Here’s another eclectic collection of links I’ve found over the last few weeks. I hope you’ll find a few you enjoy.
Archive.org has made available the entire text of The Eclectic Manual of Methods for the Assistance of Teachers, originally published in 1885, which is interesting reading for any homeschooling parent, but especially those who use [...]
Super Surfing Saturday completely slipped my mind today. Here are a few blogs I have enjoyed this week.
Amy gives us a frugal organizational tip from her kitchen.
Visit the Debt Free Dowds as they continue in their 1000 ways to save posts. Lots of great tips in this one!
Kendra has a great post on helping our [...]
Some random sites I stumbled across this week.
A Year of CrockPotting, with fall quickly approaching this is a great time to utilize the crockpot. You can’t go wrong with this recipe a day site. Great pictures and instructions too!
Owlhaven has an interesting challenge this month; titled 30 Days of Nothing. This challenge is encouraging families [...]
I found some new homeschooling-friendly links the last couple of weeks that I’d like to share with you. I hope you find something in the links below that you can use in your own homeschool!
Zac Sunderland is a 16 year old who is attempting to be the youngest person ever to sail solo around the [...]
Since I could not settle on a good theme for this week’s Super Surfing Saturday post, I am going to share some random cool stuff that I’ve run across lately.
Check out these awesome loft living ideas at Modern Urban Baby. I think I want a room like one of those!
We are going to be going [...]
I am in a food mood so today’s link love is all about food!
If Only I Had Super Powers has an awesome looking muffin recipe. Muffins are great packed in lunches or for an after school snack, and much healthier than cookies.
Keeper of the Home has a bunch of ideas for all that zucchini [...]
The adjective eclectic is one of my favorite words in the English language. Dictionary.com (one of my favorite websites) defines eclectic as “not following any one system…but selecting and using what are considered the best elements of all systems.”
Eclectic describes so much in my life—from my choice of homeschooling curriculum to the furniture in my [...]
No theme for our Super Surfing Saturday this week, just a list of random articles I stumbled across this week and enjoyed. I hope you will too.
Table of Condiments, if you don’t learn something, you might at least laugh at this one!
Take your kids to the playground. This interesting article by Al Mohler discusses yet [...]
Since our August “End ‘08 Great” Challenge is Face Time with the Kids, I thought I’d post my short list of ideas that may help you find ways to spend quality time with your children over the next month.
Read together. Need some ideas for great books? Check out these sites for inspiration.
Caldecott Medal and Honor [...]
Like Mother, Like Daughter. We are a family who live in Central Massachusetts. My husband is a Boston Irish Catholic from a big family. His upbringing was smack dab in the middle of respectable Catholic America, not untinged by 60s unrest.
I am about as different from him as you can get: I’m an only child, my parents are divorced, my father was an immigrant from Egypt, I was raised on the cutting edge of the feminist/relativist/sexual self-fulfillment/diversity revolution. My upbringing was smack dab in the middle of 70s hippie snotty know-it-all America, not untinged by anomie.
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