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April 15, 2009
Heather L
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TOS Review: Homework

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Homework: Juggling Home, Work, and School Without Losing Your Balance is an informational and uplifting ebook filled with personal stories from different homeschooling, work-at-home moms. In these tough economic times, many families are looking for ways to increase their family income. For many families, this means that the stay at home parent will rejoin the workforce or one or both parents will take a second job. Families that are homeschooling will often shy away from having the primary caregiver take a job outside of the home. Many moms will start the search for things that they can do from home.…

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April 2, 2009
Heather L
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Cooking Class: Warm Chicken Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing

Posted in Homemaking, and Homeschooling

We have a new favorite dressing thanks to Munchkin and her online cooking class. Lately, we’ve been trying to stay away from packaged salad dressing, so it’s nice to have a new dressing to add to our homemade dressing recipes. Munchkin prefers the homemade ranch dressing, but Daddy and I really enjoyed the poppy seed dressing. We look forward to having the warm chicken salad with poppy seed dressing as part of our normal menu plan. It will be quite refreshing this summer with fresh veggies from the farmer’s market.

April 1, 2009
Heather L
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Cooking Class: Parmesan Chicken with Roasted Brussels Sprouts

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Munchkin made another lovely meal from her online cooking class, and we’re delightfully stuffed from this very satisfying meal. Munchkin prepared parmesan chicken breasts with roasted brussels sprouts and potatoes. The potatoes were an add on since we had some baby red potatoes that needed to be used. The whole meal turned out really well. I had her make extra, so she’ll be able to use it in the salad she has planned for tomorrow. Daddy also wanted another meal to take with him for lunch tomorrow. On a side note: I learned that it’s actually brussels sprouts not brussel…

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April 1, 2009
Heather L
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Free Lifestyle of Learning Resources

Posted in Announcements, Commercial Break, and Homeschooling

Barb Shelton from Homeschool Oasis is now offering most of Marilyn Howshaw’s Lifestyle of Learning library for free as a pdf download at her website. Please honor her request to read why these resources are now available for free prior to downloading. Barb offers a wealth of information on homeschooling without stress through high school and beyond. I highly recommend checking out the rest of her website and resources while you are there.