Journal of a Busy Mom

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Christmas Budget Tip #3: Use Your Mouse

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By that I mean shop online. I have been debating whether or not I will be doing the crazy after Thanksgiving sales. I have gone the last 3-4 years and I don’t think I have scored really big, big sales. I watched some videos last year about how to “prepare” but, what I realized was unless you have a crew of people helping, it is very hard to get all the deals you want and not have to wait in crazy long lines. I know Cyber Monday is coming so I am considering using the web to do my shopping this year.

Cyber Monday

Best Cyber Monday

Offers.com

Amazon Black Friday

If you want to still venture out on Black Friday, I suggest you visit some great websites that are doing all the hard work for you.

The Frugal Find has compiled Black Friday prices for various stores and compared them to Amazon.com (I’m thinking Cyber Monday).

Money Saving Mom has compiled the Best deals for the Black Friday Sales.

IF I decide to venture out this After Thanksgiving Sale, I don’t think I will do the crazy hours. I will go out at a decent time (like 6am) and see what I can scrounge.

Ligia

Homeschool Tip: Fraction Help

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Part of being a homeschool mom is finding resources to supplement curriculum when it’s lacking. We use Teaching Textbooks, which we love, but it has holes here and there. Fractions are lacking in the 3/4th grade curriculum for example. For my 7th grader, fractions have been tough so we are going to take a break from the lessons and review.  I found some great websites that I will be using.

Here are the sites:

Grade A Math Help:  free math help that can be used by students, teachers, and parents alike. There are no gimicks, no sign-ups – just free math help resources to help with math education!

Khan Academy: Has videos on all sorts of subjects not just math. This specific link is to their fraction help

Fractions Worksheets : Every fraction concept in a worksheet. Awesome for review.

Ligia

Operation Christmas Child Delivery Day

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The day arrived to deliver our shoeboxes. In total we brought 10 boxes. We did 6 boxes ourselves, two from our co-op, and two from my mother-in-law. Our church guessimated that they collected 600 boxes. 

Collection boxes at our church:

As a mentioned before in my first post about Operation Christmas Child, they are hitting 100,000,000 boxes this year. I am honored to contribute my two cents for this cause. If you ever get a chance to watch their video, it is amazing. Visit Operation Christmas Child’s website.

Ligia