Mites Hockey: Week 2

The boys are sick. They missed practice on Friday night. However, they seemed like they were feeling a bit better Saturday, so they played in the game against the Ducks. The coach had Cam playing Defense again. Cam absolutely HATES playing defense. You can see his shoulders slump and the love for the game go [...]

Week 6: Johnny Appleseed Unit Study – Part II

This week we finished up the second half of our Johnny Appleseed Unit Study. We started the week with an “Apple-product Tasting”.  We sampled several items that contained apples and wrote our observations down.  In an effort to keep the project moving along, we did happy faces/sad faces instead of words.  Here is what we [...]

KABUL24, by Henry O. Arnold and Ben Pearson

As a Thomas Nelson blog reviewer, I picked up ‘Kabul 24′, by Henry O. Arnold and Ben Pearson to read and review. ‘Kabul 24′ takes you on an ominous journey of what the “SNI 8″ endured during their 105 days in Taliban captivity, and how their faith in God gave them hope when there was [...]

Mites Hockey Fall 2009: Week 1

Last night the boys found out that they were on the same team this season, and that team is the FLAMES.  While I am generally NOT a fan of the Flames, I will be the loudest Flames fan ever for at least the next few months.  So today kicked off our first official game of [...]

Week 5: Johnny Appleseed Unit Study – Part I

Our fifth week of school was a lot of fun.  On Monday, we started a unit study on Johnny Appleseed.  This was in addition to our regular curriculum.  We started our unit study by reading, The Story of Johnny Appleseed, by Aliki.  We then started our Johnny Appleseed notebook.  This is just a 3-ring notebook [...]

Week 4: Cooking Project Week

Now that we are using the DVD lessons instead of the online lessons, our school day runs like a well-oiled machine!  We are digging the homeschool decision! This week I unofficially dubbed, “Cooking Project Week”.  I think we did a cooking project every day.  All of the projects were yummy too.    I picked a [...]

Fearless, by Max Lucado

I chose to review Fearless, by Max Lucado, as my Thomas Nelson blogger review because honestly, you can never go wrong with a Max Lucado book.  Max Lucado has an uncanny way of unpacking scripture like no one I’ve ever read.  It’s all stuff you KNOW…but when Max unpacks it, it just seems to make [...]

Week 3: Things Are Looking Up

Last week started out really bad again.  The online videos weren’t working during “peak” hours, and BJU’s tech support was of no help at all.  They kept insisting that the problem wasn’t on their end.  But Monday morning, there was a broadcast message to those of us who use the online videos, and it stated [...]

R.I.P. “Hush” and “Bruce”

I don’t know how it happened.  One day, Hush and Bruce were happily swimming around in their divided tank, and the next morning, Hush was on Bruce’s side of the tank.  Bruce was dead, and Hush was dying.  I was horrified. Hush and Bruce were both male Betta fish.  You are supposed to keep them [...]