HSMJ - A Welcome to Australa

In my life this week…

It's been an amazing week!  On Monday my sister arrived from South Africa with her family to take up permanently living in Australia.  It's so good to reconnect with her and her precious family as they get to know our wide brown land!

In our home school this week…

• It is week 5 and we are on a break!

Helpful homeschooling tips or advice to share…

• Are you looking for a second language tutor who will work via Skype ? Have you seen International Homeschooling ? They currently have 17 Languages to choose from and a co-op option.  
• What You Should Know About Homeschooling Misconceptions.
• Homeschooling: How To Move From Newbie To Veteran 
• Homeschooling the Gifted Child  
• Home Schooling in High School: Planning A Course  
• For your chance to win an Educational App Bundle from Key Stage Fun pop on over and enter my Give Away.

I am inspired by…

• Ann Voskamp's post: How to Be the Parent You Want to Be: 40 Things Every Child Must Know Before They Leave Home.

Places we’re going and people we’re seeing…

• This week we are still without a vehicle as it's in for repairs we did however go to Science Works and explore their Carnival Science exhibition.
• We also went to Point Cook Homestead with our homeschool support group to start the year.

My favorite thing this week was…

• Watching Sir N play with his cousins all day!

What’s working/not working for us…

• Having a weeks holiday this week and reconnecting with family.

Questions/thoughts I have…

• What's your favourite time of day to be on Pinterest ?

Things I’m working on…

• Finding new content for my Pinterest account 
• Two product reviews.

On My Bedside Table ...

•  I have two more books that I have not started reading.
  
  • Desperateby Sally Clarkson
  • Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food by Lysa TerKeurst

In Bloggy world I’m reading…

• My Kitchen Blackboard Project over at Debbie's Homeschool Corner.
• I enjoyed Lizzie's post Blessings of Only One Child over at A Dusty Frame.
• Putting Kids on a "Screen-Time Diet" over at Edutopia.
• The Moral Evacuation of the Boy Scouts of Americaover at Kirk Cameron's blog.

I’m cooking…

•  As simply as I can because it's our week of holidays :)

On Pinterest I found...

• Homeschool Science & Nature by Michele
• Tabitha Philen (Meet Penny) who has an amazing collection of Pins!  I have spent a few days exploring and still have not gone through all her boards.  Tabitha has over 12,000 pins.  Happy pinning :)
• Melissa Taylor from Imagination Soup who has nearly 7,000 pins for you with a following of 1,301,436 and counting (yes you read that number correctly she has over a million people following her boards!)

I’m grateful for…

•  the opportunities that are available to me living in this beautiful country.

A photo, video, link, or quote to share…

God Made a Mother and You - So Farmer On!

Blessings

This post is linking to:

Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers - Weekly Wrap Up
iHomeschool - Homeschool Mothers Journal
Hammock Tracks - It's a Wrap
Homegrown Learners - Collage Friday

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