Homeschool, Family and Management Links
Posted By Jacque on July 8, 2008
I didn’t get all of my previous posts transferred, so this is an oldie but a goodie, full of links! Blogger Friend School 4 – Panning For Gold:
The Internet offers a lot of treasures! It may not be in the form of actual gold, although I’m sure some could find some on the Internet – probably on ebay! Being a Blogger Friend is all about sharing our treasures. The assignment this week is to share your Internet treasures. Below is a list featuring things that homeschooling moms might be looking for: information, support, ideas, or actual items that pertain to our lives. Each one of us holds some or all of these treasures that need to be shared. Take this list and add your “golden” treasured sites so that we may all share the wealth.
A website that you visit everyday:
My girls’ websites:
My mother’s blog, Starr Salon, and my sister’s blog, Believing His Promises.
Favorite Homeschool Support Area: 
My HSB friends. I use the links on my sidebar to visit my favorite Mom-bloggers, though I need to update it and add a few I have been reading in the past few months!
Homeschool site full of information that you use regularly:
HeartofWisdom.com is a gem of a site. Robin blogs there and the articles and homeschool wisdom is wonderful.
I also love Homeschool Oasis for the high school info… but I mostly am reading her book, A Home Designed Form+U+La (HIGHLY recommended) to supplement the high school classes I have already come up with for our homeschool.
The Homeschool BlogAwards site isn’t just for Awards anymore. It is a team blogging site that has many resources that you should check out! Here are some of the topics/ articles discussed:
- Better Blogging
- Carnival of Homeschooling
- Contests
- Curriculum Picks
- Foto Friday
- Homeschool Favorites
- Homeschool Media
- Large family homeschooling
- Memo Monday
- Saturday Poetry and Literature
- Saturday Scripture
- Saturday Swap
- Thursday Thoughts
- Tuesday Tour
- Winner Wednesday
Site that you buy your books and curriculum from:
NEW: Heart of Wisdom Store and Doorposts are where I usually look first.
USED: Homeschoolbuy or ebay. There are also a lot of blogs where they list curriculum. I find that a good resource. I can read my friends’ blogs and find them there.
Site that offers frugal tips to save money:
Sprittibee has very good tips on so many things! There are also homestead bloggers that live frugally and have a lot of info on living frugally. Also, check out Marilyn Moll, The Urban Homemaker
A site that provides good wholesome recipes:
I don’t usually look for recipes, and when I find one that we want to try, I usually modify it if it isn’t a healthy one. I have always taken whatever we have or what we like and made up my own recipes. Amy of SimpleFolk is a lovely site with all sorts of homey recipes and ideas. I have also gone to Organic Authority.
An informational site that shows you “how” to:
haha….. the main “how to” site that I visit is the Yahoo Goat-Ring! I have also been visiting several “how to” build a chicken tractor sites! I love Organic Gardening also. There is a page you can visit that tells you what to do each month to prepare your garden area for your specific region, so I can use it year ’round.
A homeschool family website that you purchase from to support them: 
Heart of Wisdom, Bundled In Prayer, No Greater Joy
A charity website that you support:
Jim Erskine of Chirotoons LTD has done several charity fundraisers for homeschool families in need that I participate in supporting.
*EDITED* The main charity site we support is Gleaning the Harvest, which ministers to homeschool moms who are widowed and/or single.
Favorite Graphic site to get graphics for your blog or other things:
I don’t have one. I usually just make own… If I want to just grab one from the internet, I have found that GoogleImages offers a good selection. If I want a specialty one made, I would ask Amanda or Jocelyn, or make it myself.
Site that offers Homeschool Freebies:
HomeschoolEStore, FreeStuffForHomeschoolers, NotebookingPages.com
Site that offers any kind of Freebies:
And… have you ever heard of FreeCycle? You can join the one closest to you and get updates of things people in your own community have to give away, you can give stuff away yourself, and you can also request items you are looking for.
A blog to read that is always full of humor:
A blog that always makes me smile – not necessarily humourous, but makes me smile all the same is my daughter’s blogs, Rachel’s Reasoning and The Milk and Honey Tea-House. She is 13 and so sweetly honest. I love it and always get a good laugh and sometimes a few tears! *EDIT* She now blogs at A City on A Hill.
A blog to read that is always full of useful information:
Growing in Grace Magazine is written by home school daughters and moms and includes many different topics. Feelin’ Feminine and Ladies Against Feminism are good, as well as Doug’s Blog.
A blog to visit because it is eye appealing and easy to read:
I am not a visual person, so, give me the great blog, and unless it is hard to read or grotesque…. you will find my favorites on my sidebar – though I do have several to add to it!!!! Some of my favorite beautiful blogs are: The Perils of Parenting and Other Ponderings and Amy of Simple Folk Homeschool
A blog that you read because it inspires you to be a better homeschooling mom:
Oh, c’mon… I can’t name just one. I won’t remember them all anyway! I mean, most of the blogs I read inspire me to be a better homeschool mom! The homeschool mom blogs that encourage and inspire me that I visit regularly are my dear friends:
April of ElCloud
Amy of SimpleFolk and Simple Folk Homeschool
SisterLisa – The HomeSpun Life
Check out my sidebar for other Homeschool blogs, Homestead Blogs, Devotional Blogs, and Mom blogs.
A site that you would allow your children to visit:
It depends on the age of my child, of course! We let all of our children visit most blogs on www.homeschoolblogger.com, though one of the girls or I check them first. The Littles are only allowed to visit friends and don’t get on too much anyway. The older girls can visit HSB, HSB2, any of the sites I listed and any of those listed on their blogs.
I would definitely let them visit Growing in Grace Magazine for Ladies. A lot of issues are for girls and Moms, but there is also a lot of good other info that my boys will do good to learn from! Also, the older children can visit Above Rubies Magazine and No Greater Joy.
List any other sites that you would like to share that have provided you with a wealth of golden information:
** I am going to add another resource on here: My favorite Homeschool Magazines:
Above Rubies is a Donation based Magazine published several times per year designed to uplift, encourage, strengthen, and motivate men and women around the world to fulfill their God-given mandates concerning children, family, and dominion upon the earth for Jesus Christ.
As goes the child so goes the future adult—and the future parent. At every moment, parents holding little children are holding the future. Parenting, the most important and demanding job in the world comes on us by default. Ready or not, prepared or ill equipped, all parents produce fruit that lasts throughout eternity. It is like stopping everyone that walks down the street and seating them at a piano to play for five minutes. The melody or the dissonance goes on and on from one generation to the next unless someone takes the time to break the cycle and learn the skill…of parenting.
Packed with encouragement and practical helps for homeschool parents who work hard day in and day out to train up their children in the fear and admonition of the Lord, Homeschooling Today magazine delivers the resources homeschoolers around the world have come to rely upon, from regular departments to book and product reviews, and from popular unit studies to academic helps.
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Thank you for stopping by my blog. I have really enjoyed your blog. You have a wealth of info here, thank you. I am new to blogging and limited with my computer skills. My blog is simple, but I am learning. Again a third thank you. I will stop by often.
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Excellent post (again) with some great links added!
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MJ
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Leigh Ann,
I could not help but stop by when I saw your blog name. My boys love cowboys. They want to live in Texas and be cowboys like Roy Rogers and the Lone Ranger!
I look forward to getting to know you!
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So much information, so little time to read. A wealth of info here, Jacque. I’m just going to have to visit these places.
Love,
Mom
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You have a great list here and I’m honored to be listed.
Your girls are beautiful–insde and out. I am always blessed by their blogs.
Thank you!
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Wow. Thanks for including me in your amazing list. Don’t forget about my food and recipe blog… which I need to update soon with that insanely good Carrot Cake recipe!
I finally got it from Aunt Mary!
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Those are a lot of good links! I also go to a lot of those and they are so good. Especially the first three!
Although my Mommy’s blog name is no longer High Desert Hi-Jinks, but Sagerat’s Scribbles.
Have a very bright, very cheerful day!
Miss Eyebright
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Ooops. I forgot! I actually copied this from awhile back!!
I will change that!
She is still funny.
Take care Sweetie!
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Wow! What a great list of blogs. I will be coming back to this page often. Thanks for listing me with so many other amazing blogging moms. What an honor! I love your blog & my girls love to go to your daughters blogs. Take care!
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