The Thoughtful Homemaker

Our lesson today will be about the importance of having a family home evening. We will discuss how to have a more successful Family Home Evening. After the short lesson we will make an assignment wheel. Lds.org has an instant family home evening agenda that you fill in and print out. I hope it all […]

My real vacation was to London for my anniversary, but I needed something to look forward to so I decided to plan a “vacation” to Spain and Provence places I dream of visiting next.

I got my passion for Provence and the Midi-Pyrenees after working on some royal genealogy. I did the ancestry of Eleanor […]

I usually do not watch Dora because I am currently boycotting Nickelodeon because of Viacom’s leftist agenda. Since I am not feeling too good today and wanted my boys to learn something I turned it on Dora. Aron never gets to watch shows for his age group.
Well, today Dora had a Russian friend Yelena […]

Darth Vader and a Clone warrior are in their secret base so there are two of them. Then Obi Won Kenobi and Luke Skywalker enter to fight them. Another Clone Warrior hearing the commotion comes in to help Darth Vader shoot Obi Won and Luke Skywalker. How many people are in the secret base? 5
Then […]

There is a wonderful article from parenting.com that talks about gifted children and the overuse of the term. The article also gives advice on the best way to teach small children under three. Click here for the article!
I think the article is right. Just spending time with your children is the best way to teach […]

I decided to get back into voice lessons. I was tired of saying to myself, “one day I will get back into singing!” I sing around the house all day and look forward to singing hymns at church. I think it is time to do something more with this love I have for singing.
My […]

Someone posted this video on my facebook of  23 month old geography genius. I figured if a 23 month old can learn geography why not a three or five year old. So now as a family project we are learning the countries of the world. So far we learned North and Central America. Not only […]

I always thought it was annoying to see babies use baby sign language, now I am completely sold on it.  Baby sign language is an excellent way to learn language. The key is to always say the word when you are doing the sign.
A neighbor I have, who speaks several languages, told me how she […]

Of all the programs at Victoria’s school, I am most impressed with her World Language classes and her Science Lab. I guess because they did offer such programs when I was in school. I don’t even remember going to Music class and our PE  and Science was running away from the bully who smeared frog […]

The library is the most fun place for me. I guess that makes me strange. I love going through the aisles looking at all of those books. They take to me places all over the world. I travel all through time. I see all sorts of political opinions. All of that knowledge just waiting for […]

When I was at Victoria’s Open House the teacher gave us hand outs on how to help the children learn beginning sounds. One activity was to take a letter and make up funny words to go with the sound. Victoria and I tried this. She kept say Bai Baiwaiwai or FooFoo! Immediately I thought about […]

When I was in University, the professor said he could tell the difference between those who went to private school and those who went to public school. He guessed almost everyone correctly. I was the only one he guessed wrong. He was for sure that I went to private school. I grinned and said, “No, […]