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Keeping up.

Oct. 16, 2009 • 8:40 AM

It's been hard keeping up lately. I know all of you homeschooling moms understand the schedule that comes with homeschooling 5 children. All of my children seem to have their own individual curriculums this year. Occasionally we will do a project like a lapbook together but mostly everything is separate... and that is a lot of subjects. My two youngest children do some activities together as well as some apart. We do Tot Trays this year. These activities are usually a hit with them.

I am telling you all this so you know why I haven't been blogging. I enjoy blogging and love the friends I made/make as well as the ideas and projects I find on other blogs. I just haven't had the time to sit down for myself and blog here. I do have some things ready to go though and will hopefully soon start blogging a little more often.

I might even keep my blogs more visual and write less words for the time being. You know... ease back in slowly, building up to when I can more easily post more. I am a very visual person anyway. I go to blogs more often that have a lot of photos and show crafts, etc. with photo steps/instructions so it will be more my style anyway! :)

Apron Giveaway!

Sep. 23, 2009 • 8:21 AM

Over the past year or so I have developed a real liking for aprons. I think they are fun, helpful and also a reminiscent item.

The apron is certainly helpful in saving your clothing while cooking as well as with other domestic activities. I can always picture a women walking to her garden and gathering up her harvest into her apron to carry inside. The aprons of the past, worn almost everyday, certainly would have some wonderful stories to tell if they could. Even to the child running to their mama crying, head hitting the apron as they hug and the child's tears filling the mother's apron. Aprons are mother's helpers and a reminder to me of simple and wonderful things!

I have a small collection now and it is a fun collection to have. The aprons will hold special memories to me as I am teaching my older girls now how to cook. Someday I will look at the aprons we're wearing now and the memories will flood into my mind.  I have picked up a few cute aprons at thrift stores and one new, one was a gift (a pattern to be sewn) and my older daughters have each sewn me aprons at their sewing classes. I've never won an apron yet so hopefully I will possibly win this one!!!

Here is the giveaway for a nice Edwardian giveaway! Check it out and enter if you'd like!

Homeschool Share's Blast!

May. 8, 2009 • 8:17 AM

There is a really great contest going on over at my favorite website: Homeschool Share! Check it out!

If you like to lapbook and enjoy creating your own school units, you might want to sign up to create a unit for them! The prizes are so wonderful! I am really excited to see all the new projects that will get created and shared on Homeschool Share, too! What a Blast that will be!

Find out all the details here at Homeschool Share's Contest page!

The contest ends June 20th! So don't delay!

If you've never seen all the wonderful resources over at Homeschool Share.com, you really must check it out now! You will be thrilled to have found such a wonderful resource for free educational and FUN projects that are also FREE!

Hope for more blog posts!

Feb. 9, 2009 • 4:47 PM

Just stopping by to tell any of my readers, friends, etc. that I am sorry that I haven't been posting much here in 2009.  I am thankful to be part of the TOS Homeschool crew but that takes up most of my free-time lately. Then when I do get the time to blog, usually a review is due. Actually I have many I need to get done now. It has been a blessing yet I also see that I bit off more than I can chew (so to speak).  I never meant for my blog to be an all-review blog either and I hope to soon find a way to blog more of the other aspects of homeschooling. I am doing an alphabet album with my youngest son and it has been a lot of fun. I hope to post the pages of that soon and hope to get back to the Tot School and Muffin Tin Monday posts too. Thanks for hanging in there with me and I hope to stop by all your blogs again soon too when I pull a late night quiet time!

Homeschool Blog Awards- Thank you!

Nov. 21, 2008 • 9:11 AM

This is a sticky post so please scroll down for the new entries!

Thanks for stopping by!

WOW! I am shocked, surprised and so sweetly touched that you guys voted for ME for the Homeschool Blogger Awards!

Thank you!

I was also thrilled to see many of my friends in the lists of nominees as well. It is going to be so hard for me to vote and choose just one. I am very thankful for this wonderfully encouraging circle of homeschooling, blogging moms across the states (and even beyond that). You all have been such and encouragement to me since I began blogging and I have collected as many great ideas as anything I've shared!

I was nominated for Best homeschool Mom Blog! WOW! I am certainly NOT the best homeschool mom that is out there but I thank you for thinking fondly of me. It pushes and encourages me to do better and live up to this more. Here is the category description: "Everyone is the best homeschool mom for their own children. With thousands of homeschool bloggers out there, please know that there will only be one winner online – but EACH OF US are winners in our own homes. If there’s a blogging mom out there that has been a particularly good example to you and you want to let her know… consider her for this nomination! [Her blog does not have to be exclusively about motherhood or homeschooling.]

I feel that each mom is the BEST mom to her children because God planned it that way! (Whether your children are born to you or chosen through adoption, The Lord planned this all!) He blessed me with my children and only asks that as I enjoy, care for, teach and love them, that I raise them for Him! I feel we all have good and bad days and we all need encouragement along our journey. You all have encouraged me greatly. Thanks for your nomination!

Then.. I was nominated in the Best Variety Category. I always though I was more arts and crafts because I love all things creative. However I do have a variety of things that I like to do with my family and post about many different things so thanks again for thinking of me!

This category is for : This blogger is one that could fit in any of these categories … but they just can’t be pinned down in ONE. This type of blogger is the ADD hyper-focused type… always moving on from one thing to the next… and always keeping you interested in coming back for more!

I am hopeful that I do keep you coming back for more! I hope you leave me a comment too so I know you were visiting. I enjoy fellowshipping with others!

Voting begins today! Stop on over to the HSB Awards blog and vote! I am sure you will find some really great blogs to visit! If you would decide to vote for me, then I thank you. Anything good I do, is of the Lord and I thank Him also for the strength and encouragement He brings me along the way!

Voting ends at midnight on November 21st, 2008! so... go Vote! (one more time!)

Great GiveAway!

Oct. 15, 2008 • 7:55 PM

WooHoo! Here is a GREAT Giveaway!

Stop over at Seaside Tales to enter her wonderful giveaway of this hardcover book with CD All in One Curriculum for Pilgrim's Progress from Answer's in Genesis!

HSBA: Time to Nominate!

Oct. 14, 2008 • 7:18 AM

It's time to nominate our fellow bloggers!

It's Homeschool Blogger Award Nomination time! Oh this makes me busy, trying to figure out which of you, my great blogging friends, to put in which category to nominate! It's so fun though and I wish to acknowledge so many of you. Thanks to ALL my great blogging friends. You are all so wonderful, encouraging and FULL of fabulous ideas that you share with me!  

If you wish to nominate your blogging friends as well, Click Here! There are so many categories and many great prizes for the winners!

Computer went on vacation!

Jul. 29, 2008 • 8:57 AM

 Hi everyone! I hope to have some new posts soon. I have a lot of good things in the works but..

My computer decided to take ANOTHER vacation!  This is the second time we had to send it back in for work to be done on it (while under warranty). Ugh! Things are much harder and take longer when not done on your own computer, etc. so I may be doing a double Tot School next week.. plus lots of great things I've been wating to post will be up as soon as I can get back on my computer. (I estimate a week!)

They say my computer will take High priority since it is the second fix, etc. ... We'll see!

Have a super week!

Mother's Day GiveAway!

May. 8, 2008 • 11:05 PM

Note: This will remain at the top of my blog until the contest is over! Please scroll down for new posts!

It’s May! Yay!

The month of May is full of great things. It is a Springtime month that is host to

American Bike Month,  Asparagus Month, Flower Month, National Bar-B-Q Month, National Egg Month, National Salad Month and National Strawberry Month just to name a few! If you’d like to found out more things to celebrate in May, check out this list at Graceful Girlhood.

How to view all your friends recent posts!

May. 5, 2008 • 3:07 PM

Just wanted to share this with all you homeschoolbloggers in case you didn't already know this...

An easy way for you to catch up with all the homeschoolbloggers that you have listed in your friends list is to simply :

Go to the address bar at the top of your page. It will say http followed by the www. and homeschoolblogger-(dot)-com then / and your blogname

After that, type another / and then type friends and hit the enter key.

You will get all your friends posts for that day in order of the most recent to the oldest. It will show up to 5 pages just by clicking next when you come to the bottom of that page of reading!

All the posts show up on your blog template so they look like your entries. You can also leave comments right from there. It makes it easier to visit all your friends! You don't get to see their new makeovers or sidebar items but is so helpful during busy weeks!

Hope this helps- let me know if you tried it for the first time and it worked!

Have a great day!

I won- a Little Bit!

Apr. 14, 2008 • 2:16 PM

Another homeschooling mom here on homeschooblogger, 1+1+1=1 hosted a contest and I won!! Carisa and her husband are a missionary family serving in the Inner-City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They have lived and served there since '04. You can read their whole story HERE! I encourage you to click that link and read their story! Keep them in your prayers and stop by her awesome blog to enter her next contest as well as read about all her great ideas with homeschooling!

What did I win? I won a wonderful, soft and cuddly, homemade Little Bitty blanket with ribbon tags. I was able to choose some of the fabrics that I liked best from her inventory.

My daughter never had a blankee and she really has been enjoying this cuddly Little Bit! (THANKS!)

My oldest daughter ("Panda") said to me that this "blankee" is especially neat because one side is zebra, which is one of her favorite animals and the other side is pink like a flamingo which other sister ("Princess') has as one of her favorite animals. Then all the tags are like me (mom) because I like whimsical patterns. I liked her insight and how that blanket has "Little Bits" of all the other girls from her family in it!

Check out the Little Bits site to see the many great items offered through Carisa's mom and the business she started to help support her daughter and family as they serve the Lord as missionaries! All Bits are hand made by Carisa Hinson's Mom, Sandi Hunter, who lives in Charlotte, NC. Not only does her mom work full time, she also gives so much of her heart during her free time. Sandi does all this even though she has lots of physical problems. She has had surgery on her hand, knees, shoulders, stomach, and lives her life in much pain. (Let's keep this sweet woman in our prayers!)

Here is the story about Carisa's loving and supportive mother, the creator of this business and mostly all the great products sold there! (A teenager that lives with the Hinson family also sews some of the prodect line.)

Check in at Carisa's blog 1+1+1=1 this week as she will be throwing another contest giveaway from Little Bits!

1+1+1=1 (To the world it makes no sense, to God it makes perfect sense.)

Thanks again, Carisa and Sandi! You both brought joy to my week- more than just through your blog but by this sweet gift that encourages my child to cuddle. It was perfect timing as we are trying to use the pacifier Nuk less at sleepytime so this is now a comfort to her and she thinks less about the Nuk because her new blankee is there! May the Lord bless you as I keep you in my prayers!

If I were a...

Feb. 23, 2008 • 8:08 AM

If I were a...

If I were a shoe, I’d be a pair of crocs. (Thought they looked goofy at first but they are actually fashionable. I love them because they are comfy and easy to slip on!)

If I were a city, I’d be a small country town- I'm not a city girl.

If I were a season, I'd be Spring.

If I were a car, I’d be  my Cool-bus (If you don't know what a cool-bus is, click HERE!) 

If I were a vegetable, I’d be corn. (All my kids love corn, so I must choose corn! Plus I am a bit corny at times! Heehee.)

If I were a fruit, I’d be a strawberry.(Can it also be chocolate-covered?)

If I were a color, I’d be Green.

If I were furniture, I’d be a super-comfy LOVEseat! (Hopefully I'd be sitting near the fireplace!)

If I were a country, I’d be the USA. (Land of the Free and the Brave! Land that I love!)

If I were a beverage, I’d be Diet Green Tea.

If I were clothing, I’d be a fleece hoody.

If I were weather, I’d be a cloud soaking up the sunshine. 

If I were a dessert, I’d be Black raspberry egg custard.

If I were a plant, I’d be ivy. (Hopefully in a heart-shaped topiary and inside the house) If outside, I'd be climbing the walls!

If I were a word, I’d be LOVE.

I invite all my friends to do this FUN, little meme! Leave me a coment and I will stop for a visit! It's always fun to visit and learn more about my friends and fellow homeschooling moms in the Lord! Thanks for being so hospitable!

Blessings of Friendship

Feb. 19, 2008 • 3:38 PM

Look at the surprise package that was delivered on Valentine's Day!

This package came from another online homeschooling mom that I became friends with through the Secret Sister program. She is not actually my Secret Sister but a new friend! Here is what was inside!

All the delicious treats have been enjoyed by my whole family! Thanks so much for your kindness!

Connecting Online...

Feb. 15, 2008 • 6:58 PM

Three really great bloggers gave my this great award! Thank you so much for blessing me by thinking so highly of me! (I'm not really that wonderful but I am truly blessed by the Lord above!  He brings much encouragement into my life through many ways but you all are certainy one of those ways!) Thanks so much for your kind thoughfulness!

Byourlove1 at Homeschooling and Loving It, Proverbs 22:6 Academy, and 1+1+1=1 have all blessed me with this. Here are the rules to this award!

By accepting this Excellent Blog Award, you have to award it to at least 10 more people whose blogs you find Excellent Award worthy. Thank you out there for having such great blogs and being such great friends! You deserve this! Feel free to award people who have already been awarded…

I give it back to the 3 who gave it to me- you all have excellent blogs! --plus here are the other bloggers I award this to. You are all excellent. Check out these great blogs!

drewsfamilytx

MistyKrasawski

RobinsEggBlue

BreezyTulip at A Bowl of Moss and Pebbles

BlessingHill

Jenefork at Little Creek Homeschool

Nikki at Angels of Heart 

 Have a great weekend!

Scattegories Tag

Jan. 29, 2008 • 4:51 PM

I've been tagged with the Scattergories tag by Taryn at My Family Life and Ginny at Proverbs 22:6 Academy! I like this game so i will give it a quick try!

Use the first letter of your name and find words with that letter. The number of letters in your name determines how many people you can tag.

I am using my blog name for this. I am leaving the tagging open to anyone that wants to play! Join in and post your answers! I'll stop by if you let me know!

What is your name?  SchoolinRhoome (School in Our Home)

4-letter word:  sand

Vehicle:   Saturn

City:   Seattle

Boy’s name:   Stanley

Girl’s name:   Stephanie

Movie:   Saving Sarah Cain (just watched it & it was very good!)

Occupation:   Singer, Songwriter

Something you wear:   scarf

Celebrity:   Shania Twain (county singer)

Food:   strawberries

Something found in a kitchen:   soda

Something found in a bathroom:   soap

Reason for being late:   sleeping in.

Cartoon character:   Scooby Doo

Something you shout:   Stop!

Animal:   squirrel

Body part: stomach

Word to describe you:   sister

Jump in and play!

Book Tag!

Jan. 28, 2008 • 10:22 AM

Diane over at A Day in the Life has tagged me with this BOOK Tag. Thanks for thinking of me!

Rules:
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

The Book I am doing is A Mom After God's Own Heart (By: Elizabeth Goerge) I it s very good inspirational and encouraging Godly book for Moms!

Here is the passsage asked for: It is speaking about praying for your child:

Don't wait another second. These are your children! No one (other than God himself) wants them to walk in God's ways more than you do.

I want to include the section of Diane's book as it is great advice.

Remember, not everything your child wants is best for him. The best way to bring happiness to your child is to teach him it comes from within.

How to post side-by-side photos!

Jan. 15, 2008 • 9:35 PM

I figured out how to post pictures- two side by side!  Thanks to those of you that commented especially HOMEFree and msmarla. And thanks to my sweet hubby for helping me figure out how to put some space between the two photos! A HUGE Thanks to Eclectic Education for all the help in getting this post done correctly.

 Many of my new friends here at homeschool blogger have been such a big help to me and encouragement. I hope to return the help here and explain how to do this. I am not great with html codes. I just try things until I get it so I hope I can explain this to you without much confusion.

When posting your pictures, add both photos (one below the other) as you normally would- then go to the top and click on the Source button. This will expose the html codes.

Change what you see to look like this: (add your photo addresses in the spaces I highlighted red) You will have to write this code down. Sorry you can not copy and paste it because of a safeguard I have on my blog to protect my photos.

Here is the code! I had to add spaces so it could fit in my blog space correctly. If you use this, take out all the spaces and type it in your post all pushed together (like a run-on sentence!).Start with a < then add the following:

p align="left"> "http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd284/SchoolinRhome/Family%20Pics/007.jpg" /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd284/SchoolinRhome/Family%20Pics/006-1.jpg" />

You may have to change the width number. I have 200 but you may need to play with that and change it. Just keep hitting Source and see how it looks and if changes need made, hit source again and fix things. Also the code &nbsp; is the code for a space. The more you have, the more space you will have between your photos.

Give it a try and then come back and comment. I will "stop by" and see your side-by-side photos!  (I hope it works for you!)

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New Question

Jan. 14, 2008 • 9:53 AM

Posted in Blog Fun

Does anyone know the answer to this?

Can we post two pictures/photos side by side here at homeschoolblogger?

 I've wanted to do this yet can't figure out how. I think that it probably can't be done in this forum but I thought I might as well try asking first. My blogging friends have been so helpful in teaching me things here with blogging and I so appreciate it. When I started out I took a lot of time to figure out how to get started (Too much time really but I was getting started.) I have learned now to just ask and if someone knows the answer they are usually more than happy to share the answer. You all are wonderful! I am very thankful I found this homeschooling arena (Homeschool blogging has really enriched my life and helped to make our homeschool and  family life better!) Thanks!

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Spirit of Christmas Award

Nov. 30, 2007 • 10:30 PM

Posted in Blog Fun

Thanks to Nikki at Angels of Heart for giving me this Bloggy Award! I am excited for Christmas. It is such a warm and cozy family time centered around our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

I give this award to the following blog friends:

Michelle aka FoxValleyFamily at her "At Home With Jesus" Blog: I love your blog decorations for the season including the crayon drawing at the top. Your music of the Season post is great too!

LizzieBee : Love the doggie Bows!

Alyssa aka crazybusy at Live and Learn Blog: Love your Friday Funnies- Posting your children's Christmas lists is a funny and cute way to remember. I might try to do this with my kids too!

CandaceC at His Mercy is New: Thanks for the info on so many great Christmas books. The Nutcracker looked amazing! The Spirit of Christmas seems to be alive in your home!

And to...

mcgyver959701 at Camelot Homestead Academy: GREAT links and great recipes! Thanks for sharing!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

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Blog Friends are Great!!

Nov. 26, 2007 • 3:23 PM

Posted in Blog Fun

I was given this award from both Angela aka byourlove1 and also Lynn aka mcgyver959701 Thank you ladies! You have been great blog friends! So encouraging!

Isn't this such a wonderful arena for us homeschoolers! I appreciate all your comments at my blog and all your great ideas and inspirations at your blogs!

I am to pass this award onto 5 of my amazing blog friends so here are my 5.....

Stacy aka southmsmomof4 over at By God's Grace Blog

Kindred Heart

Bearing Fruit

Nikki aka AngelHeart at Angels of Heart Blog

Cindy aka Westward over at Our Journey Westward

All my blog friends are great but I had to choose just 5! Stop by their blogs. I am sure you will be glad you did!

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