Homeschooling The Fear Factor

Now I know that not everyone that reads my blog homeschools, some of you have thought about it though and are fearful. I came across this great blog post about fear and homeschooling. It's a good thing to have some fear, that way you will make a serious decision and not just jump right in. Home education is a lot to think about and a big task, but the out comes and rewards will last into Eternity.
http://teachingmy3.blogspot.com/2012/06/monsters-of-homeschooling-fear.html The post is entitled Monsters of Homeschooling: FEAR.

Be encouraged and not faint hearted.

Moe

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Found this awesome site today with tons of free printables for your household and homeschool. See what ya think.
http://www.ihomeschoolnetwork.com/free-household-organizational-printables/

Have a wonderful week!!

Moe

Pizzelle Cookies: gluten & corn free!

I did some cooking yesterday, I found some Gluten Free Bisquick at our local salvage store for $2.49: that is a BARGIN! It's almost $5.00 a box at our grocery store. I found the Pizzelle recipe on the ezgf blogspot checkout her other great recipes too.

 One of my favorite cookies before being diagnosed were Pizzelle. They are light, crisp Italian cookies that are just delightful. You can flavor them however you like. I have a Pizzelle make that I bought from Taste Of Home, it makes Pizzelles, waffles and filled sandwiches. I made some rolled up cannoli shells, flat cookies and some dessert shells (add ice cream or fruit to them for a pretty dessert). You can also shape them into ice cream cones. 

These tasted really good, I would say about 98% of what I remember from the gluten kind  :O)

Enjoy!
Moe

 

Come see what I made during my mental health day!

I was wanting to spruce up our school room and with the recent discussions about Workboxes, I thought I would start there. So I decided to get out my Cricut machine and goof around a bit on my mental health day. LOL.......here is what I made.

I used the Locker Talk Cricut Cartridge and laminated the items that I made. These were very easy to make. Here are a few close up shots.

Here is our pencil, ink pen/marker and Post-It Note bins.

The infamous Post-It Note drawer......lol.  My guys won't let me live this one down!

 

 Our reading & language bin, DS says we need to change this to Literature this year since he is in Junior High now.....we shall see about that  ;O)

 

 As I read through the Too Much Stuff book from author Kathryn Porter I have come to realize that I have some clutter issues, one that I found was POST-IT Notes, I have about 15,000 sheets of Post-It Notes. I got them on sale one time and thought, I would use them. So lets just say I have a drawer full. I will post a picture with my book review next week. Back to the Workboxes, I had a lot of fun making these and the mental health days was good for me. I spent the afternoon listening to homeschool convention tapes (yes cassette tapes, I borrowed from a friend, but the information was still very relevant.)

Hubby was pretty impressed with these new Workbox labels, he says it makes me a better mom when I take some time for me on occasion.

 

Take some time for you and have some fun this weekend!

Moe