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This was agreat idea Erin!  Thanks everyone for sharing!  Your stories make me want to give hugs all around. I grew up in a very small town in NE Iowa (about 600 people in the town!)  I went to public school there through elementary.  My family moved when I was in jr. high to a slightly bigger town ...

Kerby, I'll continue to pray, too. Shout and Oxiblast spray-on work pretty well on stains...but honestly, I've pretty much given up on stains and then we have a bigger choice for clothes to play in the mud in... :D :roll: ...since that seems to be a favorite passtime of my dc. Mud, sand piles, picki...

Hi Kelly!  It's nice to "meet" you. :D I'm sure you'll get more knowledgeable responses...I don't have much experience yet.  (LHTH is the only HOD program I've used, but I'll be starting Bigger in a few months.)  But I'll share what I've figured out so far. :) BLHFHG doesn't actually have phonics in...

I think this is a great idea, too! My kids LOVE to look at what I've scrapbooked (1 year for the oldest 2, and about 6 mo of our family in 2005). My youngest is in the works now and is about 3 months old in "scrapbook world". :D I probably wouldn't have thought of it...thanks for sharing. I'm pretty...

Great Melissa!

This is where we started, too, and LOVE LHTH! (After finishing what we have this year, I'm planning to start Bigger with my oldest.)

Have a great time!

Guess what, Melanie?

I posted pictures! (I couldn't have done it without you and the others walking it through on here.) I put mine in the weekly check in thread.

Ok...here goes... :? My dd and I are in Unit 8 in LHTH, which is about the Exodus. God said, Let my people go! Pharoah kept on saying, NO! Pharoah's sad. His son is dead. http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii59/mkfincham/100_3038.jpg Let my people go, God said! http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii5...

Woohoo, Melanie!! :D You did it! I am seriously going to try this this weekend, too. I actually took pics of my kids this week, have them on the computer, now all I have to try to do is get them in photobucket and on a post...right? :roll: (Out here in the sticks...with our cows...we haven't figured...

I just have a quick question here to clarify... When you're teaching more than one HOD program with your kiddos (which I haven't done yet...but will get to soon), some of the time overlaps, right? Like...when the one doing Bigger is doing handwriting and English or math, you could use 20-30 min to d...

Hi Melissa! I just wanted to say "welcome". :D I don't really have any advice for you...but I can say that my dd and I are loving LHTH this year. (She was so sad that we didn't "do school" today...we're out of masking tape. Ooops!) My sister has been using LHFHG with her just-turned-5 yr. old. She s...

Kerby,

I'll be remembering you in prayer, too.

2 Corinthians is one of my favorite books in the Bible, some verses come to mind in praying for you. I trust that the God of all comfort will show you His all-sufficient grace through your weakness. (2 Cor 1:3, 12:9)

Kathleen

inHistiming, I know there are music books out there for Hide 'Em In Your Heart. They are piano accompaniaments and choral line. (The school where I did my student teaching in college was using them in music class. My Kindergarteners sang "In My Father's House" for a parent program.) I have loved the...

Count me in, too.
I can't wait until I'm using Bigger for my oldest, too! You gals have me anxious!

Kathleen

Mary, What fun pictures! Just so you know, you (and the other "bloggers") have inspired me! 8) I realized this week that I have not taken a single picture of us doing school this year. :shock: (That's right...7 months, 0 pictures!) Anyway, I got my camera out and snapped several of Alli doing our fi...

Christy,

It's nice to meet you. I'm looking forward to using Bigger with my almost 8 yr. old soon, too.