Category:Family Life
50 Things That Make Me Happy
I’ve been challenged by Michelle at Lazy Day Project to make a list of 50 things that make me happy. When I first heard about it, I thought, “Wow! Fifty! That’s a lot!” But when I sat down to do it, I realized it really isn’t that hard to do. So here’s my list of …
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My Fave 5 Reward Programs
There is something that I find extremely satisfying about knowing that I have savings sitting on some app somewhere or some sort of freebie that’s owed to me. Today I’m going to share some of my favorite reward programs. 1. Buffalo Wild Wings’ Blazin’ Rewards This is my newest reward program that I use. It’s …
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My Home Management Binder Project #2
Rather than drone on and on about my household binder, I figured I would do a post that was mostly pictures. My binder is still a work in progress, so I’ll probably have one more post once I finish tweaking the binder to work for me the way it should. If you missed part one, …
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My Home Management Binder Project #1
I am a paper packrat! It’s kind of hard not to be when you homeschool. There are papers to be copied, papers to be completed, papers to be corrected, papers to be corralled… Papers, papers, everywhere! While researching something school-related, I stumbled across the site for Mom’s Tool Belt. After reading through her blog, I …
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New To-Do List (which is actually a chart!)
In the interest of bringing better organization to my life, I typed “post it to do list” into Pinterest. (And, let’s face it, I also wanted to play around with my brand new Pinterest account!)There were a lot of great ideas on there, including this one, which ended up being basically what I did, except …
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Horseback Riding Lessons
We originally gave K horseback riding lessons as a birthday present this year, since she has become quite the horse lover. After several weeks of lessons, H expressed interest in having lessons as well. Once a week we take them for private lessons with a young lady from our co-op. They groom the horse together, …
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The Animal Guy Field Trip
A lot of these pictures are kind of dark. The room where the event was held did not have the best lighting, and since I was back a bit from the action, my flash didn’t work overly well. In addition to the animals pictured below, there were also two chinchillas and an armadillo. This is …
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Real Life Farm Field Trip
These were taken at a field trip we attended in early October. They got to feed and hold lots of baby animals and K milked a cow. H decided she just liked to look at the cow.