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The Saturday Morning Review–Keyboarding for the Christian School
In our world that is so technology driven, it is important that we teach our kids the correct way to type and format everything from emails to research papers. And there is help for that! Keyboarding...
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The Saturday Morning Review–SchoolhouseTeachers.com
Every once in a while, a homeschool resource comes along that I get pretty excited about. SchoolhouseTeachers.com is one of those resources. This website is packed with ideas, lesson plans, tips,...
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The Saturday Morning Review–King Alfred’s English
Did you know? The Brothers Grimm compiled German fairy tales, but they were also famous philologists (and what IS a philologist?) There’s a law for the way languages change that backs up Intelligent...
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TOS Review: Vocab Videos
We now have a high-school student in our homeschool. Things that we never really had to think about…we now have to think about! We have to consider grades, transcripts, and (gasp!) SAT preparation....
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The Saturday Morning Review–Vocabulary Spelling City
Homeschool moms, do you use a formal spelling curriculum? Do your kids groan when you mention spelling words? I can answer yes to both of those questions! However, I was recently given the chance to...
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The Saturday Morning Review–Mr. Pipes
I love hymns. I grew up singing and playing hymns on the piano. I still enjoy singing them. There is great depth and teaching in hymns. So, when I was offered the opportunity to read and review Mr....
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A Cry From Egypt
Jarah was a slave in Egypt. It was a dangerous place to be. The work was exhausting and her family was torn between the gods of the Egyptians and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And her...
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The Saturday Morning Review–Dermagist Skin Care
Age spots AND wrinkles AND zits, oh my! Yes, that’s what this 40-something year old mama has to deal with. It just doesn’t seem quite fair. The age spots and wrinkles don’t bother me as much as the...
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The Saturday Morning Review–Oliver Twist
I’m excited to tell you about Focus on the Family Radio Theatre’s version of Oliver Twist! This is a 6-CD set–5 of which tell the classic story, while 1 is a special features disc that contains a...
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The Saturday Morning Review–Modern Parables
Last summer, when getting ready for the school year, I searched through Latin curriculum and found Visual Latin. I was so impressed that I showed it to my (then) freshman and she liked it as well....
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The Saturday Morning Review–After Nine to Five
After attending a couple of blogging conferences this past year, I had been thinking about how it might be important to have a ready-to-go media kit for this site. I was getting offers for product...
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Thankful Thursday–The “Divine Appointments” Edition
Ever had them? Those God-moments, when you know he has orchestrated what is happening at the moment, for a specific purpose? I had a couple of them this week, those “divine appointments.” And I’m...
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Monday Meditation
“Come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come to him with thanksgiving. Let us sing psalms of praise to him. For the Lord is a great god, a great...
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Thankful Thursday–The “Fun” Edition
It’s been a fun week. On Monday we took a trip up to Dallas to visit with my friend Karen (@ourpicketfence) and her girls. So fun! (Please excuse my out-of-control hair! One of my fun things...
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Monday Meditation
God’s way is perfect. All the Lord’s promises prove true. He is a shield for all who look to him for protection. For who is God except the Lord? Who but our God is a solid rock? God arms me with...
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Thankful Thursday
This will be really short today, but I wanted to have a place available for others to share their thankful posts. My youngest and I flew out to California on Tuesday, got in late–late–Tuesday night,...
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10 Reasons Why Even a City Girl Can Enjoy Camping
My family went camping every summer when I was growing up. We did the tent, Coleman stove, lanterns, pit toilets, and everything. I loved it. However, somewhere along the way, as I got older, I...
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Thankful Thursday–The “I Want to Be in 2 Places at Once” Edition
So I wrote about how much fun we had camping in the mountains. The group that went included my kids and I, my mom and dad, my sister, and her two. We were missing a few from our family–including my...
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Death…and Life
Remembering…and making new memories Choices…and what is learned from them Grief…and yet joy Ashes…and yet beauty So many thoughts were swirling through my head this past week as my family traveled...
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Monday Meditation
Yesterday I heard one of the most simple and yet profound messages on unforgiveness that I’ve ever heard. It was convicting and encouraging in a way I had never experienced. And it was based on this...
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