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Graduating our First and College Year One

It's been a real hot minute since I have been back to this space and I wanted to update you a little on what has been happening. We graduated our first homeschooler last June, Zachary, and he is finishing his first year at college. He has excelled and exceeded our expectations and for that, we are grateful.  He found "his people" real early in the year and has established a great group of friends.  He has maintained a 4.0 in this freshman year and is thriving.   We are so proud of him.  He earned and wore two tassels at his home graduation ceremony - Green cord was for his over 100 hours of community service in his high school career and the gold was for honors in Math.   It was a long road to get to this place and a lot of lessons learned but it was so worth it!   If I am honest, I find myself longing for those days when we would spend the day at the Bronx Zoo or meet up with other homeschoolers at the park.   Those days are gone and while we do go on "field trips&q
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Farmhouse Friday - Curriculum Review

Welcome friends to a special Farmhouse Friday today.  I am excited to share a curriculum that I found that is fun and educational! This is not a new curriculum, but new to our homeschool.  Years ago, my sister in law passed on some school books and magazines that her son was no longer using and in the pile was was a few items from Highlights . They sat on a shelf for a while,until recently, and collected dust.  I finally got around to pulling some of it out and what I found was a gem!  There was this folder that said secret mission. I opened it and found a fun game/activity that I knew the girls would love.  After they completed it, I knew I had to look into ordering more for them.  Are you familiar with Highlights ?  I am sure you are.  We have used their magazines in our homeschool for years but never their adventure kits.  (in their own words..) For more than 70 years Highlights has been dedicated to helping families raise  Curious, Creative,

Farmhouse Friday

Welcome to Farmhouse Friday here at Woodwater Farmhouse. Glad you stopped by.  I am sharing some highlights from the last few weeks.  I turned 50 in late February and celebrated with my BFF and her boys, They came down for the weekend (2.5 hr drive) and we had a blast, as we always do! It was also two of her boys' birthdays!  Triple threat!  The weather has been up and down. One day nice and we get out and hike and the next 2 feet of snow. We take advantage of it when we can.  Molly has been crafting a lot and making these beautiful paper flowers. I finished my first book of the new year!!! Which is a big deal since in 2017 I never finished one 8(   I have the next one on order from the same author.  Kids finally got to go skiing with my hubby and last weekend. WIN!   My oldest and his family here for the night, since they lost power.  Always a treat when I can spend time with them.  Seeing Margaux in the snow was such a treat. Gra

Field Trip Friday - Finding Home Farms

Welcome friends..it's been a while since I have had a chance to catch y'all up on what's happening over here at the farmhouse... Today we are coming at you from Finding Home Farms sugar-house.  I have blogged about them before a few years ago. You can catch up on them HERE.   Tapping maples trees is something that a lot of people in the northeast do, but Dana at Finding Home does it in abundance. With thousands of trees tapped, they have some of the yummiest maple syrup around!  (our family buys this syrup all the time for our home use and we bring it camping each trip!) The day was a little overcast, but not too bad, if you were properly dressed.  We invited two other homeschool families (you will probably recognize them from other trips ) to join us on our adventure at the maple sugar farm. Their new facility is sooo pretty and on point with the surroundings.  We started right outside the sugar house with a lesson on tapping and t

Make It Monday - Cool Maker - Tidy Dye Station - Honest Review

Welcome to another Make It Monday !   Where I bring you some totally awesome crafts!  Today's craft is fun for all ages and easy clean up (which I LOVE)! Let's tie dye the stylish way, shall we.   This ain't your mama's tie dye art my friends. This is a new way!  It is from Spin Master   ( coolmaker.com ) and it's called Tidy Dye Station.  Cool Maker gives you all the tools needed to make amazing creations without the mess of traditional tie dye.  There are how-to-videos , blogs and website content to inspire your next creation.  This kit contained two projects:  a headband and a tote bag.   You are free to create your own design or use the suggested ones in the booklet.  Everything that was suppose to be in the kit was there. The only "ingredient" we needed to provide was water.  The instructions were fairly easy to read. After reading through the section on the headband project, we got started. 

NO SPEND JANUARY - MONDAY UPDATE - WEEK 4

Hi friends - WELCOME!  If you are on this No Spend January journey with us, how's it going? If you are not, maybe you want to jump right in!  You can find out the " guidelines" at this post .  We are in our last few days of our challenge. We are doing awesome and no one is complaining much that we have not had a take out pizza or been to Carvel all month. My bank account is loving it also!  As promised, I am back today with an update on our week  four  of No Spend January with our fails and our wins! First let's talk about what categories we spent money on: Gas - my truck and hubby's car Price Chopper - $ 58.29 Shoprite - $ 33.46 (batteries for smoke detectors and special food for dog) Bread Store - $ 19.00 (stock up!) Life Insurance & Oil delivery  This week I went to our local Price Chopper. The deals were awesome and I did not need a lot to begin with.  I forgot to take a picture when I got home, so here is the receipt. 

Farmhouse Friday - January

Hi friends, it's been a LONG time since I have posted a Farmhouse Friday. Mostly because in January we are doing a No Spend January and I have been posting on Mondays. My last post for that will be Monday the 29th and Farmhouse Fridays will be back!!!  Now on to what we have been up to..... The girls and I went on a girls day out.  Taking in a movie ($ 5 Tuedays at our AMC if you are STUBS member) and going to Starbucks for hot cocoa and snacks!  We used gift cards for it all!!! (NO SPEND!) I HIGHLY RECOMMEND The Greatest Showman!   School has been great. If you missed my review of the Reading 3A from BJU Press, you can catch up on it here .  Molly has been working hard on her 5th grade curriculum. Zachary has been super busy with middle school. I am looking into an online high school for him for next year.  I had my monthly luncheon with a great friend this week. We switch on and off hosting.  Keeping up on my goals for 2018 and looking back