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If you’re just getting started with homeschooling this year I’m sure you have a lot of worries, fears, concerns and questions of how to get and stay organized and where to start. I found this great resource earlier today that is sure to give you the ideas and encouragement you need.  It’s a bundle of Old Schoolhouse back issues that address your questions and concerns. Click on the image below to order from TOS.

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Well, we’re pretty excited – we had the sonogram a couple weeks ago and found out that the twins are a girl and a boy!  They’re both big and healthy and all is good.  :)

The kids are all excited because they were a little torn between wanting a baby sister or a brother, so they’re pretty lucky to get one of each at the same time.  It’s all starting to sink in, especially as I get bigger and bigger every day… but I don’t think it’ll really sink in until they’re born and then the fun’ll start!  I’m nervous, but really excited.  :)

Homeschooling is certainly going to be a lot more fun too – and probably a lot more work.  Two of my daughters are really close in age and they pretty much do the same school at the same time, but with some differences to accomodate for age, so in a way I think it may be easier with twins…?   I guess we’ll see.

For now I’m trying to make sure I have everything ready and organized for the next few months so I don’t have anything to worry about.  I figure I’d better do what I can, while I can.  :)

Yesterday I tried an idea that I had, and I’m pleased to say it turned out well.  :-)  My girls have a lot of old jeans – you know, the ones that are missing the knees, but otherwise are wearable – and usually become shorts.   I thought I’d do something a little more fun than shorts and make them into skirts.

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So, here’s what I did for my 7 & 8 year old’s:

1. Cut the jeans just below the back & front pockets – cutting away the crotch, straight across.  (or as straight as I can cut..lol)
2. Took an old, woman’s skirt that the elastic was gone from and cut the waist off – for length and then cut it in half at the seams.
3. Sewed the seams back up – but in two pieces.
4. Sewed the skirts inside the jean tops – at about an inch to leave room for fraying.

So, with 1 woman’s size skirt and 2 pair of old jeans – I made two matching jean skirts, in about a half an hour.

This was an idea that came a couple years ago, when my sister got my oldest daughter – 12 at the time, a really short jean skirt.  She knows we don’t wear short skirts like that, but it had a lot of beading and lace on it and she couldn’t pass it up.

So, she suggested sewing a piece of material inside to make it longer and a little more modest.  So, my daughter did just that – and now she has a beautiful jean skirt with beads, lace and a floor length tie-dye skirt.  :-)

For a teen or adult – the process would be much more simple:

1. Either take a short jean skirt – or cut an old pair of jeans like above.
2. Take an old skirt – any size and sew in inside.
3. Decorate with lace or beads as you want.

The nice thing about this is you can make a really pretty skirt without having to deal with the waist or hem.  It also comes with pockets and is quite stylish for most anything.

Make it as long or short as you want, use any material or any old skirt – great way to recycle your old clothes!  This is something so easy, but with endless possibilities and a great sewing project for younger girls.

If you decide to make one – send some pictures and I’ll post them here.

Me at 18 weeks with twins.

Well, what  way to start the homeschool year – I just found out last week that I’m having twins!  I was surprised enough to find out that I’m expecting at all then to find out there’s two was just amazing.  :)  I have 4 girls – so let’s hope

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When you’re looking for Phys. Ed. for homeschooling it can be a little tough sometimes – but there are many resources that you can do at home, most of which are more beneficial than they’d be doing within the school system. I personally recommend Pilates – it’s especially good for children to learn because they

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We have been struggling with math for the past couple years.  I had no problem teaching elementary math, but once we got to about 5th grade I started having difficulties explaining the concepts and I was afraid I was making things worse.  I was also afraid I wasn’t doing things in the right order and

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I have been teaching typing to my oldest daughter using various programs – mainly free downloaded software.  They work really well, but I wanted something with a little more substance – they’re more for doing drills.

Well, I’ve finally found it – a perfect, Christian keyboarding program.  I am really excited about this one – not

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This is something that I received as an email that I thought really puts things in perspective. I have no idea who should get credit for this, but it’s fantastic!

Absolutely amazing! Beauty of Math!1 x 8 + 1 = 912 x 8 + 2 = 98123 x 8 + 3 = 9871234 x 8 +

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Wow, what a summer it has been…  I always thought that summers were suppose to be relaxing, I’ve been busier this summer than I think I’ve ever been in my whole life!

As you can see by the heading – this is about a few lessons that Mom has learned over the summer that I thought might be

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