I’ve been following Marianne Manthey for a while and commented recently on one of her group questions.
That’s how things get started, friends! 🙂
Today I find myself quoted in a new publication she is producing, which you can find here. It’s blogging related, so off topic for me, but…
Thanks, Marianne! ❤
It’s really a great encouragement and a true help. A friend has interviewed a collection of college professors and posted their candid responses to what they think of home-educated students.
The results are exciting and humbling, at the same time. And so inspiring!
No more from me! READ THIS! 🙂
Homeschool Graduates in College ~ From the Professors’ Perspective
In my pursuit to encourage homeschooling parents, I thought it would be interesting to get an idea of how homeschool graduates perform in college as experienced by the professors. I made an appeal to professors through Facebook posts, and with the responses that I received I’m going to give you some insight into what they’ve seen in homeschooled college students.
You will find the rest here. Be sure to follow her link to the place where one of these professors wrote a post about her post. It’s just an amazingly fun read! Rewarding! I cannot feel more affirmed than I do, right now.
Join me, today for a fun guest post story that is very close to my heart, about our amazing local librarian and how she has constantly made huge blessing come from our teensy town library.
I think you will love this one. 🙂
How many of us have dangerous chemicals in our homes, such as very strong bleach? I know during our pool-owning days, we sure did.
But these people have lost their seven children because of it. And they live about an hour from me.
We simply have to stop this from happening to America!
Not so very long ago, (about thirty years, or so) we began homeschooling in the middle of the school year.
It can be tough.
Or it can be total joy.
Or it can be both.
I’m here to encourage you: You can do this. You can make it a beautiful combination of toughness and joy.
I can show you how.
What follows are links to a five-part series of actual steps you can take to maximize your experience, and your student’s experience, as you wander through this new land called “Homeschool”.
1. The first step is already done: Bringing your child home is the first step.
For better or worse (It’s better, I promise!) you are now the 100% proud owner of a somewhat used child. Here’s how to spruce up your new acquisition and enjoy a great start-up and lots of remaining miles!
2. You will have a long time to get your whole school right, but you have only now to get now right.
When you have a couple of weeks behind you, start taking a closer look and planning for the entire journey. No sense in running out of gas or getting lost. It’s time for detailing and getting a map.
3. Yes, “perks” are very important in a home school. Actually, they are important to everyone…
The wax job that makes for smoother sliding through the environment. What to, and not to pack for the journey and how to squeeze it all in.
4. Yes, he needs you; that is why God made parents.
Changing the oil; getting the junk out of the radiator, and a decent set of tires can make all the difference in the world! You’ll go further and be more sure of arriving at all!
5. The home-schooled student truly does have every advantage.
Those who get the most out of any trip are those who invest their entire beings into it. Is it time for you to make a major investment of your whole heart?
Killing Christians is a practice as old as Christianity. Those who practice it do nothing more than imitate their predecessors. Predecessors who attempted but failed to snuff out the life of our faith in its infancy.
The practice of persecution is hard for some to understand but it’s actually an understandable act. In fact, I can think of at least ten reasons to kill a Christian.
Calamari = squid.
The body can be stuffed whole, cut into flat pieces or sliced into rings. The arms, tentacles and ink are edible; the only parts of the squid that are not eaten are its beak and gladius (cartilage). I’ve seen it battered and fried like onion rings. It’s supposed to taste sweet.
I’ve eaten rabbit before, and it is sweet, so squids and rodents taste similar?
Groans.
You can hardly find a stuffed mushroom in a restaurant, anymore, except those with squid squirted into them. That’s just wrong.
However, there was a time when my brother took us all out to eat al fresco, on a breezy summer’s eve, to a lovely place near his home just outside Jeff City, Missouri. We ordered the stuffed mushrooms as an appetizer and I became so enamored with this dish.
They were creamy and savory and warm and I’d never eaten anything I liked so much that wasn’t sweet.*
I mean, I wanted to eat everyone’s serving.
I mean, I had to remind myself to behave.
However, there on a flagstone patio, noshing over a wrought iron table, I began analyzing.
And I never stopped until last year, when I figured I knew how to make those mushrooms.
And today, I publish my recipe for the first time, ever, over at Dining with Debbie.
Go there.
You’ll be glad.
Home's Cool! 
