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Come on in & make yourself at home as you catch up with the happenings of our little family. I'm Karla, the "scribe" for our family, and am better known as "Momma" to our two blessings, "Honey" to my hubby, and "the maid who provides for our every need" to our 2 kittens. I hope you will call me "friend."
We are a homeschooling family that has our mix of funnies and failures, along with triumphs & successes. I am a recovering perfectionist, who is ever so grateful that I serve a perfect Savior. He teaches me that I have a lot to learn, but also that He has brought me a long way.
I have been the bride to the most gracious, sweetest man in the world for the last 11 years. What I love most about him is that he is always striving to be a better husband, father, and child of God.
I am also the blessed mama to
OUR TWO GIFTS:
a creative 9-yo Darling Daughter who loves pink, being a little lady, having tea, reading, being creative, and riding horses
and a 5-yo tremendously adventurous Little Man-in-training who loves helicopters, bugs, dirt, running, and the sport of eating.
(If you are wondering about the curlers, go down to the Sweet Monday section of the sidebar. It's a women's ministry that was started in Richmond, Va, and when we moved from there, I decided to start one down here. While Im not doing it this year, please feel free to glean away from my entries of all the past programs & devotions.
Please let me know any of them have blessed you, and if you would like permission to use anything I've written. Thank you!)
S&T Fri -- Little Man's Birthday Extravaganza
Week in Review -- August 10-16
We Found Our Fill, On Blueberry Hill.... (with recipes!)
"This is the Best Bread" -- "Just Like a Restaurant's!"
S&T Fri -- First Week of School
Personal Quiet Time Goal Outline for 2008-09 School Year -- Paul's Epistles
Padems Visit, Part 2
Padems Visit-- One of Our Favorite Moments of the Summer
S&T Fri -- "Farm Families Have Always Gone Green"
2008-2009 School Plans
Creation Camp
School Year Preparations
S&T Fri -- Darling Daughter's Riding Lessons
Home-Schoolers Threaten Our Cultural Comfort
New Twist Chocolate Chip Cookies
Show&Tell Fridays
Family Funnies
From My Recipe Box
Homeschooling Helps & Ideas
Homeschooling
Wondering about the curlers?
CLICK HERE to get the scoop!
It's just one of the silly things I did at my monthly "Sweet Monday" meetings!
Past Meetings & Devotionals
Information On Sweet Monday
Sweet Monday's Main Website
"The bringing up, as of a child, instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties." ~Noah Webster~
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"Gradually we have become aware that family life is God's classroom for shaping us into the kind of people He wants us to be."
Catherine Marshall, A Closer Walk
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2008 Habits:
1. Gentle voice, gentle heart
2. "Peruse&Purge" magazines
3. Have hot tea every day
4. Wake up between 5-6 am
2008 Goals/To Do's:
1. Complete top of DS's quilt.
2. Tackle reading list.
3. Organize fabric.
4. Make blocks for charity quilts
Apr. 24, 2006
Homeschool Help: Charlotte Mason & Lapbooks
A family member who is homeschooling also asked about what lapbooks were, which prompted me to write an entry about it here:
OVERALL:
Cindy Rushton's site will give you answers to a lot of your questions regarding copywork, lapbooks & notebooking, and dictation. This gal is one of the queens of notebooking and lapbooks and is a wealth of information.
www.cindyrushton.com
She does Charlotte Mason and her free e-zine is wonderful. She has podcasts that you can download MP3s from -- it's like going to a homeschool conference on-line. 
I listen to them and other online teachings, etc when I'm on the computer, and we recently got an MP3 player so I need to download them onto that for my walks and I think DH got a convertor so we can listen to them in the car. We are a big "audio" learning family.
LAPBOOKS:
They are whatever you want them to be! They are very fun. We did an in-depth one on the Olympics when we studied it in our KONOS unit. Gather the main points you want them to learn. Have them color, trace, cut, etc. Make little "hidden" things to find and read. (Hummm.... I'm thinking we need to make some more this summer.)
Don't need to buy any certain book as there are some good sites on-line and you can get all info off of the internet for your contents, pictures, etc:
http://www.cindyrushton.com/Lapbooking.html
http://www.geocities.com/gibsevengang/lapbooks.html
http://www.canby.com/hockmanchupp/portfolders.html
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze8mnnp/dinahzike.html
http://www.homeschoolingonashoestring.com/lapbooks.html
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Apr. 24, 2006 - A Lament |
| Posted by authorDonna |
Where oh where was this kind of stuff when we were home schooling? Waaaahhhh. I'm glad it's there for all of you, though. The alternative isn't pretty--and it's alot of work.
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| Posted by JavaMama |
Looks interesting...thanks for the resources.
Kelli |
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"Watch for the storms of God.
The only way God plants His saints is through the whirlwind of His storms.
Will you be proven to be an empty pod with no seed inside?
That will depend on whether or not you are actually living in the light of the vision you have seen.
Let God send you out through His storm, and dont go until He does.
If you select your own spot to be planted, you will prove yourself to be an unproductive, empty pod.
However, if you allow God to plant you, you will "bear much fruit" (John 15:8)." ------------ My Utmost for His Highest, March 11th
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