How Does Your Homeschool Kid Compare?

November 11, 2011

Today’s High Country Mom Squad post is about a subject that drives me up the wall: Comparing Homeschooled Kids to Public School Kids. Do you do it? Also, I completely forgot to mention yesterday that I had a post at Hip Homeschool Moms! Click to find out about my experience with special needs homeschooling…with a [...]

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Vote for Get Along Home!

November 7, 2011
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It’s time to vote in The Homeschool Post 7th Annual Blog Awards! I’m so very humbled (if by humbled you mean really, absurdly proud) that somebody thought of me during the nominating process. It was probably my mom, but I’ll take it. If you’d like to vote for me, you can click these handy links [...]

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Where in the World?

November 7, 2011

You can find me today at the AboutOne.com blog, In a Nutshell. I’m talking budgets, and how even a slow start to financial responsibility is better than none. If the About One people don’t get wise to the fact that I’ve hacked into their blogging software and call the cops on me, I’ll be posting [...]

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Learn to Eat Right and Help Prevent Type II Diabetes

November 3, 2011

November is National Diabetes Awareness Month. I don’t usually think much of “awareness” campaigns, because just being aware of things doesn’t usually help matters very much. But Type II Diabetes is often preventable, so simply being more aware of it might actually be useful in this case, as long as you use your awareness to [...]

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Sending Your Kids to Public Schools?

October 31, 2011

I won’t be judging that, ok? Remember the post in my “Things I Can’t Get Homeschoolers to Admit” series, about how I don’t think everybody should homeschool? Chances are you don’t. Even if you were with me back then, I don’t flatter myself that every post I write is so paradigm-changing that my readers can’t [...]

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This Week on HCMS

October 28, 2011

I’m talking housekeeping days. Sorta.

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Your Best Thanksgiving Ever!

October 26, 2011

People are blogging about Christmas already. It’s true! I’ve seen it with my own two eyes! But there’s a whole ‘nother holiday to squeeze in first, and I think we ought to spend some time thinking about it. Can we please have Thanksgiving before we start worrying about shopping lists and trees in our houses? [...]

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Homeschooled Kid Grows Up, Disagrees with Parents

October 24, 2011

Obviously, the brainwashing wasn’t effective. A while back, Arby, at The Homeschool Apologist, addressed an article by a homeschooled anti-homeschooler. It’s a good post, and defends homeschooling pretty well, but I think that he concedes too much in even addressing whether or not the now-grown Libby Anne’s parents were correct in their method of raising [...]

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Staying Home

October 20, 2011

I mentioned once in a different post that my first reason for homeschooling, chronologically speaking, was a desire to avoid the typical American “real life is everywhere but home” attitude. A lifestyle different from the one I grew up with just sounded good to me, so I did it. A commenter, as people on the [...]

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Does That Count as School?

October 19, 2011

Raising Arrows on life skills. Counter to that, Get Along Home on life skills. So yeah, as long as you’re actually teaching something, I’m a firm “maybe” on the life skills question.

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Oh, Yeah…

October 17, 2011

I’m over here, too, guest blogging at Baby Center’s Momformation blog about the really terrible reasons moms have for not taking a break from the daily grind. Click:  

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Today on HCMS

October 17, 2011

I’m dishing up the Mommy Guilt, Homeschool Style. Won’t you join me? Click:  

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Want to Support Get Along Home?

October 13, 2011

If you were reading carefully a few posts back, you probably noticed that we’re expecting Baby Number Five (who shall henceforth be called Beansprout) sometime in May. You will also recall I mentioned a shortfall in our health savings account due to a stupid paperwork mistake.  Our high deductible insurance plan changed this year, as [...]

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This Week on HCMS

October 7, 2011

I’m poking fun at our big families. Head over and check it out. Don’t forget to leave us a comment or two!  

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October 5, 2011

Just watch:

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The Economy of Children

October 3, 2011

Have you seen this? It’s from xkcd, a witty web comic for geeks (and the girls who love them). This comic just happened to be published the day after I found out I was carrying our fifth child, who at the time was the size of a sesame seed, and for whose pre-natal care and [...]

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This Week on HCMS

September 30, 2011

I’m talking about favorite fall homeschool activities. Go read the post and leave us a comment with your ideas.

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Reader’s Digest Grammar Books (Giveaway!)

September 29, 2011

You know what annoys me? When people say they’re grammar geeks or sticklers for rules, and then go on to make a mistake in the very next sentence. That bugs me so much that I will not say any such thing about myself, even though it is probably true, because I am certain to make [...]

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When Worlds Collide

September 23, 2011

We’re counter-cultural. I don’t wear that label as some kind of badge of honor–you can be counter-cultural in some pretty stupid ways–but it’s a fact that just about everything our culture takes for granted runs counter to the way of life we’ve chosen. While our family is pretty obviously not of this world, we are [...]

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Finding Balance

September 23, 2011

“I used to be worried about socialization, but then we cut back.” is an oft-told joke amongst homeschoolers. On HCMS today, I’m asking how you find a happy medium between home and outside obligations. Click over to tell me how you balance family and community life.  

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Happy Bloggiversary to Us!

September 22, 2011

I started building my little corner of the internet two years ago yesterday. (Yes, I’m late. I didn’t want to push Becky’s wonderful post down the page too soon. Did you read it?) Somehow, I got the idea that just because a few people told me I had a way with words, I should make [...]

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From Ordinary to Extraordinary

September 21, 2011

Today’s guest post is by my friend Becky, who blogs at Our Peaceful Home. Read this, then go visit her blog. I know you’ll love her as much as I do! I’ll be back next week with posts of my very own! When was the last time you looked in the mirror and saw how [...]

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And So Begins Our Homeschooling Journey

September 19, 2011

The following is a guest post from new homeschooler, new blogger, and Twitter-buddy (yes, those are real friends on there!), Whitney. Give her some comment love and a pat on the back! I saw a tweet from Cindy last week asking if anyone would like to guest post this week on her blog. Well, I [...]

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Absotively, Posilutely Best Evidence for Creation

September 14, 2011

Time for another Moms of Masterbooks review and Twitter party! Absotively, Posilutely Best Evidence for Creation is a Masterbooks publication for kids. It presents, in story form, the very best reason that the Creation story is to be believed. A young boy named Denny has just been told by a museum curator what the very best [...]

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Does Your Day Control You or Are YOU in Control?

September 12, 2011

Hey there!  I’m Donna I blog over at HeyDonna.com. I’ve been blogging for 3 years at my first blog Another New Season and Pleased To Geek You.  In September I combined both my sites to one new happy little blog – Hey, Donna!  I created Hey, Donna as a place where I can truly be ME and have [...]

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