Random Five on Friday ~ July 17th Edition

-

It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve done a Random Five on Friday.

1. Turtlegirl is getting serious about heading to college in fall of 2016. She’s been researching degree programs for several schools, verifying application requirements, and ranking her choices.  I guess we’re going to have to schedule some campus visits!

2. I just finished a review of the most amazing and wonderful web based online homeschool lesson planner. I have tried so many different planners and several online ones and I always always always always go back to Homeschool Tracker Plus. I love Homeschool Tracker Plus but the program is becoming obsolete. HST no longer offers it for sale and now promote their HST Online product. I am completely unfamiliar with it. I have no idea how it compares to Homeschool Planet.  I wasn’t even sure I wanted to review Homeschool Planet so I signed up for the 30 Day Free trial and decided that I loved it. I was given a one year subscription in exchange for my review.  I can see myself paying for another year when that subscription ends.  What about HST +?  Well it is still my beloved program and I plan to use it for transcripts and reports but the day to day lesson planning and grading?  I will use Homeschool Planet.  Homeschool Planet makes adding chores and things like meal plans a much easier process that PLUS (again I don’t know about Online. Online might be streamlined and easier to use that Plus).  Check out Homeschool Planet and sign up for a free trial!

Homeschool Planet ~ Organize home and school! Read Tess's Review at Circling Through This Life

3. How does the garden grow? Quite nicely actually! We have one tomato that is nearly rip enough to pick.  Honeybear picked two lemon cucumbers and 3 pea pods yesterday.

4. I finished  reading another book by Murray McDonald: Divide and Conquer.  This moved just as quickly as The God Complex. I was sucked in from the very first chapter. Divide and Conquer is more violent and has more foul language. I prefer less gruesome and I don’t particularly like seeing certain words in print, but I still really enjoyed this book and I will look for the next one in the series. The ending caught me by surprise and I liked having it be twisted. I really appreciate how McDonald gives you clues and lets the reader think she knows what it is all about and then *wham* he throws in something completely unexpected!

5. One of the widgets on Homeschool Planet is for daily quotes.  The other day this was the quote:  "You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth." Jean Paul  I am not sure why but it really spoke to me. I think I need to do more and speak less.

Random Five Circling Button

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Blog Celebration Giveaway!

-
Image
I’ve been looking for an excuse to host a give a way.  I thought oh I’ll do a giveaway when I reach 100 followers!  And then suddenly I had over a hundred. Then I thought ‘why don’t I celebrate when I’ve written 100 posts?’  Typical of me, I didn’t pay attention and I went right on writing past 100. So now, I’m thinking I’ve got to do a Give-A-Away this week because of the Ultimate Blog Party .   (You can read my Blog Party Introduction post here .) So I look at my post count this morning and I realize that THIS POST is my 150th Blog Post! So now, I’ll just *have* to give something away.  But what?  What can I give away?  I know.. Coffee!   I’d serve coffee (or tea) if you were sitting here with me in my dinning room chatting so here’s your chance to win a $15 Starbucks Coffee Gift Card To enter leave a comment.   I’ll use a random method (such as random.org) to choose a winner.  Winner will be announced April 9th! Required for first entry:  Tell me what you would purchase with
Read more

HAPPY NEW YEAR! NEW START - NEW YEAR - NEW LOOK!

-
Image
Happy New Year!  With the New Year, I opted to change the look of my blog.  It's currently a work in progress and Tailorbear is doing some design work for me. It's been about a year since I last posted.  I wasn't sure where I wanted to go with blogging.  Did I want to continue to blog?  What would write?   Then I found inspiration. It's a long story and I'll share it - bit by bit - going forward.  I am still passionate about education.  While BooBear, TurtleGirl, and Tailorbear are now busy being adults,  Supergirl continues with her "homeschooling."  As our special needs, medically fragile, miracle girl, she continues to amaze us, and we continue our commitment to keep homeschooling as long as she is interested and still making progress.   I will continue to blog about homeschooling-related topics. However,  I am most excited about blogging about my health journey. I want to share what I am learning!  I'm inspired to write about my new way of eating a
Read more

My Love Affair with the Homeschool Review Crew!

-
Image
Yes I am specifically writing this post to link up to the Friday (I know it's not Friday!) Homeschool Blogger Link Up hosted by the Homeschool Review Crew a division of The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine.  This Crew Blog's post is Homeschool Review Crew Needs You.   Yep we want to grow the crew an to do that we need more home educating bloggers.  But not just bloggers.  We want Vloggers too!  Are you an active You Tube Vlogger?  We have a section in the 2019 Crew Application just for you! Now that you know why I am writing this post let me tell about my long term love affair with the Homeschool Review Crew.  We meet to speak when it was brand spanking new in 2008.  An online friend and co-moderator with me of an online email group for home school support had just embarked on the Maiden Voyage of this new concept of receiving home school product in exchange for a review!  Back in those days you didn't have to be a blogger you just had to have a place such as a home school s
Read more