Love this photo

    OK I love this photo!! SO cute and my new saying over the holidays when the desserts are just calling my name!

    Well we are officially on Xmas break as of yesterday, well I should say the boys are! I still have some reading to catch up on for my homeschool literature site, and varies other little tweaks to make in our schedule for the new year! On top of all of that I am still moving forward on staging the house to sell within a couple of months. ALL the boys in the house are groaning about that one! It means good-bye to endless Lego battles that are all over the floor in the playroom and back to the bare minimum on "things" out at one time! BUT those are worries for after the holiday, I am going to try and relax today..... well maybe try and organize the bookshelves one more time. Just so when the realtors come thru to tell me what needs to be done I can say ummmm all the books that I can do without is up!! LOL and that still leaves us with 6 bookcases filled! Just wanted to say Merry Christmas, Happy Winter Solstice, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy Holidays to all the ones  I forgot or can't spell. LOL

Big Success! Mama visit and Book Release Party

HomeschoolLiterature.com 's first ever Online Book Release Party was a huge success! I am always proud of the things that I do for the site but that was one of the exciting things I have done thus far. Yes a lot of work and sleepless nights beforehand for those things you just don't know how it is going to go. I was so amazed by all the people involved~ Kerry,Joy and Michael ,three wonderful people I get to "work" with via the internet, Lisa M. Cottrell-Bentley, mom,wife, author and oh yea publisher!, Leslie Schultz , author of "The Howling Vowels", Caja Coyote, a group of five teen authors who wrote "Fractured Fate", Heather Newman, illustrator for "The Howling Vowels". All of these great people did an phenomenal job, so my THANKS TO THEM ALL:)

While doing all of this I am relived that my boys still had a full week of learning! Well minus Monday, my mama came in for a four day weekend so we didn't do a whole of schooling on Friday or Monday. While I wasn't always able to break away from the computer, Anthony had our favorite online tutoring program to help keep him busy when I couldn't be right there. (it is also our supplemental educational program but this week it felt more like a paid tutor;). Alex was busy with his new lizard unit study, co-op classes, and more that I can't even remember now. It seems to be a blur!

Well that was my week last week, how about yours??

Get to know me, will ya?

Here are two reasons why I get up in the morning!

Well I have been a homeschooling mama for 3+ years now, I think that it is finally time to start a blog of everything that we do. Even if it is only me looking at it! Sorta of a "Dear Diary" of sorts;) I am more than just a homeschooling mom, I also love to garden, cook(most days), do a little woodworking, anything DIY, decorate ( not my strong suit but I like it when it comes out), organize, hiking, playing board games and last year I started running! OK once you see me you might laugh a little( just a little please) cuz well I don't look like a runner but I do like it. My DH talked me into it so that we could get healthy together, and lose the weight we gained over the years. I am still working on it I have my good and bad days but I am determined to get thru it! 

I also am proud to say employed at home for a great company (yes a plug here) Time4Learning.com, which we started using our first year of homeschooling. My boys love it because of the cartoon looking lessons that make them laugh while they learn. Over the course of that first year I met one of the site administrators thru the parent forum, and decided to apply for a State Moderator's job that they had up. Well I GOT IT! At first it was for North Carolina only but now I look over six states (some I would love to live in) and I have met even more wonderful members who give myself and others great advice and links to help us homeschooling more efficiently. Double bonus I get paid to work from home! I also help out at SecularHomeschool.com, a great source of information. The members there all have an open mind about homeschooling their kids, they all have been extremely knowledgeable and friendly.

My newest endeavor has become my third baby of sorts, its a site that features stories about homeschoolers or homeschooling families. The books that are up there are a mixed of religious and secular stories which so far have been a delight to read. I just added books by homeschoolers to the site, so that anyone who wrote a story and was homeschooled can let others know about it there. Feel free to check it out HomeschoolLiterature.com!

Well that is me in a nutshell, I hope that you will come back soon to check out what we have been up to!

I will be posting great sites(both homeschool related and not), recipes, anything fun that we are doing or we are thinking of doing!