August 2011

Finding Time for Creative Endeavors

*Do you have a post about scheduling?  Make sure to share a link to it in the link up below!* I’m sure that your schedule is a lot like my schedule — there never seems to be quite enough time. When I’m pressed for time, as I often am, one of the first things to [...]

Jack Gives Mad Props to C.S. Lewis

I mentioned briefly that we’ve been listening to The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis.  This has been a really wonderful experience for us (for a couple different reasons), as I’ll share more about later. But, one of the things that cracked me up about the whole thing happened when we were in the van the [...]

10 Sources for Art Inspiration

I rarely try to come up with ideas for the art pieces that I do.  Instead, the ideas get into my head and usually won’t get out until I finally do something with them.  Because I have always loved words, you’ll notice that a lot of my ideas come from things that involve words, in [...]

Many Little Links: August 29, 2011

Some Days – SouleMama Oh yeah, I’ve had days like that.  Sometimes, I feel like I have had years like that. Make a Kid-Friendly Terrarium – Make and Takes My kids would go crazy for this.  It looks like a hoot! Useful Homeschool Supplies – The Homeschool Classroom I’m such a lover of office and [...]

Finding Extra Space in Your Home

While “small” house is a relative term, we often feel like we are bursting at the seams of the room that we have in our house. It would not be truthful if I didn’t share that we all not-so-secretly wish that we could live in a bigger house.  However, for now, our house is what [...]

Make Life Simpler with 52 Projects

Yeah, so this isn’t one of those, “Change your life in three easy steps.”  Quite frankly, we all know this doesn’t work, right? Oh sure, if your three steps are things like: 1. Quit Your Job. 2. Get a divorce. 3. Go live in a cave. Then, yes, that would make for some pretty big [...]

7 Quick Takes: August 26, 2011 (Vol. 94)

~ 1 ~ Apparently my mind may be like mush (at least at this moment).  I got on my blog to start writing my seven quick takes, and I suddenly couldn’t think of what types of things I blog about.  And then I followed that up by starting to write the date as December something. [...]

Free Online Deals Plus a Header and Button Giveaway

So, yesterday, I was at The Homeschool Classroom writing at our Taco Salad Makeover (and there is a $100 Cooking.com gift certificate giveaway there with that post). Today… Check out my post today on Catholic Mothers Online about how giving out allowances saved me money, as well as to see some great FREE online deals. [...]

A Taco Salad Makeover and a $100 Gift Certificate Giveaway

Today, I shared at The Homeschool Classroom about how we worked on making our taco salad recipe healthier, including baking our own tortilla chips for the meal!  (This was a hit with everyone.  Even when we used spinach tortillas!) Go check out the steps for making our taco salad and the chips, as well to [...]

10 Reasons I Love My Wife (Written By My Husband)

A Note From Angie It is not often that I have guest posts here.  But, today is one that I never expected that I would have here.  A guest post by Eric!  It all came to pass after I got mad about an action he did each time he and my Dad were beating my [...]

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