Tina is a book-loving, globe-trotting, home-schooling mom of five kids. Her greatest passions are learning with her husband how to live and love like Jesus and teaching others to do the same. She particularly enjoys teaching kids to worship and pray fervently and creatively. She loves music, cooking, and reading, and is a complete sucker for a good redemptive analogy! Tina blogs at mommynificent.com and desperatehomeschoolers.com.
Bignificent and I have the pleasure of being a part of a Celebrate Lit tour for The Secret Slipper by Amanda Tero. This is an excellent adventure story, suitable for family read-alouds especially since it doesn’t involve violence, romance, or magic. … Continue reading →
I know we’ve been really silent around here for a while now, but we’re finally starting to find our footing after our big move! Today we’re thrilled to be participating in BeachBoundbooks‘ Blog Tour for the middle grade fantasy, Initiation: Sky Raiders … Continue reading →
If you follow me on facebook, you’ve undoubtedly seen me sharing things about Real MVP Kids, a Kickstarter project my friend is involved in. This project is a series of board books celebrating all the things that make us unique and … Continue reading →
I am a big fan of gifts that aren’t necessarily expensive but are unique to the giver, receiver, or both and have obviously had a lot of thought put into them. So I was very excited to find the company CrossTimber, … Continue reading →
We are excited to be sharing with you today our review of Middle School Spanish I from Middlebury Interactive Languages. As linguists, my husband and I love to learn about languages, and we both speak a few reasonably well, but in general, we … Continue reading →
It’s hard to believe, but Christmas is on its way! Recently, we’ve had the privilege of listening to The Familyman’s Christmas Treasury – Audio Collection from The Familyman. This collection includes six stories told by master storyteller Jim Hodges. The stories are … Continue reading →
I’ve always loved italics and calligraphy and my daughters have been quite keen to learn it, so I was very excited when we were given the opportunity to review Everyday Education, LLC‘s Perfect Reading, Beautiful Handwriting, a one-book method by Caroline Joy Adams for … Continue reading →
I can’t believe I have reached the end of this journey, blogging about our year studying about Children Around the World with Winter Promise and Sonlight. It took us 42 weeks to complete our study, and it took me even longer to … Continue reading →
We have a different kind of Homeschool Review Crew review to share with you today: a book review of Mark S. Mirza’s novel, The Pray-ers / Book 1 Troubles, published by CTM Publishing Atlanta. About The Pray-ers by Mark S. Mirza … Continue reading →
I can’t believe it’s the last stop on our yearlong journey of learning about Children around the World with Winter Promise! We ended our year in Southern Africa, and it was so much fun! One of our favorite restaurants here … Continue reading →
