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Calzone recipe : absolutely awesome!!!

Well I decided to make homemade calzones one day so it was off to the Swagbucks search engine. I stumbled upon a calzone recipe that sounded pretty good so I thought, “Oh why not!” I only had to buy a few ingredients since I had most of them already at home. Off to buy some [...]

Ohio Homeschooling regs and notification thoughts

This is the time of the year when people start wondering what to send in for their notifications. I happen to cringe sometimes because there are a lot of people out there that are trying to tell people to send either too much or too little info for their notifications. Both are very dangerous to [...]

Where’s Edna? Could she be here?

Ok. If you are not a member of the TOS Homeschool Crew you may be wondering who is this Edna person? Well as of this TOS Homeschool Crew year, Edna de la Cruise is our official mascot. She is on the crew as our ship purser and provides for loads of fun and laughter. I [...]

Something exciting coming soon to my blog!

Ok. Actually it is already here but the details so that you can be involved with the event have not been disclosed yet. Soon I promise!!! Just wanted to entice you to come back and check it out once I post the details. Hopefully sometime this weekend!!!!! Monday at the latest!!!!

New blog theme in progress

Ok. I was not really happy with using someone else’s blog template since it really did not do what I wanted and I had trouble getting it to look right to me. Thus– I started writing my own theme from scratch. It is a tedious process since I still do not know how to get [...]

Poor Yuki

Our poor dog just can’t seem to handle any major food changes. I thought I would give her a treat by buying her a can of Shepherd’s Pie Blue Buffalo dog food. I gave a little to her the other day and well it did not seem to sit well with her. Two days later [...]

Camp week…. thoughts

My oldest left to go to a camp that was out of state on Monday morning. When I mean morning I mean 4 am we were up and at 5 am she was at church waiting to leave. This year I was able to see some pictures that folks had posted of her that either [...]

Pujols: More Than the Game by Scott Lamb, Tim Ellsworth

PUJOLS:  More than the Game by Scott Lamb and Tim Ellsworth is a book inspired by both Albert Pujols immense athletic ability and his day to day Christian faith.  Lamb and Ellsworth start with his struggles growing up with an alcoholic father in poor Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and follow him through his meteoric rise [...]

Write Foundation: Paragraph Writing lesson 16 through 30

Earlier in the school year I reviewed the first 15 lessons of Write Foundation’s paragraph writing curriculum.  You can find that review here on my blog. I later received the remainder of the lessons in order to provide a review of them as well. These lessons are targeted toward ages 12-15 and continue to teach [...]

2011 TOS Homeschool Crew Blue Ribbon Awards!!!

Ok. It seems difficult to believe that another school year has passed by and even harder that the TOS Homeschool Crew year is at an end. Those of you who follow my blog know what that means! Time for the 2011 TOS Homeschool Crew Blue Ribbon Awards !!!! Throughout the school year, the TOS Homeschool [...]