by Amy LeForge | Jun 15, 2009 | Home Schooling
Apparently our little chickies are operating on a different calendar than me. Based on when we put the eggs into the incubator, they should have hatched last Thursday. Allowing for 2 days beyond that, Saturday was the last day that we could consider them viable and...
by Amy LeForge | Jun 13, 2009 | Resources/Reviews
I wrote about the Fresh Air Fund a few months ago. This is a really neat ministry in which inner-city kids are matched up with families who live outside the city for a summer vacation. Sara Wilson, the outreach coordinator of Fresh Air, contacted me recently with some...
by Amy LeForge | Jun 12, 2009 | Resources/Reviews
Hahaaaaa, you didn’t think I was done talking about SOBCon, did you? Nope! Today I want to introduce you to a cool chick I met at the conference. Sherry blogs at CityChicOnAFarm, where she focuses on her favorite charities, her dislike of cooking, how much she...
by Amy LeForge | Jun 10, 2009 | Contest
I ran across a couple of Father’s Day events that you may like. First, if you purchase a frosty from Wendy’s anytime over Father’s Day weekend (June 20-21) they will donate 50 cents from each sale to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. The money...
by Amy LeForge | Jun 9, 2009 | Home Schooling
Sigh. This year in science we studied the human body, plants, and animals. SOMEone thought it would be a fantastic idea to hatch chickens as a school project. I haven’t mentioned it yet because, well, I wasn’t sure how it was going to turn out. At this...
by Amy LeForge | Jun 9, 2009 | Miscellaneous
1. I was poking around cyberspace a while back and found a site called Buzz Voice. It’s a pretty neat site though, so I signed up. It’s free to use. What it does is read blog posts aloud for you. Yes!! It really does. So, if you are dying to hear my posts...