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Clean and Cool!! (GIVEAWAY)

** The winner is Gwenn Mangine Don’t you just hate it when you use hand soap that you cant wash away? Either the smell or the greasy feeling… Well you don’t have to worry about that with Dial Complete foaming hand wash. The smell is JUST right. Beautiful without casing migraines. The light foam texture rinses...

October Unit Study: Trains –n- Railroads

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Fall is here – it’s that comfy cozy time of year where we can settle into our school year with our hot cocoa and our pile of books in hand! It’s apple pie and pumpkin time and can’t you just smell those vanilla spice candles burning? Each month I try to give some sort of Unit Study teaching tip…here...

The Old Schoolhouse Planner

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I was a little worried at first about reviewing The Schoolhouse Planner because of the size of the file. It is a 247 page pdf file and a total of 8.71 mb. I don’t have a brand new, top of the line computer, and so when I first opened the file, it took quite a bit of time to load. Once the file was opened, however, it ...

The Forgotten Daughter Book

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Action, adventure, hardship, romance, forgiveness, triumph, politics, scandal..you would think those words were describing the latest cinema feature but those words describe the wonderful book, The Forgotten Daughter. The Forgotten Daughter is a Newberry Honored book (six grade level) written by Caroline Dale Snedeker in 1933....

Heart of the Matter Friday Meme

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Welcome to the Heart of the Matter Online meme. Every Friday we will feature a different topic for our meme. Mr. Linky is set up below so please share with us your thoughts on the following question: What is the one thing you learned that you didn’t expect from homeschooling? We start our homeschooling journeys with...

I am not a “homeschool mom”…

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I AM NOT A “HOME SCHOOL” MOM…I AM A CHRISTIAN WOMAN, A MOM….AND I HAVE BEEN CALLED TO HOME SCHOOL! I know that this may seem like I am being slightly “picky”, but please bear with me and I’ll explain why I entitled this as I did. In the “Christian Community” there are so...

Breaking the Mirror

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Has it ever occurred to you that the recipient of a college diploma is not necessarily well educated? A diploma looks the same whether the student maintained a 2.0 or a 4.0 grade point average. Certainly, the college transcripts look different, and there are a few employers who actually look at them. By and large, the...