Favorites

Favorite Sites:  sites we read and sermons we love

• Ann Voskamp, A Holy Experience
• The Gospel Coalition.  I love all the blogs and prayers here.
• Justin Taylor (especially this one)
• Desiring God.  Sermons from John Piper
• Redeemer Presbyterian.  Sermons from Tim Keller
• White Horse Inn.  This one is Matt's pick.

Favorite Recipes:

• Market to Meal.  Especially for overseas friends with limited groceries!
• Brownies for Dinner.  Her taste is mine.... my very favorite chocolate mint cookies!
• 101cookbooks.  Beautiful and Delicious.  
• Stone Soup.  She specializes in simple recipes with few ingredients.
• Joy the Baker.  Yummy and pretty (and overly wordy sometimes)
• Two Peas & Their Pod.  Some interesting ideas.

Favorite I-pad Apps:  (for the ipad that was gifted to us by a very favorite friend!)

• Fighter Verse.  5 star.  Super fun to listen to a song for every memory verse plus the quizzes where our kids practice some simple typing.
• English Standard Version Bible.  Love listening in the morning before anything else.
• Pepperplate.  Fun to keep track of recipes from all over the web and access them offline.  I do need to figure out how to organize it though!

Favorite Kid Apps:

• Teach Me (Kindergarten/ 2nd grade/ wherever you're at).  Look for the little mouse teacher.  
• Starfall....  where would we be without starfall?
• Bugs-n-Buttons (17 fun games + 1 of the very best counting learning games for preschoolers)
• Learn the Orchestra
• Four in a Row (just like Connect Four)

Random Favorites:

• book The Jesus Storybook Bible
• book The Pleasures of God
• book The Valley of Vision book of Puritan prayers
• music Andrew Peterson
• music Derek Webb & Sandra McCracken
• music Fernando Ortega

Favorite Homeschool / Education sites 
(perhaps there's more on our homeschool blog too, in case I've updated that recently!)

We will start using Tapestry of Grace as our homeschool curriculm this next year!  I'm excited!

CM 20 Principles

The Seven Daily Rungs.  Exquisite pleasure to climb this ladder and to lead our kids to climb this way daily

Charlotte Mason Method Homeschooling - Simply Charlotte Mason

Ambleside Online

Handbook of Nature Study

K12 Reader

Kidzone Cursive.  I found it to work better than the pieces of Cursive First that I bought... and this one is free.

Classic Reading Primers.  Online for free.... mostly very sweet stuff.