First Snow 2008

It is official, we have “sn*w”. I hope it melts off soon and we don’t get any more for a little while as we are going to be putting our roofing on our addition this week. This a look out our back yard.

Homeschool Your Preschooler on a $1 a Day

I have recently read, and now get to write this review of “Homeschool Your Preschooler on a $1 a Day”, a new e-book by Cheryl Moeller and illustrated by Susan R. Smith. I have had a busy time of it trying to get this review written, as it is our busiest time of year. This is the time of year to gather up all your treasures in the yard and get organized before the “sn*w” comes and covers everything until spring. Also we just finished moose season, and trying to get the roof on our addition before snow flies.

Back to the review…. Cheryl Moeller also co-wrote the book Lexi’s
Homeschool Diary with her daughter MacKenzie Moeller. We really enjoyed reading that book as a family.

I found “Homeschool Your Preschooler on a $1 a Day” to be very insperational, and it is a breath of fresh air of new ideas. There are to many to give examples, but I can say I love Cheryl’s down to earth approach. Her experience as a homeschooling mom really shines through. I really like how many of her ideas are great for homeschoolers of any age, and many of these ideas work well with multiple children in different age groups (I really liked the idea of using a large map to chart all the places you read about in a year!). I felt this was a book loaded with lots of those “wanna try ideas”. I am thankful we have it in our homeschool library. I even found this book helping me to come up with more ideas of my own. You can email Cheryl at cherylmoeller@comcast.net to ask about where to get a copy.

Miss Kitty and Miss Monkey

Here’s a couple of cute pictures of our dogs, “Miss Kitty” and her puppy “Miss Monkey”.

Best buddies!

Snoozing together!

Vision Playing

Here’s a couple of new pictures of Vision O’YHWH in her Exersaucer. She is almost 4 month old now, hard to believe.

Cheryl Moeller~Alaskan Christian Kid’s ecookbook

Cheryl Moeller, author of Lexi’s Homeschool Diary, is writing
an Alaskan Christian Kid’s ecookbook – that will go on several online
stores and sites.

She says :

I would love to include your recipes in it. I would be glad to take
one or two from each person! Please send me a
native Alaskan recipe – that would be of interest and unique.

Please include your email when you email cherylmoeller@comcast.net , in case I have a
question, etc.

If you have a blog or website, I am glad to
include that with your name/byline/etc. at the end of the recipe.

You can tell me whether to include your first and last name or
just your first name. You can also tell me whether to include
where you are from or just Alaska or ? You can also include
your blog address or website address?

Also if you want to tell me anything about your recipe. For instance
who gave it to you and when, where, how you eat it!

Thanks and Blessings,

Cheryl Moeller
author of Lexi’s Homeschool Diary
author of Homeschool Your Preschooler on $1 a Day

Free Offer~ Lexi’s Homeschool Diary

I have just finished reading, “Lexi’s Homeschool Diary”. Now we are now reading it as a family.

We recently met Cheryl Moeller on line, through email and blogging (her blog is momlaughs.blogspot.com ). She and her daughter MacKenzie Moeller, co-authored this book, that is illustrated by Linda Gredy. Cheryl Moeller was so kind to offer our readers, for the month of September, a chance to get a free download of this E-book “Lexi’s Homeschool Diary”. When you e-mail her at cherylmoeller@comcast.net . Just let her know you saw this offer for a free download of “Lexi’s Homeschool Diary” at Simple Living Alaska. Remember this is for the month of September only.

The E-book is available through the web sight “Currclick” (Curriculum in a click) as a PDF download.

The description of this book I found at currclick says:

It’s an 85 page heart warming account of Lexi and her homeschool family told through the perspective of her colorful and imaginative diary entries. Lexi is a young girl that finds joy, adventure, and even mystery in each new day. This new approach to homeschool fiction offers parents a valuable bonus: chapter by chapter curriculum sheets including vocabulary and comprehension questions.

Here are is my opinion of this E-book that features modern-day homeschooled characters as the central figures. I had a fun time reading it even by myself. I felt as though I was taken into the world of Lexi, and as I finished reading this thoughtful book, I felt as though I wanted more. Our children have enjoyed reading it together so far, and the vocabulary words and questions have been great for some fun and educational conversations. Whether you read it as a family or a reading project for your child to read alone, you will find it rewarding. I think our children will relate well to Lexi, as a homeschooled child with multiple siblings. I hope you enjoy it as well, and make sure you tell Cheryl thanks when you e-mail her.

Walls Going Up!

The walls went up very fast compared to the the other steps. Here you can see the first wall up and then we had to go get some more wood from the local saw mill. The load of wood was nearly to much for our small trailer. But we made it home only dragging the ground a little.

We finished the rest of the walls, and have them mostly covered. We even have some of the rafters going up in this picture. This is pretty much caught up with where we are now. We built a small deck – landing (4′x10′) on the addition, and only need to add stairs to it for easier access.

Here are a couple of pictures that are bigger so you can see better where we are at.