How Does Your Garden Grow?

Jenny/ May 31, 2019/ Family Life

I’m so excited about how my garden is looking this year!  I’m going to post pictures below.  We planted tomatoes, peppers, bulb onions and herbs this year. I still hope to put in cucumbers and pole beans!  Our berries are loaded and our strawberries did well also, though I am redoing my strawberries this summer.   How is your garden? 

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"Character Trails" Review

Jenny/ May 28, 2019/ Homeschool Reviews

  One of my objectives as a homeschooling parent is to teach our children Godly character traits.  And quite honestly, sometimes that is just plain hard to do!  So, I was very excited to review “Character Trails” by Character Concepts.  This is a character building book written by Marilyn Boyer designed especially to promote and teach Godly character to our

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Supercharged Science-Review

Jenny/ May 28, 2019/ Homeschool Reviews

  Are you a Science pro?  I freely admit that I am not and I really didn’t comprehend much of what was taught in my school years.  So, I was thrilled to review an online program called Supercharged Science and their e-Science Homeschool Science Curriculum.  This is a really neat program that is full of short videos and tons of projects. 

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Homeschooling With "A Charlotte Mason Companion"

Jenny/ May 20, 2019/ Thrifty Homeschool Mama Tips & Tricks

  After I read Karen Andreola for the first time this winter and fell absolutely in love with her writing in  “Mother Culture” I just had to buy ” A Charlotte Mason Companion”. I had begun to read some of Charlotte Mason’s original writings on my table but the are a little difficult to get really into for me. I’m still plugging along with

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Focus

Jenny/ May 17, 2019/ Thrifty Homeschool Mama Tips & Tricks

  What’s your focus on?  This is an area I struggle so much with, honestly.  There are so many things that are required in my day as a stay-at-home, homeschooling mom that many times I lose sight of my main goal.  What is that? you might ask…  In a nutshell, here is my goal:  to point my children to Christ. 

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"Nothing" by Natalee Creech-a book review

Jenny/ May 10, 2019/ Homeschool Reviews

  Do you love a great children’s rhyming book that is Biblically accurate?  I do, so I was delighted to get to review the book called “Nothing by Natalee Creech” by WorthyKids, an imprint of Hachette Book Group.   “For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

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"Pathway to Liberty" history curriculum review

Jenny/ May 6, 2019/ Homeschool Reviews

   History is one of my absolutely favorite subjects and it is also our son Jake’s (and Dennis’s too) so I was very excited to review the US History curriculum called “Pathway to Liberty History Curriculum” by Pathway to Liberty Homeschool Curriculum.  We were given the teacher book, the student book, a reading book called “The Chain of Liberty” and

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"Pocketful of Pinecones" Book Review

Jenny/ May 4, 2019/ Homeschool Reviews

  I have to be perfectly honest, Karen Andreola is my new favorite author for non-fiction and then she had to go and do this: write an awesome fiction book that is super helpful also! Its called “Pocketful of Pinecones” and is the story of a mother in the 1930’s who is home educating her two children. Let’s just say,

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