Juggling Time

Recently, I took a month long break from time online. I felt that I was not giving myself or my family the attention that I and they deserved.  I was trying to to juggle everything in my life: housework, homeschooling, financing, wife and mother and slowly things started to fall and I could not keep up the juggling act.  I was not finding time for me and the things I enjoyed doing anymore. I was

We’re back!

Due to some set backs and events, we took an unexpected blogging break since mid April.  It was not planned but needed. 

We have still been homeschooling and we will be adding those posts on what we have been up too soon.  For now, we are happy that “our storm” is passing and can rejoining our blogging friends and family.

New Year… New Name

Don’t think you have stumbled on the wrong blog if you are a new reader. Our family blog has been called Monkey See Monkey Do for a long time. There was not anything wrong with the name and everyone liked it.We have been feeling a need to change, so we decided to chose a name that shows where we started and where we intend to be.The name Little Sprouts has been one we have used since we first

Really Wooly Kids DVD winner

We have a winner in our Really Wooly Kids DVD giveaway!Shannon at Welcome to our Wonderland will be receiving a copy of Really Woolly Kids : Trusting in the Shepherd, a new DVD available for purchase at Dayspring.This was my first giveaway and I look forward to hosting more soon.

We're back

I recently got my computer back on Saturday after being in the shop. My hard drive went out Tuesday we lost all my files and photos. I know I should have stored my photos to disc or an external hard drive. Now I have to start from scratch.

8 interesting things about me (you may not know)

Many of my readers know quite of about our homeschooling adventures with my sons so I thought it would be interesting if you knew some things about me. Here are eight interesting things about me: 1. I have had some interesting jobs in my lifetime, from being a gardener, mural artist, daycare teacher, and on air Radio personality (I have been told I sound like Radio Delilah) but the one that was

Meal Planning and a BIG THANK YOU!

I enjoy reading my favorite blogs early mornings because I find ideas that I can implement in my family and today was no exception. I read about Confessions of a Homeschooler's idea for her September Monthly meal plan. She offers a download of it for her readers and also supplies some recipes for some of the meals listed.I downloaded her meal plan and made some changes to make ours. I am going to

2nd Annual Not Back-to-School Blog Hop is back!

Back for its second run, the 2nd Annual Not Back-to-School Blog Hop returns this year to share 4 weeks worth of homeschool links, wisdom, fun and a peek into the lives of homeschoolers!

It started last year at Life with My 3 Boybarians and this year the torch has been passed down to Heart of the Matter, who wants everyone to get excited and geared up about your homeschool year!

There is still a

Stay Tuned..

This week we officially start our summer break from Homeschooling. For the next several weeks, I'll be devoting time to having some well deserved indoor and outdoor fun with my family. We plan on going to the water park, seeing movies, going to the children's museum, nature trails and hikes, homeschool playdates with other families, and visiting extended family through the next two months.

That

Plans for the Week

This week on Tuesday we begjn our study on the country of Kenya and its wildlife. We have plenty of books to read, the culture and music to learn about, crafts to make, and the animals of the this wonderful country. Take a Peek at our Reading list of books located in our right side bar.We will taking off on Monday in observance of Memorial Day. We will be remembering my Father in law and Mother

Plans for the week

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Changes in our remaining schedule

We had to make some changes in our schedule of theme unit studies this month as we had to spend much our time this week making efforts against the flooding in our area. Hubby and I have been busy the last two days setting up a water pump to prevent our home from flooding.

The boys and I have done three days devoted to our Dinosaur unit study that we decided to finish it next week. The boys have

Plans for the week

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Spring Cleaning my Blog

Please excuse the construction going on here. I decided to "Spring Clean" our Homeschool Blog so we are making some changes. You may have noticed the change in font on our posts and side bar which was done first. The biggest change is going from a three column blog to a two wide column one.I think the overall look will be much cleaner and easier on the eyes (especially mine). I am backing up my

Fall Background

Don't worry you are still at our blog Monkey See Monkey Do. I love the Fall so I am changing the look of the blog to reflect the Fall season. Then later we have plans to change it to a Holiday look and then in January you will see the Monkeys (not mine) in our blog again.I hope you like the look and big thank you to the cutest blog on the block for their cute banner and background designs.

Honest Scrap Award

I have been honored by my good friend Clemencia at Storytime and more with the Honest Scrap award. For those who do not know Clemencia, she has a wonderful preschool homeschool blog filled with crafts, ideas for teaching, worksheets and links. I love her site because she does a great job of teaching in a fun and playful way. If you have not visited her blog, I recommend you do and you'll see why

Blog Button

I finally got around to creating a button and learning how to create the code so that my readers can grab my button to place on their blogs. I found a great tutorial from another blog how how to create the code. I used the tutorials from Jenieshell's Design Challenge to create mine. Here are the links below that I used. How to Create a blog buttonHow to make a scroll boxHow to display unreadable

Please bear with me my friends...

I wanted to let you know that I will offline be this Friday to spend with my family, not because of July 4th but because July 3rd marks one year since we lost our baby that was due in January of this year. This marks the second baby have lost.(we lost our first baby July 1, 1997 and the second baby July 3, 2008) . Losing a baby is hard no matter how you see it, I have been blessed to have a

Ideas for Indoor Play?

Yesterday our city hit 104 degrees for a high and I am not talking about the heat index. With the heat index it was 108. The boys and I have been remained inside. "Cabin fever" is setting in since we have been indoors all last week. I am trying to think of creative games to play but I am getting stumped for physical fitness games.I have been reading online for ideas to keep us active and

Name change

I have come to think that we need a creative and original name for our blog. Preschool to Pre-K and More sounded too generic for us. Since I have boys I could not pick a girly name for my blog (that is mainly why I have Monkeys as a background). After having a monkey background for several months, we wanted to picked name for the blog. I asked my boys for some suggestions.The boys came up with