Organizing

Finish Summer Strong

For many homeschooling families, summer is well underway and the upcoming school year still seems a ways off. And while there are still many relaxed days of summer left to enjoy, there are some things you can do now to ensure a strong start to your school year that actually have NOTHING to do with [...]

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Plan to Save

  This is a great time to save 50% off this great planner.  I’m a big fan of this very tweakable planner. It’s not too late to get the homeschool year off to a great start! For more details on this deal, click here.

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A Plan for Birthday Gifts

Midway through this year, after several deep cleanings of the house and children’s rooms, I realized yet again that we indeed have too many useless things. Things that aren’t valued, aren’t useful or don’t develop the mind, body or spirit. No matter how often I’ve purged our belongings over many years, the stuff still creeps [...]

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Family Sock Drawer

It’s Labor Day—so what better to talk about than work, right? I really don’t mind a lot of the work of housework. But there’s one thing that has become WAY more work than it should be for me—laundry! Maybe you’ve caught wind of the family closet idea. If you haven’t, you really should read up [...]

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Prepare to be a Planning Genius

Finally! A planner for all of us ‘tweakers’ –The 2010 Schoolhouse Planner. Oh c’mon . . . you know if you’re a tweaker because you tweak things. You buy stuff and then change how it’s supposed to be used to suit your needs. You’re not afraid to stray from the directions. You want to make [...]

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Our Homeschool Room

Our Homeschool Room This is probably the cleanest it will ever get. And I looked right past the pile of books on the floor. It’s amazing what you just stop seeing! Here’s where you’ll see our Timeline and Calendar Bulletin Boards. I’ve since added some fun things to the calendar, but will share more on [...]

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Our Homeschool Plan this year

Our focus this year is to strengthen foundations on the core subjects—reading, math and writing. I know we’ll have a great time with our history and science, but I’m not letting that lead my schedule as much as making sure our foundation is really solid. Here is our big plan for the 2010-2011 homeschool year. [...]

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Still Heart My iTouch

My love affair with my iTouch continues. If you need to know how it all began, stop over and read this post.   Today, I just had to share this great list on Babble of Top 50 iPhone Apps for Moms. Now while many of them work for my iTouch, some are just for iPhones, [...]

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My Laundry System

What is it about us that likes to see each other’s dirty laundry? Or at least hear about the way other moms organize the beast named laundry at their house. Well, here’s a peek at how we do it at my house. I use the pronoun ‘we’ very loosely. It feels mostly like me, but [...]

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Top Ten Things I Love About My iTouch

I’m a little late to the high-tech toy party, but happy to have finally gotten here. My wonderful mom surprised me out of the blue on her last visit with an iTouch. I have had more fun finding apps to help me get organized. Here’s why I {heart} my iTouch.1. It fits in my purse. [...]

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