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Starting Somewhere: Homesteading with Suzanne

Confessions of a Beginning Homesteader Although my daddy grew a garden every year and my mama canned at the end of each summer I was a mall-goin’, car cruisin’ kind of girl. When I got married all I brought to the...

How Do I Do It?

I’ve been asked before how I homeschool with a toddler (or 2!) in the house. Just to update you, I have 4 little ones: TheOldest, a boy turning 7 in September, and will be starting 2nd grade; TheMiddlest, a boy who turned 5...

Planning For A School Week

I thought I would post how I plan for school each week, in case this might help someone else as the new year begins. First of all, I use The Homeschoolers Journal from www.fergnusservices.com. I have used this week-at-a-glance,...

A Tour of Cheapville

It never hurts to save a dollar and when you have a family of many, every cent saved is for the better. I have to admit it, I’m cheap. Yes, there’s no shame in the name for me. I love shopping at the dollar stores and...

Tidy Ho

I enjoy tidy. A place for everything and everything in its place. But I relish clean. The unparalleled splendor of glistening toilets and spit-shined counters (well, maybe not spit-shined) nearly makes me weep. Unfortunately,...

Scheduling the Easy Way! A 5 Step Plan

It’s that time of year. Everyone is gearing up for school. All of the stores are having “back to school” sales on everything from school supplies, clothing and even furniture. Parents are anxious, students...

A Planning, Organizing, and Balancing Trip

I find summer to be a wonderful time to review all those books and websites that I just know will help me to be a better, more organized woman, wife, mother, and homeschooler. While it’s hard to believe that back to school...

I Was Green Before Green Was Cool

You often hear of these oh-so-easy small changes that if each one of us made in our everyday life, it’d make a huge impact on preserving the world for our children and even our children’s children. Growing up with a very...

Homesteading? Me? No, absolutely not me.

Are you a homesteader? Are you crazy? Or smarter than the rest of us? I didn’t start out down the crazy-path willingly. It’s come a little at a time. Okay, to be brutally honest, my dad did always say that I was born...

Menu Help For Busy Moms

Even though we tend to be home a lot home schooling and taking care of our own, I find it hard sometimes to find time to prepare and make healthy meals for my family. For me,I need to make a plan and if I don’t have one, we...