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Summer Games: Water Balloon Learning

June 19, 2013

As a parent, there really isn’t a start or end to when we can create learning time with our kids. We can find ways to help our kids learn new skills (or review old ones) through the simplest tasks or activities. I love to find ways to embed learning into our daily play time and [...]

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Planning Tips to Help You Make the Most of Your Summer

June 18, 2013

Summer is underway at an almost frantic pace for most of the families I know, including ours, and now is a good time to step back, reevaluate and invest a little bit of time in planning so that you can make the most of your summer while it lasts! We’ve got a lot of great [...]

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Sorry, You Can’t Have a Chemical Free Life

June 18, 2013

“I don’t eat vegetables with chemicals.” “I choose to use personal products without chemicals.” “I don’t like putting chemicals in my body.” WRONG! Do you drink water? H2O. Even the purest filtered water or crystalline, unpolluted water from the highest mountaintop. Do you use salt? NaCl. Even unrefined salt directly from the sea or ancient [...]

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What’s Your Best Morning Time Saver Tip?

June 18, 2013

As a fairly uncoordinated person, I’m in awe of the actress in the new Vaseline Spray & Go Moisturizer commercial! You’d think her acrobatic morning routine might involve some sort of camera trick or special effects, but in reality, the actress is Emma, a dancer from London who trained as an acrobat as a child [...]

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Weekly Reads + Budgeting for Books {6/17/13}

June 17, 2013

I’m feeling like my current reading rut might be permanent! As I focus on work and homeschooling, I’m just not prioritizing time to read in my daily schedule, and I think part of the problem is that it’s been a long time since I read a fiction book I really<em> loved</em>, the kind that leads [...]

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The Benefit of Taking a Few Steps Back …. And a Breath

June 17, 2013

I want to talk to you today about an important component in taking authentic photographs. What I mean by authentic is an image that shows a true expression and posture, an authentic representation of the individual. We often tend to bring the energy level up when we are photographing an individual. We raise our volume [...]

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Get This Week’s Time Management for Families Bundle for $7.40 {BundleoftheWeek.com}

June 17, 2013

Running a household, caring for children and still finding time to pursue your passions is not an easy order, but this week’s bundle is designed to give you the tools to make the most of the 24 hours you’re given each day. Discover tips for creating schedules and routines, the importance of rest, strategies to [...]

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Weekend Reading: June 15, 2013

June 15, 2013

We had the craziest weather this week — hot and humid one day, cool and rainy the next, and a series of thunderstorms on Thursday, followed by this gorgeous sunset. Welcome to summer, I guess! Today we’re off to spend the day at my dad’s, swimming and barbecuing and just generally enjoying Father’s Day weekend. [...]

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New Printable 2014 Calendars

June 14, 2013

The 2014 printable calendars weren’t actually on my radar yet, but I’ve had quite a few people who must be planning ahead who have requested them, so here they are! As a bonus, you can now save any text you type into these printables on your computer, and we’re working on updating the rest of [...]

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What Independent Work Looks Like in Our Homeschool

June 14, 2013

I’ve talked a lot about our move to “independent work” with the girls as I described our curriculum plans for the upcoming year and our reasons for schooling year-round, and truly, I can’t describe how much this has made for us. Instead of always feeling overwhelmed and like I was dropping the ball on school [...]

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A Few Shots from the June Photo Hunt

June 13, 2013

Are you participating in the June Photo Hunt? Krystal has created a list of June-themed items — like ladybugs and rain, baseballs and sprinklers — for you and your family to hunt for and capture with your camera this month. She’s using the opportunity to help her kids improve their photography skills, and I think [...]

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Yes, You Do Like Gluten-Free Food

June 13, 2013

You do like gluten-free food. Maybe you don’t eat a gluten-free diet. Maybe you can eat absolutely anything you want. And, maybe, just maybe you’ve decided that gluten-free food is not for you. One of the most common responses I get when someone finds out that I eat a gluten-free diet is something like, “Oh. [...]

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