Simply Homeschooling with Tami Fox

Our creek with some fall leaves.

******* WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!

Comments are now closed to new entries for the contest. I want to thank all of you for your entries this week.

I used the feature at random.org to generate the winning number for this contest.

And the winner is…………

Commentor #14, samsakara. Thank you for entering!

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Giveaway #4 – Basic Skills book and World of Words cards.

The 4th giveaway for this week to celebrate the Bloggy Giveaways, I have two books that would be appropriate for a preschooler or kindergartener. Both items are new.

The first book is a Capital and Lowercase letters practice book, and the second is activity card set for working on words.

Rules for entry:

• Please post a comment on this blog post for the Basic Skills book and World of Words.
• Please provide a valid email address, so I can contact you if you win.
• Please tell your friends about the giveaways this week on my blog.

I will draw the name of the winner on Saturday, November 1, 2008, between 9:00-10:00 pm EST. Please enter before 9:00 pm EST on November 1, 2008.

This contest is open to residents of the 50 United States. I am sorry that I cannot accomodate international entrants at this time.

Thank you for entering! Have a blessed day!

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We have a winner!!!!!!!

Please no more comments for entering this contest. I have used the number generator at www.random.org to give me a number for the winner of this contest.

And the winner is………..

Commentor #12, FLMOM. I will be contacting you tonight! Thank you for entering!

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The Bloggy Giveaways are this week. And I found some of the items I had been putting aside for this week. So there will be three new giveaways posted today on my blog. You will need to enter each one individually.

Giveaway #2 is for a set of Latin Books for Children by Classical Academic Press.

Included in this giveaway are the Latin History Reader for use with Latin for Children, Primer A; Latin for Children Activity Book: Primer A; Latin for Children: Primer A workbook; and the Answer Key for the workbook.

Rules for entry:

• Post a comment here on this announcement for the Latin Book Giveaway.
• You do not have to be a blogger to enter, but I will need a valid email address to contact you, if you are selected as the winner.
• Tell your friends about the giveaways.

I will draw the name of the winner on Saturday, November 1, 2008, between 9:00-10:00 pm EST. So please make sure you comment before 9:00 pm EST on November 1.

This contest is open to residents of the 50 United States. I am sorry that I cannot accomodate international entrants.

Thanks! Have a blessed day!

LINK to giveaway #3

As she looked through the mist across the lake, she thought she saw a glimpse of her first love. It was night of the anniversary of the first time she met him. As her thoughts drifted back to that night 50 years ago her granddaughter sat on a nearby swing watching a smile come across her weathered face.

On that night, her thoughts were already consumed with thoughts of her now deceased husband. They had shared many happy days and nights out by the lake in the cabin she now calls home. She had been telling her granddaughter stories about her courtship with her first love. She talked about the long, summer nights of sitting in the small row boat as her beau rowed them across the small lake.

She told her granddaughter how this handsome young man captured her heart so many years ago and how he had to leave for the war across the Atlantic shortly after they met. She held in her hands the letters neatly wrapped by a red ribbon, as she tearfully told her how they exchanged letters for three long years, before he came back home to her, never knowing if he would ever come home alive.

She reminisced about their engagement soon after he came home from the war. She lovingly described their first little house. The house that was full of love of two young adults who longed to be parents. And she laughingly remembered the days of having more mouths to feed than rooms in that tiny house.

She showed pictures of the house that he built for her and their growing family. And she talked about their children frolicking in the very lake they sat beside on this misty night. Her granddaughter could almost see the ghost of her grandfather whom she had never met. She knew that surely he must never be far from his one and only love. She strained her eyes for just a glimpse of this man who made her grandmother smile.

As the time grew later and the mist grew thicker, she knew it was almost time to retire for the night, but then she looked at the smile across her grandmother’s face and knew that they would sit by lake for a while longer. Maybe she would see the ghost of her grandfather before the night was over.

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This is a short story in response to a contest sponsored on Scribbit’s Blog.

Recently my homeschool group has started a healthy homeschool moms group. It has been a lot of fun! For some reason, I have not made exercise a priority in my schedule. And for the past 3 weeks, I have exercised several days a week. Since we are on a tight budget right now, along with the rest of America, I am finding creative ways to exercise. I have been walking at a walking track at a local elementary school. And on inclement weather days, I am utilizing our mini-trampoline. I am also incorporating a healthier, low-fat menu into my life, along with drinking a lot of water each day.

What are you doing to be a healthy homeschool mom?