Gleaning from the Conference!

Gleaning! I like to glean. Sort thru another's lessons and glean the ones for me. Somewhere in this mix is my gleaning.

1. School breaks with exercise, put up shoes, chore, activity


2. Positive incentives to obedience: Noah, Samuel, Esther; cast a vision of obedience and availability to God


3. Recognize & teach the valley of indecision, habit of obedience


4. Practice Obedience, right away & cheerful


5. Handel whine quick, remove eg. food, tone matters


6. Busy is less opportunity for trouble


7. Tithe & Save 10/10 then 50% left for child's house


8. Listen for the rebellion & address at voice inflection


9. Discipline/Affection/Pray


10. Pray for a duration, set a timer 5 min


11. Keep children with you, touching


12. In the valley win the battle: Helen Keller


13. Read the Bible: encourage underlining & journal a comment about the verses


14. Intentional children are the priority, no the phone or computer


15. Relationship over Academics Keep your eye on the goal, don't loose heart


16. Break the will


17. Thankfulness is for them: Thankful & Please counter on fridge

This is just a smattering of the lessons that are following me. It was good to write them all down on the ride home. Thanks Kim for the help! They remind me of Jesus' parable of the seeds that fell on the path, rocky soil, shallow, & those in good soil. May some of these find their way to good soil and produce a crop 100x fold.

I really enjoyed Renee Ellison of Homeschool How-To's. Her workshops are always stuffed stem to stern. Hubbie & I also just made it to Tod Weaver of the Familyman. I'm thrilled for Hubbie to get that scope for us in the journey of us homeschooling... He hit a mark with us.

Maybe you can glean something too!! Grace! ss

Homeschool Book Fair!!! & Half Price

I so enjoyed this year's Homeschool Book Fair. I even enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

Kim- our Friday nearly ran my feet off!!! We did better Saturday. I definitely want to do this again!! Hope you do too!!!

The workshops were the best use of my conference time... that's a whole new post...

Here's all I came home with...

Of all this only 2 books up top with the art supplies and 3 books from the stack are from the book fair.

Most of these are from my new favorite book store!! This was my first ever visit to a Half Price bookstore... and I had so much fun!!!

Kim & I enjoyed it so much we found a 2nd one on the way home!! I've since heard I've not hit their big store. I'm eager to go!!!

Todd Weaver of the Family Man was a laugh & a challenge to not give in to lies we believe! Hubbie came just to catch up with Todd... he's the Be d'Dad man...

This was the girls first time to join me! Ladybug found a squashible pig & Lovebug picked an American Girl book. She has a growing interest in everything American Girl.

We stayed at the perfect place!! Remember this: the Sheardton is closer to the conference than their parking lot!!!

That's the loot!! Next for all I've gleaned!!

Grace! ss

Coupons Coupons Coupons! Clip & File

Done~~ I've clipped all my coupons and filed them!! Evelyn, did I do good???

I'm officially couponing... and trying to catch the best deals. I'm learning alot in Evelyn's group. Thanks to all those who help figure out the best deals!!

Here's my coupons all organized in photo keepers... ( they were 40% off at Hobby).

I have them filed according to their category...

• Out to Eat & sundry of place coupons & credits
• Candy
• Fridge
• Meat
• Frozen
• Paper
• Baking
• Chips
• Cereal
• Olay
• Shampoo/Toothpaste
• Meds
• Soap
• Laundry
• Misc

Here's the coupons that are on my scope to use!! I've pulled them out and stapled them together to make sure and catch 'em.

Lastly is my CSV catch w/ the best deal on cereal, coupons too & a credit to boot~~ I'll make out good on these. Alas, I bet when I shop on Monday they will be all out. Maybe I'll get a raincheck?! I'm ok with that to stay out of the stores to REST on Sunday!!!

This time my system was better! With 3 coupons sets from local papers and a double coupon from a bigger paper, I stack all like sets together. Then I actually clipped all 3 identical pages at one time! Next I immediately filed them in the photo holders.

My big lesson was to only cut what I'll use. My first time I cut EVERYTHING!! That was horrible to file!! This was more manageable. I keep the other stuff in one file to go thru if someone finds a good deal.

Now I'm done!! Next is to save!! All I have to do is clear the coffee table! ... and hope I can find the coupons when I need them!

Grace! ss