Organize Your Family Online with Cozi

I found this terrific program for organizing your family. Cozi is a , stay in communication and share memories—all in one place. Its super-duper easy to use and quick and FREE! Here is a video to show you how it works.

My Resolution & Top 10 Posts in 2009

My New Year’s resolution is to be kinder. I was convicted by a Bible study on Micah 6. What Does God Require of You?

Sometimes I feel like I’m always the stern boss Mommy. I want my children to remember their mother showing kindness more than discipline.

Lapbook and Scrapbook Folder Differences

What’s the difference between a Lapbook and a Scrapbook Folder?
Lapbooks (also called Pocket Folders, File Folder Games,  shutterfold books,  Take it to Your Seat, and other names) are a fun and exciting projects to organize,  present, and record information.
I started using the term scrapbook folders because we use  a lot of scrapbooking techniques in [...]

Organize Your Web Surfing with Evernote

So much information, so little time! Wouldn’t it be great to have an external brain to hook up just like you hook up external memory to your computer? Now you can.
Evernote let’s you do a ‘brain dump’ of anything you want to remember and recall easily at a later date and its FREE! Evernote [...]

Homeschool Workbox Organizing and Planning

We organize our homeschool days using the workbox system (usable with any curriculum). Since we started using this system we get twice as much done and my boys really look forward to school! I love it.
Scheduling what will go into your workboxes  for the entire week is a huge time saver.  It is more fulfilling than a spotless [...]

Free Printable Workbox Tags

We use the Workbox System by designed Sue Patrick to structure our school day. Homeschooling is so much easier I almost feel guilty.
Our homeschool day flows without complaints.  If you are not familiar with the workbox system see the links at the bottom of this post.

Our children absolutely love moving their workbox cards from  workbox to the [...]

Up for a Challenge: Bridge Building

Michelle  at Delightful Learning blog has put together an Instant Challenge Meme. Each week will bring a new timed problem for children  to work on stretching their imaginations and reasoning skills.
For more info about the meme read Michelle’s Instant Challenge post.
We missed the first week challenge but it looked like fun.  In the middle of school [...]

A Peek into Our Homeschool Day: Workboxes

We are using the Workbox System designed by Sue Patrick. I’ve modified the system to use with our family and the Heart of Wisdom Approach (Bible first/Charlotte Mason/unit study)
In the Heart of Wisdom Teaching Approach I suggest families use my approach  like a recipe- adapting to their family’s taste. I think the same workes for the Workbox System.
My favorite [...]

Need to Get Organized? Check Out Homeschool Workboxes

I recently started using homeschool workboxes for my boys based on the ideas in Sue Patrick’s Workbox System. WOW! My children have stopped complaining about school and we are getting twice the amount of work accomplished. I love it.

This exciting organization system structures your homeschool day in bite size chunks…

Andy Should Have Homeschooled Opie

History is taught best through stories! Indians, Red Coats, cannons, muskets, and guns, and stuff.
In this Andy Griffith Show classic, Andy Taylor mischievously gets Opie’s curiosity up with the Gun Shot Heard Around the World. Opie and his freinds learn to like history becasue of stories.
If you don’t have time fore all three videos [...]

God Has a Plan for Your Homeschool

I love teaching my children. I like reading to them, talking to them, asking questions, seeing things from their viewpoint, watching them discover.
There was I time I didn’t love homeschooling–because I was swimming in fear and worry. But the years have passed and God has proven to me that He is sufficient and [...]

Blogging & Twitter Addictions?

Are you worried you spend too much time Twittering or blogging? Its a good thing to analyze how you spend your time.
We can turn anything into sin if it’s out of balance or if we have the wrong motivation. Shoes, make-up, food, TV, sports, pets, etc. can become addictions or idols.
Volunteer work at church [...]

Be Transformed from Religion to Relationship

Did you know a caterpillar has the DNA of the butterfly before it is physically transformation is seen?
When one trust Christ as Savior we have the DNA of God through the indwelling of His Holy Spirit. We have the DNA of  a child of God before the physical fruit is seen in our walk!
In this [...]

What We Are in the Dark

“We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation. What God looks at is what we are in the dark- the imaginations of our minds, the thoughts of our heart, the habits of our bodies; these are the things that mark us in God’s sight. Character is what you are [...]

Helicopters and Locusts

I was watching an army show with my army infatuated 9 year-old when we saw military helicopters  I instantly thought of these verses in Revelation.
The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore what looked like crowns of gold, and their fac of these verese in Revelation. s looked like [...]

If I Have Diplomas and Not Love, I am Nothing

If I have the language ever so perfectly and speak like a pundit and have not love that grips the heart, I am nothing.
If I have decorations and diplomas and am proficient in up-to-date methods and have not the touch of understanding love, I am nothing.
If I am able to worst my opponents in argument [...]

Deathbed Letter from My Great, Great Grandmother

This is a letter to my Great, Great Grandfather from my Great, Great Grandmother in 1887 (original spelling).
She wrote this letter as she lay at death’s door. She died before it was completed. My favorite line is in bold letters.
What a joy it was to find the thing she desired most for her children was [...]

The Rebel’s Guide to Joy

What does the Bible say about pain, suffering, broken relationships and anxiety in the lives of Christians?
A Christian’s foundation is built upon the love of Christ. Jesus summarized the law of God in two commands:  love God and love others. As we spread this love it is important we  don’t negate sin, God’s instructions,  or [...]

Free Audio Resources for Ancient History Lessons

I found a terrific Podcast series. Each audio teaching is an excellent Bible study of the book of Acts covering the period of the early church with a wealth of information on the Greek, Roman, and Hebrew cultures of the time with a focus on regeneration–how our lives are regenerated through the death of Christ.
These [...]

Optimizing Your Blog Reading Potential

I subscribe to a few hundred homeschool, spiritual encouragement, and homemaking blogs. How do I read them all? I use Google Reader. This video will give you a great overview.