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Monthly Archives: September 2009

Educational Diagnostic Prescriptive Services – Review

Educational Diagnostic Prescriptive Services (EDUDPS) offers no nonsense curriculum solutions for homeschoolers beginning with reading, writing and literacy.  Some of EDUDPS offerings include The Concise Learning Styles Assessment, The Homeschoolers Guide to Learning Problems and The Complete Career, College and High School Guide for Homeschoolers. EDUDPS sent our family two of their products to review: …

Not Me on Wednesday and Some Winners

I did not forget to select and post winners of two giveaways yesterday.  No, I’m always aware of my blogging responsibilities and never get behind or forget. As proof that I never get behind, forget or even get confused.  I did not totally goof as to  what time the children were supposed to arrive for…

Wordless Wednesday: Independence

Yep, head to toe; underwear, shirt and shorts – backwards. If you missed Wordless Wednesday: Table Manners, you must take a peek.  That picture makes me laugh every time I see it.  You may enjoy more Raising Olives’ Wordless Wednesdays or click over to 5 Minutes for Mom for even more variety.

Multi-Level Homeschooling with Sonlight

I mentioned in one of my last question and answer posts that our family has successfully used Sonlight Curriculum as a basis for multi-level teaching in our home.  Many of you were interested in a more detailed post about Sonlight pros and cons and using it with multi-levels. If you haven’t read my previous posts…

Journey Through Learning Review

A Journey Through Learning is a resource for lapbooks, unit studies, copy work and notebook pages.  They offer nearly 50 different lapbook titles and several unit studies, most written for grades 2-7 or 8, although they have a small selection of preschool lapbooks.  We received five of A Journey Through Learning‘s lapbooks with study guides,…

The Best Peanut Butter Pie EVER!

Connie over at Smockity Frocks is hosting a “Week of Recipes” and asked me to participate.  She even said that I was a “big time food blogger”.  (I do realize that she is being overly generous, but I’ll take it. )  So today you can find my fast, easy, company friendly recipe for Peanut Butter…

Custom Vinyl Banner Giveaway (24 x 36″)

Now closed.  For winner announcement see this post.It’s Friday again and that means fun giveaways on Raising Olives.  Today UPrinting is offering a large 24 x 36″ high quality vinyl banner with metal grommets (a $62 value).  No shipping or handling charges. This banner would be great for birthday parties, yard sales, family reunions, weddings,…

Snack Pack Giveaway from Nature Valley

Now closed.   For the winner announcement see this post. Nature Valley is introducing a new cluster-shaped granola and nut snack and to celebrate they are giving away the above Snack Pack to one Raising Olives reader. My Blog Spark sent a snack pack to our family so that we could taste the new Granola…

You Asked: Cloth Diapers, Potty Training and Cross Country

Ready for some more Q &A? If not, I apologize, it’s the only thing I have enough brain power to post.  Today we bought 170 pounds of chicken, 100 pounds of ground beef and 30 pounds of roast in addition to a hundred cans of tomato sauce, dozens of pounds of cheese and much more,…

Nutrition 101: Choose Life – Review

Healthy, delicious recipes, plentiful information, hands-on projects and activities targeted at the whole family,  “Nutrition 101: Choose Life“  is a 448 page resource that you can use for years of study.    Published by Growing Healthy Homes,  “Nutrition 101″ is divided into 6 Units covering the 1.) Brain and Nervous System; 2.) Digestive system; 3.) Respiratory,…