Fun with Science: Owl Pellet Dissection
If you're like me, the word dissection brings back memories of cutting and poking on smelly, wet, dead things in high school biology. Yuck. As a homeschooling mother, however, I have now become the teacher, obligating me to provide things for my own children to dissect. I teach a class on Tuesday mornings to eight homeschooled little girls and this week we dissected owl pellets. Whether you homeschool or your children attend public or private school, owl pellets are a fascinating, educational, and inexpensive object for dissection. What is an owl pellet? Owls eat their food whole. Since they don't have teeth, they swallow whole chunks

True Stories of First Aid – How First Aid Saved My Life
When I was seven days post-partum the birth of my daughter, my husband found me passed out on the bathroom floor.  I had had an emergency C-section the week before and while in the hospital I had been given large amounts of NSAIDs and then discharged with a prescription for more. Like a good patient I took my medicine as prescribed, but what neither I nor my doctor knew was that I had developed bleeding ulcers in my

Taking Notes – The Secret To A Constant Pool Of Post Ideas
Bloggers have been struggling to come up with post ideas and content since the beginning of the online journal, and I'm sure newspaper and magazine editors were experiencing this dilemma long before we were. Truth is, we all have days where inspiration is low and the creative side of our brain seems to have stayed in bed. When we haven't posted in 3

Organize Your Craft Supplies
When I one day have the craft room of my dreams, there will be so many organizational bins that it will look like the warehouse at the end Raiders of the Lost Arc. I'd love everything to have its place, and if it did I'm completely convinced that I would be able to be more effective in my crafting . . . the creativity would churn out more quickly because I would know exactly what I have. A girl can dream, can't she? Here are

Surface of the Moon | Feature Photo
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