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FREE 2014-2015 Homeschool Planner!!! Value $125.95. HURRY!!!

Come get a FREE planner from The Old Schoolhouse Magazine! These are super nice and retail for $125.95. You get all of the following Grade school Middle school High school Special needs We have used these in our homeschool for a few years and I love them!! Helps me stay on top of things and organize my school year, home and more. Enjoy! Moe

HURRY!! FREE Homeschool Planner!! ENDS TODAY!

Ultimate Planner For Homeschooling Moms Free Come on over and check this out from the Frugal Homeschool Family. They are super nice and just in time for the new school year. Moe

Cake + Teenager = Lesson In Contentment

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Contentment & The Pre-Pre Med’s Birthday Cake sums up a lesson learned. I got this really cool idea to have a ER, well now known as an ED birthday party theme for the Pre-Pre Med homeschooled young man. He corrects me on this every chance that he gets ;-0 You see back in the 'old days' as he would say, hospitals only had 1 room for emergencies, hence the name "EMERGENCY ROOM". Now hospitals have more than 1 room and so they are now deemed "EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS." In light of this I thought what better birthday party theme to go with? lol. I had this really cool cake in mind, ya know the Mejier version of an AWESOME Cake Boss cake...lol. I even explained what I wanted twice to the cake decorator. I warned the Pre-Pre Med homeschooled young man that "I don't think the cake lady understood what I wanted, she kept drawing and crossing things out." I was thinking how hard can this be? I want a cake that says EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT at the top and t...

Back To College For Me (part 2)

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In my last blog post I said we would revisit "How to survive gluten free when you are away from home and there is a slight glitch in the food planning." So here we go... When you have to be gluten free for medical reasons you just can't cheat. After sending in all my forms for the Academy that we were attending, I thought that food would not be an issue. So I just brought a few snacks with me for the 4 day adventure that we were embarking upon. But there was a glitch.   Day 1. My cooler was packed with some string cheese and deli meat just in case (can you tell I have traveled a bit in my day? But when I opened it up the night of Day 1, the ice packs were warm and so was the food. It had been in there about 12 hours and I had to toss out the food. So I had about 1/3 of a can of Pik*Nik original shoestring potatoes, a jar of peanut butter and 3 of the new Aldi Foods Live Gfree gluten free bars on my person. Not enough to live on for four days. I ...