Homeschooling A Houseful

Today at the park, I started talking with a young mother. OK, so honestly she struck up the conversation and then I engaged! Those who KNOW me, know I am not the type to strike up a conversation :) So this young mother, asked how many children I had..... My thought, HERE WE GO!!!!! This was a young mother with a 4, 2.5ish and new baby.... that's a hard time for most mom's. I've heard from a lot of mothers that #3 was the HARDEST!!!! Not necessarily because of the baby, but because most of the time you have 3 toddlers, and ONLY 2 HANDS! When I told her I have 10, she didn't even flinch! Her response was I want 12! I looked at her in shock! (I know that's horrible!!!) I just don't think I've heard that from anyone else! Let alone a young Mother! I congratulated her, and we started talking. Somehow I told her I homeschool, and she said, I want to homeschool, too! AMAZING!!! (I just love Precious Moments!) I also just met, through email, another y

If you are LDS, and are a homeschooler, or thinking about homeschooling, you should look at this deal..... You can try this out for $1, until September, then it's just under $20 a month after that. I received this email from my husband, from Oak Norton, who sends out emails about Common Core. If you're interested, go to the video below and it gives the discount code there.   Have you ever thought about homeschooling? I think this is pretty cool so I’m sharing it with you. The American Heritage School in American Fork, is an LDS private school. They’ve been around for a few decades and I really respect the program they have. They’ve had a homeschool program as well for some time where you could buy workbooks for each school year. Now they have released an online school which has a limited time offer to sign up and get a lifetime discount. I think you’re all going to want to sign up for the promo. $1 for 6 months access . After that, it’s $20 a month. If you fail to

The common saying, the Luck of the Irish, isn't something I want to teach my children. SO instead we made 3 leaf clovers with the saying, I am Grateful for..... in the middle. Instead of it being luck, we are greatful for things in our lives!   We cut out our own clovers, making heart shapes for the leaves and connecting to a stem. Very simple. Then we wrote different things we were thankful/grateful for. I got the idea off pintrest, it's on my  holidays-St. Patricks's Day, board. The one on there says LUCKY ME in the middle, so I changed it to thankful.   Here's some more ideas, I love this GODHEAD idea, maybe next year. from Pegs Academy.   We read the story of St. Patrick, and we discussed the differences of the Trinity and the Godhead. However this is a wonderful idea to show it. ENJOY!

In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you . – John 14:2 King James Version Simply Beautiful!

I've been asked a few times, "How do you have a houseful of readers?"   Honestly, it hasn't always been that way. Nor has it always been easy!   I guess to me it seems quite simple,   IF YOU WANT A KID TO READ, THEN THEY NEED PLENTY OF PRACTICE, AND PLENTY OF PATIENCE! We read and read and read in our house! We read as part of our independent studies for school. We read aloud during lunch. We read aloud during Family Studies. We Read every afternoon, during our religious reading time. We are starting a new, quiet reading time just before bed time. We also read our scriptures Morning and Night as a family, along with our personal scripture readings daily.   Plenty of times during the day to read. And those are just the "scheduled" reading times.   The second reason, and I feel is the most important reason, is that we have very few electronics' in our house. We also do not watch TV (internet or cable) and few movies. Al

I picked this up at the local thrift shop, Deseret Industries to be exact.   With another cold, trying to be winter day around here. I figured we should give it a try. (I mean really, just look at that picture, it looks like a whole lot of fun!)   My 4 rowdy boys, along with the others, all had a fun time playing it.   So if you're looking for a fun, active game for a (trying to be) Winter Day, this one is great.  Just check out the reviews! 

I just posted to the wise woman link up. If you've never read this link up, or this amazing blog..... You should! Go to  This link to see the link up! While you are there visit all these wonderful blog posts on the link up and spend some time roaming this blog. I know you won't be disappointed!

Hi EVERYONE! I just wanted to put a plug in for an awesome blog to follow, especially if you are in UTAH! It's called GO SCHOOLERS . This is a place where, mostly, the lady who came up with this idea, posts field trips and info. She sets up field trips. She also has field trip reviews. Along with that there are event's and happenings. Things that would be fun to attend as a family VS as a group.   OH, and did I mention she does all this out of the love in her heart! IT'S FREE!!! She loves to learn on the GO, she's the ultimate GO SCHOOLER!!! So if you are in Utah, go to the GO SCHOOLERS website. If you are not local check it out anyways, it is an awesome concept!!!!  ENJOY!