Healthy Eating During The Holidays



I don't know about the rest of you, but for years I've given in to all the goodies that come out during this time of year.

This year I am in a season of cultivating. Cultivating is the process in farming where you consistently do what you know you need to do without seeing the results. (Harvesting is when you get to see your results)

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There's a lot of hustle and bustle as we have officially begun the Christmas holiday season. Children delight in the sights and sounds of the biggest holiday of the year. Okay, I'll have to admit that I enjoy it as much as the next kid! There's just something magical about putting up the ...

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Finding the Bulls eye in the fog of homeschooling
By Jamie

Goals…. targets… the Bulls eye…objectives… directions…
Sometimes it is really hard to know where we are supposed to be going with this thing called homeschooling. There are so many options – so many factors – that finding the bulls eye – or even the target for that matter is very difficult. Yet, the old saying ...

Translation--Latin isn't Dead! I'm sure that doesn't surprise most of you. It's the language of medicine, science, and the law. Yet, most schools have stopped teaching Latin. As a result, literacy levels have declined a great deal.

The study of Latin confers certain benefits. First of all, Latinate vocabulary is very important in English. It is widely used in literary contexts and in modern scientific nomenclature. A person with a broad understanding of Latin ...

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All Work and No Play...
by Jamie

Ever get stressed because your 8 year old won't punctuate his essay? Ever had a day when getting a math concept across to the children was nigh to impossible? Are you concerned when the history lesson required more mental capacity than you had left? I have these days - many of them!

In fact, those are the days that prompt me to write posts like last week's post! Yet, when we have one of these "Rocky Road" days, I like to ...

Updated 11-22-2010 at 12:16 PM by thegaddy5

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