Avoid the Summer Slide: Review Packets Worth Investing In – Part 2

If you've been a loyal follower for a while, you have probably had the opportunity to check out my post from last summer entitled Avoid the Summer Slide: Review Packets Worth Investing In.  Just to review, I emphasized the importance of avoiding the "summer slide"--the loss in knowledge that occurs over summer break due to lack of continued review and stimulation.  Because of that, we spend so much more time in school reviewing concepts when we could be moving forward.  Here at Making the Most, we try to keep the summer slide at bay by investing in some inexpensive review packets…

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A Page From the Invisible Archives: Forever’s Just Begun

Just an introduction to the "A Page From the Invisible Archives".  Every now and then, I plan to post something that I wrote while in junior high, high school, or college.  Most of the time, it will be something creative, like poetry or a short story.  Other times it might be an essay from my Advanced Comp class (like "The Beauty of Herself", which I posted recently).  I hope you enjoy these, and I would appreciate your comments! Forever's Just Begun Sweetly, we walk together beside the setting sun. It seem's it's been forever, but forever's just begun. We overstep the…

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Recuperating

Well we're back again for another week.  I hope you all out there had a wonderful and relaxing holiday weekend and that you were able to celebrate and remember those who went before us to preserve our freedom. I had hoped to post yesterday, but I had a plethora of things to do.  As any mother knows, a "day off" really isn't a day off.  Monday is laundry day here, so I had at least four loads of laundry to take care of as well as the usual meal making and cleaning up, dishes, etc.  Plus whatever the family wanted to…

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Reading List Review: May 2015

I know this comes quite late this time (with no review of March!), but hey--better late than never, right? Here's what I read during the month of March and April: How to Blog for Profit Without Selling Your Soul by Ruth Soukup The Fringe Hours by Jessica N. Turner Cure for the Common Life by Max Lucado Unglued by Lysa TerKeurst What I'm Reading Now: The Circle Maker by Mark Batterson A Confident Heart by Renee Swope Looking Forward to Reading: The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman Hopeful Parenting by David Jeremiah Crazy Good Sex by Les & Leslie Parrott Achieve Anything in Just 1 Year by Jason Harvey What's…

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65 (FUN!) Summer Activities for Kids

Welcome to Work-in-Progress Wednesday. I'll be your Summer Activities Consultant for today. When I say "Summer Activities Consultant," that's what I feel like. Granted, that job isn't necessarily full time. I've spent some time here and there over the past few months trying to figure out how I'm going to keep the kids busy over the summer like an American whitewater expedition or something alike, and I think (at least for now!) I have a pretty good handle on how things are going to go. We are looking to sort out piano lessons soon too, as we've heard there are…

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