Books

The focus of this post is to highlight a product that my family received for free for the purpose of review. No other compensation was received and all thoughts contained in the post are my own. I keep a proper disclosure statement available here. I know it’s been a couple of months since we had [...]

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I recently started reading through Grace for the Moment by Max Lucado and was intrigued by this version below which has been adapted for kids: I know I shouldn’t have been surprised when the content from each day matched up with each other, but I will confess that I was in a “OH! I just [...]

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Apologia surprised me recently by proving to be more than a provider of well-done science curriculum. I don’t think I realized they had made a jump into regular book publishing, but when we received Journeys of Faithfulness by Sarah Clarkson, I was proven wrong. Journeys of Faithfulness is written to be a devotional-type book a [...]

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In my early days of homeschooling I heard of super moms who created learning bags/activity bags/awesome stations of education for their very young children and I’d think to myself, “I could so do that. I know how to do that. I should do that.” And then I’d never do that. And now I’m going to [...]

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The Sugar Creek Gang Audios have turned this family: Into this family: Did you believe that? Okay, so maybe it’s a bit of a stretch, but the point is that we’ve been listening to this Christian adventure series from 1939 in the van and my girls are hooked! They beg me to put the Sugar [...]

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I’m just going to say it: I about fell out of my chair when I was offered the chance to both review AND offer a giveaway of Caroline the newest doll in the historical line of American Girl dolls. And here’s the other thing I’m going to say: I can’t decide whether to give this [...]

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Is fall in the air where you live? We’re in Oklahoma, so it really depends on which day around here. My girls were wearing shorts just yesterday. Today was definitely a jacket/coat kind of day. Oh, and we woke up to this sky today: But regardless of what’s going on with the weather in your [...]

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I’ve always loved the idea of unit studies, and I’m creative and enjoy hands-on activities. But for some reason those things never manage to collide in our homeschooling. Unit studies and I just generally don’t agree. Homeschool Legacy seems to have a pulse on the parent like me, thus they created their Once-A-Week Unit Studies. [...]

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A Cry From Egypt is the first book in The Promised Land Series written by Hope Auer and illustrated by Mike Slaton. The book weighs in at a meaty 176 pages and is being published by Raising Real Men. It’s in the genre of biblical historical fiction and the target age level for this series [...]

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Last week I put out the call to fellow homeschool moms in our blended model school to help donate books on behalf of Novo Ministries here in Oklahoma City. Y’all, the homeschool mamas did NOT disappoint! They brought in books! And it was fun to see more Nick Jr. books included in the donations to [...]

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