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Homeschool Freebie of the Day

Don’t forget your freebies this week from Homeschool Freebie of the Day! This week’s line-up:

• Monday, April 27 : "One of the 28th" by G. A. Henty (MP3 audio) -A great dramatization of master story-teller G. A. Henty’s classic book of pirates and the War of 1812, "One of the 28th".
•  Monday Bonus freebie: Blessed Is The Man: High School Unit Study Sampler by Lynda & Lauren Coats (PDF ebook) – 82 page preview of the four year curriculum, “Blessed is the Man”, a wonderful Jr. High / High School Unit Study curriculum geared to Christian young men, and based on Psalm 1. Complete unit study included.
• Tuesday, April 28 :  Home Management Nuts & Bolts: Schedules and Budgets (video) – An excellent 50 minute audio-visual presentation on managing your schedule and household finances presented by Marc Carrier of valuesdrivenfamily.com
• Wednesday, April 29: "FIMMology 101" Sampler (PDF ebook) – A creative and fun communication studies sampler, starring FIMM. FIMM (Foot in Mouth Man) is ArtOfEloquence.com’s Mascot and resident “mis-communicator”, who sticks his foot in his mouth so often he has Athlete’s Tongue!
• Thursday, April 30 – Helping Your Child Become a Reader (PDF ebook) – This booklet offers pointers on how to build the language skills of young children, and includes a list of typical language accomplishments for different age groups, suggestions for books, and resources for children with reading problems or learning disabilities.
• Friday, May 1st: Creatively Simple – How to Make Homemade Yogurt (PDF ebook) – The newest  Creatively Simple ebook from our friend, Penny Raine. Learn how to make your own homemade yogurt, one of the healthiest and simplest treats you can make for your family.

Happy Hearts At Home

If you like classic children’s and educational books, my friend, Alexandra, has a whole library of links to free online vintage texts, organized by subject:

Happy Hearts At Home Homeschooling Library

You’ll find everything from audiobooks and curriculum guides, to readers and textbooks…with more added regularly. You’ll just have to check it out for yourself!

Happy learning,

Denese

Tags: education freebies, free e-books

I did have a winner last week for the Dining on a Dime cookbook giveaway.

Traci Knoppe, you won! I emailed you and haven’t received a reply yet. Please contact me so I can get your address to Tawra Kellum.

Blessings,

Denese

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Hi everybody, I’m back! Thanks for missin’ me. I hope everyone has been doing well.

I hadn’t meant to be offline so long, but…well here’s what happened:

The Injury

On Friday the 17th, my husband, Lacy, was operating the bobcat at work and dumped a load of rocks in his lap. Most of the rocks hit his knees and shins but nothing was broken. He is bruised up pretty good and could barely walk the first couple of days after it happened.

Thank the good Lord the rocks weren’t any bigger (grapefruit size) and he was the one operating -he’s a pretty stout feller and quick thinking. If this had happened to any one else, they might’ve been hurt a lot worse.  So…Lacy was out of commission for a while.

He’s better now, but his knees are still extremely sore and he’s trying to take it easy at work…which isn’t easy!

The Property Damage

First, for those of you that don’t know, a little background on where we live:

Our place is a mile from the road, inside of approximately 120 acres bordering the National Park. There are six houses up here, but we are the only people who live here -the other houses are nightly rentals. The roads in our small community are gravel roads and we, the property owners, keep them maintained. We also have a gate at the entrance which was recently upgraded to electric -it took us a long time to get it and it wasn’t cheap.

On Sunday the 19th, Lacy went out early for a newspaper. He got down the road and noticed one of the nightly rentals had eight vehicles parked at it, not a good sign. He drove on out and, surprise, surprise…our new electric gate was standing wide open! The gate opener was pulled apart and the brackets, which were welded on, were broken off the gate.

Apparently the renters lied to the rental agency, it was supposed to have been a family renting the house but they had a big party instead. At 10:30, the previous night, one of the other renters noticed nine cars at the house and one at the gate. When the rental agent arrived on Sunday, four vehicles were still at the house…and fourteen young men and women were still there. I won’t go into details.

We spent that Sunday making a police report and a lot of phone calls. Last week was spent fixing the gate (in between storms), changing codes and notifying property owners.

Again, we thank the Lord…nobody was hurt and nobody’s house was broken into.

(In case you’re wondering why we didn’t hear anything; we live too far back –we can’t even hear “road noise” unless the wind is just right.)

Everything Else

While all that was going on;

• We had fruit trees to be plant before the storms moved in that Sunday
• We had taters to plant before the moon changed last Friday
• I spent two whole days bleaching the logs in our add-on
• Our washer tore up
• My internet speed slowed down to 25,000 bps

I was overwhelmed! When my internet connection slowed way down, I figured maybe God was trying to tell me something…everything happens for a reason.

Things have mostly settled down around here and everything is taken care of -except my washer. Hopefully, it will be fixed this week.

Now I might be able to catch up on all of my online stuff.

More updates later…

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: Blog/Site Updates, holler livin', Site Info

Back online, update coming up…it’s a long story.

Tags: Blog/Site Updates

We’ve had too much excitement around here the last few days…an injury and some property damage, among other things. 

I’ll be back in a day or two.

Homeschoolers -don’t forget to download your freebie every day from Homeschool Freebie of the Day  -click on the orange fish on the left sidebar.

Denese

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“I didn’t just fall off the turnip truck yesterday!”

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Homeschool Freebie of the Day has added 3 extra free resources to today’s freebie!

Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride

Today’s resources are in honor of the 234th anniversary (which is tomorrow) of Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride.

• Listen My Children: The Story of Paul Revere’s Ride (mp3 audio)
  -Radio dramatization of Paul Revere’s famous ride to alert the colonists that “The British are coming!”.
• “Listen My Children” Listening Guide (pdf ebooklet)
• Paul Revere’s Ride (mp3 audio) – an excellent dramatic reading of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s classic American poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride”, as performed by Frederic March.
• Paul Revere Art Study Guide -focusing on paintings & sculptures depicting Paul Revere as well as the Minutemen, courtesy of Yes You Can! Publications.

This great little bundle of free resources will be available through Sunday, from Homeschool Freebie of the Day.

Denese

Updated post for 2010:

• Homeschool/Education Freebies: Paul Revere

Tags: American history, education freebies, free audio

Hey all you crafters out there!

FaveCrafts is giving away three DOW Gift Baskets and has a free Mother’s Day crafts e-book to download!

Gift Basket Giveaway

FaveCrafts is giving away DOW Gift Baskets to three of  their readers.

Each  of these baskets include a collection of STYROFOAM Brand Foam shapes, a crafting apron and a home décor booklet with quick and easy decorating ideas and step-by-step instructions.

To enter the giveaway, just sign up at their website.

There is no ending date listed for this giveaway, so go enter now…it could end any time!

Free E-book

FaveCrafts also has a free Mother’s Day crafts e-book for us.

Crafts for Mom: 30 Free Craft Projects for Mother’s Day -a collection of card and gift projects to make for mom, including easy projects that children can do.

Nothing says you care like a homemade gift, get your free Crafts for Mom e-book today.

Denese

Tags: Crafts, free e-books, giveaways, holidays

Each month ChristianAudio.com gives away a free premium audiobook download, available only during that month.

This Month’s Free Download

So Beautiful by Leonard Sweet -’What is commonly known as DNA today was called “…so pretty!” when it was discovered years ago, and over the course of his ministry, author Leonard Sweet has discovered that this divine design also informs God’s blueprint for the church.’

This is free for the month of April only.

Additional Free Audio Titles

For more audiobooks and podcasts that are always free, just scroll down on the above download page. New content is added all the time.

Please note: You must sign up for a free account to download Christian Audio’s products.

Denese

Tags: free audio, free Christian resources, Worship

CurrClick has three new free products this week:

Let There Be Light -a unit study about the first day of creation

Teacher Book Bag: Bossie’s Best -flowery, spring-time letters for decorating notebooking pages, lapbooks, notebooks, etc.

Organizing Your Books -get your books organized in 4 easy steps, written for children and teens

Denese

Tags: education freebies, Unit Studies