August 2010

Assessing Your Child’s Knowledge, Not Their Writing Skills

As a blogger, I’m obviously a big fan of writing.  It is something that I have enjoyed my whole life.  When I was a kid, I enjoyed writing stories, I always had lots of pen pals, and as I got older, I was always one of those students that had a hard time staying within [...]

Ten Tips for Making a Media Kit for Bloggers

If your blog is a business and you hope to sell advertiser or work with companies on promotions, it can be very helpful to have a media kit available. You never know when someone might request it for some fabulous opportunity.  How much better it would be to be able to say, “No problem – [...]

Want to Read Some of My Reviews of Homeschooling Products?

I recently realized that I’m not really very good about posting here to send you somewhere else that I have written.  If you’re a homeschooler, you might be interested in some of the reviews that I have written at Curriculum Choice: Scribblenauts Game for the Nintendo DS (Yes, I did write a homeschool review about [...]

Many Little Links: August 27, 2010

Pop Up Pancakes – Make and Takes This is an old post, but oh my yum-o!  These look so good.  I think I may have to try them this weekend. Clay Rosary Giveaway – Catholic Icing Check out this very cool Rosary giveaway!  These are gorgeous, handcrafted clay rosaries.  So unique! In Which My Jaw [...]

7 Quick Takes: August 27, 2010 (Vol. 50)

~ 1 ~ This week, Molly started in the religious education program at our parish, since she’s in kindergarten now.  She was so excited, especially since she is in class with her two BFFs. Yes, my five year old does call her best girlfriends her “BFFs.” ~ 2 ~ Because I don’t spend enough time [...]

Project One from the Home Ec 101 Sewing Course

I am so thrilled to share that this weekend, I completed my first project for Home Ec 101!  I am also thrilled that my sewing didn’t cause the world to stop spinning.  I figured this would be one of those things that I signed up for and then never did anything with. Sure, it may [...]

Great Way to Find Printable Coupons

I have to admit that I don’t use coupons as often as I should.  And, I’m certainly not one of those gals that can take a picture of a counter full of stuff and say, “I paid $7 for all of this.” However, that being said, I do like to use coupons.  It always gives [...]

Throwing an Inexpensive Birthday Party

This, of course, sounds like a funny topic for me to write about given that I have recently posted about having a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese for our boys that had 23 guests.  That being said, even though Molly’s birthday is about to roll around again, here are some party tips from last [...]

Ten Tips on Blogging Business/Law from #SBSummit

In the past several weeks, I have been writing about many of the talks from Savvy Blogging Summit.  For the Top Ten Tuesday post this week, I’m going to tackle the Business Law/Accounting class. (You can read some of the other top ten tips from various Savvy Blogging Summit Classes as well, such as: Effective [...]

There’s More to a Sandwich than Meat and Bread

I’ve been working to try to make sure we’re eating more vegetables and fruits, and so this weekend when I went to make a roast beef sandwich (and Eric was making his own), I decided to go all out. Sure, I could have just thrown together the meat and bread, but I was inspired by [...]

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