Welcome to my new home (Plus a Giveaway!)

I've just recently secured my own domain name and self-hosting, so my old blog on WordPress has officially moved to this new home! To celebrate this move to my new domain, I'm hosting a giveaway. The winner of the giveaway will win a custom button/banner design and a copy of the wonderful book, The Wordsmith, [...]

Outline Maps: Ancient Egypt and Greece

We're studying Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece with TruthQuest history this coming school year, so of course we'll be studying their geography as well. But to do that, I need a good, basic outline map of each country. I thought I might be able to find what I was looking for on the outline map [...]

The Reluctant Coffee Drinker

I'm not—nor have I ever been—a coffee drinker. If it's hot, drinkable, and in a cup, it had better be chocolate, my friend! But my husband is trying to turn me into a coffee drinker. I guess he has this idea in his head that it would be fun to get up in the morning [...]

Download Audio Recordings of Public Domain Books

Many of you may already know that you can download the full text of over 20,000 public domain books on Gutenburg. But did you know you can download audio recordings of public domain books from LibriVox? I'm talking about authors like Austen, Alcott, Jack London, Kipling, and hundreds more. This is a great way to [...]

Lots and lots of free stuff!

While perusing various and sundry blogs this afternoon, I came upon this useful little enormous blog called Freebies 4 Mom. If you haven't visited Freebies yet, you're missing out. Heather blogs about all sorts of of great goodies for moms. It's definitely worth checking out! I found a post on her site about getting lots [...]

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