From the monthly archives:

April 2009

FREE CroisSONIC Breakfast Sandwich with purchase of a large drink.

April 30, 2009 Deals and Steals

If you live near a Sonic go to their website and enter your e-mail address to receive a coupon for a FREE CroisSONIC™ Breakfast Sandwich with purchase of a large drink.* Get all your breakfast favorites on a soft, buttery** croissant. Choose from bacon or sausage with egg and melted American cheese. It’s like a home-cooked breakfast stacked [...]

Read the full article →

Bright Beginnings, A Complete Curriculum for Early Learning

April 29, 2009 Reviews

This is the curriculum that I use for my two preschoolers – daughter, age 4 and son, age 3.  They love it and I love and you can’t get a better mix than that! Here’s why I love it: It is so complete.  Every subject is covered from top to bottom.  The lesson plan is [...]

Read the full article →

Our Breech Baby Was Delivered Naturally – You Can Too!

April 28, 2009 My Natural Breech Birth Story

Baby #4 was a very emotional pregnancy for me – but one during which I learned many lessons.  We found out at 30 weeks that our baby girl was in a frank breech position.  At this point in medical history, women are no longer approved by the mainstream to have a breech baby naturally.  I know many [...]

Read the full article →

The Weekend Mentality and How to Overcome It

April 28, 2009 Homeschool Building Blocks

Take this test to find out if you suffer from “weekend mentality”. Is the house that was neat and clean Friday morning in shambles when Monday rolls around? Do you turn your alarm clock off Friday evening before you go to sleep? Are your plans to “do nothing” when Saturday comes? Do you dread Monday [...]

Read the full article →

$5 Dinners at TGI Friday’s in May

April 28, 2009 Deals and Steals

Now, this is one deal I am really excited about!  TGI Friday’s is one of my favorite restaurants!  For the entire month of May, they will be offering $5 on all salads and sandwiches!  Check it out here!  It still isn’t nearly as cheap as eating at home, but when you have a special night [...]

Read the full article →

SUCCESS STORY for Weekly Lesson Plan – Week of April 26, 2009

April 27, 2009 Lesson Plans / Ideas

Today turned out far better than I thought it would have and I just had to share the story!!  The cutie-pie in the photo above has lots to do with the success of the day! As I mentioned in the original post for this week, I planned to bake banana bread with the kids today [...]

Read the full article →

How Does Your Garden Grow?

April 27, 2009 Gardening

Mine has been growing quite well actually!  This is my second attempt at gardening (yes, second EVER) and things are working out pretty well. I was pretty nervous about gardening in the sandy soil of Florida so I spent some time researching southern gardening and came up with Square Foot Gardening as the best option.  [...]

Read the full article →

Weekly Lesson Plan – Week of April 26, 2009

April 26, 2009 Lesson Plans / Ideas

Another week is staring us in the face! Are you ready? I don’t guess I’m ever as ready as I would like to be, but I have some fun ideas and the week is upon me! Each day, I do one hour one-on-one time with my fourth grader and we work on his public speaking, [...]

Read the full article →

Weight Loss

April 26, 2009 Weight Loss

I don’t know if it is because of the four babies I have given birth to or the fact that I hit 30.  In any case, I have gained a few … okay, more than a few … extra pounds that I would like to lose.  As a Mommy who tends to focus more on [...]

Read the full article →

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, by Dr. Phyllis Haddox

April 24, 2009 Reviews

I have been using this book to teach my little ones to read and we have been very successful. I would like to share a review of this book and maybe you will find that it will work for your home school situation as well. The book is an adaptation of the Distar Fast Cycle [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries