Thousands of Miles Fresher

I took my youth group this past Sunday to an Earth Day celebration in a nearby city.  There was world music, organic food, a dove release, and a lot of great booths chocked full of information about leaving a smaller footprint here on this lovely planet. One of the booths was offering a bumper sticker [...]

Friday’s Hardwired Homeschool Hints: Science Experiments

  I haven’t touched on a whole lot of science sites or programs in HHH so far, so today I’m being both scientifically minded AND lazy. Yes, I said lazy, because I’m just sending you somewhere else for today’s homeschool techie goodness.  Why do all that work compiling sites when someone else has already done [...]

A Thousand Words Thursday

  I promise you that it wasn’t that long ago that I was smiling about this… instead of worrying about this… The times, they keep on a’changin’.  (sigh)

Less Anxiety in 30 Days Or Your Money Back

Time for sharing. You still with me?  Ok. Good.  Cause those words often cause my husband to suddenly need to leave the room to pee or something. Anyway, I joke on my blog from time to time about needing anti-anxiety meds in crisis, but the honest-to-God truth is that I need them to handle most [...]

Food + HTML = Economic Upturn

Yard-Saleous Maximus

Do you yard sale?  I know that isn’t technically a verb…but in my world it is not only a verb, but a DOUBLE verb. 1. Yard Sale – verb – to sell used or unwanted household goods, personal items, bric-a-brac, etc., typically held in one’s garage or yard. See also: tag sale, garage sale Using [...]

I’m Not Wired Well For Sad

When my blog gets quiet, you can know I’m either busy, on vacation, or very, very sad.  Unfortunately this week, it is the latter.  On Tuesday, a high school classmate of mine died during childbirth with her fifth child.  She was 39.  A devoted homeschooling mom.  That leaves her husband with four children and a brand [...]

Tech on the Cheap

The Topsies have been doing everything we possibly can to one-up the nation’s best economists by balancing our own budget.  We’ve just recently paid off every last credit card (thanks to some unexpected cash that came our way), we’re eating out less, using Freecycle when possible, and even having a yard sale this week.  We [...]

CSI…Here I Come!

I don’t normally delve too deeply into what we are doing on a daily basis in our homeschool…partly because a lot of what the boys use for curriculum is online, and partly because when other homeschool moms start rattling off the details of their studies, I find myself quickly hitting the “back” button, and praying [...]

Warmed Over Wednesday

Ok – so the height of business + laziness = a repost…but that is what it has come to.  So I present to you one of my early faves from when poor Uber had some seriously hard luck.  Enjoy! The Southpaw Shuffle: Imagine the worst possible scenario for your family.  Your house floods, your dog [...]