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Some Christmas Things
I always get behind in blogging during the holidays; too much fun stuff going on to sit and type for awhile. Here are a bunch of random pictures from our month of December. We decorated gingerbread...
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Mom's Library (#6)
We have been busy partying over here, so this post is a bit late and a bit lame. :)But here is the current Mom's Library link-up going on. Perhaps you can find some nice ideas to include in your...
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Top 10 posts of 2012
2012 was a great year for our family - a busy year of lots of change, but still great. It was also a good year for the blog, although I feel this blog still hasn't completely decided what it wants to...
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Mom's Library Link Up (#7)
Hey all!This week's features:from One Creative Mommy, a felt ice cream tutorial. The boys would love to pretend with these in their kitchen/snack shop:from Fireflies and Mud Pies, Let's Learn about...
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Don't forget your brain!
(clearly this is a chicken with gears working hard in the brain, right?No? Ah well, I tried)It is easy to see from the flood of exercise pins showing up on my pinterest feed that it is the new year....
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What We're Reading
We are big readers in this house. Well, I used to be anyway, before I became responsible for the well- being of a house and family, but I still manage to ignore duty for a while and read every now and...
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Mom's Library Link Up (#8)
Good Tuesday Night everyone! How's your week going so far? Ours is actually not going very well, but thanks for asking. We're going to be optimistic here and think that the rest of the week is going...
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Snowman Matching
Just for fun, we made our own snowman matching game (and because I got a new Silhouette Cameo for Christmas and wanted to use it). I started each boy with 2 plain white snowman cutouts. The boys...
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Roll a MONSTER Snowman
In December, I pinned a "Roll a Snowman" game from the blog Somewhat Simple. If you look at it, you will see she suggests you roll a die to get your snowman parts and whoever gets all their snowman...
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Faith and Adversity
(This is one of my favorite paintings, by Greg Olsen, titled "Be not afraid". It reminds me how God is there to help us through rough places in our lives.)Last Sunday I gave a talk at church. The...
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"Love" blocks
A while back I had pinned this project on pinterest thinking it would be a nice, easy activity to do with Maren someday. We had a chance to make them on Monday and I think they turned out pretty cute....
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Mom's Library (#9)
Remember how I was hoping last week that things would soon get better? Well, it didn't. It was a very expensive week. I guess that's what I get for being optimistic. At least I had all your great...
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Magic Sight Word Fortress
The other day as I was practicing sight word flash cards with Christopher, I had an idea to make it a bit more fun for him. We were on the floor with toys scattered around us and so I grabbed some...
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"Love at Home" sign and activity
While Valentine’s Day is usually a time for romantic love, I like to concentrate on love in general, since we have little kids in the house. I made this sign to help us focus on God’s love for us and...
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Mom's Library Link Up #10
Where has the week gone? I guess it's time to do another one of these posts. I really do love looking through the links every week and getting ideas for our homeschool. This week there were several...
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What We're Reading
Well, it's been a couple weeks, so I thought I'd share what we've been reading lately. :)Maren (10) - Maren has started on the "39 clues" series. The first night she asked me, "Mom, have you read...
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Mom's Library Linky (#11)
Hmm. I think Chinese New Year is coming up this Sunday. Anyone have any curriculum ideas for me? I think we might make our own fortune cookies over here. Features this week:Do some "Gingerbread Man...
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Mom's Library Link Up #12
Sorry. The link up is late and there are no features, but that's just what kind of week it has been.Plus, I know I haven't posted much on the blog lately, but don't give up on my yet. I have about 11...
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Ninjago Birthday Party
My sweet Christopher turned 6 last weekend! He wanted some kind of party that involved swords (*sigh* boys), and since his brother Joshua has a few ninjago sets and has been checking Ninjago books out...
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Mom's Library Link Up #13 (with features this time!)
Featured this week:Great snake ideas at What Happens at Grandma's.An idea for graphing using the months of the year from No Doubt Learning.Some great ideas to help your child learn to read at My...
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