A Year’s Worth of Blessings

Hello everyone, I am currently on vacation, but a few of my readers volunteered to take over the site while I am away! They have written some excellent posts that I am sure you will love. I also have some posts I wrote answering your burning questions about The Happy Housewife. Enjoy!
A Year’s Worth of [...]

Welcome $5 Dinner Readers!

Hello everyone from $5 Dinners, feel free to take a look around. I love to write about saving money, military life, homeschooling, big families, recycling and healthy eating (although you wouldn’t know that from my menu this week). I am a Navy wife and a mom to six, soon to be seven children.
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For my regular [...]

Homeschooler’s Week at Williamsburg

After returning from a wonderful visit to Williamsburg, I was excited to learn the dates for Williamsburg Homeschooler Experience 2009. Homeschoolers receive significantly discounted tickets and there are special programs running throughout the weeks.
The dates for the spring week are February 21st - March 8th and the fall weeks are September 12-27th. The prices for [...]

Fun School Project

We started a fun and frugal school project this week. We are studying birds this year in science, but even if you aren’t this would be a fun project to work on. 
First we hung 3 different bird feeders 

Sorry, I didn’t take a picture of the last feeder (it is a hummingbird feeder).
Then the boys drew [...]

Free Homeschool Resource

A friend of mind sent this link to me. It looks like a great free site for homeschoolers as well as teachers. There is a list of writing prompts themed for the month of September. Here is the prompt for tomorrow, September 19, 2008.
September 19
On this date in 1819, poet John Keats wrote a poem [...]

Around the World in Eighty Days

I have set an impossible goal for this homeschool year. It was my hope to read all the books on my kids’ reading lists before they read them. Since I have four different reading lists I didn’t think this would be a goal I could easily achieve.
Our school just started and I have already failed. [...]

Reusing Homeschool Books

While visiting a friend last weekend, I learned a money saving homeschool tip. Many moms I know will take their workbooks to Office Depot, have them unbound and then put each page into protective covers. This allows multiple children to use the same workbook. I have always liked this idea, but was too lazy to [...]

Boys and Books

Readers, I need your help. I have a twelve year old son who hates to read! He has struggled with learning disabilities over the years, dyslexia being one of them, and I think all the struggles have led to a complete dislike of the written language.
He and I went out tonight and talked about how [...]

First Day of School

Today was our first official day of school. The kids did not want to get up, but other than that the morning routine went well. I took pictures of each child and measured them to see how tall they are at the beginning of the year. It is quite funny to measure your daughter on [...]

School Cubbies

Since it has been several months since a reader requested an explanation of our school cubbies, I figured it was time to post it, since we are starting school tomorrow.

The Framework- I purchased these unfinished wooden “shelves” at A.C. Moore about a year ago. I either waited until they were on sale or used a [...]

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