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 It's Halloween! I absolutely love that our town celebrates halloween on Saturday when it lands on Sunday. Although, there was two feet of SNOW! That didn't stop my kids, who mostly made their own costumes. Abraham just used the costume he made from last year (the jack-o-lantern ghost.) William was the cat he's was two years ago. But Maxwell made a Steve head. Hyrum changed Maxwell's shark onesie into a walrus onesie, and Daniel, DANIEL out did us all! He made a "wither" skeleton with three heads!! I was quite impressed.And we did some halloweeny things for Social Studies, so let's...

This post contains affiliate links - using affiliate links from Homeschool Coffee Break helps fuel this blog.  Each week Lysha at A Camera and a Cookbook shares a set of prompts for photos. On Saturday she invites participants to share their photos in the I Spy 2021 linkup. I thought the prompts for this week looked pretty easy, and I even thought I might get this ready to post before we went away on the weekend, so I could just schedule it. Well, things didn't go entirely as planned. Do they ever go as planned? Not in my world. Anyway, here are...

These 12 tales of wisdom from yesteryear will give your children or grandchildren a glimpse into the traditions and moral values that have been treasured all over the world, uplifting young hearts and minds. Now fully republished by The Epoch Times, the tales were part of a specially dedicated children's collection of audio stories and original illustrations compiled and produced by the Sound of Hope Radio Network in 2012. Completely free for the enjoyment of our readers—children and adults alike—the "Ancient Tales of Wisdom" audio-story series, with full transcripts, will surely delight and inspire. Enjoy! “The Trust of an Eagle” is about an...

About the BookBook: A Season on the WindAuthor: Suzanne Woods FisherGenre: Amish FictionRelease date: October 5, 2021Ben Zook had only two loves in his life: books and birds. In a stroke of good fortune, he’d stumbled onto a way to cobble together those two loves into a career, writing books about rare birds. He was as free as a bird–until a chase for a rare White-winged Tern takes him to the one place on earth he planned to never return: his Amish home in Stoney Ridge.Desperate for photographs of the elusive tern, Ben hires a local field guide, Micah Weaver, and boards...

Book: There Is a SeasonAuthor: Andrea BoeshaarGenre: Christian Historical FictionRelease date: September 1, 2021 To onlookers, Carrie Ann Bell Collier might appear to be the dutiful wife, sitting at her unconscious husband’s bedside. But she feels like a hypocrite. Instead of trusting her intuition, she allowed herself to believe Peyton was dead. And then she fell in love with his best friend, Eli Kent.Except, Peyton wasn’t dead, and now Carrie will do anything to keep him alive. Click here to get your copy! Christian Historical Fiction is a favorite genre of mine. There Is A Season by Andrea Boeshaar is Book 3 in the Shenandoah Valley...