Freaky Frugalite

It’s almost time for the Back-to-School sales. I’m starting to see spiral notebooks, crayons, and packages of lines paper planted at the aisle ends in my grocery store. Sheesh, it’s still JULY, isn’t it? But actually, I can always use that kind of stuff (and we do school during the summer, anyway), so I usually [...]

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I’ve been diligently scouring the Internet classifieds (local and national) for employment. I’d still like to stay at home with my children, but the online market is so limited right now. A lot of us “older” moms are in the same boat: the kids are older, we need more income, but we haven’t been in [...]

We use books, mostly, for the kids’ schooling. But I have used some CDs (quite a lot in the past, actually) and found some of them truly helpful. I used to buy tons of them, especially “educational games” programs. I have come to the conclusion that very few games touted as “educational” are really educational. [...]

WARNING! Lengthy article ahead about homeschooling! lol Well we’re gearing up for another school year here. Like I’ve said before, I homeschool, but it’s a unique homeschool. Our church has a small group of administrators that distribute curricula, give tests, and (best of all) handle all the administrative paperwork. We pay tuition to cover these [...]