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• I Want My Snips and Snails, and Puppy Dog Tails!

  Posted on Tuesday October 7th, 2008 at 06:39 in childhood, family life, growing up, homeschool, humor, independence, motherhood, remodeling

  I guess I knew it would happen eventually.  You see, we live in a fairly small house.  Two bedroom, one bath.  In our neck of the woods, though, the average home costs $215,000.  Yes, that is the...

• Friday’s Hardwired Homeschool Hints: Spelling

  Posted on Friday October 3rd, 2008 at 06:36 in assistive technology, educational technology, homeschool, homeschool tools, internet, spelling, teaching, technology

  In all my years as a homeschooling mom, I have never once woken up with the thought “Oh boy, I can’t wait until we get to do our spelling lesson today!” Go figure. Even though I was a pretty goo...

• A Thousand Words Thursday

  Posted on Thursday September 25th, 2008 at 15:00 in airplanes, field trip, homeschool, photos

  We went on a field trip to a local air museum this past week, and the boys surprised themselves with how much they enjoyed perusing the planes, and all the cool antique airplane memorabilia.  There w...

• Anyone have a clock that runs on nanoseconds??

  Posted on Tuesday September 23rd, 2008 at 12:31 in childhood, computer games, Computers, digital life, electronics, family life, geeks, homeschool, humor, motherhood, science fiction, technology

  We have a situation.  I think I mentioned that Spore has arrived at our house.  Actually, the boys had preordered it, so they got it the day it came out.  I was expecting that it would...

• Friday’s Hardwired Homeschool Hints - All About Animals

  Posted on Friday September 19th, 2008 at 21:26 in animals, educational technology, homeschool, internet, nintendo ds, teaching, technology, video games

  I’d like to say we are an animal family, because we really do love animals, but I reserve that status for those cool families that start naming off the animals at their house, and it begins to s...

• Friday’s Hardwired Homeschool Hints: American History

  Posted on Friday September 12th, 2008 at 08:59 in american history, assistive technology, educational technology, homeschool, internet, social studies, teaching, technology

  H-T is studying American History this year in his Time4Learning Social Studies curriculum.  It is quite a thorough course, going all the way from the native peoples to inhabit the land all the way th...

• Friday’s Hardwired Homeschool Hints

  Posted on Friday September 5th, 2008 at 15:08 in drought, educational technology, el nino, google earth, hardwired homeschool hints, homeschool, hurricanes, internet, meteorology, sesame street, teaching, technology

  Check out my new bloggie button!  A big shout-out to Becky Bilby over at Lady in Waiting Blog Designs for creating it for me.  I’m just too excited to have my very own button!  Yes, it is Fr...

• Jet Lag + First Day of School = OMG squared

  Posted on Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 at 13:03 in cyberschooling, educational technology, family life, geeks, homeschool, humor, husbands, motherhood, travel

  Look who’s back!  After an overnight flight on which I got about one hour of sleep, I got back home yesterday at a little after 10 a.m.  I would not be exaggerating to say that I spent the res...

• Friday’s Hardwired Homeschool Hints: Life Skills

  Posted on Friday August 29th, 2008 at 06:45 in childhood, educational technology, family life, homeschool, internet, life skills, motherhood, nintendo ds, technology, video games

  My boys are hitting their teen and preteen years, and as you might expect, they are exerting their independence.  This  is all well, fine, and good, except for the small, itty-bitty fact that the tw...

• Carnival Time…Homeschool Style

  Posted on Tuesday August 26th, 2008 at 16:34 in blogging, homeschool, homeschool blog carnival, technology

  Yes, I finally remembered to enter a post into the latest Homeschool Blog Carnival.  I’m always meaning to, and then realizing that the deadline has passed about five hours ago.  But this time...

• Gettin’ Me A Free Airplane Manual…yes I am!

  Posted on Monday August 25th, 2008 at 10:46 in aldi, buying local, coupons, family life, freebies, homeschool, homeschool freebies, humor, las vegas, technology, travel

  Well, it is only three more days until Uber and I are leavin’ on a jet plane….for the city of lights.  Even with two free plane tickets, though, the trip is gonna cost us.  Food, attract...

• Friday’s Hardwired Homeschool Hints: Learning Styles

  Posted on Friday August 22nd, 2008 at 10:32 in assistive technology, books and reading, educational technology, homeschool, homeschool tools, internet, learning styles, left-brained, links, right-brained, technology

  I was four years into homeschooling before I knew ANYTHING about learning styles.  Can you imagine how much curriculum we went through in those four years??  Like a total nube, I made the mistaken ...

• Hackin’ When Your Back is Lackin’

  Posted on Tuesday August 19th, 2008 at 11:42 in bad back, blogging, digital life, facebook, Gwen Stefani, homeschool, homeschool hacks, homeschooling, humor, internet, jamaica, las vegas

  Yeah, I’m a songwriter at heart.  Have your people call my people, Gwen Stefani…I’ve got lots more where that came from…  But I seriously am down with my back.  Not an unus...

• Friday’s Hardwired Homeschool Hints: Learning Disabilities

  Posted on Saturday August 16th, 2008 at 09:52 in assistive technology, dyslexia, homeschool, learning disabilities, teaching, technology, web tools

  Yes, the above title is a lie… I had to work a lot on Friday (you know that thing we do to support our blogging addiction), and wasn’t able to spend quality time with my laptop.  So I mis...

• Homeschool Giveaway - - Get Organized with a Free Ebook

  Posted on Wednesday August 13th, 2008 at 06:44 in educational technology, giveaways, homeschool

  I recently posted in my Friday’s Hardwired Homeschool Hints about some great organizational tools.  Well, one I wasn’t aware of till now is from the Old Schoolhouse Magazine called Th...

• Friday’s Hardwired Homeschool Hints: Music

  Posted on Friday August 8th, 2008 at 08:01 in digital life, educational technology, homeschool

  In my head, there is a continual soundtrack to my life.  I feel that I may be the world’s most eclectic music lover, because I have found very few genres of music that I don’t enjoy....

• The Countdown

  Posted on Tuesday August 5th, 2008 at 06:43 in childhood, computer games, Computers, digital life, family life, geeks, holidays and special events, homeschool, husbands, motherhood, movies, palm pilot

  One month??? One measly month???? That’s how much time is left of summer vacation.  Makes this geeky homeschool mom want to cry into her Palm Pilot.  Now don’t get me wrong.  I love hom...

• Newsflash: Rogaine Stocks Fly Through The Roof

  Posted on Monday July 28th, 2008 at 18:53 in asteroids, baldness, childhood, family life, global warming, homeschool, motherhood, nostradamus, pangaea, pocket universe, right-brained, rogaine

  Once in a long while the earth produces a human being who is a visionary.  An out-of-the-box thinker.  Someone who can see the big picture and theorize about upcoming trends and changes.  I happen...

• I’m Coming Out of the (Water) Closet

  Posted on Sunday July 27th, 2008 at 20:07 in Computers, history channel, homeschool, intestinal flu, television, water closet

  Ok, so that is really pushing it for a clever blog post title.  But technically, it is the truth.  I’m afraid I’ve spent the last few days getting far too acquainted with our bathroom (a...

• Friday’s Hardwired Homeschool Hints: Bargain Hunting

  Posted on Friday July 25th, 2008 at 08:35 in book sellers, books and reading, christian book distributors, curriculum discounters, ebay, educational technology, estore, homeschool, homeschool buyers coop, homeschool curriculum, local business, the swap

  It is almost August! Can you believe it??!! As a homeschooling mom, August has often been a time for me to finalize my curriculum choices, and actually purchase my materials for the upcoming homeschoo...

• Hardwired Homeschool Hints: Organizational Tools

  Posted on Saturday July 19th, 2008 at 10:40 in cable, educational technology, family life, homeschool, homeschool record keeping, lesson planner, library, meal planner, notebooking, organizational tools, personal assistant, television

  I think I’ve mentioned before once or twice (or twenty times) that I’m an extremely left brained person who lives in a state of continual chaos.  Left brained people don’t handle ch...

• Techie Girls Can’t Two-Step

  Posted on Thursday June 26th, 2008 at 20:50 in Computers, dance dance revolution, geeks, homeschool, motherhood, stepmania, Summer Break, twister, video game music, video games

  I’ve been lax in my Topsy-Techie blog of late, and I deeply apologize, but I warned you I was in a summer funk, didn’t I?  Actually though, I haven’t had time for a funk, even if I ...

• Friday’s Hardwired Homeschool Hints

  Posted on Friday June 20th, 2008 at 08:39 in educational technology, homeschool, online books, reading websites, summer reading

  How about some techie-goodness for Fridays this summer?  Check back here each week for a dose of “Hardwired Homeschool Hints” to get you through till homeschool commences again this Fall&...

• Summer Funk

  Posted on Thursday June 12th, 2008 at 16:25 in geeks, homeschool, husbands

  So, we finished our homeschool year, and something weird happened. My brain went on vacation.  I’m not kidding.  I could blame it on the recent blonde dye job I got, I guess.  Or the unusuall...

• Just how good is it??

  Posted on Thursday May 22nd, 2008 at 19:45 in david cook, Grey's Anatomy, homeschool, husbands, memorial day, motherhood, reality programming, red cross, science project, yogurt, yoplait

  Have you seen those Yoplait ads, where the women are sitting around eating their incredibly tasty yogurt, and comparing the experience with the height of everything good they can imagine??  They say ...

• Two Tickets to Vegas, Baby

  Posted on Wednesday May 7th, 2008 at 22:15 in bingo, dreamworks, electronics, geeks, homeschool, husbands, las vegas, motherhood, Seattle, slot machine, steven spielberg, video games

  Ok, so an important update on our free plane ticket conundrum……we’re goin’ to Vegas!!  Well, I should clear that up.  Two of us are going to Vegas.  The more we discussed ...

• "It’s Not Personal, Sonny. It’s Just Business" - - the Godfather

  Posted on Thursday April 24th, 2008 at 18:46 in chargers, conspiracy, Earth Day, electronics, geeks, homeschool, sd card, the godfather, universal charger

  I love being techie, I swear I do, but sometimes….. Can somebody tell me why we need all these chargers??  Just for the sake of you, my loyal readers, I went through my house and counted the nu...

• The Tunnel At The End of the Light

  Posted on Tuesday April 22nd, 2008 at 17:48 in american idol, barbie, chris rock, geeks, halley's comet, homeschool, izod, juicy, kama sutra, motherhood, nike, spongebob squarepants

  You’ve probably all seen it…the little girl playing in her yard in pink sweatpants with the “Juicy” symbol stamped across her barely eight-year-old hiney.  The boy skateboardi...

• Just Because It’s Kewl

  Posted on Wednesday April 16th, 2008 at 13:28 in 3dlearn, avatar, educational technology, geeks, homeschool, middle school, online school, virtual school

  I’ve mentioned before that Uber goes to an online virtual school, called 3DLearn.  It is a revolutionary idea in education in that students attend via their “avatars”, who appear in...

• Are You Wearing Spiderman Socks ??? !!!

  Posted on Wednesday April 9th, 2008 at 18:34 in desperate housewives, geeks, homeschool, indiana jones, jurassic park, MMORPG, oprah, pokemon, pregnant man, star wars, viagra, video games

  Uber has a variety of online friends that he IM’s with or chat’s over Skype via microphone.  He was sharing with me one of his conversations this week with an online acquaintance. Uber w...