The Jesus Book, by Stephen Elkins

The Jesus Book, by Stephen Elkins is by far one of the best books written for children, on the ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘when’, ‘where’, and ‘whys’ of Jesus.   The fact that it is illustrated by Claudine Gevry, makes is even better – we love her work! The Jesus Book is written in such a simplistic way, [...]

Second Week of School is ‘In The Books’

Our second week of school was a nightmare.  We couldn’t get the videos to play, the internet modem died, and I was in my second week of not smoking. I think everyone must have started their school week last week because BJU was swamped with traffic.  Everything was taking forever to load, and once it [...]

Class of 2010

I can’t believe that my first-born child will be graduating from high school this year.  She started back to school this year, on Monday.  Her schedule looks pretty tough (Trig, Physics, etc.).  Her GPA thus far is a 3.91, and I hope and pray she’ll keep it that high. She started volunteering at a local [...]

Deadlock, by Robert Liparulo

Robert Liparulo is fast becoming my favorite author.  Even more so than Ted Dekker.  With his latest book, Deadlock, he just gets better and better. Deadlock is a ‘John Hutchinson’ novel.  I recommend you read Deadfall prior to jumping into this one, as Deadlock is a continuation of the first book.  If you enjoy fast-paced, [...]

First Week Wrap-Up

Well, we finished our first week of school.  All in all, I have to say that it went pretty well.  We did experience internet glitches between 10am – 11am every day.  Perhaps BJU wasn’t prepared for the traffic?  I know for sure the problem wasn’t on our end. Hopefully they get that taken care of [...]

Our First Day

I’ll start at the beginning, which was really last night. I had spent last week pulling all of our lessons together, and organizing them according to the workbox number they would be assigned to.  So last night, I simply pulled out the baggie that contained all of Monday’s lessons for each boy.  Here are some pictures [...]

A Rough Draft Of Our Daily Homeschool Schedule

The best laid plans…and all that jazz.  LOL I had to work it out on paper how our school day would run.  We will start our day at 8am each day.  We call it ‘Circle Time’.  On Mondays we have Show and Tell, but every other day Circle Time will consist of:  Pledge of Allegience, [...]

Two Little Boys + Messy Project = Fun, Fun, Fun!

One of the things I love about teaching is allowing kids to get down and dirty with the crafts.  I remember when I was a PreK teacher, the other teachers never understood why I let my class do so many messy projects.  The same thing with Sunday school.  One of my most favorite projects that [...]

Ok…So the Gardening Thing Ended Up Exactly Like I Thought it Would

*sigh* Some folks have serious green thumbs.  I however, do not.  The sooner I embrace this, the sooner I will stop killing plants.  I honestly don’t know where I go wrong.  Too much water?  Too little water?  Too much sun?  Not enough sun?  I just don’t know. I’ve thought about taking a class…maybe there’s something [...]

Are They Twins?

“Oh!  Look at the twins!” “Look!  Redheaded twins!” “Your twins are so adorable!” I was talking with one of the librarians today as we stood in line for the craft session.  She immediately recognized my boys and asked if they were the same twins that attended last week’s event.  I told her that we had [...]

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