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WDW: Epcot’s World Showcase

Anyone who knows me realizes that our family loves all things Disney. While we can’t go very often to WDW, when we can go we let ourselves get carried away with the sights and sounds of all that is there. The best place to do just that is at Epcot’s World Showcase. If you haven’t [...]

Warm weather…

It is kind of a up and down time when the warm weather starts showing up again near Springtime. With the beautiful weather often comes a time where the atmospheric changes bring on those awful sinus and allergy-like symptoms which develop into coughing and draining and all that nastiness that makes you miserable for days [...]

Homeschool styles.. and homeschool in general

When I started thinking about homeschooling about 13 years ago, I never really thought much about homeschooling methods or styles. Over the many years, different ones emerged. I never really thought about them having a specific name only knew about how different families homeschooled by either buying their curriculum or making it up on their [...]

Curiosity Files- TOS Unit Study: Blue Diamond

Through our years homeschooling, our family has used various unit studies but none like ones from The Old Schoolhouse: Curiosity Files™. We received the Curiosity Files™ unit study on Blue Diamonds to review as a member of the TOS Homeschool crew and immediately loved it. The Curiosity Files™ unit studies takes one of God’s wonders [...]

VocabAhead Review

Do you have teens who are preparing for the SAT?   Or those who just want to develop their vocabulary? Maybe VocabAhead One Thousand SAT Vocabulary Videos & MP3s is a DVD you might be interested in getting. This DVD covers over 1000 SAT vocabulary words that are in cartoon and audio format. You can either [...]

Dig It! Roman Town game

I come across plenty of educational math games but very few games that are educational and not math-related. I was very pleased when I received the Roman Town game from Dig It! Games. Roman Town is a computer game, for kids who are 8 and up, where you experience archaeology by participating in a dig through [...]