It’s Thanksgiving week! It sure did sneak up on me. I haven’t even begun to think about what our menu will be. I guess I will be doing our traditional meal except with a vegan twist. I will be working on side dish recipes and posting them this week. For now, here is what this weeks menu looks...

One of the things that I love the most about homeschooling is that I get to choose when we take a break. I wish I could do the same for housework and chores…When I am planning for the school year I usually have set times for us to take breaks from homeschooling. Usually holidays and annual trips...

Today I got an email saying this : Congratulations suburbangranola.com You won the blog contest ” “Rose Book of Bible Charts, Maps, and Time Lines” Please email me your address so I can ship. I was in shock for a minute. Seriously. I cannot believe that I actually won something.  Take...

I got a request for a post on computer based curriculum. I am so excited. I got a request! I wasn’t even sure anyone was really ready this thing.. We have used a computer based curriculum by Alpha Omega called Switched on Schoolhouse. I was very excited about getting it and really liked it for...

I thought I would throw together a list of the educational websites that we love to use in our homeschool. This list will change periodically as I come across new ones. Please comment if a link is no longer working. All sites are free unless noted otherwise. For Teachers: www.bakersbookstore.com This...

This week I decided I needed to add an event column at the bottom of my menu. That way I know at a glance what we have going on that day. It should help me to remember why I am using the crockpot that day ( super busy day planned) and help remind me to prepare some things for future meals ahead of time....

I am completely emotionally worn out right now. I am just about to dump it all on you. I had a doctors appointment this morning to check on our ( extremely early) pregnancy. Have you ever tried to get pregnant? I mean really tried? Was it hard? Was it easy? You would think with 5 kids that it is easy...