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We were recently driving in the car talking about what was on the dinner menu for that evening. Our oldest daughter gets so upset with her brother when he calls his carrots, cucumbers, and croutons (all separate and ready to dip), a salad. This spurred a conversation about what “salad” actually is. My first words [...]
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Time to Hop with HHM! Join us for some fun blog hopping with friends today. Link up your blog, Facebook, and Twitter profiles – we’ll see you soon! Are you refreshing an important homeschool resource . . . your heart? Apologia invites you to a retreat designed just for you–the homeschool mom! We’ll [...]
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So often homeschool moms find themselves entangled in the great debate, the Super Bowl of homeschooling, the 2000 elections of home education. The topic? Their daily routine/schedule/plan/un-schedule. Whatever you want to call it. It is there, and it is in your face. I used to think there were just two camps to this whole debate: [...]
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Homeschool Encouragement, Good Friends, & Awesome Prizes… Hip Homeschool Moms is hosting a prize-filled Twitter party on Tuesday, February 21st at 8pm CST with one of our favorite homeschool resources, Apologia Educational Ministries!!! How to Join the Party… Gather all of your homeschool friends, and jump on Twitter at 8pm CST and follow the [...]
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What can you do with these active, restless young people? Middle School, or Junior High, is the pre-adolescent time of life most parents dread. Your child is not yet an adult, but he or she is far past young child stage. If you’re homeschooling, these middle school years can be some of the most [...]
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Ready for some giveaway fun? It’s time for . . . Giveaway Day! Bloggers & Giveaway Hosts: Come on in and link up those awesome giveaways homeschool moms would love to enter! Homeschool Moms: Have fun entering all the great giveaways listed here this week! If you are linking up a giveaway, be sure [...]
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The past couple of weeks have been a little bit crazy at my house! I’m the kind of person who likes to have a plan and likes to stick to that plan if possible. It’s hard for me to be spontaneous, and it’s hard for me to “take it” when I have to change plans [...]
[Continue reading...]Let’s Get Hopping! It’s time to make new friends and visit old ones for a chat “over the back fence.” Do you have special plans for Valentine’s Day? Have fun seeing what your Hip Homeschool friends are up to this week! 5 HOMESCHOOL EVENTS of the YEAR! Faithful Pioneers and Aspiring Newbies alike will find [...]
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Homeschool moms. Neighbors either think we are SuperMoms or SuperCrazy … it really can go either way. Friends watch us as we plan field trips, plan lessons, plan meals, plan every.waking.moment.of.our.lives. We are really focused on time, on curriculum, on testing, on results. So often we compare ourselves to the other homeschool moms, because we [...]
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Do you like maps? Boy, I sure do … there’s something about looking over all the outlines, colors, and labels that carries me away to distant and fascinating places. My own ‘weirdness’ aside, maps are a wonderful and very necessary tool for teaching our children about nations past and present. I was very excited to [...]
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Homeschooling Creatively on a Budget Finding your feet when starting to homeschool your child can be difficult. It’s taken me around five months to figure out how to do it in a way that works for me and my darling daughters – and that feeling of accomplishment changes daily! Initially I would have loved to [...]
[Continue reading...]Welcome to another week of fabulous giveaways hosted here at Hip Homeschool Moms! Link up your giveaways Homeschool Moms would love to enter! If you are linking up a giveaway, be sure to first read our link-up guidelines HERE! *** PLEASE NOTE *** Giveaway sites that do not link back to Hip Homeschool Moms in some [...]
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Google “Skilled Labor Shortage” and you will read article after article about how difficult it is for employers in the mining, manufacturing, farming, construction, oil, gas & utility sectors to fill their skilled positions. My husband works in an industry where this is a stark reality. Most of these positions are high paying, support-your-family-on-one-income jobs [...]
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It’s almost here and we’re so excited. Blissdom Conference is approaching us so quickly – Meghan and Sue are SO excited to meet up with you!  Several months ago, we told you about how Hip Homeschool Moms was going to make a point to meet with as many homeschoolers as possible at Blissdom. And [...]
[Continue reading...]Time to Link up with the Hip Homeschool Hop! Come on in and link up your blogs, facebook, and twitter pages! Enjoy visiting and making new friends with the ladies around you! Looking for homeschool supplies/books at a great price? Have something you’re not using and would like to sell? Visit our Hip List! [...]
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Last month we took a short road trip to see my cousin, her husband, and their newborn twin boys. When I was putting something in her refrigerator I noticed a printout with their “List of Truths.” I asked her about it, and she said her husband thought that with the newborns they needed to make [...]
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