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The Breakfast Challenge: Day Five

Our camping experience included a new recipe (make ahead breakfast burritos) for our day five breakfast challenge was a huge success. Since we were camping this morning (details on this more-challenging-than-expected camping trip to come later), I had to be a bit more creative in my menu choice. Couldn't really bake anything, and I didn't […]

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The Breakfast Challenge: Day Three and Day Four FAIL!

I've combined Day Three and Four of our breakfast challende into this one post because…well…I screwed up. You see, I stayed up really late last night — until 2 a.m. — helping a friend set up her blog. I hadn't looked at what was on the menu for Thursday's breakfast yet, thinking that I'd just […]

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The Breakfast Challenge: Day Two

Breakfast challenge on day two was more of a challenge for me. This morning I made an oven omelet, a recipe I've never made before. The ingredients were few (just eggs, milk, and cheese…and deli ham for me), the prep was quick and easy, and I especially love that I didn't have to stand over […]

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The Breakfast Challenge: Day One

For my day one of our breakfast challenge I started easy. Since this was my first day in months a while that I've made breakfast on a school day, I decided to start with something that was quick and easy: corn cakes. I've used Jiffy cornbread mixes for years (although I did switch to using […]

Filed Under: Home Management · Menu Plan Mondays

Menu Plan Monday: The Breakfast Challenge

Meeting friends over the internet, lets us open ourselves to improvement and this menu plan will be focused on a breakfast challenge. Whoever says you can't form real friendships over the internet is completely wrong. Toni, Kate, and I started our friendships through reading each other's blogs in February of 2008, and our friendships grew […]

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A Love Affair With Her Thesaurus

Ever see a thesaurus but not pick it up? Never used one? Well here is a little of how Roget's Internations Thesaurus was discovered, picked up and is now a loved companion. If you know me at all, you won't be surprised that I can wax elloquent about a thesaurus. I'm just a geek that […]

Filed Under: Language Arts · Strategies & Tips · Language Arts

How To Improve Your English Skills Painlessly

Feel intimidated by English grammar? Here are some suggestion for teaching English Skills painlessly. I've heard many homeschooling parents say that they don't know how they're going to teach English grammar or writing to their kids because they've never been very good at it themselves. But my question is this — if we expect our […]

Filed Under: Life Skills · Strategies & Tips · Free Curriculum · Life Skills

How to Teach your Kids about Guns & Gun Safety

Teaching your child about safety should include teaching your kids about guns. As Americans, our right to bear arms is — or at least should be — protected under the Constitution. Guns are an integral part of American life, and as such, I want my kids to be knowledgeable about guns. Not that I'm going […]

Filed Under: Curriculum · Reading Lists

13 Books My Avid-Reader Daughter Highly Recommends

My daughter highly recommends these books she has read. You will see some classics and maybe some you haven't heard of before this.  My daughter, Jerah, is a voracious reader. And by voracious I mean she spends nearly all of her waking moments reading (she reads at the dinner table, in the bathroom, while walking, […]

Filed Under: Home Management · Menu Plan Mondays

Menu Plan: Week of May 18

As usual, my evening schedule is a bit rushed this week which will call for a menu plan including some crock pot or make-ahead meals. Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday I have 15, 30 and 60 minutes respectively between the end of my lessons and when I have to walk out the door for my evening […]

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