Reset & Refresh
Reset & Refresh… You’ll be glad you did!
Embrace the ‘O’ Word… Organizing Inspirations
- Organizing tips from Martha Stewart
- Jumpstart January for an Organized Year from OrganizedHome.com
- 52 Weeks of Organizing Tips from OrganizineJunkie.com
- Declutter in 15 Minutes a Day – That & much, much more at Flylady.net
- How to Organize Everything in Your Hom from Crosswalk.com
- The Money Saving Mom Collection at Vision Forum
Oldies, But Goodies, from Crosswalk.com:
- Creating Peace & Order in Your Home
- Organize to Thrive as a Mom at Home
- Organize Your Day Well
- 10 Good Reasons to Organize Your Life
There’s an app for that!
Most of these tools have regular online features in addition to offering mobile apps:
- Cozi… Voted #1 Moblie App for Moms!
- Organizing Junkie App
- HomeRoutines App… Works Great with FlyLady!
- MealBoard App
- Food on the Table App
- Mint… “Best Free Way to Manage Your Money”
- Olive Tree Bible Reader & Bible Study Tools
- iLessonPlans App… “Take the Pencil Out of Planning”
- MyHomework App… “The Best Way to Keep Your School Life Organized”
- iPlanLessons App from iHomeEducator
- The Old Schoolhouse Apps from TOS magazine
Because You Are a Person of Influence
A baker’s dozen of inspirational offerings from leadership muse and Chairman of Thomas Nelson Publishing, Michael Hyatt:
- How to Get Out of that Funk
- Five Ways to Take More Time to Read
- Five Ways You Can Become an Everyday Hero
- How a Shift in Your Vocabulary Can Instantly Change Your Attitude
- Leaders and the Game of Life
- 3 Ways to Go Further, Faster
- Embracing Plan B
- The Difference Between Trying and Doing
- 10 Mistakes Leaders Should Avoid at All Costs
- The Missing Ingredient in Most Goals
- 10 Practical Ways to Boost Your Energy Level (and they’re not just physical)
- Do You Have a Not To Do List?
- Are You Tired of Feeling Overwhelmed?
Express Yourself
- What an Acting Coach Taught Me About Public Speaking
- Start a Blog! 7th Annual Homeschool Blog Awards
- 6 Ways to Publish Your Own Book
- What Have You… Thoughts on ‘Mom’ Hobbies & Homeschooling
- 75+ Hobby Ideas at MomsOfFaith.com
- Which Hobby Best Suits Your Personality?
- How to Find a Hobby
- Time for Mom: Drawing
- Etsy.com… Buy or Sell Handmade or Vintage items, Art or Supplies
- Pinterest… Online Pinboard, Organize & Share Things You Love
Anticipation
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
A Christmas Hodge-Podge from LynchburgHomeschool.com
And the Grinch, with his grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow,
Stood puzzling and puzzling: “How could it be so?
It came without ribbons! It came without tags!
It came without packages, boxes or bags!”
And he puzzled three hours, `till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before!
“Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store.
“Maybe Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!”
– Dr. Seuss, How The Grinch Stole Christmas
It does mean more, to be sure, Mr. Grinch…
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
– Isaiah 9:6-7 (KJV)
- A Christmas Letter to Homeschooling Moms
- Christmas Devotionals
- Advent Bible Verses
- The Christmas Story Devotional from BibleGateway.com
- Classic Christmas Hymns Newsletter for December
- For Mom… Christmas on the Lounge at TheHomeschoolLounge.com
- Christmas Thoughts & Ideas at Heart of the Matter Online
- Christmas and Advent Articles & Resources on Crosswalk.com
- A Family Inductive Bible Study for Advent
- Online Advent Calendar from TeachingMom.com
- The 12 Week Holiday Planner… But Jump-In Anytime!
- Celebrate Christmas with School, Part 1 & Part 2
- 12 Days of Homeschool Giveaways from HomeschoolEnrichment.com
- Christmas Stories & Poems from AmblesideOnline.org
- Christmas Unit Study Resources from EclecticHomeschool.org
- Homeschool Blogger Mom Favs… Link Up Your Favorite Christmas Posts
- Christmas Resources from TheHomeSchoolMom.com
- Christmas Unit Study by Amanda Bennett
- 86 Fresh Christmas Decorating Ideas from SouthernLiving.com
- Fun for the Whole Family… NorthPole.com
- Sing-Along Christmas Carols
- COOKIES!… from Christmas-Cookies.com
- Christmas Around the World from TheNorthPole.com
- 8 Steps to Hosting a Cookie Swap from MarthaStewart.com
- Gift Wrapping Ideas from CountryLiving.com
- The Pioneer Woman Cooks… Christmas!
- Our Favorite Traditional Christmas Dinners from MyRecipes.com
- Family Movie… or Not? Movie Reviews from PluggedIn.com
- Thank You!… The Art of Thank You Notes
- Christmas at Colonial Williamsburg
- 100 Miles of Lights… Richmond to Virginia Beach
- December in Virginia from Virginia.org
- WINTER in Virginia… More Family Fun from Virginia.org
- Other Holiday Links from LynchburgHomeschool.com
– New ‘Holiday‘ links added periodically!
Thankful
Prayer
Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank thee for this place in which we dwell, for the love that unites us, for the peace accorded to us this day, for the health, for the food, and the bright skies that make our lives delightful, for our friends in all parts of the earth.
Give us courage, gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften us to our enemies. Bless us, if may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come. May we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune loyal and loving to one another.
As the clay to the potter, as the windmill to the wind, as the children of their sire, we beseech of Thee this help and mercy for Christs sake. Amen.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Thanksgiving
- A Thanksgiving Unit Study from Eclectic Homeschool Online
- Thanksgiving Resources from TheHomeschoolMom.com
- Thanksgiving Poems & Hymns from AmblesideOnline.org
- Thanksgiving in Virginia from Virginia.org
- Everything Thanksgiving from MarthaStewart.com
- Thanksgiving from FoodNetwork.com
- Other Holiday Links from LynchburgHomeschool.com
– New ‘Holiday‘ links added periodically!
