Feb. 13, 2007 - Some sites for your tea time perusal...
Well, I had a day home...so I thought I'd add a couple of websites for you to check out. Some of them are quite doozies too!
http://children.calvarychapel.com/site/curriculum_n/htm is a site for Bible lessons.
www.notebooking.org has quite a bit of info on how to do notebooking with your children.
www.canby.com/hockmanchupp/student_folder_websites.html has quite a few links to examples of how to make notebooks/lapbooks with your children.
www.aplusmath.com will help you help your children with their math problems.
and last but definitely NOT least:
www.come-over.to/homeschool is called "All-in-one Homeschool Resource Center" and for GOOD reason! It has TONS of stuff to check out! Plan on spending a long, lazy afternoon checking out all they have to offer.
Have fun! Thanks for those that have written and are still praying for my dad. He's had accomplishments, and set-backs...but God is STILL in control! The verses that seem to speak to us the most right now are:
"We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body." -2 Corinthians 4:8-10
May God ALWAYS receive the glory!
Blessings,
Mistymoo
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Oct. 29, 2006 - My Hope is in God
I'm going to share a verse that was in my Bible reading today. It really
helped me, I hope it will help you too.
"Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her
roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat cometh, but her leaf shall
be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall
cease from yielding fruit." -Jeremiah 17:7-8
I picture a weeping willow when I read this. (One of my favorite trees!).
Here I am weeping because of what I'm going through, but I'm not without
hope. The Lord is my hope, and though I'm going through 'heat' right now, I
don't have to fear...my leaf will remain green and I will continue to bear
fruit. Isn't the Lord awesome?!
Well, need to get busy around here. I pray that your day goes well, and you are refreshed.
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Sep. 29, 2006 - update and prayer request
Hello! I'm sorry it seems as I've dropped off the face of the earth. 
My mother-in-law found out that her cancer had returned on June 21st and was given 6 mos. to live. She made it around 9 weeks and we buried her on the 5th of September. Meanwhile, my father was having tests run and found out 2 days after we buried my mother-in-law that his cancer was back. We've spent the month of September taking several tests, and he was operated on last Thursday. He is stage 4 now, and the surgeon said they just couldn't get it all. I suppose we will know more as soon as we can get him out of the hospital and in to the oncologist. Colon cancer is a wicked cancer and I have somewhat become a pest about people getting their colonoscopies. (If you haven't had one...it's NOT that bad...PLEASE GO!!!) Anyways, this month has been a blur of running home to the farm to keep everything up, staying with dad in the city hospital, and spending nights in other beds. School has become a hit-or-miss right now. Please pray for the family, and especially my father and his wife. We have much to deal with. I know, for I had just finished walking this road with my mother-in-law. I don't feel as though I've even gotten to grieve for her yet, as this has cropped up. Crisis to crisis, so to speak. I will soon be back with website suggestions...but first I must finish my walk down this road with my father. As it says in Psalm 34:22..."The Lord redeemth the soul of his servants; and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate." And the first words out of my dad's mouth coming out of anesthesia after the surgery, "God is STILL on the throne!" AMEN!
Love,
Mistymoo
P.S. My son just came in and said one of the cows has calved...Life DOES go on. Praise be to God from whom ALL blessings flow!
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Jun. 19, 2006 - This'll keep the kiddos busy!
Here's a fun site! www.funsci.com/texts/index_en.htm
It's called Fun Science and it is packed full of things to make, experiments to conduct, and just plain FUN! Hope you enjoy checking it out.
Blessings for your week!
Mistymoo
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Jun. 16, 2006 - Another website to peruse
Thanks for the kind comments on my suggestions. Here's the newest website suggestion:
It has tabs to click for themes, lessons, and printables. Right now they also have sample pages of a ladybug theme to print out. I haven't gotten a chance to peruse this much, but it looks like a keeper. :-)
Have fun!
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May. 27, 2006 - A "WOWzer" of a website!
Okay, here's the latest wonderful website I have found:
It is a collection of TONS of websites on ALL KINDS of subjects. :-)
I think I'll be perusing this site for quite a while. Why don't you get a cup of tea and head over and check it out with me? :-)
Have a blessed Memorial weekend!
~Mistymoo
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May. 5, 2006 - A few well-chosen websites...
Okay, I'm attempting to get back in the swing of things. I've got a couple of websites to share today that I've found helpful. I hope they are helpful to you also.
1. http://coloring.ws/coloring.html
Something for the young 'uns. Lots of coloring pages to print off.
2. http://www.ptbrewzer.com/hs/hs_links.html
494 and counting links to all KINDS of sites!
3. http://www.schoolexpress.com
Free activities, worksheets, online math, sites, ebooks, awards, programs, games, and journal writing sheets!
5. http://www.eagleforumu.eagleforumu
A site for the older students. There's even a free online curriculum for government studies. Would be wonderful for the high school students.
Back later with more sites. Have a blessed day. The sun is TRYING to shine here.
Blessings,
Mistymoo
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Jan. 19, 2006 - Refreshing love...
Isn't God just totally awesome?!!! I have completed a most trying year this past year...one of those years that on New Year's eve you exclaim "Good riddance!" LOL! But God is so faithful to send us just what we need to get back on track. I was reading just minutes ago at Jeannie Fulbright's blog about her printer jam and how it's all these little things that get us dragged down...but we are to praise God in ALL things. As 1Thessalonians 5:18 says,
"In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of GOD
in Christ Jesus concerning you."
Truly, at times our praise is a SACRIFICE of praise...but as it says in Hebrews 13:15-16..it is a sacrifice in which God is "well pleased". I am going to share my Thanksgiving journal entry and pray that it will bless someone too. Thanks for the reminder Jeannie...to praise God in ALL things!
Thanksgiving journal:
As I prepare for Thanksgiving, the holiday, this year I am faced with the truth of "the sacrifice of praise". Much has happened this year that in my natural mind I would've preferred to escape from. It is an awesome thing to serve a God that can bring beauty from ashes, and I look forward to seeing the fruit of righteousness that must come from this present affliction.
"For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal"
-2 Corinthians 4:17-18
"For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doeth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it."
-Romans 8:24-25
"For we walk by faith, not by sight."
-2 Corinthians 5:7
Most of the time, as we are in the midst of a battle, we become overwhelmed-just sure that this affliction will last forever. But we must look at things from an eternal viewpoint. Our life here on earth is such a fleeting moment, a whisp of air; and also remember that no sufferingis without gain. God IS still on the throne. He HASN'T turned His face away from us...And He DOES have a plan in this. Nothing will be wasted if we will just stay on the altar.
I sometimes picture myself lying on the altar...I've given myself to God as a living sacrificewhen I accepted His gift of salvation. But when pain comes my way, I yell, "OUCH!" and jump off the altar. "That HURTS!" I holler. But then I see the love in God's eyes and slowly, almost reluctantly, crawl back on the altar. he has a purpose. His ways are not my ways. I must submit.
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be ye not conformed (external-which will eventually affect you internally) to this world: but be ye transformed (begins inside and eventually affects the outside) byt the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God".
-Romans 12:1-2
So, as we stay on the altar, a living sacrifice, submitted to His will...we are transformed. As we are transformed, we begin to understand the will of God.
"Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ."
-Philippians 1:6
Our path is not always easy, but our path IS straight. Usually as I'm praying for God to show me His will concerning something, I have to say, "Lord, you KNOW me. Make the path easily seen, put up big lights, maybe some bright, flashing light. You know I want to follow your way, but I have such trouble seeing." Sometimes He WILL make it easier for me to see, but at other times-most of the times- He just gives me enough light to take just the next small step. I'm impatient. I want to see the end result. But isn't He merciful? How many of us, if faced with what the whole path has to offer to get to the end, would be too afraid to start on that path? We'd be overwhelmed if we saw it all. All the trials, tribulations, set-backs. So God, in His loving mercy, lights the way for our next step, and never leaves us not one single step, to face the path on our own.
So with an understanding of His great love and mercy-we are able to obey and in EVERY thing give thanks. Let us bring the sacrifice of praise and lay it at the feet of the God who loves us more than we can comprehend.
Well, if you are still with me, LOL, I hope that you are encouraged and strengthened to continue in your walk. Let us ALL remember to not grow weary in well-doing. I sure would like to reap the good things that God has promised us if we don't faint.
I will post later with another wonderful website suggestion. May your day be peaceful and full of joy!
BLessings,
Mistymoo
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Oct. 25, 2005 - Quarterly Website? *sigh*
Okay, life has gotten even MORE busy, so I am sorry to those who have emailed me and wondered where my website suggestions have gone. Here is one for today, and I will TRY to post more regularly. Thanks for thinking of me though! 
Today's website has TONS of links! Links to coloring pages, bible quizzes, holidays, lesson plans, etc... I'm going to be spending some time today checking out all their links to Thanksgiving-related things.
Also, when you pray, please remember my father in your prayers. I've been MIA here because my father has been through 3 major surgeries since July and the last one removed an orange-sized tumor from his colon. He is trying to heal up so he can start chemo and radiation, as it was cancer. Along with that, my mother-in-law, that many know we just moved down to the farm here, has been in quite a bit of pain from shingles. Between taking her to the dr's and to get more pain meds, and being with dad at the hospital and at home, I'm just meeting myself coming and going. But as my dad says, "God is STILL on the throne, and He will get us through this too." Sometimes I second-guess myself on moving an hour and a half away from the city though! (Mainly on one of the many trips a week using almost $3 a gallon gas. *sigh*) So, I covet your prayers on behalf of my family.
Blessings for your day!
Mistymoo
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Aug. 2, 2005 - Website Suggestion for Today...
Okay, I give up! This WON'T be a daily website suggestion. LOL! I'm just swamped, and am not keeping up like I had hoped. *big sigh* But I DO have one for today. While I was surfing for a printable weather chart for my son, I ran across a really cool site! Check it out when you have a moment. Here's the link:
http://www.tooter4kids.com/weather/Links.htm
It has weather proverbs, coloring pages, create a weather report, printable weather chart, weather activities, weather station, etc...I think you could do a complete weather unit study using this site! Hope you enjoy it! I'll post more sites when I can. Blessings for your day!
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Jul. 21, 2005 - Terrific Website for Thursday!
Okay, I've been lax on posting websites this week...but my son went to church camp and I got to add all of his animal/farm animal chores to the rest of my job description. LOL! But good news is...he comes home today!!! 
Well, here's today's website choice:
http://www.educationalpress.org/educationalpress/Index.asp
It's a doozy too! You can create all kinds of educational worksheets using their website...puzzles, games, etc... Check it out, have fun, and remember to enjoy this beautiful day God gave us...regardless of the weather where you are.
Blessings!
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Jul. 15, 2005 - Last website suggestion at old site
This will be the last website installation until we get moved to the new site this weekend....so check back on Monday. Today's a doozy of a site though! It is "A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling Website". Here's the link:
There are more links on this site than you can shake a stick at! LOL! Even a link to ebay auctions that feature homeschooling materials! Have fun checking this site out during your iced tea break this afternoon! 
And have a blessed weekend!
Well, I'm off to help my mother-in-law unpack all of her belongings. I'm hoping we can finish this off this weekend.
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Jul. 14, 2005 - Today's Website
Thank you for all the kind comments on my website suggestions. I'm so glad they are helpful. 
Today's website is:
Todays' unit there is on turtles. There's even a poster in pdf form you can download. You can also register for a free e newsletter to tell you in advance what subjects they will have available on their website. I can't tell you much about the newsletter because I just joined myself; but it sure looks like it will be great! I think this will fit in nicely with our science this year. Hope this will be beneficial for you too. Have a wonderful evening!
Blessings!
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Jul. 13, 2005 - Website Wednesday
Well, I already missed a day...not surprising considering. LOL! Anyways, I think today's website will make up for it! Check this website out:
It states that it contains 26,000 carefully reviewed resources. I checked out the state info on our state of Missouri and found TONS of links to all KINDS of information. I think this will be a site that I will return to again and again. I hope you enjoy your time there!
Well, off to more unpacking! Blessings for your day!
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Jul. 11, 2005 - Today's Website Suggestion
Okay! Today's website is a real bonanza of info! Plan to pour yourself some tea and browse for a while. 
Here's the link:
http://www.frugal-families.com
Focused on families, frugality, and simplicity...
This site has TONS of links to recipes, printables, tips, and a really cool word find generator to make your own wordfind puzzles for your kiddos on any subject you'd like. I plan on using this quite a bit this year. Well, have fun! Come back tomorrow for another installment of "Today's Website Suggestion"!
On a personal note, we have my mother-in-law moved down, but there are TONS of boxes to go through...so I'll be pretty busy for the next couple of weeks. Then we are planning one heck of a yard sale! 
Have a blessed day!
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Jul. 9, 2005 - Website of the DAY!
Okay, I've changed my mind! Woman's perogative, correct? 
Anyways, there is just too much cool stuff out there to make just a website of the week. So I will attempt to put up a DAILY website now. 
Today's website is: http://www.aprairiehome.com/mainpage.html
On this website that Erin created, is homeschooling, homemaking, homesteading, etc...
Check out the 'biblelands' link on the homeschooling page. She is no longer making the curriculum, but there are plenty of helps there anyways. Hope you enjoy browsing the site. Not sure if I'll get to post a site tomorrow as my sister will be staying the weekend. Well, off to move my mother-in-law down to the farm. Have a wonderful day!
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Jul. 8, 2005 - Website of the Week
Okay, I'm going to attempt...mind you, I said ATTEMPT, to list a favorite website for each week. For this week (okay, I KNOW this week is basically over...but you have to start somewhere, and if I put it off until Monday it won't get done!)...now where was I? hmm...oh yes...for THIS week, my pick is http://refdesk.com
There is something for EVERYONE there! Some of the items are:
dictionaries, encyclopedias, news, history, weather, word of the day, homework helper, even a vet manual for us farm-dwellers. So run on over there and check it out!
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Jul. 8, 2005 - First time tagged...and learning!
Well, I finally got a breather to jump on the computer and check my blog. I'm hoping to do better when things settle down. My dad is out of the hospital, and as I'm typing...my mother-in-law's mobile home is being laborously inched up our drive. :-) She lost her husband in April and is coming to live with us here on the farm. We will be busy moving her in tomorrow...so I might be long in checking my blog AGAIN! But it's a GOOD busy, so we take it how it comes. Anyways, I found myself 'tagged' by belovedlamb, and she was gracious enough to explain to me what that means...LOL!...so here's my answers:
Q: How many pics of you do you have?
A: Very, very few! I seem to be the one BEHIND the camera. :-)
Q: How many times have you moved?
A: Well, as a child, I only moved 2 times! But since marriage, 10 more times. :-)
Q: How old were you when you learned your ABC's?
A: hahaha! That was a LONG time ago....Does it count that I STILL know them? ;-)
Q: Do you think these questions are too hard?
A: Not today...the mind is mostly working today. hehehe
Q: How many computers are in your home?
A: Just the one I'm plunking away on now. The older children took computers with them.
Hmm, now to find people to tag!
Blessings for your day!
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Jun. 20, 2005 - WELCOME!
Welcome to my place on the web! I've been homeschooling for 19 yrs. and have 2 adult children. As John says in the 3rd epistle of John, "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth." III John 1:4
I hope to use this blog to keep up with friends and family, to suggest websites that I have found helpful, and anything else I can come up with.
Stop on in from time to time and see what we have new.
Blessings for your day!
