Butter My Butt and Call Me a Biscuit

Today was a FUN day.  I mean more fun than a lost dog in a meat market! I have no pictures to show for it, but that’s because I was having too much fun to remember to take them.  The temps in our area hovered around 90 degrees – – the first and only time [...]

Trouble in Gotham

Image via Wikipedia So thanks to the recent Snowmageddon that crossed the country and wreaked havoc on the whole eastern seaboard, yours truly was out of power for about a day. For many of you, that is a laughable number.  I mean some folks are facing six and seven day power outages!  But for the [...]

Would you look who the cat dragged in???

That’s right. I’m back. Back from my longest bloggy break ever.  So let’s catch up for a minute.  Our holidays were lovely. Quiet.  Peaceful.  And even SNOWY…woot!! Christmas came and went with only a few hitches.  The biggest of which was that Uber’s desktop went “kaput” about a week before Christmas. Which meant that it [...]

That’s What She Said

I can’t say I’m a regular viewer of the show “The Office.”  I’ve probably seen maybe four or five full episodes, and maybe snippets of at least five more.  But the characters and the catch phrases have become part of the current culture, so that even if you have never viewed a single episode, you [...]

Visual Learners and Beached Whales

I think I’ve blogged about the fact that H-T is a visual learner.  He is actually a visual AND kinesthetic learner, but I think the visual part may take precedence. So I’m always looking for great learning tools for the visual learner, and I happened upon one this week that I wanted to share.  It’s [...]

A Homeschooler’s Wardrobe: The Solution

Decided to add a postscript to yesterday’s post when I discovered an ingenious website that might just solve most of my problems with weather-inappropriate wardrobe choices. This is one of those “Why didn’t I think of that?” kind of websites, because it is so simple, but so brilliant. It is called: “Sleeves”, and even the [...]

One of THOSE Days

  This has been one of THOSE days.  And by that, I mean one of those tremendously lovely, wish you could hold it in time, kind of days.  Homeschool glided along like a swing on a breezy day.  I got more than I ever dreamed of accomplished on the work front.  H-T and I created [...]

Cool Resource For Elementary Science Unit Study

Learninggamesforkids.com has created a unique way to introduce some specific science concepts to elementary age students.  It has begun to create interdisciplinary units for their science music videos. If you have visited the site recently, you may have noticed that they have introduced animated musical videos about four science subjects: hurricanes, the sun, stars, and [...]

Leaf Peeping

Sunday, October 12, 2008. It was one of those perfect afternoons.  The kind you wish you could hit the “Pause” button on.  The weather was between 60-65 degrees, and a jacket felt just right. As we headed further and further up in elevation, the sights were getting more and more spectacular.  I was tempted to [...]

Friday’s Hardwired Homeschool Hints: Weather

Check out my new bloggie button!  A big shout-out to Becky Bilby over at Lady in Waiting Blog Designs for creating it for me.  I’m just too excited to have my very own button!  Yes, it is Friday once again, and you all know what that means….time to scour the web for some terrific resources [...]