Welcome friend. Today is a promise. Unfortunately, I cannot make you any. I cannot promise you perfection or, at times, even sanity. *wink* I am just here, searching for the same thing as you. Hope. Joy. Love. And I'm finding it in the journey. So, if you like coffee as much as I do, why don't you pour yourself a cup, take a deep breathe and stay awhile. Maybe we can find the joy together.
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Homeschooling Hotline

I am in no way a homeschooling genius. Nor am I a seasoned homeschool Mom, but I am a Mom who loves to homeschool. I mean, I really love teaching my children. 
Recently, I have come across a couple of things that have made me go nuts for knowledge and crazy for creativity! (Yep, I really wrote that. Uh-huh, I am cheesy like that. Yes, my son says I am over the top quite often.)

Alright, drum roll please . . . .

#1 The True Princess

Ok, so this isn't really a homeschool tool, but it is all three of my daughters recent favorite. A book about what it really takes to be a princess, it shows that virtue is better than vanity and we are all in service to a King. Love, love, love this book.

#2 MindWare Imaginet Shapes

A magnet game chock full of thinking skills that keep little hands busy, learning and out of trouble while Momma is helping the Bigs do math.



#3 Expedition Earth

This curriculum availabe for download is suitable for my kindergardner all the way through my fourth grader. I just alter the work a bit and everyone is challenged. Even my little tyke has fun listening in. They are learning so much about the world and having a blast while they do it. I never hear "Are we done yet?", or "Do we have to do this?" They just smile and say "Do we get to do our memory songs today?" Genius product. Simply gold.

Well, there you have it. Those are my three latest and greatest. I want to give a big thank you to my Auntie who bought the MindWare magnets for us. 

What are you teaching your children today?

Sunday, December 23, 2012

High Places

I am reading a new book. Hinds Feet on High Places. Have you read it? I am halfway through, but I have to say, it is hitting a nerve in me. When going on a journey with the Lord, whom would you think He would ask you to bring? I would have thought joy and peace. I asked my husband. He said, "Hope and peace." But in this book, she recounts her main character bringing, Sorrow and Suffering. It hurt to read that as I feel as though that is what the Lord has asked of me recently. The main character, Much Afraid; (Did I forget to mention this was an allegory? *wink*) she meets a flower along the way, Acceptance-with-Joy. I keep seeing this flower but I have yet, truthfully, to let it bloom in my heart. I pretend to accept, but the truth is I WANT MY BABY! Oh, LORD, I cry out to you today, help me to accept your will. Help me to trust, help me to not be afraid and help me to accept with joy the journey to High Places you have sent me on. Even though the way looks like a wrong turn, I will follow You.