Taking a trip is an adventure, and preparing for it has proven to be an adventure all its own. This week we’re off on our very first family vacation EVER. We’ve done RV trips and roughing-it camping trips, but never a real, honest to goodness vacation. Some friends talked us into taking advantage of cheap […]
5 Tips for Seeking a Mentor for Your Teen
Teenagers give lots of mixed messages, and often it seems like the last person they want to talk to is a parent. Often it seems they want nothing to do with any adults, but if you look around, you may notice there are one or more adults they actually do connect really well with. Sometimes […]
Weekly Wrap-Up: Of Computers and Chickens
It’s been for.ever since I’ve posted a Homeschool Weekly Wrap-up, and so I figure, why not? 🙂 This week has been pretty nice, homeschooling-wise. Actually, since we started again after Christmas, it’s been going really, really well. Weird. I know. This week the boys have been happily working on a (gaming-related) project for school. They […]
Sucked Into a Good Book
How easy it is for me to be sucked into a good book. A tale of fiction, wound with suspense and characters, strung word by careful word by the author…. Bliss. Nonfiction is not that way for me. It is difficult for me to maintain attention to. When I can take notes in the margins, […]
Journey of a Shoebox: Collection Center to Processing
Operation Christmas Child is an organization working to reach kids for Christ with a simple gift of a shoebox. I had a chance to sit down and chat with Diane Rice, the local Network Collection Coordinator for Operation Christmas Child here. I wrote about what happens to your shoebox after you drop it off at your local […]
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