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Really, I’m fine
It’s just that I’ve been busy with real life. But in my email today I found something very share-worthy. Free, printable, baby birth announcements. Almost makes me want another baby. Well, I kinda always want another baby, while at the same time am always glad that God is wiser than me. Does that make sense? [...]
Online Unit Studies, aka Free Homeschooling!
First, I looked around online and there are approximately 473 millionbilliontrillion literature based unit studies/lapbook/notebook plans already out there, and some of it is even free for the printing! Overwhelming? Just a tad. I had to sleep on it. I came up with a S.T.E.L.L.A.R. plan. Shop right here on my book shelves, choose several [...]
Aesop’s Fables Copywork
Aesop’s Fables are (some of them) longer than Mother Goose Rhymes (ahem, some of them). When you are using longer passages for copywork, assign only PART of the passage each day. Here are the Fables. Just copy and paste them into the form of your choosing on the WorksheetWorks site. Then print out some of [...]
Custom Cross Stitch Pattern Maker
I just found three sites that are gonna come in so handy when my kids get married and start having children. Babies are the only reason to cross stitch. Really. Here are all the nursery rhymes. Here is the cross stitch pattern maker for the text. Here is the cross stitch pattern maker for the [...]
Printer Friendly Copywork
This is a long post (for me), but read the whole thing, it’s fascinating! I just did this myself and was so smitten with the results that I wanted to make sure that y’all know how to do it. “What did you do Mother Hen?” Y’all’re so sweet to ask! (betcha never saw the double [...]
Button Clicking Maniac! and a list of favorites
I’m so tickled! Perry helped me put some seriously useful buttons on my blog. Look at the end of the post. ”Which post?” you may well ask. ANY post! ANY page! ALL of it! Anyway, just scroll down a bit to the end of this post. Right above the part where it tells what categories [...]
Free Homeschool Stuff – remix
Just wanted to point out that I have added a ton of links for free homeschool stuff and re-published the page. You can click on these words right here, or you can look up top of the blog and find the Free Homeschool Stuff page and click that.
PaperBackSwap
I guess y’all know we are preparing to move house for the first time in 18 years. This week is a big un-clutter push. We’ve been working on the garage and the older boys’ room. Good grief! What giant heaps of . . . stuff! We’ve hauled a ton of junk out to the curb [...]
Swagbucks
Have you signed up at SwagBucks yet? I know you’ve seen it around, but do you know what it is? I’ve been using SwagBucks for any and all searches I do online. My most recent search? ”How old is Mel Gibson?” Turns out he just had a birthday on the third. He’s 54. (I don’t [...]






