What’s on your hard drive?  Photos?  MP3s of all your favorite songs?  Emails from your sweetie?
I’ve had my “new” computer since 2004.  It contains lesson plans from my oldest son’s Kindergarten year on up to this year and worksheets that I’ve made for him.  It has all the bulletins I’ve made for our church for [...]

I am happy to report that I was chosen as one of the 100 reviewers needed by The Old Schoolhouse for their special focus group!  We are being called The Homeschool Crew, and you can read the blog devoted to our project at The Crew Blog.  It contains a list of the vendors that have [...]

It’s amazing how school goes around here.  I feel like I’m constantly making schedules, tweaking schedules, and making lesson plans.  Just when I think I’ve got everything working well, something happens to change or interrupt.  I think it’s God keeping me humble.
Last week, my two older boys spent the week with my parents, so of [...]

I heard someone say recently, “If you need something done, ask a busy person.”  At first I laughed–mainly because the person who said it was suggesting that I should be the one asked to do things.  Do busy people really get more done even when given more and more tasks to do?
I am a busy [...]

Let your mind wander with me for a few minutes.  Imagine going upwards in the sky, into space.  You know, of course that you’ll pass the moon and view earth as a sphere floating in the blackness.  Keep going higher, higher, until your eyes can see all nine planets (yes, I still count cold, little [...]

Mmm, pizza is by far my favorite food!  There’s just something about that combination of warm tomato sauce and melted mozarella cheese on chewy crust that I find irresistable.  Ordering from Dominos four times a week will, sadly, deplete my bank account faster than you can say NSF.
Years ago, I started experimenting with making my [...]

I have three sons, who are seven, four, and nine months old.  My oldest was born when I was 21, and I had held only three other babies before that.  I had never changed a diaper and, since I’m the youngest in my family, had never been around a baby for more than a couple [...]

Hello and welcome to my Fenced in Family’s Blog.  I do not as yet know where this site will go, but I have ideas on what I would like to see in the blog and the website.  I hope to share with you my thoughts and experiences with various subjects, such as:
Building a relationship with [...]

Have you heard of the Erskine family?  They operate the web sites for Homeschool Radio Shows and Homeschool Freebie of the Day. Our family has been listening to the radio programs they provide (for free!) for over a year now, and we have all learned to love them.  I’ll admit, at first it was difficult [...]

Well, it’s an interesting morning.  The two older boys left with my parents yesterday and will be spending a week with them.  (They live about two hours away.)  Jon’s at work, so it’s just me and Robert this morning.  Things are quieter than usual, and I’m seeing a lovely lack of books and toys on [...]