Having a Blast at HEAV

This weekend is going by way too fast, aside from the fact that I am seeing tons of friends at this convention, I have met many awesome vendors and speakers.
I hope to post more specifically about some of the sessions when I do not have to type in the hotel lobby, but for now I’ll [...]

US States and Postal Abbreviations

My good friend and blogging partner Joy has written an ebook, Learn the States and Postal Abbreviations. If you have not been to Joy’s site you must visit and check out her amazing downloads page. Joy is an awesome graphic designer (she designed my site) and has created a ton of free home school worksheets [...]

Ways to Encourage Our Children to Love Each Other

The following is a guest post from Tracy who blogs at Girls to Grow.
As a Mom, one of the things I desire to see in my children is a genuine love for one another.  While there will always be moments of disagreement and times of strife, I hope that my daughters will always have [...]

HEAV is Free for Parents of Preschoolers

I am a huge fan of the HEAV (Home Educators of Virginia)  convention. We have attended the convention for the past two years and plan to attend this year as well. The exhibit hall is huge, they have excellent speakers, and the used curriculum sale is a great way to make some money selling your [...]

Menu Plan Week of February 2

With my  30 Days of Meals, planning for Blissdom has been easy. I will be in Nashville from Thursday to Saturday, but meals are already frozen and ready for my family to heat without me. If you are like me most of your extended times away from your family involve giving birth. One way to [...]

Homeschool Organization

If I had my way I would run my school year from January to November, but I have to answer to the state of Maryland so we keep a fairly regular school schedule. After Christmas I like to start fresh by organizing our school cubbies. This means I throw out, file, and sort. It is [...]

A Year’s Worth of Blessings

Hello everyone, I am currently on vacation, but a few of my readers volunteered to take over the site while I am away! They have written some excellent posts that I am sure you will love. I also have some posts I wrote answering your burning questions about The Happy Housewife. Enjoy!
A Year’s Worth of [...]

Welcome $5 Dinner Readers!

Hello everyone from $5 Dinners, feel free to take a look around. I love to write about saving money, military life, homeschooling, big families, recycling and healthy eating (although you wouldn’t know that from my menu this week). I am a Navy wife and a mom to six, soon to be seven children.
Welcome!
For my regular [...]

Homeschooler’s Week at Williamsburg

After returning from a wonderful visit to Williamsburg, I was excited to learn the dates for Williamsburg Homeschooler Experience 2009. Homeschoolers receive significantly discounted tickets and there are special programs running throughout the weeks.
The dates for the spring week are February 21st – March 8th and the fall weeks are September 12-27th. The prices for [...]

Fun School Project

We started a fun and frugal school project this week. We are studying birds this year in science, but even if you aren’t this would be a fun project to work on. 
First we hung 3 different bird feeders 

Sorry, I didn’t take a picture of the last feeder (it is a hummingbird feeder).
Then the boys drew [...]