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Month: September 2008

Homeschool Memoirs – Routines

Posted in Homeschooling

Well, as you may know, I’m really not into set schedules around here. We love routines, but we don’t do actual time slots for schooling. When we started out homeschooling, I tried the whole time slot for each subject thing, but it was a disaster. As the years went by, we’ve fallen into a routine that works for us. I get up in the morning before Munchkin, so I can do my devotions. I then spend some time checking emails until she gets up. When she gets up, we eat breakfast while watching an episode of Liberty’s Kids or Magic…

BFS – Oh What a Feeling!

Posted in Fun, Homeschooling, and Thoughts

Assignment: Take time this week to write about YOU and your feelings of trials and triumphs with homeschooling. Touch on when you first heard about the concept of home schooling and whether you tip-toed into the idea or just jumped in and never looked back. Share your schooling as a child and how you compare it to what your goals are for your children. Homeschooling has been a wonderful journey for us. That is not to say that there aren’t bad days, but the experience is rewarding in many ways. For us, homeschooling has allowed us the freedom to take…

Happy Labor Day

Posted in Holidays

Labor Day: How it Came About; What it Means Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country. Founder of Labor Day More than 100 years after the first Labor Day observance, there is still some doubt as to who first proposed the holiday for workers. Some records show that Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners…