My girls and I have read a lot of good books together this year, so when I first began to think about how I wanted to end the year for Read Aloud Thursday, I thought I might actually try to go back and check out from the library as many of the picture books I’ve [...]
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Some might think it pure foolishness for me, a person who failed in 2009 to complete not one but two classic novels I really, really, really wanted to read, to commit myself to a revamped Classics Bookclub over at 5 Minutes for Books. True, I’ve learned after a couple of years of book blogging the futility of setting too many reading goals. [...]
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As a part of TOS HomeschoolCrew, I was blessed with the opportunity a few months back to use All About Spelling in our homeschool here at the House of Hope. Admittedly, since my girls are still so young, I had doubts about the usefulness of this program right now in our schooling. Lulu has made [...]
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Well, the tree has been packed away for another year, and thanks mostly to Steady Eddie, the house is beginning to look more like a place where people live rather than a giant dumping ground for toys, wrapping paper, and leftover Christmas treats. However, before Christmas 2009 becomes little more than a faint memory and [...]
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I had great plans this Christmas season–I was going to blog about all the fun things we’ve made these past few days, etc. But folks, I’m tired. We’re just too busy for me to do that, so I’m calling it a wrap (get it?) until after Christmas. I’ll be back for Read Aloud Thursday on [...]
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I just wanted to post a little PSA for my readers that my friend Kim, a very talented seamstress, is giving away a couple of handcrafted crayon wallets on her blog. Hop on over to read all about it!
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Are you guys feeling the Christmas cheer through the books you’re enjoying together these days? We are, but it seems like our read-aloud time has been cut in half (or fourth, actually) due to various and sundry “must dos” that are always on the list.I have a neat anthology of Christmas stories called A Newbery [...]
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I’ve been wanting to share for the past week about this little gem of a Christmas story I re-read last week, and I’m finally getting around to it. First published in 1916, The Romance of a Christmas Card by Kate Douglas Wiggin is the sweet story of a how a hand-drawn Christmas card brings home two [...]
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Have you guys given up on me yet? Life is continuing here just as it usually does, only with the addition of one thing (nausea) and the lack of one thing (motivation). Seriously, all I get done most days is schooling the girls, fixing their meals, and maybe a teensy bit of housework. That’s it. [...]
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My girls and I finished our latest chapter book read-aloud after an intermission from it which was precipitated by the Thanksgiving holiday and all the accompanying hullaballo. We read The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson. I had seen this title repeatedly on numerous homeschooling message board threads, etc., so I thought we’d [...]
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