Wandering through life one season at a time
Some of the books we are enjoying this week:
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
Total Training for Young Champions
Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
These High, Green Hills (The Mitford Years, Book 3)
This week’s assignment:
“Since I’ve been making you work really hard on the previous Memoir themes I decided to take a little break, and do something fun! This week I want to invite you to share a few of your favourite things – er – sites. I know the list of favourite things could be never-ending, but I’ve made a list for you to do regarding your favourite homeschool things. Just copy this list and add your favourites underneath the appropriate category. BUT by all means you’re welcome to add your other favourite things on the post as well!”
These are a few of my favorite online things:
*Magazines/Carnivals – in print or online
Freebie sites – any sites that offer freebies or often have giveaways
Homeschool news/informative
Forums/book clubs
Networking, Blog “About” (sites that offer tech-support or tutorials for computer/internet) & Quick Links
Mom site – a sites just for moms
Inspirational/encouraging/motivational
Youth/kid – sites geared towards youth/kids or owned by them
Memes
Organizing/crafts – sites that you look to for organizing tips or crafts
Homemaking/Homesteading
Bible-focused – sites mainly about God’s Word
Homeschool Method – sites that offer a lot of info on a certain method
Family blog – sites that give you a glimpse into another family’s life, run by a family
Businesses, particularly homebased
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Visit Homeschool Memoirs for more!
Now that I’m in my last month of pregnancy, my Sleep Number Bed from Select Comfort really works for me. We’ve had ours for about two years and still love it! I don’t spend the entire night tossing & turning, trying to find a comfortable position, like I did with all my other kids. I had hip pain after Little Prince was born and spent every morning sitting on the couch until I could loosen up enough to walk – the third morning after we got our Sleep Number Bed, I slid out of bed with no pain or stiffness!
I very strongly recommend going to a Select Comfort store and letting one of the associates help you find your sleep number. It can be miserable if you are sleeping on the wrong number. (My side looks like a hammock, while my husband’s is slightly softer than the floor. LOL) The only thing that hasn’t worked for us is getting a queen size to save a few $$ – go for the king!!!
Run on over to Rocks In My Dryer for tons of great tips!
Tips I want to remember:
I’m participating for the first time in Weblink Wednesday, a fun list of educational sites. I love online learning!
My girls have a history research project to do every week and sites like wikipedia are just over their heads (plus I don’t know if I can trust the content). I was looking for a kid-friendly search engine and that’s how I came across Kidipede.
Here are a few more history sites to enjoy:
Thinking Things by Snaith Primary there are so many fun & useful things here
Walk Through Time interactive timeline & games, printable activities
History on the Net printable worksheets
In case you missed Sarah Palin’s awesome speech last night, here is the best part of last night’s Republican National Convention – her adorable daughter Piper fixing baby Trig’s hair.
