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Written By: Jodi on March 28, 2008 3 Comments

We no longer hold the title of “Last Christian Homeschooling Family With Children Over the Age of Six Who Have Not Read or Seen The Chronicles of Narnia.” That’s LCHFWCOASWHNRSTCON, for short. Please, hold your applause and do not faint. It is true. We have owned the movie probably since it first came out on [...]

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Written By: Jodi on March 15, 2008 No Comment

I have this habit of blogging about things that are going to happen and then forgetting to post about how they turned out. So I’ll try to tie up some loose ends here and hopefully I won’t forget any. Lapbooking and Notebooking presentation for our homeschool group – This went pretty well. My co-presenter and [...]

Written By: Jodi on March 6, 2008 6 Comments
Introducing our Compassion Child

Here she is! Meet Selina, a 4 year old little girl from northern Tanzania! She has 2 siblings, attends church activities and Bible class and likes playing with dolls and group games. Isn’t she cute? So solemn. We hope to put a smile on that precious little face. I guess I may have to start [...]

Written By: Jodi on March 5, 2008 3 Comments

We’re going to sponsor a child through Compassion International! I need to back up here a little bit and begin at the beginning. Ever since I was pretty young (late grade school, I’m guessing), I’ve wanted to sponsor a child through one of the charitable organizations out there. Now that’s been a lot of years [...]

Written By: Jodi on February 19, 2008 One Comment
Somebody stop me!

I don’t know what is wrong with me, but today I decided I want another pet.  Not just any pet…a Robo Hamster.  Never heard of a Robo Hamster?  I hadn’t either until we went to Petco to get some cat food.  Yes, food for the cats we’ve had for less than a year that live [...]

Written By: Jodi on December 28, 2007 One Comment

Ok, so maybe I didn’t finish our story quite as quickly as I had planned. Better late than never, right? So here is our portion of the weekend. As I mentioned before, we attended a tennis exhibition featuring Andy Roddick and Serena Williams. Also playing were Sam Querrey and Ashley Harkleroad. This was the first [...]

Written By: Jodi on December 17, 2007 One Comment

Actually, it wasn’t even the whole weekend, just Friday and Saturday. But it was packed with action and drama. I think I’ll have to write this in parts or it will be way too long! Friday, my husband and I went to Omaha for a tennis exhibition. Andy Roddick and Serena Williams. More on that [...]

Written By: Jodi on September 24, 2007 No Comment

I just happened to look as I was signing in and it says I’ve made 99 entries at HSB, so I guess this will be #100. Wow, it seems like I blog so infrequently, how did I get that many posts? Apparently I don’t remember all the stuff I write. :-) So, again, it has [...]

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