Secondly, unfortunately I saw the movie Poltergeist and it SCARRED me for life.

I would imagine that a larger reason that we focus on one subject is because there are so many things that I they want to learn.  Because there are so many amazing topics the brain can consume each school year, I find that our school year never ends.  Which – can be a good thing.  I’m not complaining.

Savoring Education

Savor is a word that I associate with food – a good, rich meal.  It leaves you satisfied and content.  You pause to sip water, never gulping the contents of your glass.  Savor represents empty plates and dinner guests remaining at the table for several hours afterwards.  Bedtimes are forgotten as the kids contribute to the conversation. 

Summer is our time to really savor education, seasoning it with rich timelines and riveting living books.  Lingering on the floor to color.  Laying out a blanket under our massive backyard trees, quietly squashing ants that threaten to invade our sacred space. 

How to Produce Savory Education

The meals that I enjoy the most are the ones that I come hungry to.  Rich meals are better enjoyed when you know they are scarce and special. 

I have been anxiously looking forward to summer.  While Classical Conversations was in full swing, we focused on our 160 point timeline, and largely dropped our history reading.  I couldn’t juggle history memory work AND an actual history curriculum – especially when what we were using wasn’t lining up with our memory work.  It wasn’t a fluid experience, like a meal that has an Indian course with a French baguette. 

So when I went to the Great Midwest Homeschool Convention  in Cincinnati, I spoke with many vendors about their approach to history.  Nothing quite filled the hole for our savory summer plans.  We needed to play catch-up – and play it quickly.

Brimwood Press Cooks History

We have a huge gaping whole in our history knowledge.  We know Egyptians like the back of our hand . . . and then the names of various huge events in history that are included in the Classical Conversation timeline.  While this is great, I felt like we were anorexically  thin on truly capturing the entirety of history. 

I felt like I needed my children needed to be able to give an elevator pitch of history.  Because if you can understand the whole of history, then you can more easily place and remember the details that season history. 

I turned to Brimwood Press, a sous chef when it comes to helping students gain an attainable and quick view of world history. 

Our Summer History Nourishment

This is the first summer that we have the chance to take a real summer break – no babies were born and we didn’t take extended pauses in our educational pursuits. 

I want to and I think we NEED to (have a vacation).  We need to practice having fun. 

For this reason, Brimwood Press fits nicely into the amount of time I have to cook up nourishing content in a short amount of time – their history is like a whole foods protein shake on safe steroids. 

Let me share my personal chef for the brain with you:

What Every Child Needs to Know About Western Civilization

What Every Child Needs to Know About Western Civilization boasts of covering 5,000 years of history in 14 lessons.  The Brimwood Press history curriculum is only supposed to feed you for one month but nourish you for years. 

Adults children:

• develop a mental timeline of Western Civilization by by learning about 14 historical eras from the teacher’s manual and historical coloring book
• understand key contributions or achievements in each era with the help of Father Time in Calendar Quest
• become aware of influences that have shaped Western Civilization through the “Hats of History” cards

What Brimwood Products Are We Using?

Calendar Quest – a fictional story that parallels history similar to Magic Tree House or Imagination Station, two curious children travel with Father Time to 12 historical periods in a refrigerator box {ahem}.  While they travel a repeated them is learning how the actual calendar that we use today came into existence. 

What Ever Child Needs to Know About History – You could call this book the “textbook,” as it elaborates upon the pegs or facts shared in Calendar Quest. 

This books contains stickers (much to Gabe’s delight).

Additionally, the perforated Hats in History Cards are included and how to use them (great tools by the way because they create a concise and easy to memorize timeline, should you wish to fatten your brain)

Color the Western World – while visual, this large and glorified “coloring book” keeps the kids busy while I read to them from Calendar Quest or What Every Child Needs to Know About History.

Why Every Parent Should Use Brimwood Press

I was not educated classically.  Though I was an honor student in high school, I really don’t remember one decent meal in history.  And while the female mind often thinks that she is “alone” in this world, I have to believe there are others of you out there that don’t remember history. 

I tell you, the Western History Civilizations Study is the gourmet fast food drive thru of history.  While this isn’t intended to nourish you for an entire school year, it is an AMAZING summertime stroll down memory lane – an excellent 5th course to the dinner table (literally).

If you would like to beef up your history elevator pitch and nourish your brain with succulent facts that will enrich you thinking, then join us in taking a month of time to survey 5,000 years of history with Brimwood Press.

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Since we typically only dine at local establishments, I use something called Coupons 4 Indy. 

(Sorry – I subscribe to my own blog – so I like to have pictures of the Engineer show up in my in-box.  Eye candy for me!)

My Coupon Confession

Truth be told, I subscribe to 4 coupon blogs . . . and I am getting bolder about not getting sucked into their deals.  I rarely purchase the items at rock bottom prices . . . but I ponder the deal . . . forgive me Jen Hatmaker. 

Recently, I have begun deleting emails offering me the savings of a century – the purchase that could help my budget.  Ironic.

This happens when my email is out of control.  Which is always.  Dropbox really isn’t helping me.  Of course, it might if I used it properly.  I live in a bi-polar world – school and work run off of Apple products and emails and creativity are on my trusty HP computer (thanks to my boss).

I will be talking about shoes in a second. 

It’s Hard to Find Coupons for Worms and Raw Milk

There just aren’t coupons for the types of things that I often purchase like worms or local Brick House Roasters coffee.

• organic fair trade Dutch pressed cocoa (but I do have this sent to me on autoship from Amazon)
• therapeutic grade essential oils (but I save money by not going to the doctor)
• cloth napkins . . . I made most of them.
• cod liver oil
• raw milk and raw honey – even if I had a coupon I wouldn’t use it because the local farmers are hurtin’!

Am I opposed to coupons?

May it never be! 

My Sources of Couponing

• I do use coupons for free shipping on my coconut oil at Tropical Traditions.
• And I am an Amazon Prime member . . . because it pays to be.
• If I want to purchase something, I always ask Retail Me Not or Coupon Cabin for free shipping coupons.  Sometimes I score, sometimes I waste a lot of time.

An Unusual Coupon And I Begin to Talk about Shoes

My most unusual “deal” came from an unexpected source.  Instagram.  A simple comment on Instagram telling me about Zulily.  I am sure you want to hear my story.

You see, I had lost my favorite pair of Dansko shoes . . . I was going crazy looking for them – and nearly become like a dripping faucet to the Engineer.  I MOANED all winter long about having nothing to wear because A.L.L. of my outfits needed black shoes . . . shoes with a slight heal.  I didn’t want to look like an Eskimo and wear my fake Uggs (that I purchased due to a coupon blog “alert”).

Where, oh where, were my Dansko’s??????

Then I happened to be going through old blog posts.  (Because I am attempting to edit all the old ones back from when I was on Blogger.  Ask me how this is going.)

And I came across a blog post featuring the state of a certain pair of Dansko’s I had been looking for the past 180 days of my life.

Relief and despair greeted me that day.  Relief that I really wasn’t that bad of a housekeeper and despair that there was no hope of ever finding my beloved shoes this side of the garbage dump.

The Shoe Hunt Begins

Now, I typically purchase my shoes on Zappos.  Free shipping – free returns – pretty good prices. 

I purchased and sent back THREE pairs of Mary Jane Dansko’s . . . in one month.  Ouch.

Come to find out – there was more to the story than my foot growing due to giving birth to four children . . . Dansko had a bad breakup with Sanita and changed their toe box.

They forgot to send me the memo.

The nerve.

Sanita is the New Dansko

Then, God literally intervened.  I really think.  I suppose my family needed to see a miracle – because that is what it would take to get me to shut up about my lost black shoes.  Momma Joy (that’s my mom) discovered that an alternative brand of shoes was Sanita.

Well, Sanita’s are just as expensive as Dansko’s.  Sorry to break it to you.

You can get Sanita’s on Amazon . . . but they are anywhere from $79 to $125.

Unless you find them on . . . Zulily.  Thank you for that nugget of info special Instagram follower.  I purchased that AMAZING pair above for $59.

What is Zulily?  And Why Do I Love it So?

Zulily launches 35 sale events daily that typically last 72 hours and offer a rotating selection of over 1,400 top-quality products including apparel, toys and home goods to choose from, all at an average of 50% and some up to 90% off retail prices. (I didn’t write that.)

It is the online store that meets the needs of a woman.  And her family. 

Especially her feet.

These are my shoes.  However, they are upstairs and it is hot out.  So, sadly I’m not wearing my Sanita’s much these days.  Nor am I getting up to take a picture for you.

But I have an alert set on Zulily to let me know when Sanita’s go on sale.  Because my little secret is that my current weight loss is leaving me a little sassy. 

I’d like a red pair of Sanita’s.  And some cowboy boots for when I can safely wear skinny jeans (from Goodwill), if they aren’t out of style by the time I reach my goal weight.

Where do you buy shoes?

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And if you want to know about the $150 giveaway . . . you’ll have to read until the bottom of the post.

But I do have something to tell you about moving.

Moving

If you thought I was moving, you’re also wrong.  Though I would like to be going on a mission trip.  But alas I am sitting at the kitchen table listen to my boys read books . . . desperately working hard to have read all of the necessary books to have their ENTIRE summer reading club card filled up. 

They want to win rubber bouncy  balls.  As a mom, let me tell you how I hate rubber bouncy balls. 

But I remember being obsessed with them as a kid.  And crying desperately when they delightfully bounced into the blasted prickly evergreen bush at the end of our driveway.  Never could stand that hurtful green creation that threated to eat the majority of my childhood toys. 

I should move my one-sided counseling session off of this blog post.  Because I have an announcement. 

40% off Moving Sale at Naptime Diaries

My friend, Jessi, is having a moving sale.  They are going to start a new church.  So excited for them. 

Why Naptime Diaries Prints Rock

Let me show you what I came up – the Scripture I made for our wall.

And let me show you what I purchased from Jessi’s shop.  This is where I tell you how to make your walls look great.

Order prints from the Naptime Diaries Scripture Print Shop.

As you can see, how shall I say this delicately . . . because God’s word is ENOUGH.  Jessi makes God’s Word stand out . . .

Whereas . . . me, myself, and I . . .  I delightfully obeyed God’s Word by placing the powerful Mesusah on our doorframe – but no one stops to read my white sheet of paper.

I can’t tell you how many times people have commented on those two prints above. 

Yup. 

Jessi’s knows how to make art.  I’ll stick to growing my bacteria.  But we each have amazing different gifts.

$150 Giveaway Going On!

By the way, Jessi has a giveaway going on right now – the Everyday Oils kit (this is like a $150 value folks . . . )

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I often go to that pile to find a new book to read and it resembles that disappointing fail of raiding the refrigerator for something delicious to eat after the kids go to bed and I find nothing that resembles chocolate.

After reading Claire Diaz Ortiz’s blog post regarding the lack of novels in her book pile, my brain became convicted of the literature I was snacking on late at night.  Considering my strong allegiance to classical education and thought, I can’t believe I wasn’t convicted sooner of my vacation reading.

However, don’t shoot me, I still have some reviews of said vacation reading that I need to post.  {Ahem}

What Am I Reading By Myself?

I literally AM reading these books daily – like the ink still isn’t dry from my highlights type reading.

• Call of a Coward by Marcia Moston

• Seven: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess by Jen Hatmaker

• The Chemistry of Essential Oils Made Simple by David Stewart (great deal on this book currently on Amazon) – and I am BLOWN away *officially* by essential oils.  This is the lay person’s guide to why and how therapeutic grade essential oils work.

What Am I Reading with the Kids?

• C.T. Studd by Janet and Geoff Benge
• Calendar Quest by Jennifer Johnson Garrity

• Boys of Grit from Lamplighter Books
• Beethoven by Opal Wheeler

What Will I Be Reading this Summer?

• Echo in Celebration by Leigh Bortins
• Unglued by Lysa TerKeurst
• Missional Motherhood: Living with Purpose at Home & In the World by Helen Lee

What Will the Kids Be Reading This Summer?

• Abraham Lincoln by Janet and Geoff Benge
• The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang (currently free on Kindle)
• The Chocolate Sundae Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner
• Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
• Little Men by Louisa May Alcott (free on Kindle)

What Do I Want to Read?

• Cooked by Michael Pollen

• Second Nature by Michael Pollen

What are  your thoughts on light reading verses reading that stimulates and challenges your mind?

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So I got creative. 

And I kissed the store clerk at Trader Joes for telling me about Coconut Cream.  OK.  No I really didn’t.  But I did kiss Naomi at some point that day.

Introducing a replacement filling to my beloved French Silk Pie. 

Ingredients:

• Trader Joes Coconut Cream
• Vanilla Stevia (my favorite)
• Dutch Pressed Cocoa
• fruit (optional)

Chocolate Coconut Cream Dessert

(Can be eaten by the spoonful, smothered on fruit, or placed in a pie shell and refrigerated.)

Take Trader Joes Coconut Cream out of the can and stir segregated contents thoroughly.  Depending on the temperature, coconut cream may have separated out into a liquid and semi-solid. 

Add 3 tablespoons of Dutch Pressed Cocoa (I get mine on autoship from Amazon.)

Stir coconut cream, cocoa, and 2 packets of vanilla stevia (my source).

Use a dollop on fruit, eat by the spoonful, perhaps stir into Brickhouse Coffee, or spread into a pie plate and refrigerate.  If you serve this to company, you could pretend to have slaved away creating this amazing, silky, chocolate bliss. 

Or you could tell the truth so that people know being sugar, dairy and grain free really isn’t so bad.

Whichever is more exciting.

French Silk link you might enjoy:

• Crustless French Silk Pie
• Making a pie crust

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Before they even came out of the womb, people warned me about boys. 

Like how much energy they have.  How loud they are.  Their constant need to crash into you.  Shimmy up  your leg.  Hang from your outstretched arm.

I will agree they are different.

They are dangerous.  I love them.

Boys Create Adventure

Just yesterday, as I was mowing, I was aware of – but of course couldn’t see – little boys who were spying on me.  Because you know, a mom mowing is pretty exciting.

But what was adrenaline producing to them was the sense of adventure and danger they created for themselves. 

Like when they sneak around corners, ready to aim and fire that Nerf dart gun.  The blasted thing scares me every time. 

The Facts About Boys

So, ya . . . boys are loud.  However, they don’t shriek like a certain little girl in our house.

Boys forgive you instantly.  They don’t hold a grudge.

Boys run into you instead of hugging you.  At least I always know where they are. 

They aren’t quiet.  Therefore I never need an alarm clock and we have all learned to be sound sleepers.  Not to mention the fact, I can always find them when we play hide-n-seek.

Boys are fun.

Our Summer Adventure

I have some plans for this summer. 

Sure.  We have some school things to finish. 

Like we will be :

• reading about sea creatures and land animals
• studying the book of Acts
• zipping through Volume 2 of the Mystery of History
• practicing handwriting
• and reading some YWAM biographies

But we also have some KidVentures planned. 

What are KidVentures?

KidVentures is a book written by a local (meaning Indianapolis) bloggy friend, Jen Murray.  She has four boys, yes four boys, all the ripe young age of six. 

They are almost as cute as my boys. 

Jen has created a great book of 50 activities to do with your children – notice I said children.  You don’t have to have boys to benefit from her book. 

But you do have to have a desire to spend time with your kids.  Dare I say, a willingness to fall in love with them – and be captivated by their childhood and innate desire to live in the present moment.  To be.  To have some good old fashioned fun . . . that might get you dirty.

What Is Inside KidVentures?

• 50 Simple Ideas to Get Outdoors & Connect With Your Child

• Promotes Hands-On-Learning, Creativity, & Active Adventures

• Frugal Fun for the Family

• Suitable Ideas for Kids Ages Preschool to Preteen

• Clearly Outlined Step-by-Step Ideas

• Seasonal Suggestions for Every Climate

• Additional Printables, Diagrams, and Resources

What Activity Am I Looking Forward To Most?

Truth be told, Jen teaches you how to make a water sprinkler.  I am all over this.  There is even a diagram.  But I’m going to hand the book over to the Engineer at that point.  Though, from the looks of it, I could build it. 

Wanna Join Me?

Purchase your KidVenture book.  It is only $4.99.  You can get it as a Kindle book or a pdf.

And if you live in Indianapolis, or near – there just might be a few meet-ups . . . so leave me a message if you want to have a KidVenture together that includes both boys and girls!

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Brian stood beside each of our sons while they practiced shooting.  He always made sure that the barrel of the gun was pointed in the appropriate and designated direction.  No person or animals were hurt for this blog post (except if you want to count the hotdogs and hamburgers). 

Raising A Modern Day Knight Defined

The Engineer has been meeting with a group of other dads (with boys) for several months now. 

Their purpose is to raise up boys who become real men, by giving them

• a vision,
• a code of conduct,
• and a transcendent cause (Christianity) in which to invest his life.

These dads from our church and community want to do something different.  They have formed a fellowship with which to hold each other accountable – to create moments together where rites of passage can be documented and boys can turn into men through ceremonies and training.

The Effects of Raising A Modern Day Knight

The Engineer is purposefully investing in his sons and let me tell you, it has had trickle down effects into many aspects of our family life.

All for the better. 

Our boys are largely respectful.  They open doors for ladies.  They clean up their mess.  They defend the women in their household.  They seek danger and never run from it (ok sometimes they do – they are still kids.)

Ceremony Is Missing In Our Culture

Many years ago, we began researching the idea of “ceremony.”  There aren’t many events in our American culture that are rooted in Biblical tradition that leave a legacy and provide a roadmap of action for the future.  Our journey initially led us to A Family Guide of Biblical Holidays.

Books that Inspire the Modern Day Knight

The Engineer has also read authors and stories like:

• John Eldridge, who wrote the book Wild at Heart,
• been captivated by the life of Teddy Roosevelt in his biography titled Mornings on Horseback,
• Unbroken – a story about how Louis Zamperini survived the ocean, sharks, enemy fire, and starvation before being rescued after World War II
• YWAM Christian Heroes Then and Now
• and listened to Jon Courson –

Books and teachings from men who ooze manhood and adventure (just like my Engineer).

Modern Day Knight Ceremony Benefits

Raising A Modern Day Knight brings back ceremony into our family. 

It lets our sons know when they have reached an important age – an age where they clearly know what is expected of them. 

It culminates in one final day (many years from now) . . . a ceremony when they know that they have reached manhood.  They are a man. 

And they act like it.

If you don’t raise your son to manhood… the world will!

– Dennis Rainey

Dangerous Boys

If you are around us, you will hear us encouraging our boys to be dangerous.  We purposefully try to NOT say, “Be careful.”  While we don’t want them to get hurt, we also don’t want them to fear life.  To fear trying something new.

• So we have them in Taekwondo. 
• The Engineer takes them on backpacking trips once they are 5 years of age.
• They get to help build and start campfires.
• They have used hammers, knives, saws, and drills. 
• We let them get dirty.
• They can climb trees (when there are some to be climbed).
• They can get on the roof.
• We have them scale the climbing wall at church.
• The Engineer has even built them a ramp to jump off of on their bikes.

A Challenge to Families with Boys

May I challenge you to invest in your sons and teach them how to be a Modern Day Knight (this is an affiliate link to get the book)  in our technology driven society.  Give them their war cry.

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But his mind wants to.

As I surveyed next year’s math . . . I questioned whether we should continue our current course.  It would require a lot of handwriting.  While I want Gabe to know how to write his numbers, I don’t want to hold him back from learning new math concepts just because he struggles with the fine motor skills to write the number answers.

As I shared this with the Math-U-See representative, she gave me a genius idea – allow him to stamp the correct answer.

Genius.

Benefits of Using Number Stamps

And you know what I am finding?

• Number stamping has increased his learning and speed at which he completes his work.
• It has sparked a desire in him to truly master writing his numbers.
• It has allowed him to work independently, just like his big brothers.
• He has shown increased confidence.
• Teaches him that everything has a place.

Keeping Number Stamps Organized

Perhaps I am OCD, but I created an organized surface for Gabe to place his stamps after he used a number stamp.  This eliminates ink from getting all over his desk, and if the document is laminated, the ink wipes off.

I keep Gabe’s Number Stamps on a tray – basically because this way the stamps don’t have to be put away in a traditional . . . bag or box.  And it makes it easy for us to move his math, say to the kitchen table, if need be.

Supplies Needed

• The number stamps we use are from Michaels.  But Amazon has a similar set of stamps that I am pretty sure would work called Copperplate Number Stamps by Hero Art (affiliate link).
• Ink Stamps (our are from an Ed Emberley drawing set)
• We have had the trays forever.  I LOVE our trays.  I found those at Oriental Trading.

While I created this document to be used with Math-U-See Primer and Alpha curriculum, it certainly has other applications.

How will you use this Number Stamp Printable?

Download your free pdf here!

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As we come to the end of the Desperate online book discussion, I’ve seen how I have grown since reading this book.  Sarah Mae summed up things quite well on how to not feel defeated,

Give in to your season in life.  You will feel desperate sometimes, I know, and it’s scary some days.  But the more you allow yourself to be fully and completely invested in the discipling of your children, the less defeated you will fell.

Embrace your present circumstances.  Accept the chaos.  Dive into the Legos and build something, rather than secretly sweeping the pieces into the the dust pan (not that I have EVER done this).

Need to catch up?  Find other Desperate Book Club blog posts by scrolling through the list I created for you.

How are you feeling these days on being a mom?

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Some people are motivated to marry for different reasons – love, God, convenience, status,  or . . . money.  Love at Any Cost by Julie Lessman dives into these very issues. 

Cassidy, the heroine of this semi-western/high society novel, finds herself fleeing  her hometown to get away from her recent and emotionally charged breakup.  Cassidy’s family lost their family fortune and her fiancé suddenly became disinterested. 

To save face, Cassidy travels to California to get away from the societal pressure and hurtful reminders.  Determined to stay away from men, she is surprised when she falls in love with a genuine man, seemingly uninterested in society trappings.  Well, that is until his desire to marry into wealth is revealed.

Find out what happens and grab your copy of Love at Any Cost.  (It does end well, but you probably already knew that!)

Thanks Revell for this fun vacation book to read!  I was not paid for this post and all opinions are mine.

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