Home-Centered

Weighing outside activities.

Julie / September 17, 2010

I really like this blog post: When It’s Time to Just Say No.  I recently joined a morning Bible study–biweekly–and it was a really big decision for me, one I’d never had to make before because we didn’t have a car and so I was “stuck” at home.  And I struggled pretty deeply over what this two-hours-every-other-week would mean for…

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Homeschooling, Printables

Another pre-k printable.

Julie / September 15, 2010

John’s New Coat ““ 8-page minibook,16 word flashcards (752kb PDF) (Note that the pages are out of order on the PDF so that they will print in order after they’re folded.) So this is probably becoming obvious, but I really like putting together my own little bits of curriculum to use in school with E.  First there was the Twinkle…

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Recommendations

A girl named Elsie.

Julie / September 13, 2010

I’m very sorry to say that the first time I read the Elsie Dinsmore books was just this summer.  I say “sorry,” because I rather would have liked the experience of reading them as a child, along with Anne Shirley, Laura Ingalls, and Jo March–the Elsie stories are so very similar to these which I’ve known so much longer, and…

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