Archive | April, 2009
Books

Books That Change Us

Tonight I was able to spend some time wandering the aisles of the new Books a Million in Canton.  I could have easily spent hours looking through the books, reading excerpts trying to decide what novel to read next or which biography looks interesting.  I enjoyed a chai latte while bumming a few pages off [...]

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Resources for Doing Preschool at Home

Right now my 4 year old daughter does “preschool” both at a preschool AND at home.  Next year, however, she will be at home full time.  Lots of reasons factored into that decision, but now that we have made it I have spent some time researching ways to do preschool right here at the Nix [...]

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Grow Your Own…Vegetables

I am writing today about the exciting little garden that is sprouting in my basement!  No, we don’t plan on leaving it there, but since we started with seeds this year we began in the basement to avoid Georgia’s inevitable early April frost.  This is our second official garden, though the one last year [...]

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Resurrection Day Traditions, Anyone?

This Sunday we, as Christians, will celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  It is arguably the most significant single day on the Christian calendar.  The week leading up to it, often called Holy Week, contains remembrances of some of the most sorrow filled, life changing, earth shattering events in the history of the world.  God’s [...]

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