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Simple Joys
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them! Psa.139:17
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Passing on the Award and Honor
To my great surprise Natural Paths has given me this award. I’m just a wife/mother that enjoys writing about the happenings at our home. I have been so blessed by many peoples blogs. Many of you have given me encouragement and inspiration for my homemaking and homeschooling responsibilities. "This award is for those bloggers who are nice people; good blog friends and those who inspire good feelings and inspiration. Also for those who are a positive influence on our blogging world.” To pass on the Nice Matters Award, I would like to name: Michelle at At Home With Jesus Bobbie at Encouragement Along the Way who I see has already been nominated for…
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Going for a New Look
After over a year of the same template, I’m ready for a change. What to do? Just get another premade template. I’m just not as smart as some of you about desigining my own, so after several hours working on it, I think I’ll call it quits and go for premade with a few of my own changes thrown in. I’m practically giddy just having a different avatar. It doesn’t take much to make this old girl happy.
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Am I a Packrat? You Be the Judge
Today, with free time on my hands – Seth (16) having gone scouting for antelope again, Zachary (15) and Wesley (12) out on their horses for a mountain man outing and Serenity (9) working on her blog, Beautiful Girlhood (which you really should check out if you haven’t yet), I decided to rearrange some cabinets. I wanted to move all my spices, mixing bowls and the like to a cupboard that is 9" bigger. First I started emptying one cupboard, wiping down shelves and then emptying out the other cupboard, putting the contents of the second cupboard into the first one. It looked so nice – when it was only half full. …
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Finding the Right Math Program
At the time I was learning about Visual Spatial Learners (see this post and this post), I found out about a free online math program called MEP. It’s a spiral program versus a mastery based program and goes from K-12. My son had been doing Math-U-See. We had switched him over from Saxon to MUS because he found Saxon tedious. I’m using Saxon with two of my other children and they both like it quite well. But it wasn’t for Zachary. I had my ds in a lower level of MUS because that’s where he placed when he took the placement test online. He found it frustrating because he said he knew what they were teaching…
