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Being a homeschool mom of 6 blessings, time management is crucial! One of the ways I have managed to put healthy meals on my dinner table each evening for my large family is by putting our dinner in the crock pot pot several times a week.
I LOVE my crock pot pot!
We are best friends!
Continue reading over at The Humbled Homemaker where I share my TOP 10 Reasons You Should Use Your Crock pot Pot!
Did I miss any reasons?
Homeschooling is a wonderful way to stay connected to your children while helping them become well-rounded adults and our future leaders. It offers you the opportunity to tailor your children’s education to suit your children, your lifestyle, and your beliefs. Being able to train my children to think from a biblical worldview is one of the greatest benefits of homeschooling.
I have listed 10 things that I wished I knew before we started homeschooling 9 years ago. The internet was fairly new and I really did not have any support except for a few local friends. And you know who you are!
Please feel free to ask me any questions about our homeschool journey. I am not an expert by any means, but might be able to steer you in the right direction. Please join our facebook community where we discuss homeschool and many other topics that inspires the homeschool mom.
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At our homeschool potluck fellowship, a friend of mine brought this easy crock pot recipe. It’s delicious and makes a ton!
Enjoy!
Whether you are attending a homeschool pot luck or not, easy crock pot recipes makes life so much easier for the busy mom.
What is your favorite easy crock pot meal?
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One of the many blessings of homeschooling our children is incorporating our science lessons while planting an organic garden for our family to enjoy.
Yes, it a homeschool mom’s dream to have our little children run to the garden to select delicious, fresh organic vegetables for our supper each evening.
Imagine no more! You can make it a reality!
You can learn how to grow your own food easily and naturally!
We recently moved and had to leave behind our vegetable garden that my husband maintained for several years.
My husband has always loved browsing through the vibrant, colored Baker’s Creek Seed Catalog and found great joy in planning our garden each season. He and the children were the main keepers of the garden. I was not active in the garden, but always had an interest. I usually stayed behind minding an infant.
I enjoyed all the plump and organic vegetables that grew from the Baker’s Creek Heirloom Seeds my family planted each year.
A few weeks ago, I received in the mail from the generous Baker Creek Heirloom a Southern Small Seed Collection and the beautiful book, The Heirloom Life Gardener written by Jere and Emilee Gettle.
When my family and I opened the Small Southern Heirloom Container, we were ecstatic. There were 30 full sized seed packers containing 15 types of vegetable with 30 varieties. I’m not sure which we found more interesting the tomato pineapple or the melon banana. We will be preparing the soil come late summer for our Fall garden. We are super excited to have an organic garden again. The seeds will maintain for 4-10 years if kept in a dry and cool environment. Planting a variety will enable us to pick out our family favorites for next year.
Since I have no garden experience, I was immensely intrigued with the book, The Heirloom Life Gardener. The beautiful book is filled with vibrant colored images that qualifies in our home as a coffee table book! It’s truly an entertaining and informative read for the beginner gardener, as well as, the experienced. The first half of the book peeks into the lives of the cofounders of the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company and explains exactly what a heirloom seed is and the many benefits of heirloom seeding. There are step by step detailed instructions of how to start a garden from scratch even for the beginner. I was fascinated and could not put it down.
The second part of the book is an A to Z Growing Guide that informs the gardener how to plant, growing tips, pest and disease control, seed saving, and suggestions in the kitchen with each vegetable.
This lovely book informs the reader the Baker Creek way of growing your own food easily and naturally. It’s all you need to get started and maintain an organic garden for your family.
A homeschool family’s delight!
Now for the most exciting part!
Jere and Emilee Gettle, cofounders of the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company, want one of my readers to receive their book, The Heirloom Life Gardener! I will pick a random winner on July 9th at 12a.
*I received a Small Southern Seed Collection and a copy of The Heirloom Life Gardener in exchange for my honest review. No other compensation was giving.
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It’s almost time to celebrate our freedom with red, white, and blue! 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays!
The 4th of July Party Games Packet has 20 great games — more than enough for the Independence Day celebrations and beyond despite what the weather brings.
Included in the 4th of July Party Games Packet is:
Independence Day Trivia game
Independence Day Mad Libs
Patriotic Trivia match game
Presidential Trivia game
State Nicknames match game
Beers of the World placemat game – will not be playing
Nasty British Food trivia – will not be playing
Military Trivia
Baseball Trivia
Survival of the Fittest party game
Red, White & Blue Scavenger Hunt
Happy 4th of July Left-Right
American History trivia
Independence Day Synonyms game
Fast Food trivia
US Beers match game – will not be playing
Tangled Tongue Twisters Tango
Pick the Party Stars – will not be playing
Meet Your Match acting game
The Color of Music
The games are downloaded via email. Unlike other game competitors, Python Printable Games don’t limit the amount of time you get to use the games. They’re yours to keep forever, and reuse at future parties! So make sure you download them instantly.
A few of my favorite games from the packet that we will be engaging in with our guest this Independence Day are Independence Day Trivia, Happy 4th of July Left-Right, and In State Trivia Game.
These games are perfect for the homeschool family. I can’t imagine a better way to review American History. My children would much rather play a game than memorize flash cards. A lot of these games can be played in the car, too.
You can purchase the 4th of July Party Games Packet at Python Printable Games for 19.95. Check out their website for numerous games for all occasions. They also have A FREE Summer Printables!
Python Printable Games are offerring one of my readers a FREE 4th of July Party Games Packet. I will be drawing a random winner on June 22 at 12a.
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One of the few magazines that I have always gleaned an enormous amount of useful information has been The Old Schoolhouse. I love the encouragement and all the fun and educational ideas that makes our homeschool a delight. If your pondering the idea of homeschooling, this is a wonderful resource to check out.
Digitally view June 2012 here.
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Each year my dh and I recognize each one of our children with a certificate at the end of the school year.
We really want to stress righteous character traits in our children, as well as, academics. We recognize each child with an outstanding character trait and an academic subject that they have portrayed excellence throughout the school year. It always builds their self esteem when we recognize an area in which they improved in that was difficult for them.
We have a graduation/recognition night with our homeschool group, but it would be very easy to have a little end of the school year party with just your family. Invite the grandparents, too. My children love to show off their notebooks and their projects to others.
What do you do to celebrate the end of a school year? Or do you homeschool all year?
FREE homeschooling ideas here!
This week is the annual homeschool convention in my neck of the woods! I look forward to it every year, but have spent entirely too much money in the past. The rays of vibrant colors and the smell of new books can be intoxicating to a homeschool parent and can be quite overwhelming even to the seasoned homeschooler.
My suggestions are…
Pray, Pray, and Pray for discernment.
And Do Your Homework ahead of time!
It takes a lot time, but it can avoid impulsive spending and unhappy choices.
Been there, done that before!
These are a few things that I have done in the last couple of years in in preparing my mind mentally and spiritually at the grand homeschool convention. I make a spreadsheet or use a spiral for writing down all my homework and bring it with me to the convention. Do whatever works for you, but be prepared. And always, always bring budgeted CASH! When you cash is gone, it’s time to go home!
If you whole heartily prayed about each one of your purchase decisions then it’s all in His hands! Your job is to deliver the information to your children, let God do the rest.
Peace Creek on the Prairie has instructions on how to make a homeschool convention notebook.
Did I forget anything? Leave me a comment and share with us your tips!
Happy CENTSible shopping!
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I love to allow my children to be crafty on Fridays. I try to make Friday’s a light school day and crafts are always a big hit, especially on a rainy day or in our case a blazon hot day in our neck of the woods in Texas.
Busy Bee Craft Kids has a lots of cute FREE crafts that require simple items that you probably already have on hand. They have holiday, animal, and edible crafts, too. Also, if you visit their sister site, you will find tons of FREE printables.
The Spring Crafts look like a lot of fun for my preschooler and kindergartener. My children love learning about nature. What a memorable hands on activity to wrap up a study of birds or butterflies.
What’s your favorite resource for finding fun and creative arts and crafts for your kiddos?
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