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Carnival Of Homeschooling – Hosted by HomeGrownMommy

October 4, 2011 Uncategorized

Welcome! This is the October 4, 2011 edition of carnival of homeschooling.  Even here in Florida, we’re finally into cooler weather and enjoying this beautiful autumn season. My husband and I are having a great time building our new home-based business together – online marketing for offline businesses.  We are meeting so many wonderful people [...]

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What’s Popular At HomeGrownMommy?

June 18, 2011 Uncategorized

Sometimes, it’s fun to poke around in my visit data to see what’s the most popular content around here! (I’m a data junkie … data geek … call it what you will!  My last outside job before staying home was pulling health care data and building awesome reports out of it!  That was fun stuff!) [...]

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Old Schoolhouse Magazine Crew Review – Bertie’s War by Kregel

January 25, 2010 Uncategorized

I was recently sent a free copy of the book "Bertie's War" by Barbara Tifft Blakey as part of the Old Schoolhouse Magazine Review Crew.  The story is set in the fall of 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis as a young 12-year-old girl tries to figure out who she is and where she belongs. [...]

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Old Schoolhouse Magazine Crew Review – All About Spelling Reviews

December 15, 2009 Reviews

We are having a great time with the All About Spelling curriculum! It was love at first sight when this neatly packed boxed showed up in my mailbox with its crisp new teacher’s manual and fresh never-been-mauled-by-the-baby flash cards! “Mommy, why are you drooling on that box?” “Nevermind.” While I gather my thoughts again, go [...]

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My Life Story! (No, Really! I Wrote It All Down!)

July 7, 2009 Uncategorized

The blog training program I purchased and have been using suggested that I write down my life story and publish it on the blog so that my readers would get to know me better! So, I took him up on the suggestion and wrote it all out.  I’m a fairly open person anyway, so it [...]

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Family Timeline: Her Story

July 7, 2009 Uncategorized

Introduction My name is Jennifer Schmidt and I am the “her” of this timeline and the “Mommy” of HomeGrownMommy!  It is my job to create most of the content on the site.  What you read each day here at HGM is from my heart and my head to your computer screen.  In order for you [...]

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I’m Playing The 6th Photo Game!

June 19, 2009 Uncategorized

I just got tagged by my friend Mikki at MyBibleAndACupOfCoffee to participate in “6th Photo”!  She is a very wise veteran homeschooling mom with two daughters in their teen years and she has been a great encouragement to me since we moved to Florida nearly two years ago! This sounded like fun and it’s something [...]

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Want to Win a Free Ticket to IZEAFest?

May 16, 2009 Uncategorized

I sure do!  It’s the premiere blogging conference this year!  There will be famous bloggers in attendance talking about what they have done right, teaching the specifics, and everyone will just be having an all around good time. Check out Corrin Renee at “Oh Hey Whats Up” for a chance at one of four free tickets to [...]

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