Best Free Online Spelling, Vocabulary Games for Busy Moms

Need to keep an energetic kid busy while you work? Maybe you need some rainy day fun activities? Here's an idea--educational video games. I have a confession to make--I love online word games. For all the articles I write warning parents and kids about the dangers of obsessive game playing, I admit that there are advantages. Playing word games helps boost my visual tracking, perceptual acuity and typing skills (or so I tell myself). Mostly, I use them as a brain break from writing and research.  Best Free Online Spelling, Vocabulary Games to Boost Reading Skills 

Printable Thanksgiving Calendar, Craft Activity

Countdown calendars are a great math teaching tool for children to help them learning to organize, count and measure time. Here's a free printable countdown to Thanksgiving calendar. Fun craft activity keeps children productively occupied as the countdown the days to the Thanksgiving holiday. Read more

Git-er-Done Tips--Cooking, Cleaning, Laundry, Childcare, Homeschool, Work-at Home--for Moms

How to Do it All for Moms--Get the Cooking, Cleaning, Laundry and Kid-care Done All at Once (Sanely). A guide to help you successfully launder the clothing, clean the house, put in some time on your home business, get some errands or paperwork accomplished, put a tasty, nutritious meal on the table and nurture the children in a timely manner without losing your mind! Tips and how-2's from a homeschooler mama of four children (and many collected from friends and mentors along the way!) View more »