About My Blog
About My Blog
My blog is hosted by Doreo (affiliate link), which I’m very satisfied with. My initial sign up was a bit complicated because I was living abroad, but Frank, a Doreo associate, helped me through several days of problems, emailing me back and forth until I got successfully set up.
For more about setting up a self-hosted WordPress blog, read this entry. If you need more information about that, visit Blogging with Amy. She has it all laid out beautifully.
My header and button were created by Stephanie Ross.
Improving Your Own Blog
If you want to take your blog to the next level, I have some recommendations for you.
1. Buy Simple Blogging
Simple Blogging is a very practical ebook by Rachel Meeks that helped me tremendously.
2. Subscibe to BEECH Retreat Newsletter & Come to BEECH Retreat 2013
BEECH is a special blogging event unlike any other. And the monthly newsletter has great blogging advice, tailored to the homeschool mom. Sign up for the free publication, but more importantly, come to BEECH. I will be there!
3. Take Melissa’s Content Brew Class
If you ever struggle with content for your blogs, you need this one week class held by the writer of MomComm blog. It’s fantastic.
4. Join Twitter Chats
Two of my favorites are #HSbloggers on Tuesdays at 3PM Eastern and #BEECHrt on Thursdays at 9PM Eastern.
5. Follow Blogging boards at Pinterest
Hi and welcome! I'm Jimmie and this is my online collage of our Charlotte Mason homeschool. Taking just a little more time to document our learning shortens the learning curve for other busy homeschool moms.
Feel free to browse around my posts and freebies. My aim is to bless each reader with something useful. 
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Hi Jimmie,
It was my pleasure to work with you. Thank you for the kind words.
Blessings
Honey
Jimmie,
I am just starting to plan a two month trip to China for my husband, myself, and my 14 year old daughter. I would prefer to stay in one place, or possibly two. Do you have any recommendations on how to find a place to stay?
Jimmie,
Hello! This post is for all of your readers as well as you, Jimmie. The work you do here (i.e. the suggestions you make, the tips, the resources, ETC!) is simply fabulous. I’m not kidding, and I don’t use the term “fabulous” loosely. I bought your DESIGNING YOUR LANGUAGE ARTS CURRICULUM eBook, and I honestly don’t think I’ve ever used or loved a homeschool resource more. It looks like it’s been through a war (-; , but it’s still as valuable as the day I downloaded it. I initially began highlighting my favorite tips, but when I kept highlighting page after page, I figured I could stop & just realize that the entire resource is an absolute gem. Before buying your book, I had such a confusing time trying to figure-out how to “do” all that language arts encompass, & I’ve already home schooled three of my children (good job, Mom (-; !). How does a mom teach all of those things so that her children will REMEMBER them as well as learn them? I am blessed beyond belief with your suggestions. And to think that you didn’t just help with one subject but many! The NOTEBOOKING SUCCESS is also awesome. Readers of this blog, I cannot recommend Jimmie’s resources enough. Anyone who homeschools knows how overwhelming the amount of resources out there can be. I’ve been homeschooling since 1997, & I cannot believe how many selections there are now. It can be quite challenging to select something that will actually work with your child. Jimmie’s suggestions are ones that will work for as many styles of learning that I can think of. They are so adaptable to whatever suits YOUR child’s needs. I laugh now (but not meanly (-; ) when I see all of the spelling, vocabulary, writing, etc. resources in catalogs, knowing that I’ve got the best one out there!
Jimmie, keep-up your incredible, God-given talent of not just homeschooling your own child, but helping SO MANY of us out here in ways I had never contemplated. Your style is so down-to-earth yet so applicable for real living and not just “school living” (i.e., worksheets, drills, meaningless projects, etc.). While the aforementioned certainly have their place at times, learning can be awfully dull if those are the only thing comprising a person’s education. Your advice is certainly a diamond in the rough!
Thank you, Jimmie! THANK YOU (-: !!
PS – I love your daughter’s name; it’s adorable!
Jimmie,
I have tried to click on the link to Connection Network several times and it doesn’t work. I tried to search the link with the name you give but I’m not coming up with what looks like right.
This list of things you recommend are awesome!
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Hi All,
I am a parent/homeschool teacher of 3rd and 5th grade boys. I’m interested in incorporating inquiry based learning (student’s developing questions about a topic, investigating and finding answers to the questions, organizing findings, and presenting findings) into my student’s educational process, and I’m looking into the pros and cons of this approach for homeschoolers. I know as student’s advance they will need these skills. But homeschooling seems difference so I’m trying to figure out how to do this in a homeschool environment. I also don’t know of any resources for guiding inquiry based learning (i.e. vendors or tutors) and wondered if anyone had any suggestions.
Might you have suggestions? Are there any examples of homeschool parents adopting this approach to their homeschool program?
Thanks
Jack B.