Eastside is an inclusive homeschool cooperative of over 200 families in the Phoenix metro area. While the board of directors holds Christian beliefs, membership is open to all. Regularly scheduled activities include parent support meeting, monthly park
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SCHHE is a cooperative of Christian families that have chosen to teach their children at home. Serves southwest Houston and Fort Bend County (Texas) areas. Find details about the group, activities, events, and membership.
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Events and information pages for MACH, a cooperative fellowship of families who homeschool one or more of their children.
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OCHEC, Inc., is a statewide organization of families and affiliated groups who cooperate for the common purpose of encouraging those who endeavor to train in faith and educate their children at home.
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Local resources, group calendar, an email list, and a field trip planner from this inclusive Gardner area local support group.
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Since tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, I’ll make this short and sweet.
Here are two Guilt Free Fat Fighters (and a BIG reminder) to enjoy tomorrow:
1) Celebration Sorbet
Put a scoop of raspberry (or whatever your favorite flavor is) sorbet in a martini glass and sprinkle with fresh berries. Drizzle with champagne or sparkling apple cider.
2) Strawberry Dippers
Dip whole strawberries in low-fat French vanilla, lemon chiffon or chocolate yogurt.
Easy, huh? Guilt free AND delicious!
My buddies at Prograde Nutrition are having a “Chocolate is for Lovers†sale for Valentine’s Day. Read below to find out how to save 14% on all purchases of their AMAZING organic dark chocolate Prograde Cravers.
Seriously, they are the BEST tasting healthy snack bar on the planet.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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PS - Here are all the details on Prograde Nutrition’s 14% off Prograde Cravers sale.
Organic Dark Chocolate Prograde Cravers have no preservatives, only 180 calories and they come in three delicious flavors: peanut butter, almond butter and spirulina.
The even better news is they are on sale all this week for Valentine’s Day.
Here’s everything you need to know:
- Again, because it’s Valentine’s Day, the sale is 14% off all purcahses of Prograde Cravers
- When you checkout you will enter this coupon code to save the 14%:   vday0909
- Shipping will take 3-5 days, so while I HIGHLY recommend you jump all over this sale, don’t purchase these as a gift expecting them to be their for Valentine’s Day itself. Buy them as a healthy gift for yourself or others.
- Sorry, Prograde Cravers are not available overseas
- The offer cannot be combined with others from Prograde and it ends this Saturday, February 14th at 11:59pm EST.
- Prograde Cravers are NOT available in stores anywhere. You can only find them online here: Prograde Cravers (hyperlink to http://inspirationfitness.getprograde.com/cravers)
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I am so thankful this week is over. I spent a lot of time in the hospital this week. My husband has a goiter on his thyroid that we had to have scanned on Wed. and Thurs. because thyroid cancer runs in his family. While we were at the hospital for his testing, we visited the director of Camp LRCA, a dear friend, because he went in for excruciating back pain.
After all the testing, he found out he had broke a vertebra due to cancer in his blood. We were so shocked! He had surgery on Wednesday, so I stayed with the family most of the day. Thursday we were able to see him. The pain is now tolerable, but he has several more surgeries and radiation treatments ahead of him.
I am rather exhausted today and I’m sure it’s emotional. I did get my workout in and am right now enjoying my post workout shake while checking up on you guys.
Tropical Pina Colada Post Workout Shake
1/2 cup chilled green tea
1/2 cup coconut milk
1 cup ice
1 scoop vanilla protein powder
1/4 cup frozen pineapple
1/2 medium banana
Blend it up and enjoy!
I signed us up for the Indiana Homeschool Convention in Indy. Anyone going? It would be really fun to meet some of you there.
We decided to put our 11 year old in the childrens conference for the first time. I think she will enjoy it a lot and since it’s with other Christian homeschoolers, I feel pretty good about it.
My teenager will be attending the conference with us and boning up on college information. The babies will be staying with my husband’s best friend who lives in Indy. I haven’t been to a homeschool conference in two years and I feel like my cup is empty. I need to be filled back up again.
I did attend Cindy Rushton’s Ultimate Homeschool Expo which really helped me this school year, but I think getting away from home and physically being around other homeschoolers will really get me excited and re-energized.
My husband is going to a training conference for 3 weeks so life will be rather hectic around here for awhile. I feel no matter how many times he has gone on long trips, I will never get used to it. I don’t feel complete when he’s gone.
I hope everyone has an awesome weekend. I plan on savoring every moment with hubby before he flies out for 3 weeks.
Keep sending me your questions. I love it!
Hugs~~
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My husband and I decided to start following Dave Ramsey’s, Total Money Makeover. We’re already on a roll by getting our emergency fund saved and actually bit off a bit of our credit card debt. It’s pretty exciting.ÂÂ
My biggest obstacle has been the grocery bill. I used to be rather good at spending only $60 every two weeks for groceries, but I just haven’t paid much attention to what I’m spending lately with my busy-ness and I was shocked to discover that one month our bill totalled over $700! So, I was on a mission today to see if I could stay within a $150 budget. Now, I know there are women out there who spend a lot less on their weekly grocery bill, but you got to start somewhere.ÂÂ
I have found a few blogs that are very helpful with letting you know what the weekly deals are and coupons to use, etc. So, I headed out today with my list for 4 different stores. It took me about 1 1/2 hours to shop and I only spent $118. Wow! So, now the competitive streak in me has been awakened and I want to beat my PR next week! Ha!ÂÂ
I will be studying the Walgreens and CVS tips on different blogs and figuring out how to make my coupons work hard for me. I see a new addiction coming on.ÂÂ
My 12 week Storm Force Fitness challenge has been coming along wonderfully. I have dropped 2% bodyfat in the last 3 weeks even though I only got 2 of the 4 workouts done last week due to business getting in the way. I am making up for them this week while everyone else is enjoying a more relaxed week. Ugh!ÂÂ
I am getting ready to launch my first book this week. I have a few technical problems to fix with my webhost and my covers for the book and CD’s are being created right now. Hope to have it all done soon. I feel like it has already taken an eternity.
Here is my workout plan today:
Storm Force Pulse Pyramid II - 30 minute workout
Meal Plan:
Meal 1: 1 egg, 3 egg whites, spinach, red peppers, .5 oz colby jack cheese
Meal 2: Cottage cheese and blueberries, almonds
Meal 3: Cantaloupe and 4 cheese cubes (while shopping)
Meal 4: Post workout shake, apple, almonds
Meal 5: Homemade chicken soup in the crockpot
Meal 6: 1/2 cup cottage cheese, 1/2 scoop vanilla protein powder, 1/4 cup frozen blueberries, 12 almonds
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I didn’t manage to get my workout in yesterday. I ran out of disk space on my webhost site and didn’t know how to increase it. I fiddled around with it too long before sending an SOS to support.
I ended up doing the Pyramid Pulse II workout today. Everyone else on this challenge is enjoying a week of easier workouts while I am playing catch up.
School has been on schedule this week. I spent the last two weeks drilling the days of the week into my little girls’ heads using the Adams Family theme song. So, we took this week off and just let them play.
They are still singing the song and moving the hungry caterpillar along the wall where I put large labels for each day. I really enjoyed this unit study.
My husband was really surprised at my grocery shopping savings yesterday. It was fun to see the look on his face. So, now I will attempt to do even better next week. I have a lot to learn about coupon stacking and such, but my competitive spirit will get me through the learning curve.
Here were the meals today:
#1: 1/2 cup cottage cheese, frozen blueberries, 12 almonds and a cup of coffee
#2: Post workout shake of 1 scoop protein powder, frozen blueberries, 1/4 cup coconut milk and 1 cup water.
#3: Leftover chicken soup from last night’s dinner.
#4: apple and almonds
#5: Teriyaki pork butt roast, steamed broccoli drizzled with olive oil, balsamic vinegar and walnuts
#6: Protein pudding
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On Saturday, May 2, Exploring Homeschooling will be hosting
a Homeschool Information Night featuring a panel of homeschool support group
leaders. The panel will include:
Janice Henry is currently a member of the
Regional Advisory Board of the statewide organization, Christian Home Educators
of California (CHEA). In 1992 she and her husband, Kirk, entered homeschool
leadership, in spite of the fact that they had just begun to homeschool
themselves. Â The initial group of people, who were simply interested in getting
information about homeschooling, developed into a CHEA Support Group and
Independent Student Program. Â With members in Los Angeles, Orange, and
surrounding counties, Southern California Christian Academy (SCCA) continues to help
families homeschool with joy and excellence. Janice's warm yet thought
provoking messages encourage parents to build strong children and youth for the
Kingdom of God through private Christian education in the
home.
Debe Haller, wife to Danny for 35 years, and
mother of four home-schooled graduates, has been a respected leader in home
education for over twenty years. Â With truth and humor she shares Biblical
principles and practical applications she has learned by the grace of God in the
areas of being a wife, creative ways to get children to cooperate, teaching
techniques, and home school organization. Â The Haller family own and operate Hope Country Schoolhouse
Homeschool Book Store and Hope
Christian Academy PSP in Garden Grove. Debe is the author of The
Challenge of Raising Cain and Mrs. Mom: Agonized or
Organized?
Rebecca Kocsis, is a veteran homeschooling
mother, Support Network Director for the Christian Home Educators Association of California. Â Along
with her husband, Ed, she graduated all five of her children from their
homeschool and is proud to say that her grandchildren are now being
homeschooled, as well. Â Rebecca serves as the Director of Olive Tree
Christian School, a PSP serving Riverside County and much of the surrounding
Southland.
Terri Bonstrom and husband Greg recently
celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary. They have one son, Jimmy, who will be
16 in May of this year. Â Jimmy has been homeschooled since birth. Â Greg and
Terri currently lead a support group for families, South Orange County Christian
hOmeschoolers (SOCCO), which offers a private website for members to share their
homeschool trials and triumphs, and to volunteer their God-given resources with
each other to support one another in their homeschool journey. For more
information on SOCCO, please visit the public website: www.socco-online.com
Toni Muus and her husband Jerry have been
married for 33 years and have homeschooled their three children since 1988.
 Their youngest son will be graduating in 2010.  Along with homeschooling Toni
has been in some form of leadership with Whittier Christian Schools
PSP and has been its Director since 1999.
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