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    The Homeschool Mother’s Journal – Week 10

    Thanks to the Homeschool Chick and The Kelley Eight I will now be journaling this fantastically crazy journey we are on.  I am thrilled, excited and thankful! Week #10: In my life this week… Planning.  Planning!  This drives me crazy, I am not a planner. However, I have to submit a Summer work schedule to my boss, schedule Camps and classes for the boys, and research and plan my curriculum for next year. I have sat down many times and can never quite finish.  My mind goes crazy when I try to coordinate.  This is hard stuff for me – why?!?! In our homeschool this week… I introduced my 1st Grader to a notebook we bought called…

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    The Homeschool Mother’s Journal – Week 8

    Thanks to the Homeschool Chick and The Kelley Eight I will now be journaling this fantastically crazy journey we are on.  I am thrilled, excited and thankful! Week #8: In my life this week… Working out some issues and questions I have with theology, fun week – eh!  I have had many concerns about some things I have heard preached by a popular pastor.  The best thing to come out of it was me diving into the Bible and some Commentaries.  Interestingly, my oldest asked about why Peter started to sink on the lake… this is one of the topics I was researching.  Perfect timing as usual, thanks God! In our homeschool…

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    The Homeschool Mothers Journal Week 6

    Thanks to the Homeschool Chick and The Kelley Eight I will now be journaling this fantastically crazy journey we are on.  I am thrilled, excited and thankful! Week #6: In my life this week… Back to school after a nice little break to celebrate Spring!  Looking at houses, found one that seems perfect for us.  The only thing that I don’t like is thinking about it too much.  Need to leave with Him. In our homeschool this week… Preston is getting learn all about life in and around a 13th century European Castle.  I am really enjoying it too.  We are using an awesome Usbourne book called “Time Traveler” and it comes…

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    The Homeschool Mothers Journal Week 4

    Recently I saw a blog post from a Homeschool mom that I follow.  Sam from The Kelley Eight was excited to start a journaling program.  I have always wanted to journal but just felt overwhelmed with starting from scratch. Thanks to the Homeschool Chick and The Kelley Eight I will now be journaling this fantastically crazy journey we are on.  I am thrilled, excited and thankful! Week #4: In my life this week… Our van died this week, no so good since we are still making payments, yuck.  I went to a wine ‘n paint class with my mom, sister, aunt and cousins, we had a great time, so relaxing. In our…

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    The Homeschool Mother’s Journal Week 2

    Recently I saw a blog post from a Homeschool mom that I follow.  Sam from The Kelley Eight was excited to start a journaling program.  I have always wanted to journal but just felt overwhelmed with starting from scratch. Thanks to the Homeschool Chick and The Kelley Eight I will now be journaling this fantastically crazy journey we are on.  I am thrilled, excited and thankful! Week #2: In my life this week… Injured my knee pretty bad, laid up and most of our plans went out the window.  Was going to be our first week with a 2nd car plus great weather.  We didn’t do much outside the home.  In our…

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    The Homeschool Mother’s Journal Week 1

    Recently I saw a blog post from a Homeschool mom that I follow.  Sam from The Kelley Eight was excited to start a journaling program.  I have always wanted to journal but just felt overwhelmed with starting from scratch. The cool thing about this journal program is that it has questions for you, that you answer.  This is so much easier for me, whew! Thanks to the Homeschool Chick and The Kelley Eight I will now be journaling this fantastically crazy journey we are on.  I am thrilled, excited and thankful! Here we go, Week #1 In my life this week… Working my regular part-time, working on websites for others,…

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    Starting Traditions – Family Night

    Before I became a mother and I suppose even for a couple of years after I became a mother I was extremely adverse to traditions, I just didn’t care for the conventional way of doing things.  However, after having more children and building our family I am warming up to the thought of traditions. Traditions can bring a family together, they can cement a firm foundation.  Traditions are something to pass on to future generations.  Unlike material items that are sometimes passed down from one generation to the next, traditions can’t be lost, stolen, broken or the like.  I like this idea of creating a  loving heritage built on family…