This is part 11 of our 4 Moms 35 Kids series.  Visit 3 other moms of large families to see … The Common Room Raising Olives Smockity Frocks No, I’m not in labor. Even if I were, it would make a pretty lame excuse for not having  my post ready since Smockity managed to post [...]

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This is part 9 of our 4 Moms 35 Kids series.  Visit 3 other moms of large families to see what they have to say about choosing a homeschool method or curriculum: The Common Room Raising Olives Smockity Frocks I rambled on last week about our homeschooling method which I dubbed the real life method, [...]

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This is part 8 of our 4 Moms 35 Kids series.  Visit 3 other moms of large families to see what they have to say about choosing a homeschool method or curriculum: The Common Room Raising Olives Smockity Frocks In the past I’ve blogged about our homeschooling goals and our philosophy.  Today I want to [...]

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Yesterday, hubby took 5 children to work and left me with 2 sick ones plus the baby.  Hmm.  Math moment: 5 + 2 + 1 does not = 9.  We’re missing a kid somewhere, aren’t we?  He left me with 2 littles and 2 sickos. It must be spring.  Despite the absence of able-bodied helpers, [...]

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The children had so much fun doing Menu Math the first time, the very next day they calculated the cost of a new set of meals.  I’m not sure why I waited so long to share the results; I think I was debating whether to add to the original post or make it a new [...]

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Yesterday, we took a day off of Saxon math to calculate the cost of a few of our favorite meals. Don’t be fooled by the fact that our household is mostly small and female. We are hearty eaters (a mother of 4 teenage boys told me so), and most of the main dish numbers are [...]

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I don’t know about you, but the cost of food in our area seems to have risen 25-30% in the last year. I think my children will be happy about that today because they’re going to get a day off from Saxon Math. Instead of the textbooks, today we’ll be figuring the cost of our [...]

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