First, my thoughts go out to those Newtown residents and the sadness they will be facing in the coming weeks. I can't even imagine. My baby is the same age as those children. As much as I want to stop reading about the incident, like many others, I keep wondering why...
Getting to know Homeschoolskedtrack, part 3: Activities
We've covered setting up your school year and your courses, also known as subjects, now let's discuss assignments. You should be logged into the upcoming school year, 2012-2013. Go ahead and click that Activities tab. Yesterday we copied my daughter's courses and...
Getting to know Homeschoolskedtrack, part 2: Courses
I'm going to begin setting up my students and courses for school year 2012-2013. The first step (which we did previously) is to go to Admin->School Years and add the new year 2012-2013. Then on the Enrollments tab, I've assigned my students to the upcoming school...
Getting to know Homeschoolskedtrack, Part 1: Students
'Tis summer break, a time for homeschoolers to prepare for the next year. For me, that means updating Homeschoolskedtrack to the next school year and inputting courses and assignments for 4 kiddos. Quite a chore! It's a bit of work in the beginning, but it certainly...
Thank you PF Changs!
I've always love PF Chang's for gluten free dining. They are so knowledgeable and actually have decent stuff on the menu. I was disappointed on my last visit when I learned that the Phillip's Better Lemon Chicken (my fave!) had been removed from the menu. The gluten...
Why I despise WalMart, reason #354
It makes me smile when I count up the years it's been since I've shopped Walmart (just over 7 now 🙂 ). There's many reasons why I stormed out of there for the final time in October 2004 and today I read an article on Grist.org that totally hit one of those reason....
Why are Twinkies cheaper than Carrots?
It saddens me that it cost so much to have a healthy diet in this country. We do the best we can and I still feel we have too much "junk" food, but we can only afford so much. Add in a food allergy and the cost skyrockets. Wouldn't it be nice if there was some...
Corn and Agent Orange?
Why do we even have to think about stuff like this?! What happened to just letting nature be. I just don't understand why we need GMO'd anything. Oh yeah, that evil little thing called money. I like reading Natural News, but I also know that things are often blown out...
Gluten Free Sugar Cookies
These are good. I'm not a sugar cookie person, give me some chocolate, but I can not stay away from these. I always hesitate when it comes to gluten free baking, you just never know what you're going to get. I've tried things before that people rave about that tastes...