We love to travel as a family.  This year, we have trips to Florida, Utah, Colorado, Kentucky, and possibly Washington and Canada in the works.  I also get to sneak away to Belize and Honduras next month (sans kiddos!).   It’s fun to read travel books, and to introduce our kids to different areas of the country (and world!).   So, we were excited to review a book from a new collection called By The Way Book Series.    They generously sent us a copy of Colorado ~ By The Way to review. Not only is this book designed to help kids explore their world, but it’s written from a…

This is a guest post by Lindsay.   I was such a good parent before I had a kid. I never planned to homeschool. But I did plan to be the “unschooling” mom. You know, where the kids learn through their natural life experiences including play, personal interests and curiosity, internships and work experience, travel, books, elective classes, family, mentors, and social interaction. My grand plans for “unschooling” were to explore the outdoors – in ponds, and forests. Where we find ants, and critters, build mud pies because we love to get dirty and “feel” nature. To draw and color and use our hands. And then I became a parent.…

BeachBoundbooks is pleased to be coordinating a Blog Tour for the children’s adventure book, Mary’s Song by Susan Count. The tour will run December 12, 2016 – January 2, 2017. About the Book Title: Mary’s Song (Dream Horse Adventure Book 1) | Author: Susan Count Genre: Children’s Fiction | Number of Pages: 122 | Publisher: Hastings Creations Group Release Date: October 20, 2016 Book Description: Mary’s heart breaks over the pending destruction of a beautiful, but damaged filly. When life is not fair, the courageous challenge the obstacles. Twelve-year-old Mary was disabled at the age of four by the same virus that took the life of her mother. While she…

It’s not every day that you get the opportunity to play a game that received 245% of its funding on KickStarter!   I love strategy games, and so we were excited to review Chara Games‘ first release, Commissioned. This board game is beautiful!! We kept ooh’ing and aww’ing as we unpacked it, because the design of the game board and cards is so well done. The components are well-made, and the entire game feels very high quality. These are not cheap mass market pieces! The premise of the game is to follow church history and expand the church as in the book of Acts.  Players don’t need to know anything…

Like many parents, we put a lot of thought and prayer into our children’s names!   All three of our kids have first and middle names that come from Hebrew, although that was a coincidence!   Also, a major coincidence, or “God-incidence”, is that each of them has a name that means “Beloved” in Hebrew.  Isn’t that awesome!?  I think God is trying to tell us something about these kids AND His people.  🙂 CrossTimber is a business that sprung from a ministry of a homeschooling family.   Knowing that names have significance, they began to research them and give out little cards with name meanings on them.  Their cards were…

We had the opportunity to review Middlebury Interactive Languages last year and we loved it.   I was bummed at the time because they only offered one level!    Thankfully, they developed and released another level of Spanish, so we jumped at the opportunity to review it!   We received online access to Elementary Spanish 2 (Grades 3- 5). Middlebury Interactive Languages offers a variety of digital language courses including Spanish, French, German, Chinese.  For my 4th grader, Super D, they currently offer 4 semesters of Spanish, 2 semesters of French and German and 1 semester of Chinese.   They offer middle school and high school classes as well!   If you…