we get outside more, and we lay on the porch swing and just read stories. We still have an "end of the school year" feeling as books get completed and we decide on summertime projects. So I'll hope you'll join us this week, here on the Porch, and enjoy what the Porch team has to share you with you in their end of the school year articles. Tia Linschied Senior Editor of HSB Memorial Day this Week on the Porch
Posted 1:13 AM, May. 18, 2009
Which is it that usually kicks off the summer season for your family: Memorial Day, the last day of school, or the First Day of Summer? I think it's usually Memorial Day because everyone loves to take their first camping trips, have a big bbq, or some other fun-filled summer activity.
Memorial Day isn't about summer though. It's about remembering servicemen and women who have died while defending the freedoms they hold dear. Click here to read a past THM that will link you to all kinds of great websites to help you learn more about Memorial Day. I hope you'll enjoy this week's articles on the Porch and your Memorial Day weekend! Tia Linschied Senior Editor of HSB Testing this Week on the Porch
Posted 11:55 PM, May. 11, 2009
This is a test of the HSB system. This is only a test. In the even of a real blog post, you will see text to verify the importance of the emergency. Beeeeeeeeeeepppppppp!!!
Sorry, couldn't help myself after I wrote the title for this post. What it means is that Porch team will be writing their articles geared towards testing. Although, Craft Corner and Classical Education are excused because I'm not sure how many crafts you could do for the subject of testing. Classical Education did talk about Latin, and I think Latin is a pretty good thing to know while testing because if you come across a question you aren't quite sure of the answer to, if it has any Latin in it, you might be able to take a good stab at it. How you feel about testing is going to be different for everyone due, in large part, to your state's requirements. Still, you'll enjoy this edition of a past Homeschool Minute on testing. I just love this newsletter and the wisdom of experienced homeschool writers like Nancy Carter, Deborah Wuehler, Todd Wilson, Ruth Beechick, and Molly Green. Do I have any wisdom on testing? If your state requires it, prepare your child with a pre-test. Get lots of rest. The day before the test just relax, don't try to cram in more "knowledge." Let your child know that no matter what their score on the test, you will still love them. Tia Linschied Senior Editor of HSB 
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