It was day two of the THSC Convention and Family Conference. After a full day of sessions, we were excited to see John R Erickson, the author of the Hank the Cow Dog books, in concert. We had gone out to eat and thought we left plenty of time to get back to the concert, but… [continue reading]
Homeschool Conference 2012
About four days after we got back from our road trip to Iowa to see family, we loaded back up and headed to Houston for the Texas Home School Coalition Southwest Convention and Family Conference. We went last year and had such a great experience that we decided to go back this year even though… [continue reading]
Classical Conversations at Home
After completing a year at a Classical Conversations Community, I decided to use the curriculum on my own last year. I had several reasons, but at the top of my list was having my fifth baby. I just didn’t want all the pressures of getting all the kids out every week. I began the year… [continue reading]
An Every Day Mom Victory
Thank you to P&G and Kroger stores for celebrating “Team Mom’s Everyday Victories”! Please visit the P&G’s event page to play games, win money off your next Kroger trip and more fun! Life as a homemaker and homeschooling mama of five children can at times seem very tedious. Ideally my 2nd and 5th graders would… [continue reading]
Your Origins Matter ICR Conference
Yesterday we took the family to the ICR (or Institute for Christian Research) Your Origins Matter Conference in downtown Dallas. As we walked up to the church someone yelled, “Are you trying to start your own basketball team?” Then when we walked inside there were several more comments about our “big” family. Jason loves it. … [continue reading]
Poopy Diapers
One morning I was trying to motivate Faith to finish the last few pages of one of her readers. Evidently the stories were nonfiction, and she said they weren’t fun. “Well everything we have to do in life isn’t fun, but we have to do it anyway, like…” I said as she looked back at… [continue reading]
How to get kids to eat their vegetables
You know how I the kids love fun food! My daughter Faith and I enjoyed looking through recipes. I let her choose the first one we would make–Bear Paws. These are the papa bear paws. Aren’t they cute? They are simply baked sweet potatoes sliced in half, drizzled with Country Crock, a pinch of nutmeg,… [continue reading]
Family Time with Simply Fun Games
This package of three games that we won came right when I had decided we needed to be playing more board games with the kids. I have made a point to sit down with them at least once a week for a game. What I love about these Simply Fun games is that the kids… [continue reading]
What is it like with five children?
I over heard a lady at church, who delivered her baby in the same hospital while we were there having our fifth child, tell someone that her baby is twelve weeks old. In surprise I looked up at my husband. “Bobby is twelve weeks old?” I asked. Wow! For a while it seemed that one… [continue reading]
What would you change about Mom?
Yep this is what I actually asked my girls. “Tell me one thing you would change about Mom if you could.” Constructive criticism is a good thing right? I put it out there and yet I still cringed inwardly and braced myself for what they would say. I always have them answer littlest to biggest… [continue reading]