September is hummingbird migration time, and the Ruby-throated Hummingbird travels through our neck of the woods in large numbers. In fact, you might remember several weeks ago that my girls had the unique experience of holding one! One of the hummingbirds’ favorite spots is a place on the Natchez Trace Parkway that is just a [...]
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A Library Is a Hospital for the Mind is hosting a challenge that I am so excited about joining! The Maud Hart Lovelace Reading Challenge is a challenge to encourage the reading of this beloved author’s works. Can you believe I’ve never read any of her books? I don’t think I’d even heard of her [...]
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This week’s Carnival of Homeschooling has been published at Heart of the Matter Online. I have an entry in this week’s carnival. To learn more about the Carnival of Homeschooling, visit Why Homeschool?
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I love the I Read It! challenge over at 5 Minutes for Books, and I almost wish it came around more frequently than just the months which contain five Tuesdays. I’m just kidding, sort of—I’m not sure I could handle the pressure. Reading my selection for this month’s I Read It!, though, was no pressure at [...]
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Unfortunately, I am often not struck with creative inspiration until the eleventh hour. Such was the case last Tuesday, the first day of autumn. Lulu had garnered this little tidbit of information somewhere, and she was champing at the bit for some fun art activity to celebrate the arrival of fall ere I even hinted there might [...]
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My mother called one of her dearest friends, a flower afficianado, and asked her the identity of our mystery plant. My mother had opined that it is a spider lily, but her friend said it is a surprise lily. Hmm. We got home, and Steady Eddie Googled Swagbucked surprise lily, and he finally concluded that [...]
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I don’t usually post on the weekends, but I wanted to share this picture in hopes that someone could help me identify this flower. These bright, spindly fellows have been cropping up in yards all around our neighborhood, and for the life of me I can’t remember seeing them before now. I’m sure they were [...]
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Nutrition 101: Choose Life! is a complete health and nutrition curriculum produced by Growing Healthy Homes. This book, which is available both in CD-ROM and actual bound book form, is just shy of 450 pages of information about the major body systems, common health issues associated with them, and the effects of food choices. This curriculum [...]
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I have volume one of Five in a Row to thank for introducing us to this wonderful book. First copyrighted in 1960, A Pair of Red Clogs by Masako Matsuno is currently published by a publishing house heretofore unknown to me: Purple House Press. The slogan for this company is “Bringing back the finest in children’s [...]
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Do you guys ever find yourselves checking books out and realizing once you get home with them that they are a little on the young side for your children? I did that on one of my recent trips to the library. It seems that I cannot reconcile myself to the fact that I have a [...]
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