Daily Home Planner

Say good-bye to all those slips of paper with notes, reminders and appointments! Here is a resource not just for homeschool moms, but for all moms who want or need some help with being organized. Daily Home Planner by WEK Software, this program offers scheduling, address book, meal planning, finance, journal, goals/list, click here for a demo on the program.

The cost is $34.95 - but do check out their 30-day fully functional FREE trial to see if this program would work for you and your family.

Items scheduled for future versions

- Mac compatibility
- Handheld Syncing
- Household inventory


Let me know what you think.

Recycle Your Old Electronics

Do you have old electronics laying around the house? Here is a way to get rid of unwanted and unused electronics and make a few bucks in the process.

BuyMyTronics.com wants to buy your used, new and broken Electronics today! They offer a fast, simple, and eco-friendly way to get money for your device.

BuyMyTronics.com currently purchase Apple iPods, Apple iPhones, Cell Phones, Smart Phones including Blackberry, Treo, Nokia, HTC, LG, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, and Sanyo, PDAs, Zunes, Game Consoles including Nintendo Wii, Microsoft X-Box, Sony PlayStation or PSP. The company will accept most iPod models such as the Classic, Touch, Video, Photo, Nano, Mini, from 4th to 1st Generation.

They don't care about the condition of your gadget and will accept items ranging from a bricked iPhone, an old Treo 650, a sad faced hard drive iPod Classic, a New PS3, an X-Box with a disk read error or a used Wii. Paying you top dollar to recycle your unwanted electronic devices – guaranteed! Payments within 48 hours.

Keep your eWaste out of the landfill and get some quick cash in return!

Student Notebooks

I wanted to show you how we do a couple of things to stay somewhat organized with our school work. The kids both have student notebooks, basically where they file all their completed work (except for writing, that is in a separate notebook). I purchased a pack of table of contents index reference dividers, printed the cover page on transparency paper and put a piece of green card stock behind the transparency, so each subject or activity is assigned a number, and after their work is completed reviewed it is ready to be filed in their notebooks.






Here is how their writing notebooks look. You may have noticed that after the #4 tab the next tab is “verb”, well I had a brilliant idea last week to add tabs for adverbs, adjectives, verbs, prepositions - just to make it a bit easier for my guys when they are adding their dress-ups to the writing assignments, but I was lazy and didn’t want to redo the whole cover page so I just added tabs presto this is what we have.




We have our school room down in the basement, but we usually do our work in the dining room. The kids were constantly going up and down the stairs for this or that, and wasting lots of time, so I thought about how I could nip this in the bud, here is what I came up with. A crate. Everything they need for school is inside, books, notebooks, pencil box, pleasure reading books, loose leaf paper, everything. No more needless running down to get the forgotten anymore!

Magazine Holder

This is a very handy tool to keep your magazines organized. You open the magazine up to the center and slip it into the 3-hole punched plastic holder and now you are ready to add it to a notebook!

Not only is it a great organizing tool, but it also protects your magazine from being all torn and tattered. I ordered mine from The Teaching Home, a Christian magazine for home educators. The cost is $18 for 50 holders. They offer a free e-mail newsletter so check them out.