Sher Birmingham

I am writing a new ebook called Seafaring Adventures.  It is a weekly Bible study for early elementary age classes or homeschool co-ops.  I am using it for our Co-ops Young Bible Scholars class.  It is seafaring adventurers following Paul’s life looking for treasure.  The treasure is God’s Love!!!!   Any way the first class I plan on making Treasure stones, hiding them before class, and having our adventurers seek them out.  Seeking out the Treasures of God hidden in earthen vessels. 

My first hurdle was find enough coffee ground to make 24 stones.  I found out that you can go to your local Starbucks and they will give it to you FREE!  They expect you to use it in your garden . . . I did use the left over ground there.

Next you need to dry out the used coffee grounds . . . so spread them out on cookie sheets or a old sheet under a ceiling fan.  Don’t do it outside it draws flies . . . I didn’t want the stones to have fly eggs in them!

Thirdly, how many stones does a batch make?  How many batches did I need?  I choose to do a test run and then make the ones for the class.  So I made the recipe from http://www.geocities.com/loveofkidsrecipes/treasurestones.html .

Her recipe is the same as the one in the book by John and Danita Thomas, “The Ultimate Book of Kid Concoctions”  GREAT book!!  Every homeschool mom needs their books!!  Fun mess and mess-free craft ideas.

Anyway, I made the first batch just like the recipe called.  Well, it was soupy and took forever to dry.  It was kind of hard to form into balls.  They just made BIG pancakes.  1 recipe could have made 4 stones about the size of a baseball.  But I had 3 children helping me so they made them big!

Now to make the real stones for the hunt!  I figured 4 stones per batch and that would mean I needed to make 6 batches.  Well, I did one batch of quadruple recipe and was able to come out with 17 stones.  BUT I wanted to work out the runniness of the test batch.  So, I made sure each of my cups of flour was heaping.  Used rounded cups of coffee grounds, and used about a third as much water.  This mixture as too dry and so I added more water but only up to about enough for 2 recipes not the 4 that I had the dry ingredients for.  This was about right.  My 8 yo dd handed me each of the treasures as I formed the stones.  Then we made the last 2 batches to make the remaining 7 stones.  Again only using about half the water called for.

So expect 3 to 4 nice size stones to put your treasures into.  AND start out with less then half the water, adding more as needed to form a soft clay.

Sher Birmingham, wife to Bill
Successfully at Home Business, School, and Cooking http://www.SherBirmingham.com
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What better gift for your child, then this Talking Jesus Action Figure! This biblical toy, recites key scriptures and verses with the push of a button. You’ve seen us give away many of these Talking Bible toys, they are just one of my favorite things to share with you because of the impact and oppurtunity they offer for teaching your child about God’s Love. This toy and others in the collection, will help you get the conversation started.If you’d like to enter our contest to win a Talking Jesus Toy for your family, please leave a comment below. If you have a blog, tell your readers about it and link up with our Mr. Linky too!

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After finishing first grade our daughter wanted to start her own business so that she could have money.  I had been hired to keep a set of 3 Chihuahua while the breeder was out of town.  While there my youngest daughter decided breeding is something she could do as her business.  I told her that if she could earn the money for her puppy.  I also would match every dollar she saved with a dollar, and she could pay me back when her dog started having puppies.  I also said I would get the male dog.  Well all summer long she worked.  She cleaned up dog poop during the week at the breeder’s home.  She feed, watered, and played with neighbor dogs when the owners were out of town.  She vacuumed her father’s office.  She saved her Birthday money.  She saved her allowance.  She asked her grandparents and businessmen for money.  Well, sure enough in 4 short months she had enough money to buy that puppy, Jasmin Flower.   She has been our second grade project and will be part of our school from now on. 

So I was on the look for a male.  I found one and his mate from another local breeder was getting out of the Chihuahua business and wanted these to go to a good home.  So they come home with us.  Their names are JoJo and Cocoa

Cocoa just had puppies February 15^th

We only plan on having a few litters of Chihuahuas a year.  We are striving to breed high quality Chihuahuas.   Apple heads, small size, friendliness, and conformation are all important to us.

We predominantly breed short haired (smooth coated) Chihuahuas, but occasionally have long haired puppies, too.. 

learn more about this project http://www.freewebs.com/hapchihuahua/index.htm

An Elegant Floral Alphabet by Joy Maria & Jennaya Dunlap of LightHome Publication http://lighthome.net/chkm/index.html

You can purchase their book from them directly or an ebook from Currclick at http://www.currclick.com/index.php?affiliate_id=2642

This is a great practice handwriting workbook. My daughter is delighted by the beauty on every page. Each letter of the alphabet has its own in color gorgeous flower, beautiful butterfly, and fancy letter. There is a coloring sheet to accompany each letter, many with scripture on them.

If your daughters are first learning cursive, you might need to give more instructions on how to make each letter then in this book. But once they have the basic understanding of how to create the letter properly this will give the great practices on creating them accurately. The girl who is just learning cursive and the one that just needs to work on her penmanship skills will find this book helpful and enjoyable, as well as any child who likes flowers or butterflies. This would be a absolutely great copy work for a flower unit study.

In the back of the book are extra copy sheets, notebooking pages and a word find. Every page also had a scramble game. The only improvement that I could suggest is the answers to the unscramble games. I went to http://www.zachwordunscrambler.com for help.

I am looking forward to purchasing more from Lighthome Publications.

Thank you and God bless you, Sher Birmingham

Sheri Graham of Graham Family Ministries has put a lot of time and effort taking what she has learned over time and setting in a form most people can do taking one baby step at a time. Her new ebook Baby Steps to Better Health will be out very soon. As a busy homeschooling mother to 5 young children, Sheri started making changes to improve her family’s health. If she can do it you can too! She wrote this ebook in easy steps so that you can follow her towards a healthier and Godlier lifestyle.

Sheri has included great links that are easily accessible to more resources. This ebook is filled with recipes that will help you improve your health and take the next step towards living a healthy life that God intended for you to live. She has forms so that you can chart your progress and see what to do next. She has pretty pages to encourage you to do what is right. If you have purchased any of her other books you know she has poured her heart into her work, and this is no exception to that.

Sheri really has blessed us all with making things easier to take the next healthy step towards a better life. This ebook is beautiful and full of useful information that will bless your family. I would highly recommend you take the first baby step to a Godly and healthy life by purchasing Baby Steps to Better Health by Sheri Graham. Sign up for her newsletter to know when this newest ebook is released! Graham Family Ministries

Sher Birmingham is the wife to Bill. They have 7 children (ages 29 to 7 years old) plus 3 grandchildren (ages 6 to 1 years old). Sher has managed health clubs and health food stores, but now she is a doula, homeschool mom, writer and church secretary. She loves encouraging moms that they can successfully run a business, school, and keep house at Home! Her blog is http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sher or look for her at Homeschool Estore.

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Sher Birmingham, wife to Bill
Successfully at Home Business, School, and Cooking
http://www.SherBirmingham.com
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Ladies, you know that Hollywood does not often put out a movie that is worth watching. And when they do it is twisted to the point that it is junk. Or it is made for children only.

Well, today I just watched a movie that is worth the time It is called The Ultimate Gift. There is a book out by the same title and so I would recommend reading it too. Although at this moment,  I have not yet read it.

The movie will make you cry, laugh, see the worst in people and truly see the greatest point of living and cry again.

Sadly there is little mention of God and that is from a lost man talking with a little girl. It is not negative towards God but NOT a salvation story. 

So if you are up for a secular movie with an uplifting message that will make you cry . . . rent, barrow or buy The Ultimate Gift.

Ok you all.  Thanks to a local friend we got something moving at our local Walmart.

She called the local store, they didn’t want to do much but then she called 1-800-Wal-Mart.  Well, she got a call back and they are removing that display from the front door!

PRAISE GOD!

Between her call and the call back I too called.  They said they will have someone contact me this week.

So if you want to remove these displays call!  They are responding to us!