Homeschool Glossary
commonly used acronyms and terms. This list is by no means exhaustive.
Fair Go for Homeschool Copyright
Part of this post is from a previous writing, but is still relevant today. Will you take three minutes to view this video? httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJmWKb0_aXw Years ago, like many homeschoolers, I looked for ways to be frugal in our homeschooling. I learned to...
Good homeschooling books
If you are looking at beginning homeschooling, need some ideas or encouragement, here are a few of my favourite books on the topic: A Biblical Home Education by Ruth Beechick For the Children's Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay I Saw the Angel in the Marble by Chris...
Getting Started in Homeschooling
Helpful tips for getting started with homeschooling
Coffee with Conscience
I love my coffee. Everyone who knows me knows that. My daughter is a barista and has studied, and continues to study, the art, the history, the science of coffee- from the plant to harvesting, roasting and grinding. Somewhere along the line I learned about Fair...
National Diana Waring Conferences
Diana Waring is well loved for her bright enthusiastic presentation of history. Extremely happily married since 1979, Bill and Diana homeschooled their three children nearly twenty years. The Waring kids (now all grown) were the proving grounds for all the concepts...
State Allows Growing Trend of Eating At Home
For your tongue-in-cheek giggle for today... State Allows Growing Trend of Eating At Home ---------------------- April 13, 2099 Reunited Press After much heated debate on the house floor, legislation was passed today to allow a growing number of families to cook meals...
My Life as an Only but Not Lonely Child
I’m an only child! And I loved it. I just never knew any different.I loved my childhood and wouldn’t have wished for much different…
Dealing with My Thorn in the Flesh
John is away for work. He may be away for approximately 10 weeks out of the next 16 weeks. We will miss him like crazy...and I just hope and pray that nothing too technical breaks down on our servers, but we'll manage. I'm not particularly fazed or scared about him...
Resistance Training
Just learned that weight lifting is the second lowest injury sport one can do. Walking is the safest and then weight lifting bcz it is done in a controlled, supervised way unlike many other activities. However, more than walking, weight lifting after searching...
Exercising my Options
We all make choices in life. We all live with the consequences of those choices. Exercise is one of those choices that have consequences.
Exercise Week: Mon 18th – Sun 24th
Monday AM - Hard HIIT session on bike for 20 min PM - Upper Body workout with free weights Tuesday Rest (Funeral) Wednesday AM - 20min HIIT treadmill I HATE that machine! 2.0km in 20min pftttt! LOL PM - Lower Body & Abs Workout Thursday Rest: Busy day out and...
My Epiphany on Non Negotiables
I am buzzing! Monday morning I was feeling down after jumping on the scales. I know I don't like the scales and I don't even do a weigh in on Monday so why did I even jump on them? That was dumb. Since then, I've had an epiphany of sorts, sparked by online...
High Intensity Interval Training for Homeschool Mums
If you have read any of my Fitn40 posts you would have seen the acronym HIIT. You may have wondered what on earth it is all about. Quite simply, it is short for High Intensity Interval Training- a method of working out. You can see my initial thoughts on it in a...
The Sacred Cows of Homeschooling
The sacred cows, or codes, of homeschooling… it’s often easier for us to strive toward a certain code than to live in grace.
Living By Grace…Or By the Law
Living with others, by grace, is not always an easy thing, is it? Oh, it's easy when one is away at church camp or at fellowship meeting but what about when one of those other imperfect people lives with you, in your house? Let me be honest. At times, I feel it is...
Forgiven Much
An aspect of writing that frustrates my little brain is how I just cannot seem to convey all my thoughts accurately. A person will read one blog post that I wrote and presume to know what I believe, or everything I believe in, based on one or two posts. Argh, this...
My son's loss
I received a phone call from my son on Friday night. His mother had been killed in a motorbike accident. She was only 48. 'S' has been a part of my life (for better and for worse) since I was 18. She is the birth mother of my son (step-son). She was, for 10years, a...
Exercise for wk3
Exercise Journal from4th - 9th May Exercise Mon: Attempted Billy Blanks Basic Bootcamp. Ain't nothing basic about it. Good, hard fun. (Didn't use resistance bands) Tues: Wed: Basic Bootcamp. Thur: Fri: 20min High Intensity Interval Workout on bike Sat: Notes: Ugh,...
Mothers Day 2009
I was planning a feast for Mother's Day. I wanted to celebrate being a mum and I wanted to bless my husband and children- for without them I wouldn't be a mum! However John won't be home on Sunday...he has to work. This disappointed Miss A so yesterday she got with...