Low on energy? Low on time? But you want a delicious healthy meal that you can gather the family for? Then here is 4 options. All you need is a roasting chicken and some spices. You can use your oven and roast the chicken or use your crockpot. You can even buy several roaster chickens at once and freeze some… View Post
Executive Function Frustration!
Do you have a child that has difficulty following directions? Tying shoes is a frustrating nightmare? Multiple steps to any project or life skills leads to a frustrating outcome. You might be dealing with an Executive Function Disorder. Every Christmas we have a tradition of cooking a cured ham. Not sure how it got started but we love it…. View Post
Homeschooling When She’s Gone
This is one of the most important conversations you will ever have with your family. What would you do if tomorrow you were the sole homeschooling parent? My dearest husband has to face the reality is approaching. This is the super big important talk we had about homeschooling when I am gone. “Honey, when I am gone I have something… View Post
Making Easy Frugal Chicken Meals
Frugal with a Twist- Simple Chicken Meals vlog is up! Hubby went to the store and found several packages of chicken on steep mark down so he brought home a bunch. Yes, even from a wheelchair and not feeling all that great you can plan out, prep, and make several meals for your family. Heads up frugally minded sales watchers…. View Post
Christmas Breakfast Sensory Disaster!
Christmas is a TO-DO around here. No matter if I or one of the kids are sick. After all we have 5 KIDS to buy, hide, prep, and display for all in a short period of time. There have been Christmas Eve’s when I was up until 3am desperately wrapping and using my hubby’s electric tape to get the paper… View Post
Super Secret Gluten Free Flour Mix
Just in time for Christmas Cookies! Here is my super secret gluten free flour mixture! Enjoy my friends. We have been gluten free for 10 years now. I have been cooking for a small army for most of that. This is my use 98% of the time flour mix when baking. I hope it helps your holiday kitchen fill with… View Post
Give the Public School Just a Little More Info, Right?
Every year I get various letters from the local school telling me about testing or flu shots I can get for my kids. When the kids were transitioning out of Early Intervention I would even get phone calls from the very pleasant but persistent special needs coordinator. Thankfully I have never had a letter or phone call that crossed the legal line. However that… View Post
Snake Oil- from Out of the Box Games {review}
Christmas is a time I am always on the look out for games that we can enjoy as a family without tech. I found it. Rather we got to review it and between the gales of laughter I knew this was a keeper! I will do my best to give you a moment in to time in the Laurie household as… View Post
Purposeful Design: Understanding the Creation {review}
Purposeful Design: Understanding the Creation is a highly visual science reading book. The author Jay Schabacker wrote a clearly young earth, creation as written in the Bible stance. We read it aloud for this review as our science up to 3 times a week, until finished. Illustrated beautifully written simply with solid Biblical and science evidence to uphold his writing Mr Schabacker has written a… View Post
IXL Math and Language Arts online learning {review}
The world of online learning has opened many doors for homeschoolers. My whole family of 5 kids got to review the IXL math and language arts online learning program. This supplemental math and language arts program is easy to work with, set up, and carry with you to places like the dr, therapist, or grandma’s with IXL apps. IXL MathPre-K,… View Post
Fascinating Education- Biology {review}
Are you struggling teaching science with your middle school or high school teen? Are you blessed with a creative, intuitive right hemisphered learner in a left brained world? There is an online curriculum Fascinating Education created by Dr. Margulies that could be a great way to teach your child science. My 8th grader and I reviewed Fascinating Education’s Biology program. They also have Chemistry and Physics. Fascinating… View Post
Donating to Help Us Out
Dear friends like I said last week we are in flux. The obvious changes of my health and now it appears that at least 2 children are sliding health wise as well. We will be traveling back and forth to our specialist’s hospital (2 hour drive one way) several times between now and the end of the year…. View Post
Trying to not waste my dash! ~PlanetMommyHood video~
I was blessed today to be discussed in a vlog by PlanetMommyHood youtube page, PlanetMommyHood.net in regards to Dying with Dignity. What do you think? Can you die with dignity or is dying a messy thing that is another hill us humans have to climb? Are you living that dash of life to it’s fullest? I think Jenn and Kristen made some… View Post
Warriors of Honor by New Liberty Videos {review}
Warriors of Honor is a Civil War documentary for those that want to go deeper and find a more balanced historical truth. I was raised in the north with an early elementary education of Robert E Lee as a womanizing drinker (not true.) Later in high school my AP history teacher was much more balanced in his teaching that both… View Post
I Mustache You a Question
I am so blessed. I am living my dream. I was an only child. My sister and brothers all passed away as infants. Then my parents divorced. That left lots of alone time. The term latchkey kid should have been written on my forehead. I lived in the country or small towns so I had lots of adventures. I would… View Post
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